my poor toe

Should have added this earlier.

About two moths ago I see Kasey is having trouble with his paw. I look and see his toe nail didn't look right and there was bleeding around it. With a trip to the Vet, they cut the nail completely off and give us antibiotics. About a month later I see the nail is growing sideways instead of straight out of the toe. Another trip to the Vet and he decided to amputate part of the toe. Today he had the stitches taken out so he wasn't exactly a happy camper today. At the pet store I mentioned in the last diary entry I bought boots hoping that that will keep him from messing with it. He managed to pull off everything else we tried. So far, he hasn't tried to pull it off. Haven't received the biopsy report yet.

I'm on the front page

One of the places I posted about Kasey running off was on the pet blog of the local newspaper. http://www.yorkblog.com/pets/2009/02/lost-sheltie-2.html Rose who runs the blog emailed me a couple weeks ago to ask for info on what we did to find Kasey to use in a story to help people find their lost pets. On Tues I opened the newspaper and find Kasey on the front page of the local supplement. http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w206/tim15856/Our%20Shelt ies/kaseyfrontpage.jpg Here's our part of the story. http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w206/tim15856/Our%20Shelt ies/kaseystory3.jpg

Happy Birthday!

Opps, a day late.

Happy Birthday Kasey boy. Kasey received a special treat, which unfortunately made a mess of his bib and front legs. At least I took pictures before hand.

1 year

It's been one year since Kasey's great escape. He's still a work in progress. He is still skittish, but much better than before. He also likes to hide up in a bedroom for most of the day. His favorite past time is chasing after a tennis ball. Along with Shadow, Kasey is on a diet and needs to lose 4-5 lbs. Grumpy days ahead.

On the lam

Please read Shadow's diary from Feb 09 to see Kasey's big adventure. As soon as we got him home, he ran off and it took 20 days to finally capture him. The one picture of him that shows him disheveled was taken one hour after capture. He looks resigned.

Kasey is a work in progress. He didn't know any commands besides 'come' and he is still very skittish. So far we've only taught him 'sit'. We need to spend a lot more one on one time with him to work through his problems. He does like to play, but not directly with Shadow. They compete to get to the tennis ball first which has resulted in some rather funny crashes from Kasey. But once they both got a ball, Kasey will keep looking at Shadow and follows his lead to bring the ball back.