Well, they TOLD us she was part Boxer....

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Which never made sense, since her non-Lab part was so clearly Shar pei, but now we know what Susan really meant:

JOE Boxer.

It's been over 48 hours since Ebony came home from surgery, and she's steadily improved- appetite, mobility and definitely attitude. We were both out of the house for most of the day today, and Eleanor saw her virtually LEAP into the snow to roll and play in it when she got home this afternoon.

Only complaint has been about the Cone of Shame. Clearly it bothers her neck and ears, plus all the running into things (speaking as one of the most common Things). So we're going tonight with an alternative method suggested by the vet for keeping her from her stitches: one of my old t-shirts tied in the back.  She resisted a little at first, but she's happily sleepy now and has shown no interest in chewing through the straps fabric to get at the knitting. I'll cone her when we're out of the house, or if she again starts showing an interest as picking, but this seems a perfectly happy solution to getting through the next couple of weeks until they come out.

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[cinematixyz.livejournal.com]

I may talk to you about this in future... we may... god I hope not, but we MAY have to...you know... Miles. we have one of the formy cones and they made us buy it and I told her "Listen, as soon as we get home, I am taking this off" and they made us buy it anyway. I took it off, and he never licked his du-claw which was the issue.

HOWEVER, he hates the thing so if we have to...you know... emasculate my boy ::cries inside::, I will ask you how that worked for you to keep him comfy. I REALLY hope we don't have to though. Poor baby. I know that is weird for a mum to say, but I want him to be able to use his junk in a safe way.. I don't want to HAVE to remove them. But he has started to try humping a couple times, just a couple....it was more lie tweaking and we HOPE it was a dominance thing and not an 'I'm Horny thing'. Because he is an ANGEL the rest of the time, but if he gets aggressive, upset, I don't know what else to do. I tell Y. "I wish he'd find a toy and do his thing and calm down because I don't wanna do THAT before he even gets to use them!!"

He said all boys, animal or human, should have so coll of a mother. LOL

Z

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Of all our aminals over the past 20-plus years, we've only had three males, and two came pre-fixed. When the first of the three (who we got as a kitten) had his date with the Moyel from Hell, it was considered outpatient surgery, so Bozo came home the same day.

He was so mizzable, I slept on the tacky condo carpet next to him the first night (because clearly, he wasn't jumping up to us anytime soon). Eleanor still remembers that as one of the talismen of my tenderheartedness (cat translation: gullibility).

[greenquotebook.livejournal.com]

My mother's poodle once had some sort of issue with his, um, what's the doggie equivalent of crotch? Anyway, after the cone of shame failed to stop him from licking the medication off his balls, my mom resorted to using a pair of my brother's old underpants. Imagine this: an all black poodle whose tail was never cropped, coming up to you in tighty-whities, legs through the leg holes, the waistband pinned tightly around his tummy, his long tail through the fly.

Yes, really. I wish I had a photo.

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

LOL

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

doggie equivalent of crotch?

Nirvana, I believe it's called....

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

So is it still working?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

She's stretching out the front of the t-shirt a bit and we need to adjust it from time to time, but structural integrity is maintained, Captain.