White Squirrel

I'm stalking the white squirrel I found the other day when I was out walking. I took my camera today when I was walking the dog and tried to get a good picture. I don't know if it is a boy or a girl but I haven't seen it before in the area

zelda fascinated by her tail

Now Annabelle!

Now Annabelle's sick....can I ever not have one sick animal in the house? She's had diarrhea since I brought Izzy home. I'm trying not to think they are connected and maybe instead I bought a bad bag of Avoderm but Izzy's eating it just fine. She started off last Sunday or Monday with a blow out in the middle of the night. She's such a good girl to get me up so we can go out. Now she has consistently loose and the Kaopectate for pets is not working.

It doesn't help that Frank's back for the week so this little house is VERY crowded. Frank did get a good vet visit (Finally he came home with NO MEDS!) and his new family can adopt him next week when they get home from their trip.

Maybe it's a combination but I've tried to keep them all pretty separate. Izzy is crated when she isn't outside or being walked and of course I don't know how she does with other pets. She was WAY too intense and rough with Frank and seemed really intent on pinning him to the ground. Then once he was down she really got too jazzed. Since she got a nice correction though she has laid off the pounding and been very social....but not interested in playing. I'm good with that. She can be a social dog, sniff butts but never want to play. She's a little gamey so her new owner would have to keep an eye on the intensity.

Zelda still has loose stool from the new food and Cosmo is still battling allergies. They aren't as bad as they were prior to the vet visit so maybe the diet is working. If only everyone could just adjust and their intestines could work right.....I'd be a happy girl. Could be that this house is just freaking NASTY. I hate renting and god knows how long this carpet has been here. I can't stand to walk on it barefoot. I've got my own rugs down so that I don't have to look at it.

Michael Vick for PeTA?

I am still in a state of shock that PeTA as radical and weird/over the top they are that they would consider Michael Vick a spokesperson for animal abuse. This man has not shown an ounce of remorse for what he did. He was only sorry that he got caught and consistently blamed others for "leading him astray". The letter he sent to the judge before his sentencing was proof. He does not give one flying flip about the dogs he killed and the horrible things he has done. He's just sad that he was held accountable for being a piece of trash. This is just media ploy by him and I'm disgusted with PeTA for being such whores. They are just looking for donations anywhere they can get them. They also don't care about pit bulls but would like to see them all exterminated.

My New to me Cedar Chest

I finally got around to polishing my cedar chest with lemon oil. I just love looking at it. I was looking around online at craigslist and thinking to myself that I'd always wanted a cedar chest. I saw one in a "moving sale". The picture online wasn't all that impressive but I wanted to go see it anyway. The minute I saw it, I knew I wanted it and it had the LANE burn mark on the lid.

She had been using it as a toy chest with her child and it was covered with colored chalk on the inside. It was pretty and looked like it was old. A few nicks, scratches, missing lock and a couple of screws but it's sturdy and solid, only one loose board on the top. I got it for the cash I had in my pocket book : ). I didn't find out until later looking at the "moth free" certification that it was from 1927.

I am pretty sure that I lowered the value when I drilled a new hole and put an additional screw in to hold down the loose top board but the heck with it (you can see in the picture the loose board on top makes it look like there's a crack down the middle).

I'm not like I got it for a re-sale anyway. I did use a brass screw and got it to look as close to the original as possible. I spent several hours looking for ones that matched. I've never seen one like this before and I love it. I just need to rub the inside with a little fine grain sand paper to bring out the cedar smell.

So It's finally polished and shiny and ready for the blankets as I pull them off the bed. Love, Love, Love it. Thankfully it wasn't posted by a psycho who would kill me and stuff me in it but I took Frank with me just in case. Nothing like 100 lbs of American Bulldog for "security". No-one had to know that he couldn't even walk around the block at the time.

I give up

I give up trying to feed the cats two different cat foods.  I can't believe how hard it's been and how often I've just thrown in the towel and put their bowls away until the next meal.  Pour one and they both come running.  Try to pick up Zelda and she runs under the couch. Pour her bowl and Cosmo looks up - more food?  Put hers up high on the cat tree and she runs up there (sometimes). He immediately leaves his bowl to come and eat what she's got.  I chase him off.  She eats a little and then jumps down.  Two minutes later I see her eating from his bowl and try to pick her up and she runs off again.

Damn it.  I'm just mixing the two foods together and damn her upset stomach.  Going to have to go with Science Diet Sensitive Stomach.  I hate that food, it's just corn based crap.  I really wanted to keep feeding the Blue Buffalo.  The first ingredient is deboned turkey, not corn gluten meal.

Looking for a Senior Dog Foster Home

I'm looking for a foster home for a senior pit bull. He's in an all breed sanctuary and would like to have a soft spot to call his own for a brief time. Please email if you know of anyone that would be willing to take on a foster dog that could take a little while to place. It generally takes a little longer to place the oldies but there are the great rewards of making a dog's final days sweet and kind.