A Okay

I mentioned in my previous post that our new family member Super T had never been to a Dr. in her 6 years.  If she has ever been it hasn't been for many years.  She arrived at our home on the 18th and on the 23rd Mom had her scheduled for a check up. 

Lets go 

 

 

What's taking so long

Where is the Dr.

I'm ready to leave now

We have the greatest Dr. ever.  We both love him and give him lots and lots of sloppy kisses every time we see him.  I'm kind of jealous that Super T got to go see him without us. 

Great news...she is in good health.  All tests came back negative for parasites, Yeah!!!  The Dr. did look at her teeth and said there were a couple bad ones and said something about "molar".  He felt her mammary glands and felt some hard areas but didn't seem to think it was anything to worry about.  He does want to spay her and Mom and Dad have been talking about this a lot.  They both agree that regardless of who keeps her..whether her human returns for her or she remains a member of our family it does need to be done.  The longer she goes having heat cycles the greater her chances increase of developing a potentially life threatening condition - Pyometra.  This is a horrible sickness that almost took the life of my beloved Bella sissy.  It's a horrible, but 100% preventable sickness.  Mom and Dad both wish they had known about this Pyometra before either one of us developed it so they could have spared us all the misery.  We were both lucky and we survived and fully recovered. 

Mom and Dad were having a guessing game as to how much Super T weighs and Dad said 60 and Mom said 80.  Either way they both said she is too heavy for her size and should loose a few pounds.  At the Dr. she weighed in at 67 pounds.  I think I heard the word "diet", Uhhh Ohhh!

I hope they don't try to put me on a diet.  I love food.

House Guest.....??

I'm still here.  I haven't been able to post because Mom and Dad have been busy with their work and taking care of us and now we have a new house guest.  When I have some more time online I must tell all about Dog!Games!Play! it's a wonderful event we went to a couple weekends ago.  We had the most fun!  Back to my news...we have a new house guest.  Mom and Dad were in their workout room running on the noisy, whirling, sidewalk looking machine where they run and run and go absolutely nowhere and lifting heavy metal bars when Bella started barking.  When they came out to see what all the fuss was this was here. 

Sweet Pea aka: Super T, Sweet Tea (notice the white T on her chest)

Her Dad said he couldn't keep her right now because his lease says NO pets and his landlord caught her there.  The mean landlord man told him either the dog goes or he goes.  Well, that's how we now have another dog in my castle.  She sure is odd.  She doesn't get on the couch or the bed.  She doesn't know what a marshmallow is or hot dogs or hamburgers or funny noises that Dad likes to  make when we play or lots of other things.  She just mopes around and acts all sad.  She doesn't even like the chirping noise my yellow chickie makes or the oink the pig makes or the moo the cow makes or the squeak the other toys make.  She picks them up very, very carefully and takes them to her bed that she brought with her.  I think she thinks they are her babies.  She doesn't want them to get hurt.  You should see all the stuff she brought for her visit.  She brought a hard sided kennel, bags and bags and bags of toys, a giant super size bag of dog food, canned food, two soft pillow beds and a giant stuffed doggie pillow/bed, shampoos, several kinds of doggie treats.  Hmmmmm, I wonder why she needs so much stuff for a visit.  I wonder how long she plans on staying with us. 

Where am I?

Bella, Sweet Pea, Emma

Well, no one ever said I was going to have to share my couch.  Really, how am I supposed to stretch out and take a nap?

Mom and Dad said we must be nice and share our couch and bed and toys with her because she has never been allowed to enjoy such nice things as a soft comfy couch or bed.  They said she's never ever been on a walk or even to the Dr.  I remember what it was like to not have soft things to lay on or toys to play with or people to  take me for walks (or even feed  me but that's another story for another time).  I will share my things with her.  I will be happy to show her how to live the life of luxury as a royal doggie.  As Queen of this castle it's my duty. 

I think we have the couch arrangements all worked out.  This seems to be a fair solution.

Bella has been trying and trying to play with her but she just isn't interested in playing with us and she wants to stay in her kennel a lot.  Mom and Dad said we just need to be patient because she doesn't understand what has happened.  I understand she is in a new home with people and doggies she hasn't seen in a long time.  We are giving her lots of love and praise.  When she is out Mom and Dad sit on the floor with her and she loves to snuggle up and be loved on.

