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Rocky Trails and Wagging Tales

Summer in Seattle

A lot has happened since my Mama helped me blog.

In February 2009 we all relocated again, but to Seattle. We were lucky to find a place to rent that has a fenced in yard and allowed us greyhounds. Since then we've visited Discovery Park, Green Lake Park, gone camping on Long Beach where we enjoyed running on the beach, went camping up in B.C. and checked out Mt. St. Helens last weekend.

We really like it here because it's cool enough most of the time to go for long walks in the neighborhood. We meet another greyhound and hang out a few weeks ago, Daphne. She is a very nice girl, I like her so much I drool when I sniff her! She and her family came over a couple of weeks ago and my Mama made tasty cheese and carrot "Pup cakes" and yummy whole wheat dog crackers.

I love it when she gets it in her to cook us goodies. This week she made us whole wheat, turkey, parsley dog cookies. They smelled so good when they were cooking! I work hard for those treats!

My Mama worries about me as I'm slowing down every month it seems. I'm on an old man feeding schedule. That means I don't eat all of my meals all at once. I'll eat half my breakfast, and then be ready for the rest of it by late morning. Usually I'm interested in dinner but like to have tasty snacks throughout the day.

I have a dog bed in the office next to my Mama's desk and one in the kitchen so I have a soft spot to lie down where ever she is. I'm so spoiled, I have her wrapped around my little paws!

Life in Salt Lake City

I've been living in Salt Lake City for a year now and it has been greyt! We have been living in a three bedroom house with a nice big fenced in back yard. I have liked Salt Lake City very much. Mamma takes us on walks in Liberty Park with the local greyhound rescue group and that is always fun. When the weather is nice, we go on morning walks around the block, or night time walks when it is to hot out. I have been enjoying being in Utah.

Our next adventure is to Seattle. The whole family is moving up there by the end of February and I can't wait! I had so much fun visiting our greyt aunt last year. She took me, my mamma and Gramma Cherri to a really nice beach on Whidbee Island and that was a lot of fun. My mamma says that Seattle will be a great home for us because of all the dog parks, dog beaches and dog friendly things to do.

That's about it for news in my corner of the world,
Woof!

My Mamma and I are doing well. She is working at a local veterinarian's office and the doctor there is really nice. She likes the other staff as well.

I've been scaring my Mamma lately. 2 weeks ago when she was lifting me into the bathtub I squeaked. She took me into work with her the next day and had me x-rayed and tested my urine again. Turns out my spleen is enlarged. The next day we went to this other doctor's office who was really nice. He has an ultrasound machine and he even let my Mamma come back with them to keep me company and help hold me. The ultrasound showed now signs of tumors and neither did the x-ray, so they are thinking that I may have some kind of blood disorder or parasite. They put me on two weeks of doxicyclin and I had my CBC checked yesterday. My platelet counts are still pretty low so now they need to figure out what's causing this so they can treat my properly.

My Mamma found out from the other doctor also that because I'm on such a high dose of thyroid medicine, that is causing me to drink extra water and have to go to the bathroom more than if I didn't have a low thyroid. So all this time I was being accused of being naughty when turns out I just really need to go to the bathroom more often. She felt really bad thinking I was a naughty boy. It's ok now, she just takes me out to the bathroom a ton and it's all good.

I hope they figure out how to treat me so that I can live for a few more years. I'm my Mamma's baby and she loves me so very much. She'll be devastated when my time is up and since I'm getting up there in years she's got to get herself ready for that.