5. Anal gland discharge. Zoey and Fuggles play really rough. A few times we have noticed Zoey smelling like fish, tuna / salmon, and Theresa does put both in the soup she makes for the dogs. Well last night Zoey came in from outside and had her tail super tucked and her backside was soaked and the fish smell was insane. We googled it and it was the glands for sure. She got another sink bath and was a bit freaked. Seems it can happen when they are scared so we bet Fuggles beat the crap out of her outside.

4. No more pooping for two. Blocked off access to the litter box so the little turd burglar cannot feast, butt Thunky can still get in there.

3. Drinking from the toilet. Zoey has a very small bladder and gorges on water. We have had to restrict her water to control how much she was peeing. Then she finally figured out how to drink from the toilet like Fuggles and Thunky. Last night it was so awesome. I made pee pee and she was all up in my junk and when I was done she got her paws up and was looking into the bowl. I flushed and it totally blew Zoey away. She backed up some, looked really intensly at the swirling water, back up at me with a “OMFG WTF” look and then back into the bowl. Was funny as hell.

2. TOYS TOYS TOYS….. We have a toy box for the dogs and she just loves grabbing each toy out and running around the house dropping them everywhere. She goes till the whole box is empty and then whines and bugs us till we round up the toys and it starts all over again. It is really cute, but hope this does not become a lifetime habit.

1. My little snuggle buddy. Theresa is the beastmaster. All the pets so far have liked her way more than me. Thunky will allow me to pet him every now and then, but snuggles with Theresa constantly and I just accept it. But Zoey loves me. I get to sleep with her in my bed every night and we both seem to like it. In the mornings Theresa gets up earlier and lets the dogs out and feeds them. Once brekkie is over Zoey comes to my bed and begs to be brought on the bed for more snuggles and sleepies. She likes me, she really really likes me

meh… on Terriers, but I loves me some music aboot them doggies.

4 months old and just under 25 pounds. Excited to see what she looks like at full size. We are thinking 35 – 40 pounds and sporty. Victoria, her mom has some dalmation, but her sheet said lab mix. Vet thinks a dalmation / lab mix of all sorts. She has been growing spots on her super zerbertable belly, and her three white feet too. Her chest is still white.

MUTTS RULE

Theresa put beef stick candles in her food to celebrate. I go by years though.

Zoey has been awesome. We only have piddles every couple days, she is no longer soiling her kennel, knows what “outside” means, has signaled when she needs to go out, makes it down the steps by herself, she sleeps with me every night with no issues besides her hogging most of the bed, and made it through the kitty door for the first time tonight. She loves toys and runs around the house with them like crazy. Her favorite is a huge nylabone which she can hardly carry. Once she found the toy box it was over. She pulls them all out and spreads them around rooms. Her sleep barking is getting really strange. She snores like crazy, but does these little whimper barks. Sometimes the barks wake her up and she is startled big time. Keeps barking and tries to get up and run but her back legs are not quite awake.

Fuggles has been awesome. She is training Zoey so well. They tear through the house and Fuggles keeps her from doing bad things. Thunky and Zoey wrassle a bunch too. Thunky gets some good swipes in, but Zoey seems to win. Thunky runs to a hiding spot only to attack a few seconds later. The noises the cat makes is strange as hell. Our family has gone from chilling, to insane romp room with the loss and new addition. Good times.

Yesterday was our first piddle in the house free day. You go girl.

tatas to the wind. She has such a cute little snore too. She makes a lot of noise while breathing too. We have gone a whole week without poopsies in the house, hoping for a piddle free day here soon. We are doing the kennel training method and she even piddles in her kennel. She micro pees. Just little dribbles

Fuggles: pssst…. go pee on the floor to get even

So sat we picked up Zoey from Hearts United for Animals no kill shelter near Auburn NE. HUA is pretty darn cool. The complex was huge and all sorts of dogs are there. They specialize in rescuing from puppy mills and other pounds. They have placed animals in 45 states and Canada. They want to make sure the animals are placed in good homes so the application process is very in depth and it includes a visit to your house to make sure the animals will be in a good home. Friday night we had our visit and it went well.

