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Life Of A Beagle In Foster Care

I feel soooo icky

I didn't even want to eat my breakfast this morning. I can tell my foster mom is worried, but I'm just so tired and I'm sick of having a drippy nose. She says she is going to change my antibiotic and hope that it will help.

I didn't even want to eat my boiled chicken and turkey, that's how bad I feel. The other dogs think I'm crazy, but they wouldn't be hungry either if they felt the way I do.

Will the snot ever end?

My foster mom says she feels so bad for me because I am just so filled with snot. I feel bad too! I have to breath through my mouth and I can't smell my food (although the good thing about that is now I get fresh boiled chicken! Yum!). My foster mom says she's going to get something called a nasal aspirator that will help get some of my snot out. I think my foster dad plans on being in the other room when that happens.

I slept a lot yesterday. Being up and around even for a little bit makes me tired. And it was so hot outside I could hardly breath at all.

I like it when I get to sit with my foster mom and she holds me and pets me and wipes my nose. This is a very nice place and I'm glad I'm here.

Ick! I don't like baths!

I had my very second bath last night. They gave me one at the shelter because I was sooooo stinky. I got one last night because my skin is kind of dry and flakey and my foster mom has a special shampoo for it. It felt good, but I was scared of the water and tried to get out of the sink. My foster dad had to hold me and calm me.

I did like the snuggles in the towel afterwards, even if my foster mom stuck Q-tips in my ears and cleaned out stuff she called "gunk".

I've been able to run around a bit more, which is nice. I'm still not really used to the steps that go outside, and there's a weird screen thing hanging in the doorway (foster mom says to keep out mosquitoes, but I don't think it works because the humans are always itching). Ha ha!

I don't like having to sit in my crate so much, but my foster mom says I can't go out and about away from the house until I'm spayed and not so snotty.

My foster mom clipped my two front dewclaws last night too - it was a regular beagle spa night! I was so good I didn't wimper or pull my paw back or anything! I hear that Della is a "drama queen", whatever that is, whenever she gets the spa treatment.

I think life is pretty good. Even with baths.