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Getting Better

I've finally got the bandage off my foot! It looks kinds gross, you can see all the scars still because my fur is still growing back and I don't have a toenail and it looks all squooshily when I walk. But now I CAN walk!! Yay! It took little while to feel ok again, and I still pick my foot up now and again, but it's ok enough to go on walks with.

And it was so lucky it has healed up because the other day it SNOWED on the mountain! Real snow! I've never seen that before, so mum took me up there. We had to walk for a bit to where there was a good patch that I could investigate because it had been raining and some of it melted. But we found some and I sniffed it and snuffled it and then we walked back to the car down a really nice bush track where there were so many smells and sights I didn't know what to look at first!

AND we went to see Kylie (the lady who bred me) at a local dog show. She had a pup there in the show who was in the other litter to the one I was in (Roan). She was a couple of weeks younger than me and she was really pretty, a little bit lighter coloured than me and she has a bit more solid looking head. Except I think she didn't like me because she kept snapping at me when I went to get a pat from Kylie - we think she was jealous. She was also a bit naughty and wouldn't do as she was told in the ring! But she's only young and has so much to learn, I'm sure she will do really well one day.

There were lots of other dogs there too, there were vislas and a big wolfhound and tiny little daschunds, and greyhounds and all sorts! Someone even thought I was there to be in the show - shucks. I just wanted to play with all the doggies, but I wasn't allowed.

I hope everyone else is well!

Apmutee

Hello pup friends, I am now an amputee.
I have been having a bit of a bad run. You would all know I broke my toe a few months back, and then I broke another on the other foot about 2 months ago. Unfortunately it was broken in such a way that the blood supply couldn't get to the end of the toe bone, so the vet had to take my toe off completely! I'm now trying to heal up, and mum has to be with me 24/7 to stop me licking the bandages so they don't get wet and make the infection I got any worse -I'm now also on antibiotics. :(

So why did I break the toes? Well, the vet thought at first I must have been calcium deficient and they made mum change my diet to have more calcium, but then after looking at the X-rays they said that actually there was no sign of weak/brittle/calcium deficient bones at all. They were nice and solid and healthy looking. Mum can't figure out how I did it and I'm not telling!! But at least now I'm back on my good normal food so my fur isn't falling out like it was on that other stuff.

Anyway, after 2 months of being cooped up and not allowed to run outside or go for walks I'm feeling a bit bored and going a bit stir-crazy. So is mum. She also said she's going broke from all the vet bills cause I kept chewing off my casts and bandages , even with a bucket on my head te he. But now she's finished her uni classes for the semester and now I can't get away with anything. Not even licking it!

Until next time pup pals, I'm going to go sleep in a nice patch of sun.

I am in the wars!!

Well, my foot is healed, mostly. The cast is now off after lots and lots of to and fro-ing to the vets and I chewed most of it off anyway so it rubbed on me and made all sorts of nasty sores. I was really sad for a while, but now I'm happy again!!

I'm back to going for walks which I LOVE! No more digging giant craters! BUT the other day dad took me to a place in the country to a friend's house and I got to run around and there were all these yellow and black stripy winged things all over the place. They're called wasps apparently. Well I snapped at one and it stung me in my mouth!! Ouch ouch ouch that was soooooo sore!

My lip all swelled up and looked like I was chewing on a golf ball. Dad was really worried about for for a few hours until it was clear that it had stopped swelling up and I could still breathe.... phew! I won't be snapping at THOSE things any more!

AND I found a new dog park! It's near mum's uni and there's lots of nice doggies there and I can go off lead and run and play! There's a even a great dane pup who goes there sometimes - I haven't met him yet but mum sees him when she rides past on the way home and everyone says he's great fun! Hopefully i will meet him this weekend!!!

We've been doing lots of driving lately and I'm not so scared of it any more and I don't get sick which is HEAPS better. And I've discovered these things called wallabies! they're great! we see them on our walks in the morning and evening. They bounce away really fast I just want to chase them, but mum says no, so I just watch. Sometimes when dad takes me though, we chase them together te he.

Anyway friends, bye bye until next time!