Sat morning we made the foggy drive and had a good amount of ones we wanted to visit. We headed forst to see Victorias’s secrets, Jammies, Nighty, and P.J. We were thinking Jammies before we got there, but it was Nighty who melted Theresa’s heart. Theresa tried to play it cool and look at the other dogs we had in mind, but I could tell we had found the one. Nighty (now Zoey) was the runt and had smaller feet than her brothers. Filled out the paperwork and home we headed.

She was a bit stinky and we had the windows down a bit on the ride home. We have done introductions before so we knew what to do. Kitty was first and I have never seen him poof up that much. His tail looked like a raccoon. After a few minutes Thunky sat and stared then walked away.

We put Zoey in her kennel and into my bedroom and then let Fuggles come in the house and sniff around. After a few minutes we pulled the kennel out and let Fuggles sniff, then Theresa held Zoey and we let Fuggles sniff. It was a bit tense for a while. Finally we let them deal with each other and this was what happened.

Introductions made we needed to give her a bath. Small enough to fit in the sink.

She runs all silly and when she was shaking off the water her tail flopped around like a didlo. Cute

She seems to be getting the whole poo and pee outside thing, but when Theresa let her have the house unsupervised while she showered Zoey dropped a dook on a pile of wires under the computer desk. ewwwwww

^ sweet monkey love caught in the act ^

Fuggles has been humping a stuffed santa we got for her and Maggie. It is really odd. Maggie was the one who would rip into the stuffed animals to get the squeaker out and then Fuggles would rip the guts out. With Maggie gone Fuggles just carries them around like her pets and humps them. She really is papas little girl

What a gift her life with us was.

Today at lunch we knew it was time to put our sweet little Maggie down when we saw she threw up the little bit of food she had eaten in the last day completely undigested. After a visit to the vet last night and the Xray showing how the cancer has taken over her lungs to the point her muscles shake because they do not have enough oxygen, we are ready to put her to rest. The vet will come to put her to sleep Saturday at 2:30 at our home.

Maggie was my first dog I ever had the privilege to live with. My roommate got her to be trained as a hunting dog. Theresa was my live in GF and we loved her as our own. Maggie was gun shy and my roommate let us keep her when he moved on. Theresa and I adopted our late dog Cloe about 6 months after our roommate got Maggie. They were best buddies and I am sure that is why he let us keep her when he moved away. Although I have already lost a dog, this one hurts a bunch because she has been with me through all of it. She will always be my first dog and a great member of our family we will always remember.

We will cremate her Like we did with Cloe. We have a small urn with Cloe’s ashes and will mix some Maggie in there as well. We spread Cloe’s ashes at her favorite places, Wilderness, salt creek by our house, cooper park, and the Oak Lake dog run. Maggie will get the same as well. So at least we get one more night with her. Maybe Theresa will let me sleep in her bed tonight

We are going to take our time to get another dog. We picked up Fuggles two days after Cloe died and it was not fair to Maggie at all. She was so mad. The puppy helped us, but we need to make sure we get a dog who will fit. Might look into fostering a dog as well. Until we start looking we need to work on training Fuggles better, and spoiling the crap out of her.

We will always love you and miss you dearly baby.

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UPDATE: Maggie had a really rough night. We thought it was the end at 4 Am, but she kept kicking and laid in bed for a while after Theresa got up. She made it to her safe spot between the couch and coffee table at a bout 10 AM. Vet called and said they would be here at 12:30 Maggie was so ready and the shot was administered. She went almost instantly, within a minute she had no heartbeat. We took a few minutes so the other pets could see her body and understand what happened. I carried her out to the vets truck and that was that.

Today is actually a happy day, her suffering is over. It went so easy and not having to take her into the vet was absolutely perfect. The house call was $45 extra, but completely worth it. If you are ever in a similar situation see if your vet offers in home service. If not, the emergency vet does.