"Opening my gift from my Doghouse Secret Santa, which was Teddy! (Mom tricked me and lured me with the smell of the treats to get this picture. Mean!)"
Hello to all my pals! Today is my 4th Gotcha Day with mom! I can't believe how the time flies. I am so happy that I adopted mom. She is really coming along with her training. I am very close to completely ruling the household!
I am so lucky to have a happy and loving home. In my younger days, I didn't even know this was possible. Now I am so comfy and warm and full of good food all the time.
I want to thank my pals for remembering me today. I have made such great friends here at Dogster and I love you all.
Today is 3 years since I came to live with mom. Isn't that something! I am so happy here and mom and I love each other so much. She takes good care of me and has learned to do (mostly) what I want. What can I say, it's hard to train a human and can take many years.
I do not feel like celebrating too much as also this week, my wonderful friend Kiki had to go to Rainbow Bridge. I know she is happy there, but I feel very sad for her mom and brother Kobe. My birthday wish is for them both to find peace and comfort.
I love all my Dogster pals and I'm so happy that I have gotten to know so many great furs these past 3 years!
I hope everyone is doing well. I am doing pretty good, all things considering. Here is my new condition - on Monday, I started coughing and coughing. Mom thought perhaps I had a kibble or something stuck in my throat. So, off to the vet I went. I swear that lady just loves to go to the vet. She rushes me off there for every little thing. Anyway, they assured mom right away that I wasn't choking or anything and I was breathing fine. But to find out why I was coughing like that, they did an xray and told mom that I have a collapsing trachea. I swear if it is not one thing it is another. But the vet told mom that I just needed some meds, avoid exercise in the heat (no problems there, I hate going outside in the summer heat!), harness instead of collar (which I already have). Oh and she says I must lose another pound! OMD! Rude!! I am not the least bit overweight, even she said so. Just that is better to be lighter with this condition. And for my pancreatitis too. So you would not believe the small portions of food that mom has been doling out that I have been trying to survive on!
Since then I have been doing good. I did not feel like eating much on Tuesday, I guess because of all of the medicine that doctor gave me. But I haven't coughed since then. Well one little cough this morning. But that's it. I am still taking medicine but I feel all back to normal. Mom says I am 100% Sophie again. The weather has been furry nice this week. The mornings are actually cool and I felt so good this morning that mom and I took a nice walk before she went to work.
Mom says that we have been through much worse than this and she is right. I know she will keep me in line and make sure I do all that I need to do to stay healthy for a long time.
I hope all of you are having a good summer. And watch out for those fireworks!! I hate them myself and plan to hide in the bathroom.
