Thanks to everyone!

Hi Everybody, I just wanted to take a minute to thank each and every one of you for all my birthday wishes, presents, rosettes, and pictures. I appreciate you all thinking of me today. I hope everyone had as super a day as I did! I treasure my friendship with each one of you. Thanks!!

I forgot to say my thank yous...

Hi Everybody...

Mom was just realizing that we forgot to thank everybody for all the pressies and well wishes everybody sent me for my Gotcha Day last month. I am so sorry! (Mom gets busy on the puter and forgets everything...good thing our internal clocks are always working or else she'd forget to feed us! BOL)

But I wanted to thank everyone from the bottom of my little Shar Pei heart for thinking of me. I can't beleive I've been with mom and Miss Doo for 5 years already!! Time sure does fly. :o)

I'm off to do my individual thank you notes.

I love all you guyses and girlses!!

~~Austin

Mom forgot!

So mom gets up real early (between 4 and 5 every morning) and logs onto Dogster while Doo and I are eating breakfast. (Most people aren't up playing on Dogster at that unheard of hour.) BOL So then she sometimes goes back to bed, which she did today, and then when she got on the computer a bit ago, she noticed a bunch of pressie notification messages for me. She didn't think anything about it but was wondering what R goin' on (Zaidie talk). So she clicked on one of the pressies and saw that they were congratulating me on my Gotcha Day! Well mom had plum forgot about that! (Gosh, talk about treating me like the red-headed step child! BOL) Mom said she was sorry and gave me lots of treats and hugs and kisses (which she could have kept the hugs and kisses and doubled up on the treats in my opinion!) for my special day! Thanks mom, I forgive you!

What picture do YOU see?

Mom made me a pirate picture the other day and immediately deleted it when she saw that it said "Become a Pirate". (She said that looked stoopid and she didn't even notice it when she was making the picture. She was just so excited that it looked kinda decent with the eyepatch and hat.) Well, then we noticed whenever we log on that the Pirate picture of me comes up over on the left hand side of the page, welcoming us to Dogster for the day (ya'll know which one I mean). WELL...thing is, that picture isn't even in my Dogster Plus photo book. At all. Anywhere! Mom deleted it! How is that possible that its showing up? Hmmm, that's strange. Don't know if anyone has left comments, since the picture isn't there, we're not getting any notifications. BOL Another mystery from HQ, I guess.

YIPPEE! YIPPEE! YIPPEE!!

Our one and only MISS IZZY B from the Mound Minnesnowdah is DOG OF THE DAY! We are so totally beside ourselves with happiness! Stop by her page and give her some BIG Orange lovins' today!! YOU GO GIRL! YOU RAWK!

Response we got from HQ today about the pressie problem...

I know lots of pups are having problems with not being able to open the messages our pals include when they send us pressies. Mom wrote them twice about it and here's the reply she got today, in case anyone is interested in reading what they told mom since obviously the problems ISN'T fixed yet!


Lou Ann,

Sorry you had some trouble opening gifts.

The Techno Dogs report this is fixed now. Thanks for your help in identifying the problem.

NOTE: You may need to give your pets a treat to recache their pages in your browser, so your browser doesn't load a page from its cache from when the problem was happening.

If you still aren't able to open/view gift messages, let me know what browser you are currently using and we'll take another look.

And thanks for loving Dogster. We love you right back!

Woofs! & Tail Wags!

-watch dog-

I went to the dentist today... :o(

Remember, I was supposed to go have my teef cleaned on May 5th, well the vet office called mom yesterday to see if I could come in this morning. Of course mom said yes, and that I would be there. So I didn't get ANYTHING to eat this morning (and neither did Doo, until I left) and I was starving. We got there around 7:30 and around 9:30 the vet called and said that there were a few more teef that were sick than what they had originally thought. So mom gave them permission to do whatever it took to make my mouf all better. Mom picked me up around 4 and I'm still a little wobbly and now I'm just sleeping. (The vet said that I'll look like I was out drinkin' all night. BOL) My mouf hurtses real bad too. :o( Mom has pain medicine to give me and some antibiotics too for the next 2 weeks. AND I'm not supposed to jump around (don't see that happenin'), no rough housing (nope, not that either), no chewing on hard toys or dog food (thank goodness mom bought me some canned dog food), no NOTHING except resting and sleeping and taking it easy (Yep, I CAN do that with pleasure, thank you very much!) (Mom comes over and checks on me every so often to make sure I'm still breathing. Silly mom! BOL) So, I'm going to go rest now and I'll talk to you all in a few days or weeks or sumptin.

The Jury Is Still Out...

