Greetings Earthlings.

Seriously above is a picture of Discpatch my bichon when he was a baby.  It’s an aceo the size of a playing card I did with colored pencil.  I used to sell them on ebay till the bottom dropped out of the market.  Anyway it has nothing to do with what [...]]]>

Baby Bichon Aceo

Greetings Earthlings.

Seriously above is a picture of Discpatch my bichon when he was a baby.  It’s an aceo the size of a playing card I did with colored pencil.  I used to sell them on ebay till the bottom dropped out of the market.  Anyway it has nothing to do with what I want to say but when did I ever make sense?  Ask yourself, Really?  Actually I’m pretty proud of the picture  even though his head looks deformed but he’d just woke up and I went from a photo.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!! We are going to the in laws (my in-laws his parents)  I didn’t make it to grocery store since we’ve been gone so I am opening cans of fruit cocktail and peaches and apricots and calling it fruit mingle salade for my contribution to Thanksgiving dinner.  We all hope everyone who celebrates this greatest of glutton holidays does so safely and happily.  Husband has decided to go off of diet for one day, don’t know how much weight he’s lost with no sweets, nothing fatty or fried, lots of chicken and greens  (thank goodness for subway sandwiches and progresso soup) and eating every few hours but I’ve lost 6 lb I think.  Will know better in the morn.

So we survived the truck trip.  You know how Dispatch travels in a car.  He is WONDERFUL in a truck he was like super traveling dog?  He even slept on the floor once in awhile when the sleeper was too crowded with mommy and daddy sprawled out.  He slep on floor or sat on my lap most of the time while we were going down the road.  If I wouldn’t hold him he would pout and look out little window @ the bottom of the door sometimes.  When we went in truck stops and came back out within 1/2 hour his little white head would be staring out the window @ the spot where he’d last seen us disappear.  He became used to the COLD water in the frig really quick and demanded COLD water in his travel bowl every time I”d get daddy some.  Yes we have a frig and a crock pot.  Broke the TV and a driver took the microwave but we will get those soon (we have a sort of old beat up truck but guess what? it’s almost PAID for!!).  We spent two days of this trip in Super 8 though so ……….

Highlights of the trip:

Dispatch is pretty convinced the rumble strips on the side of the road are a monster coming through the truck floor if Daddy would happen to hit them, you can imagine the noise they make in a big truck, in other words Daddy did it on purpose to bother the dog.   The jake brake was bothersome too but it wasn’t as bad.

Border Patrol officers are NOT Dispatches friends.  One stepped up on the truck steps in the middle of nowhere TX @ an inspection station and Daddy had the door open, Dispatch the bichon saw the officer as a direct threat and came out after the patrol under Daddies legs, didn’t actually touch him but the officer stepped back.  I told the nice officer that Dispatch was a citizen too, he managed a weak smile after being threatened by the walking q-tip.  I held onto Dispatch the next time we stopped @ an inspection station, I could see the dog  jumping out of the truck and attacking the doberman cross drug/alien sniffing dog.  BTW I’ve always wanted to answer the nice Border Patrol officer with “No hablo inglais Senor” when he asks if I”m a citizen but I’ve resisted the temptation so far, would be funny to see his face and then I’d slip back into the Missouri drawl but I’m afraid they wouldn’t think it was as cute as I did?

I was convinced something had happened to Skeeter here @ home because nobody mentioned her and I was afraid to ask.  She was ailing when we left  see previous posts.  She’s not now.  Husband called her a tough old bi#(%.   She yodeled when we came home and Dispatch made his noise like a banshee being skinned alive while having it’s claws pulled out till we put him down out of the truck.  Then they just shut up like magic, they don’t even like each other? Skeeter is somewhere between 13 and immortal and we are leaning toward immortal.