Well, I think she has finally come out of her shell.  I was minding my own business (even though Mom doesn't believe me) and look what she did...

a play bow.... o.k. lets go.  Unfortunately our play was interrupted and cut short when we run into the end table and knocked an empty cup off and almost sent the lamp crashing to the floor.  What did they expect would happen when you put three large doggies in a tiny house?  Since this we have all been romping and playing and zooming through the house.  As much as one can zoom in a teeny tiny house.  They keep telling us me are moving and we are getting a larger house with lots of land for us to run and play.  I wonder when it's going to happen.  Come on guys it's been 2 years already....where's the new Emma castle?

Last Saturday we took Super T on her very first walk.  Mom took Bella and I and Dad took Super T.  Wow, does she like to pull.  Dad was very patient and they did some penalty yard work and be a tree and she seems to be getting the hang of it.  We took her and showed her our donkey and goat friends and she thought they were pretty neat.  Then we took her on a car ride out of town to another park and she didn't know that doggies could do such things.  We even went through the drive thu and got burgers and she had never done that before either.

Yesterday and today we went for more walks.  We introduced her to surprise Saturdays.   That's when  Mom comes home from work and surprises Daddy and us with something.  Today she picked up a super huge breaded tenderloin for Dad.  It was so big the bun looked like a tiny dot.  Then she picked up hamburgers for each of us. Dad told her to just order the patties plain and no bun since the bun just gets thrown away.  Yeah she said they had trouble understanding what she wanted. Then after our surprise yummies digested we all went for a walk.  Wow, was it hot and humid today.  They say it will be 90 - 92 degrees tomorrow.  Since I'm a senior Great Dane and Super T isn't used to exercise Mom and Dad said we may stay inside tomorrow and go out on a cooler day.

As you can see we have been very busy the past week and a half introducing our new friend Super T to our family and taking her out and about to do new things.  It's a lot of fun having a new friend to play with, snuggle with, walk with, ride with, and bark with.  I think I love her !  

I am pretty sure Bella loves her too.  They have become close friends.  More than that...we have a new sister.  

Sweet Dreams

Sandy Beach, Sunshine, Wind Blowing Through Ears

Saturday Mom woke us up early and gave us breakfast then she got dressed and picked up our backpack.  Oh wow ! That means we are going somewhere fun.  We watched excitedly and followed right on her heels as she cleaned out the bag...she is always complaining because it's too heavy.  Then she filled our water bottle, their water bottle and grabbed a gallon jug of water...it appears we are going to be doing a lot of walking. 

Are we there yet?

Mom heard of this cupcake place and dog bakery both on the same street kind of in the direction we planned on traveling so she asked Dad if we could stop along the way.  This is what Mom and Dad had for breakfast and lunch.  They would never let us eat like that.  All I hear Mom talk about is losing weight.  I don't think these cupcakes were a good idea.  Well, I think she learned her lesson.  They were both complaining about these cupcakes.  They said they had no flavor.  They were supposed to be specialty gourmet treats with names like S'more, Boston Creme, Malt, The King, Banana Pistachio, and Root Beer.  They didn't taste anything like their names or the flavors they were supposed to be.  (Later when we got home Mom was eating one and found a hair - Gross! She said they will never go there again. ) They said they would much rather have regular grocery store cupcakes because they taste better.  Mom said they focused too much on making them look fancy and not enough time making them taste good.  If they don't taste good then what's the point.  That will teach them (Mom and Dad), anyway that just delayed Bella and I from getting to our walk.  Oh, wait they said there is a dog bakery on this street too.  Where, Where?  Lets go.  I'm sure there treats will be much better.