Mom went and got us a small bag of Royal Canin (just in case your's truly doesn't like it we wouldn't have a BIG bag of it to get rid of or choke down) ;o) She looked for deer antlers that our pals here have said are good, but our Petsmart doesn't have them, so she bought us each a cow hoof. Doo LOVES them (when it comes to food, what doesn't she love?) Me....the jury is still out. I took it from mom sniffed it a bit, then decided sleep was more appealing to me. We shall see....

My vet visit today...(4/12)

Well, I had my vet appointment today and after a little problem getting my leash attached to my collar, we were on our way. Mom wasn't sure how I was going to be both in the car and at the clinic, but I shocked her and I was a good boy! Even Dr. Youngblood was very impressed how good I was being. The tech offered me some treats but I'm not a "people person" so I didn't eat any of them, not the crunchy ones nor the meaty flavored ones. I had a lot done today...first they took my temperature and boy wasn't that a shock to me! OH MY! They weighed me and I weigh 51 pounds. (Not real good for a Pei, so we're going to put me on some diet food Dr. Y sells at her clinic.) After that, I got all my shots, got my nails clipped, and got blood taken to do several tests, including the heart worm test. (we'll find out the results tomorrow.) She looked at my teefs, and she wasn't real happy. She said they needed to be cleaned real bad and one of my incisors looked rotten and that I'm probably in pain. She said it was unusual for Shar Pei to have real bad dental problems. So, we made an appointment for the first week of May and that's going to cost mom a small fortune. But, its something that needs to be done, so she's going to put Doo to work. BOL I'm just kidding. She has the money to have it done and knows I'll feel better afterwards. (Mom said my breath has been smellin' worse than normal, and I guess that bad toof is what was causin' the smell.)

I got some heartworm medicine to take, some ear medicine to keep my ears clean (Pei have very teeny tiny ear canals and we get ear boogers in there) AND, Dr. Y sent me home with a month supply of antibiotics for that bad tooth. She wants to make sure there's no underlying infection before we do the full teef cleaning next month.

When I got home mom gave me some of my favorite treats, but I think I was still stressed from being at the vet and the car ride, I just took it into the living room, but didn't eat it. Within 5 minutes, I was on my couch sleeping away. Its good I'm all healthy (except for the toof and a little weight problem), but I'm really not looking forward to going back next month. :o(


UPDATE - Wed 4/13
Dr. Youngblood called mom this morning and said ALL of our blood tests were super GREAT! No heart worms, no internal worms, no nothing bad! YAY! Mom was so happy and so was Dr. Youngblood. She also asked about us having some flea medicine, and Dr. Youngblood said she'd have it ready for us. Mom went to pick it up and the girl that gave mom the bag said "There's a promotion going on, and because you bought 2, 3pks of Frontline, you get 2 free months worth AND you get 2 stuffed toys." (Mom here--the kids don't know about the toys yet, they have gotten plenty from friends lately, but I got them a llama stuffy and a piggy stuffy. I'll give them to the kids later.) So mom got some bonuses for getting us YET more medicine.

Thank you so much for sharing my birthday with me

I just wanted to thank each and every one of you who shared my birthday with my by sending birthday wishes, pressies, rosettes, cards and letters. You all truly make my 6th birthday wonderful!

In no particular order, I'd like to thank you all for your thoughtfulness and kindness you gave me...I treasure each of our friendships.


Petey
Lola, Jake & Max
Saphira
Flicka & Lucas
Sophie Claire and Harley D
Walker, Alexandria, Pookah
Redford, Cooper, Wishbone, Strider, Nina, Keighty, Mick, Forrest and all the kitties and angel pups
Isabella Blu Heart
The Tater Tots
Missy & Monty
Lucy & Daisy
Thunder
Zoe, Tux and Drover
Abby & Lucian
Duncan Fife & Hamish McDuff
Otto, Sagwa and Angel Sophie
Molly, Buddy and Scooter
Jerry Lee, Harley and Rain
Jazzi and Harley
Radar, Wolf, Molly and Angels Cheyenne and Wyoming
Zaidie
Anya, Scarlet and Elise
Milton
Riley and Caileigh
Freckles
Sadie Jo, She-She, Sakari, Sampson, Brandi, Boozer and the rest of the gang
Hearth
Hershey
Chipper
Sunny
Huey
Diesel
Ebony & Ceeley
Krickette
Scooter, Pepper, Misty and Cutter
Fizzy
Finley
Tinkerbelle & Natasha
The Barking Machines
Ella and Daisy
The Calli Crew
Darla Mae
Zeus
Whitley