Today I'm 6 !!

Today I turned 6. WOW. Mom can hardly believe it.
I started the day off in good fashion ....I came across an unlatched screen door and DIDN'T make a run for it! Mom thinks I am finally growing up but in truth I just didn't want to forfeit my birthday goodies. All I really want is Meaty back.

My brother is having surgery tomorrow

Please keep him in your thoughts tomorrow as he sets out on the first leg of a a long journey to kick cancers butt!!

Momma has already warned me that Meaty won't be home tomorrow night {at least}.... he must stay with Dr Fingeroth. I am not certain I'll be sleeping well. I know Momma won't be. I think Puck will sleep through anything though.BOL.
When Meaty does finally come home he won't want to play. His face is being cut open, bone and cancer is being removed and metal may be necessary to rebuild him. We are not yet sure if he will be stapled or stitched closed.

He will need thoughts,prayers,candles ....whatever you can spare. A fundrasier in his honor is continuing.

Please read the following for more detail.


Tomorrow , 17th June , Meaty is having his operation. Money donated both privately and from his online auction has cleared Pay Pal and will meet 75% of this 1st stage of surgery cost.

This isn't an end and findraising is still essensially going onand there is much to see on his site. The LINK for which can be found in his Diary on his dogster page.

Meatball.. AKA Meaty

This is his group and if you would like to join please do so.

Meatball POtP Group

Donations in the form of a check or by phone with a credit card may be sent directly to:


Orchard Park Veterinary Medical Center
Acct. #63388
3930 North Buffalo Road
Orchard Park, NY 14127
Phone: 716.662.6660
contact@opvmc.net

-OR-

Funds may be raised by participating in the ONLINE AUCTION at:


We will update as we have news.... POP is very much needed please.


Meatyman, I love you. Don't leave me.

~Oz, content with being lil bro~

Sad news for my family

I know I don't WOOF here nearly often enough. Its my brother Meatball that is best known here a he is one of the *old timers*.

But I really feel the need to WOOF for him right now. You see, my bro has been diagnosed with a cancerous bone tumor near his eye. His Drs say its bigger inside than out and I would never be the one to woof him that his outside bump is quite noticeable now.

All the details are in his diary. Just click his picture on my page here to read them.

Some great pals have made a website to help Meaty fight this cancer but we are not allowed to post the link until we get HQs approval.

We can howlever WOOF about it in a special group thats also been created by those same great pals. We CAN give you the link there as groups are privte.

Please join the Meaty group and show him some love. He really needs it right now.

http://www.dogster.com/group/Meatball_potp_group-164 54

Many thanks,
~Oz, loves his bg bro.Please help me save him!

Some naughties just aren't worth it

Some naughties just aren't worth it ..... even the ones where you don't even know you're being naughty.

Picture this : Mom finally got the old boy off his butt { she used another word for it that I think HQ would frown upon}.
As shes *commando cleaning* he {in typical male fashion according to Mom} started whining about being bored. {You see, he lost his job in February}. Thing about the old boy is this , he is perfectly happy *riding the couch* as others work around him ....... until he wants/needs something.{Thats a whole other rant}
When he whines he's bored Mom knows something is up BUT ..... she also takes advantage of it :}
She assigned him the pond. My pond. Over the winter it got pretty green and certainly gross. His assignment : drain, scrub and refill. He dragged out the wet/dry vac and got to it. Well, the thing fills up pretty quickly and needs to be dumped several times. We usually walk it down the driveway and drain it into the storm sewer but not this time. The old boy decided he wasn't THAT bored and his assignment was icky so his lazy butt chose to dump all that icky , stinky water not far from the pond itself- where all we puppers play.
Mom finished cleaning the Florida room and not knowing the old boy had changed protocol, let us out.
I decided a good roll in the icky was a great idea and plunked right down to have a good roll. By the time Mom finished with Puck and turned around I was soaked in ICK from nose to tail !! She called me off, reeled me in and about fell over. I was wet,smelly,green and ....had SLUGS in my fur !!! She quickly ascertained that there was NO WAY she could/would get me through the house to the tub so she whipped out the hose. She shot leaves and slugs everywhere then gave me a good scrubbing.
Now that doesn't sound like too bad a deal to most of you I know but remember this ..... I am a Buffalo pup. Buffalo-where 63 was referred to as a *heatwave* on the local news last night. I guess that put the water temp at about 40 degress?!
Being a Husky who loves the cold DOES NOT apply to cold baths. I actually started to cry so Momma made the bath a quickie.
I won't be pulling that naughty again ........ and I don't think the old boy will either after the ay Mom *lit him up*. BOL
I am not allowed in the bedroom .......and neither is the old boy. ROTFBMTO


~Oz, does anyone have a warm towel?~

I'm sick as a .....dog?

Dear dog do I ever feel like crap !! I haven't been able to keep much *in* the last few days. Momma keeps trying to help ..... if thats what you can call blasting me with Peto Bismol.....but she IS trying.
Tomorrow she will be calling Dr C to see if he can give me some of that medicine he gave Meaty when he had his digestive tract infection.
Momma is so afraid its something in this house getting us sick. Its just too odd that first Meaty got so ill and now, a month later, I am too. Puck seems to be okay though TD.
He mows down OUR food, drinks OUR water, eats any treat that WE get so .......that can't be it. Very odd indeed.
Please keep your paws crossed for me.....and for Momma. These long nights are taking their toll.