I used to think people were looking @ me if they stared.  Now it’s my dog.  I got used to the pointing and waving after I made sure I didn’t have a rip in the butt of my jeans or anything like that.  Big old rough truck drivers would come up and tell me what a cute little co driver we had.    Dispatch does this climbing thing when I pick him up like he stands up on his hind legs and helps me pick him up.  Of course this is cute too.  And then there were those that were amazed he wasn’t on a leash most of the time.  We keep telling them we CAN NOT get away from HIM!  If I saw a cat or another dog I’d put him on a leash though, just in case but he ignored them. Drivers were even amused when he was viciously telling them how he would tear them limb from limb if he could only get out of this truck because they got too close to ours.

Going to try to post on Tresa’s Blog too.  I had internet service but we had sort of a me and him (meaning husband not dog) trip but I’m ashamed I didn’t do more visiting  blogs while we were in motel @ least.

I’m going to try to write on blogger animals that give pause too, not making any promises.

Oh yeah, rest area S of Dallas on southbound I-35, DO NOT put your furry dog in the grass away from the picnic tables, solid sand burrs but you can’t see them.  It was pitiful, but h (the bichon not the husband) learned to let me fool with his feet pretty well.   Anyway I would go out and pat the ground before I’d let the dog down to pee after that incident if it wasn’t solid grass grass.  I suppose this made me look not quite right perhaps?  Visual: midnight, parking area N of Falfurias TX, woman patting ground while holding white furry dog under vapor light.  Scary.

I found a wonderful blog Beyond My Slab.  Just go there and read, you will see what you need to do, this is an unemployed professional who is working @ menial jobs to keep the wolf from the door or try to.  Hint, there is a paypal button @ the bottom right hand corner if you feel so moved, or just link to her.  I got this idea and link from Laurie @ Three Dog Blog who is a real writer and has a book and job writing and everything.  I’m sure she would LOVE being described like that!

My coy look

Hey this is the Dis, that’s me up there, nice and cozy on the quilt, see, lord and master of all I observe?  This is what my mama sees most of the time when she looks up from computer.  The chair was her Daddies (I never met him but I’ve [...]]]>

My coy look

Hey this is the Dis, that’s me up there, nice and cozy on the quilt, see, lord and master of all I observe?  This is what my mama sees most of the time when she looks up from computer.  The chair was her Daddies (I never met him but I’ve heard tales about candy bars and spoiling dogs).

Head prop position

This is the position I assume when I’m a bit tired but want to keep an eye on my mama.  She’s been known to escape ya know and hard telling what kind of trouble she could get into by herself!  The thing sitting on the bench is her bread maker, she says she’s making bread more, I’m thinking she needs to make STEAK and ROAST more?  Yes that’s a pedal tractor in the family room, they do make those grandkids go outside to ride them most of the time though.

I can feel myself slipping

I must keep awake though, my services in barking @ a car or guarding my mama against that horrible evil cat named Meany may be needed @ any second.  BTW did you notice the pink pepto hair around my mouth.  I’m feeling better now.  Mama keeps telling me the white rug in the living room is not my make believe newspaper, whoooooops!  More on Mama’s Blog.

I'm falling.......

Oh well, I’ll sense it when she gets up out of her chair, I’m sure I will……zzzzzzz

old keyboard

Do you notice anything about this keyboard other than mama really needs to clean it (remember I only use this one once every couple months and dust do collect)?  Like no one else can use it unless they touch type because part of the keys aren’t even showing the letters anymore.  It’s really funny when my Uncle tries to use it (my daddies brother) he curses and yells, my Daddy can sort of remember where the letters should be.  The bad thing is my mama has worn out like 5 or 6 of these, and a couple wireless ones.  Maybe she should have written a book about ME with all that useless typing?

50th wedding

My mama found this picture and she says I can show you, it’s my uncle and people I can’t place but Mama says they are her mommy and daddy and it was something like a 50th anniversary?  I wonder if that is like a 50th birthday?   I knows my Uncle (mama says he was just being obstinate wearing suspenders to his parents 50th wedding anniversary) (My mama also says she wasn’t fed as a child which should be obvious but I’m thinking she’s always done those diet things?) My mama said that my sisters were in high school when this taken which makes mama sort of old.   Mama said she knows she almost forgot to do her mama’s hair and it doesn’t look like she did her own either?  She also says she really does love her brother, he was just saying horribly annoying embarrassing things when the picture was taken.  (imagine?)  She also says she wasn’t a nurse, that was her linen suit that she had for like years and years, she just was a bit skinnier then.  And those ARE her parents and that is her brother, she was just an afterthought big time.

