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Sad Story but with Happy Ending!

On Sunday night, my Princess stomach was doing flip-flops! I tried to throw up, but nothing would come up! I tried to be a dignified Princess and have a BM, but nothing would come out! Oh! I was miserable! My humans kept watching me, wondering what was wrong. This went on for a couple of hours, me running in / out of the house, digging in the yard, and frantically trying to throw up. Finally I could not take it anymore, so I went and hid in the bushes. That is when my Humans realized they needed to seriously help me. My She-human said she was going to call the Vet. For the first time in my Royal life, I was happy to hear that. I let my He-human carry me out of the bushes, and put me in the car. We went to a different Vet, but I didn't care. I just wanted the hurt to go away and my tummy to go back to normal. It was the size of a giant balloon. The Vet-human looked at me and felt my tummy and mumbled "bloating, needs X-Rays right now!" "Okay! I thought, She-human, let's get those X-Rays!" Then I don't remember much, but my She-human told me when she saw me the next day that the surgery went well.
What happened was that my tummy really did do a flip-flop! It's called Gastric-Torsion. The Vet-human told my humans that if I did not have the surgery to tack my tummy down, I would go to "doggy heaven".
So now I have all these stiches and these patches where my Royal fur was shaved, but I feel so, so much better. The best part is I get to eat only boiled rice and boiled chicken (eat your heart out Squire Ozzie!). I love this new diet. I also get to stay INSIDE the HOUSE all by myself until my She-human comes home at lunch and after work to let me go to the bathroom. I also can have a dignified BM and it hurts a little, but not too much. Another neat part about all this, is that I get to sleep in my Humans' ROOM!
So this long story is to warn all you barrel chested doggy breeds! If you cannot vomit or have a poop, tell your humans that you really do want to go see your Vet.
Happy to be alive and today I even did a little waggle, and a short WALK!
Princess Titania

The wonderful smelling box!

My Humans came home tonight, after leaving me all by my little doggy lonesome, smelling divinely good! It was the box that my He Human was holding in his hand. I tried to do my best "wiggle my butt" dance to get him to give it to me, but he just put it down on a high counter and disappeared! In came my She-Human who had more sympathy for me and liked my wiggle. She opened the box and I thought I was in Heaven, because it smelled so GOOOOOOD! Chicken, juicy Chicken! nice and warm and mouth watering chicken! and I'm part Boxer so I know how the let the drool come on!!!!!!! And my She-Human let me have some with my food. Oh! I ate and licked my bowl very, very clean! Then I looked at my She-Human and asked for more, but she just laughed and threw, threw (can you imagine!) that wonderful smelling box away! I looked at the trash, and I looked at my human and I started to prance and distract her. It worked, because she called me a "silly butt" and went away. So then I quietly sneaked up to the trash can and eased it open and... my She-Human caught me just as I was going to sink my teeth into that wonderful smelling box! and she took the trash away!

Squire Ozzie

OKAY! now what are you saying???????????????????????????
Are you getting a sister? or did you get a sister? I thought your Mom said no more trying to have another dog!
I mean if this Nova is as wonderful as I am, and can stay dry all day, and perfect just like me, well.... what can I say! Do what you think is right!
Just remember Ozzie, I love you
Princess Titania.......... For you Ozzie, love Tania woof!
ps, my human took me for a walk and it was great!
pps, my human's computer is dumb! it won't let us see the picture of Nova.