~Oz, with a rumbly in the tumbly~

It's my birthday!

Guess what everyone! Today is my 4th birthday!! Who would have guessed I'd ever make it to 4 with as destructive as I was as a pupper?! I must say I have grown up into quite the little love bug and "angel".

Mom's in the kitchen baking ME a cake, she said I have to share with meaty and the hoomans of the house, but it's a big cake so I think I can manage. Luckily for me, my sister can't resist my fuzzy little face and agreed to sit down and help me write this entry, too bad I keep getting distracted by the smell of freshly baked cake that's tormenting me from the kitchen, I can't help it though, it smells soooo yummy!

I think I'm going to go stare at the cake lovingly, maybe she'll cave and feed it to me before I even have dinner.

~Ozzy - now 4 years old and wants his cake.

The best day ever !

Its here, its here! The storm they said was going to wallop Buffalo has arrived. Its a Husky wonderland out there !
Momma is grumbling about driving conditions, closings and *must do* errands ..... all I see is two more inches of glorious white stuff per hour. Amazing how perspectives can differ huh ? BOL

My sister and her b/f have been waiting for snow too ..... they promised to build a HUMUNGOUS snowman on the front lawn. Mom thinks that part is cool and so do I .... its a new place to leave my *mark* {Hehehehehe}

Meaty doesn't seem to be happy about this at all. I couldn't get him to play in the {blinding} snow at all. He just lifted his leg and quickly ran to the shelter of the garage. He gave Momma a good laugh .... in his 30 seconds outside his eyebrows ended up puffy,think & white just like Santa Paws. BOL


Its coming down really hard right now { so hard Momma won't even take the camera outside}.
Time to sucker someone else to play out there with me.

~Oz, running in a winter wonderland~

Jerk dog! LOL

I don't think I am Ozzys favorite person these days. I can tell in his eyes and by the vomit on my lap .......

Yesterday was a very busy day for me and it seems that no matter what I tried to do or where I tried to move to, I had dogs either up my butt or their butts as my frontal view. Finally, having had enough, I Grrred at Oz to move his butt elsewhere,go take a sleepy puppy nap or something .....just get outta my way for a little bit.
I know I am not the only Momma to have issued those commands.

Finally I got a moment to sit down while gathering some banking papers before heading out the door and here comes my baby boy. Such a sweet face he has. He approached to lay his head in my lap in what I thought was a loving * I understand you were busy Momma, can I have some love now* kind of way ....... when he proceeded to barf all over my lap and the couch ! Ewwwwwwww.
I cleaned up well & the couch has been steamed so all was well again. LOL

Today I decided to be extra nice and give Oz a special treat .... a bite of a Kris Kringle Christmas cookie { he loves them}. Silly me said to him *Just don't drop this on Mommas freshly washed floor okay Oz?*
He took his cookie, rolled it up in his tongue as if to savor the taste. He then gave me this sideways glance that spoke volumes to me and proceeded to unroll that tongue of his and pfft it to the floor at my feet. Colored sugar & crumbs everywhere.

Huskies .....vengeful lil suckers. LOL

~Momma, apparently on the Ozzy poop list~

My vet visit

Welp, my vet visit didn't go quite as expected. Momma thought fur sure that Dr C would be all worried about my weight like she is but she was wrong.
{snicker,snicker,snort ---- Mom, wrong? Never ! {snicker,snicker,snort}
Dr C says that some Huskies are just on the slender side, that its not due to any weird illness ..... and that's me. I'm just a slim shady :)

He also detected something called *crystallized corneal dystrophy*. That's was kind of a bummer but at least Momma knows about it now and I no longer have to live with the knowledge alone. Basically its a haze over my eyes.It can develop into ulcerations behind my eyes but then again, it may not. Those can be painful and every case is different. Dr C says I have mastered and adapted to it rather well.
Its a Husky thing but not only a Husky thing. Some of the other breeds that may have a predisposition to it are : the Boxer { my bro!},Basenji's, Vizula's, Doxies & GSD's. The list goes on.

Other than that I am in fine, fine shape. They did discuss the *N* word being done next year. I was sooooper happy about that until I realized that *next year* is only a few weeks away! Can somewoof tell me .... when is February ? Do I still have some time left with my *little buddies* or should I already be preparing to say goodbye ?

~Oz, frantically trying to figure out a calendar~

Guess what ?

I woke up to SNOW this morning! {breaks into a happy dance}.

I hope we get more soon ........ even if it does make Momma swear. BOL

I'm off to the vet on Wednesday even though I just had a weigh in last week. It was Meatys *fat farm* check in day and I got to go along for the ride. I was having none of that staying in the truck with Daddy crap and tried pushing through the window to follow Mom and Meatyhead. She decided it'd just be easier to take me in too. I weigh 47.7 lbs and Momma would like that to go up a bit.
Pretty funny .... Meaty has to take it off and she wants me to put it on. BOL. She keeps trying to sneak me extra goodies when the Meatyhead isn't looking but that boy is always looking! He misses nothing! I guess thats pretty easy for him considering he can look in two seperate directions at the same time. BOL
I overheard Mom and Sis talking about Mom having me *noodled*.. I'm not too sure yet what that is but I got the disinct impression its not going to be one of my favorite gifts.
My bro keeps telling me to *lick 'em while you got 'em*
I'm a little confoosled as to what they are .................
I lick my paws alot ad I lick my ............oh no, it can't be THAT can it ??!!

~Oz, running for cover~