Our pups

Random pictures from my phone of our awesome pups!

She's... amazing??

Sometimes when it rains it pours around here! Last week Kenny discovered the dogs had severed the connections that lead from the AC unit to the house ! Believe it or not this actually happened at our first house... We did actually learn our lesson the first time and built a fence around the unit (also where the garden is/was), but the electric fence was no longer working and the dogs decided to just break a few fence planks and have a hay day. GRRR. Sunday night was pretty hot in the house, but we managed and Monday morning Joe from Wise Mechanical came out to fix us up. He was really impressed by the dogs work (I bet he was thanking them for it too!) and after several hours of work and $480 later we now have cold AC again.


This picture is the part Joe was so amazed that she could destroy. It is a pretty heavy grade copper pipe that is supposed to be straight and hollow not bent and flat. He couldn't believe her teeth/jaws were strong enough to do that damage.

Aren't we lucky to have such an amazing pup?

Broken Tail

I don't know how she did it... but somehow Hope BROKE her tail! This scrappy, adventurous, hyper, happy, sweet dog never ceases to amaze us... It seems like she got it caught in the door, but we are pretty certain that is not what happened because it would have been one of us and I think we would have known!

You know when you feel down someone's spine and you can feel each vertebrae, well thats how her tail feels until you get to the bent part it feels out of line. Crazy.

The good thing is she doesn't appear to be in any pain.

Hope

Our oldest, Hope, had to go to the doctors office.  She's been sick for the past couple of weeks and lost 4 lbs since we took her to the vet 2 weeks ago. Turns out it was all due to her diet.  We changed her food, and it upset her stomach.  The vet (at Petsvet) gave her some fluids, antibiotics and nausea medicine and $119 later she is back on the right track.  Now we have to decide on what type of food to feed her so this problem doesn't come back.  Dogs can create allergies to certain types of food.  The most common problem is food with chicken.

  The vet used a technique called a "muscle test" used by the Chinese.  It seemed like junk science, but it actually worked.  Basically you stand near the animal, and hold a style of food next to them (ie- beef, chicken, deer, etc). The vet had me touch the tip of my thumb to the tip of my middle finger and hold with all my strength.Then she would try to separate them while I tried to keep them together.  If she could separate the fingers with ease, then it wasn't a good match.  When it was hard to separate the fingertips then that's the type of food she could eat.  It was more the style of the food then the brand, so it wasn't all price oriented.  She tried it with me too.  She had me hold two different bottles of pills near my chest as she tried to separate my fingers.  The pills that I had towards my chest when she couldn't pull my fingers apart were vitamins for men, versus the vitamin for women.  The idea here is my body wanted the vitamins for men, because my body could use the ingredients that were inside.  I tried this on Amanda, and come to find out Hope is her favorite dog.  lol

Posted by Kenny