Vet Visit

It's been a rough place around here lately. I hurt my back a couple of weeks ago, right around the time the Brindle stopped jumping. When the not jumping went on for a while we went to visit our vet, Dr Murielle. After giving him a good checkup, and mentioning that he was getting quite old for a Boxer (don't tell him!) she diagnosed a bum left back leg. She assured us that it was bone related, not ligament (phew!), probably arthritis, and sent us away with a bottle of medicine and a prescription for house arrest. Yeah... right...

On the upside I also discovered what was the likely cause of my back problems. Something about lifting the now 90lb Brindle while he couldn't jump.

Yesterday was our recheck appointment and the Brindle was ready. I was clearing some stuff out of the car and returned to discovered somedog was up to jumping again.

After a somewhat spirited drive out to the office, sort of chasing a certain German I work with, we were in the waiting room. The Brindle doesn't like the waiting room, too much noise and too many smells, but he humours me with good behaviour sometimes.

Dr Murielle was most pleased with his leg and said he can start exercise again in a day or two. The caveat of the extra couple of days is because of something else we had for her to look at today. Not for the squeamish!

Yes, see that toenail? Yuck! She managed to lift it and discovered it was hanging on by a thread of skin. She got me to hold the Brindle's head away from her and very quickly pulled it off. Double yuck! So now to go with his other meds he's getting antibiotics for a few days.

I have a theory on the toe thing. He wanted to outdo my feat of last Sunday, also not for the squeamish.

Yes, I tried to break my toe and failed. The tip and bottom are also purple. The Brindle and I do make a fine pair.

Mudders

Remember Hope from the other day? Well now we have triplets.

"One of my favorite pictures of white boxers and trying to keep them clean. It was a hot summer day and the pool got really dirty so we wanted to change the water.  It took a while because every time we washed it out and set it down three little white sisters jumped right in.

These three would have been 13  years old this March, but they have all gone to the bridge"

from left to right Candy, Sugar and Snowy

The Baby Quinn

We had another puppy announcement on the BML recently which means of course we get another dose of the puppy cute today in the form of Quinn's introduction, narrated by his new "mom"

We picked Quinn up in the Toronto area, which is about a 2 hour drive (nothing like JM's journey).

Quinn and the breeder were outside when we drove up, I got out and he immediately ran over to me and gave me a kiss.  What a great start to what I hope is a long and special relationship.

I had brought some tuna treats along with me, as I thought he might need 'a little something' to feel more at home.  It was a little surprising to me that he refused them.  He seemed thirsty, so since I wasn't the best mom, and forgot to bring a drink, we had to stop at Tim Horton's and get him some water.  It is fitting that he learns about Tim Horton's early on.  After he had a drink, he was ready and willing to eat the whole bag of treats.  Poor guy was starving.  I guess I should mention that he came from Windsor that same day, so that was a much longer drive for him. 

Jade was ok with Quinn, but it wasn't until he decided that he would try and play her game of chase and keep away that she really warmed up to him.  After that she let him lay on her.  That was Monday evening so it was only 2 days after we got him. 

The next picture is a shot of Jade and Quinn playing.  Jade has a special game of keep away that she has perfected.  She is able to quickly turn her face/body to block another dog from getting the toy in question.  I can't wait to see her face once Quinn catches on, and adapts, which I am sure will happen quickly. 

Quinn is a very saucy puppy and is always giving Jade a piece of his mind.  I think that he is going to be a talker, like Marco.

The last picture is Quinn waving to the BML and saying " See you Soon"