Update on Evey

Just wanted to let everybody know that Evey went back to the vet today and her stitches have to stay in for another week so she will remain a "cone head". She got four more shots, but Stacie tells me that she is full of energy and waiting to spend the day with "grandma" tomorrow. In answer to Pam, no Stacie isn't living at home with us, she is staying at Jon's in Kennewick but seeing how her work is so close to my home she brings Evey over every day so she can see her on her lunch break and to be able to let her out to the bathroom. Remember, Evey stays in her kennel for most the day when I am home I let her out in the morning for a bathroom break, Stacie lets her out at her lunch time and I let her out for the last time in the late afternoon. I do let her stay out for a while from time to time on my days off just to irritate the crap out of my own animals, they really need to lighten up! It is sure fun to watch a puppy try to get old stick in the mud dogs to try to play with her;-)

Puppy Surgery

Stacie and Jon's baby, puppy that is, had surgery on Monday and I am happy to report that she is doing fine. She had her dewclaws removed, she was spayed, and she had her hematomas (sp?) in her ears taken care of. The last part is just a trait of a Sharpei, and Evey is part Sharpei so she came by it naturally. She has to keep her legs bandaged up until tomorrow and she hasn't been able to get her feet wet since her surgery, that is a chore trying to make her go to the bathroom in the dirt instead of the wet grass in the morning, but by now she has adapted pretty well to the challenge. Her sutures will come out next week (in her ears) so she is wearing a little cone just to keep her from damaging the work by scratching. She is so full of energy and it is so fun to watch her burn around in the back yard. She can't figure out why my dogs won't play with her, she doesn't know that they are stuck up and set in their ways. It just seems weird that they get kind of pissy when she is around, like maybe they forgot that they used to have another dog around her not too long ago. It would've been cool to see how Mary would be with Evey, but I guess we will just have to imagine that she would have been the most open to having her around seeing how she was always the one with a level head and such an easy going temperment:-( I miss Mary!