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The life of Da Judge

ruff day

I am having a very ruff day today. I am very dingy right now and have been for a couple of hours. But that didn't mean I didn't help mommy clean the bathroom! Everytime she got the sponge down to wipe something I tried to grab it so I could help her scrub...but she didn't seem to appreciate this because she locked me out of the bathroom...so I went and layed with my head on daddies feet. I have been doing this since the very first day I got here...it is really a game to see how long he will stay uncomfortable before he will move! LOL most of the time I can get him to stay that way for a couple of hours!!! I hope my friends are having a better day than I am. It makes mommy so sad to see me like this...but I get in her lap and give her kiss after kiss...my kisses can heal any hurt...mommy says so.

A bit about me

My name is Pepper and I am a Yorkshire Terrier. I am a year and a half old and very, very smart! My mom found me at a petstore, but please don't hold that against her, she saved me! She found out all the things she should have before she got me...after she got me...like that I came from a puppy mill and that the biggest puppy broker in the country shipped me in a big truck from Arkansas to California...it was not a good thing but mommy fell in love with me and I fell in love with her.

When she first got me home she found out that something was not quite right with me...I had what she calls dingy spells. I get very dizzy, I can't walk or sit without falling over, I can't eat or drink unless she holds me up and sometimes my legs collapse and I can't stand up at all. She took me to the vet (which I hated cuz they did all kinds of nasty tests on me...some of them hurt a lot) the tests turned out good so they decided I probably have what is called Cerebellar Abiotrophy. It is a neurological disorder that will eventually cripple me to the point that mommy will have to let me go to the Rainbow Bridge. They say "probably" because the only way to know for sure is to do a biopsy of my brain or an autopsy...mommy says "no way". She loves me just as I am. The spells of dingy...that started out lasting only a few minutes, now last a few hours but I don't mind too much because mommy helps me. She does get mad when people laugh at how I walk but she just holds me tight and whispers that she loves me and it is alright. Sometimes mommy cries because she is sad that I have to go through this stuff, but then I kiss her and whisper I love her and it will be alright!

Anyway, that is the beginning about me. I love all people, especially little girls. I love to hop down the street on my hind legs...this makes everyone who sees me laugh! I love to visit the nursing home up the street...the old people up there get so happy when I visit!