 Dad couldn't find a parking spot close enough for us to go to the bakery with Mom.  Usually she will take at least me with her to pick out our treats.  This time she had to go without us and she said the rudest thing...that's ok It'll be faster without Emma.  That was uncalled for.  I just like to sniff everything to make sure I don't miss out on anything, Gee.  I waited and she was back in flash, but where's my treats?  She said the bakery wasn't open yet.  They are on city time and not the same time our watches and clocks are set to.  Mom checked her phone.  Yep, her phone had updated to the local time and it was different.  She said we weren't missing out on anything because it was a teeny tiny shop, just a little nook in the wall and it didn't look like they had much.  She said she could make us better treats at home anyway.  Funny thing about that though she has hundreds of doggie cookbooks and she hasn't used any of them in a very long time.  She keeps promising to cook our meals and start making us homemade treats again  but it hasn't happened yet. 

Yeah, on the road again.  Our first exploration was Coffee Creek a nice park with some of the paths brick, but most were dirt and in a lot of spots the trails were completely covered with water.  It's rained for about two weeks and today was the second sunny and nice day.  We got a little wet and muddy.  Dad kept using the b-a-t-h word.  Yikes!  Then all of a sudden Dad stops and stares at my face and flicks a critter off it.  What????  He said a critter was nose surfing...along for a free ride.  It was a tick.  I don't know why they get so freaked out about those tiny little bugs.  I've heard Mom and Dad say they can make us sick.  That's why they are always looking us over and checking all our nooks and crannies during and after our walks.  We also get a once a month veterinary prescribed spot on treatment.

Mom wanted to lead the way and was trying to find the fountain and pond we walked to last time we were here.  This is only our second trip to this park.  Dad found it planning for a visit to the beach a few months back.  When will Mom realize she has no sense of direction and doesn't know which way is which or what way to go.  She had us going way out in the marshy wooded area of the park.  We turned around and headed back the way we had come with Dad taking the lead.  Look we found the pond and fountain.  

It was back into the Emmamobile and on to our next stop.  The beach.  YEAH!!!!!   I love the beach the wind blows my ears out like I'm flying, the sand is soft and smooth between my toes. 

I think I found something

Lets see what under here

Hmmm

flying

Am I tan yet?

It was a little windy today but it still felt nice and warm.  We sniffed the water, the sand and Mom collected some pretty rocks that washed up on shore, I thought I found some buried treasure but there was nothing there and I'm not really good at digging so I kind of lost interest. 

It was back to the Emmamobile and on to our next stop.  I wonder how many different places we are going to go today.  Oh, surprise this park has a doggie playground.  It has the paved trails that Mom and Dad prefer so we do not pick up any hitchhikers (ticks).  I prefer the sand and dirt trails, they are much easier on the feet.  By this time the sun was really shining and it was about 72 degrees. 

This park had the most paved trails we have ever seen.  Mom and Dad were really impressed by this park and kept saying they sure wished our town would invest in some dog friendly parks and activities so we don't always have to travel so far away.  They said the food for the Emmamobile is getting expensive.  They paid $4.25 a gallon and they said it takes a lot of gallons to feed the Emmamobile.  I wonder how many burgers make a gallon?  I bet I could eat a gallon of burgers.

We stopped and had lunch at White Castle.  Mom got us each our own slider plain.  She also shared their sack of sweet potato fries with us.  They were delicious.   We also stopped at Schoop's for milkshakes.  Dad got a strawberry and Mom had been craving a Green River.  It's green milk.  How odd.  It sure tasted good.  We both got to lick the bottom of the cup and the whip cream off the lid.  Yummy!!! 

We walked and walked and walked and walked and walked.  I am so tired.  By our third park Dad had to give my hiney a boost to get up in the Emmamobile.  I had lost my umph.  I usually jump in with gusto and excitement but after so many ins and outs and walking I was getting tired.  Mom didn't get pictures of the third and fourth parks because we weren't there long.  Their paved trails weren't as long and their doggie parks didn't have any agility equipment.  We decided the second park would be one we plan on returning to.  We sure didn't expect it to be as nice as it was.  After we got home we ate dinner and went to sleep.  Mom and Dad laughed at us because no one wanted to get up and go outside for our last potty before bed.  I was awake enough to hear Mom say her feet hurt and she could hardly walk after sitting down for awhile.  I thought she was going to fall over on me trying to get up and go to the kitchen.  Whew, she didn't.

Look, I was so tired I didn't even make it to my couch.  I always lay on the couch.

Too pooped to move