Thank you and Update on Emma

Oh my goodness!!!!  Our comments runneth over.  We are so blessed to have such wonderful furiends!!  Thank you so much for all the well wishes, power of the paw and brilliant suggestions and ideas for improving my food so it's yummy and desirable to my sniffer and tastebuds.

I'm more willing to eat now since I finally convinced Mom to stop putting dry kibble in my bowl.  Who invented that stuff anyway?  Have the humans ever tried it?   I'm now eating macaroni and chicken.  It tastes better than the dry kibble, but I think Mom is trying to pull the wool over my eyes because there was a tiny sprinkling of that dry kibble stuff in my bowl tonight all mixed into my yummy mac & chicken.  Hello!  I can smell it in there.  Guess what.....Yep, I left most of the dry kibbles in the bowl ;)  Then I went back a few hours later and ate them.  Don't tell Mom but I am very hungry.  I'm just too stubborn to give in. 

Even though I'm eating...2 cups mac and 2 cups chicken twice a day I still do not appear to be gaining any weight.  Mom said it looks like I'm still losing weight.  Now that I'm eating  I heard Mom say something about trying to make sure I'm getting enough calories each day.  She showed me this website the Dr. sent us called Balance It and another website called Pet Diets.  Both websites are supposed to be operated by veterinary nutritionists.  The Balance It website offers recipes that you balance with their vitamin/mineral powder.  Pet Diets creates a formulated recipe for you and requires your Dr. to fax them medical records.  Have any of you ever tried either of these products?  Which one do you think sounds better?

This week Mom and I have been going on more walks together.  Grandpa offered to go with us and we were very excited we were able to share a walk with him. He's 81 years old and usually doesn't feel up to going.  I told him it would be a slow easy walk because I'm not moving as fast as I once was.  We posted awhile back about Grandpa and his ear ouchie that's the evil "C" disease.  He had his ear operated on in June and all went well.  Then during his last visit with the specialist they said the new bumps that popped up on his neck are the evil "C" disease too.  The good news is the bumps are new and haven't been there long so the radiation treatments Grandpa will be starting soon for his ear will include that are of his neck and the doctor said the radiation should get rid of it.  If not he will require another surgery.  Whew!  Between the doggies and humans it's been a challenging year.

We took Grandpa for a walk along the boardwalk.  It winds around by a lake and wetland area.  We saw some long leggy birds.  I'm not sure you can really see them in the picture.  Mom has a horrible camera in her cell phone. 

We try to take our walks in the evening because it's still pretty hot.  Tonight we had to miss our walk because at 10:00 p.m. it was still too hot to go out and by then it was already dark.  Below are some pictures from our walk last night.  We went out right about sunset and it was still warmer than we prefer, but the Dr. said it's important I get exercise to help prevent muscle loss and weakness.   We took a short walk by the lake and I met two new friends.  One was a cute little 13 week old Boxer puppy named Doodle.  Sorry, no pictures of little Doodle because Mom well............ I have no idea why she's never ready with the camera when cool things are happening because she can sit with it pointed at me all day at home. 

She did have the camera ready when I met my second little friend.

 I was a little disappointed because he did NOT turn into a Prince. 

I thought I would do some modeling for the camera and show off my new slender super model figure ;)

Thank you everyone for all your prayers, power of the paw, comments, friendship, support and kindness.  You are so wonderful!!!! 

Emma