I wonder where the Dis was in these pictures?  I’m ALWAYS in pictures?  And there was cake there and I wasn’t there?  Wonder if they put me in a crate!!!?  Oh well.  Mama wrote on her Missouri Books Blog about Cesar Millan’s newest book A Member of the Family.  Personally I think it should be the leader of the pack or the king of the family but if poor delusional Cesar wants to pretend he’s in charge that’s fine with me.  I’ll let the humans have their fantasy life as long as it doesn’t interfere with cheese, meat, and warm beds.

We are back from the vet and there is an update @ the bottom.  GOOD NEWS, walking on air,…. sunshine oh yeah, can’t remember the rest of the words……..

He isn’t that sick but he isn’t that good either.  He hasn’t been wanting to go up and down steps, I even posted about it [...]]]>

Dispatch Smiles

We are back from the vet and there is an update @ the bottom.  GOOD NEWS, walking on air,…. sunshine oh yeah, can’t remember the rest of the words……..

He isn’t that sick but he isn’t that good either.  He hasn’t been wanting to go up and down steps, I even posted about it on http://animalsthatgivepause.com/.  He was grumpy last night when we were playing with the ball.  Then I noticed I was having to lift him on the couch or the bed, he wouldn’t jump up which is like weird, he can doing a bichon blitz off the bed like you won’t believe.  He did jump up on Daddy’s leg this morning and I did get him to jump on the bed by opening the window (mama might escape?) but he just barely made it up there.  He wouldn’t jump up for tennis balls or anything.  He has been yelping when he pawed the dirt after he poops which I thought was strange, I looked for a nail that was bothering him but nothing.  Then just now he did it again when he was trying to tell me he wanted the tennis ball.  He had been whining for the tennis ball because it’s in my purse on a chair but normally he’d jump up on the chair and get it out of my purse.  He won’t come outside when I take the neighbors dog potty even when I leave the door open and talk baby talk to the other dog.  He hasn’t eaten or drank today, he pooped this morning but hasn’t peed as far as I know.  He won’t even eat cheese!!!

You ask why I’m posting this?  Why aren’t I rushing to the Dr?  They aren’t taking walk ins till 2 pm so I’ve got a bit of time to kill.  I’m actually typing so I will remain calm(tears have threatened to come a couple times and he may just have a pulled muscle or something, stupid dog).  He isn’t that comfortable with me holding him and I’m sure we will get plenty of together time @ the vets.  Here’s a picture of him I took a couple weeks ago and doctored up with photoshop.  Doesn’t he look sick?  He’s sleeping in his dog bed quite a bit too, he NEVER sleeps in his dog bed.  And he’s doing this funny thing he’s always done, we call it yoga dog where he looks like he is stretching his neck up and he just poses like that for 5 -30 seconds, looks down and then does it again.  But he’s been doing it like 5 times as much the last couple days.

I will let you know.  Good thoughts our way PLEASE!!

It was inflamed full full anal glands.  They expressed them and did blood work because his little belly was rigid I guess his belly was rigid because his butt hurt because nothing else was wrong.  In fact the vet used the word fantastic or amazing when describing how healthy he was otherwise!!  I told Dispatches Daddy about it all and he said so basically we spent that much money because the dogs butt was sore?  He has a way of putting things doesn’t he?

And if Sheila (I think that’s her name) from the dentists office reads this thank you for your help with getting a vet!

Can you see the tears starting to form in the tragic eyes?

Sad Bichon Frise

The lifted paw [...]]]> This is our dog Dispatch a Bichon Frise this weekend when we left to go out to eat.  I know there is a crumb on the floor ask me if it bothers me?

Can you see the tears starting to form in the tragic eyes?

Sad Bichon Frise

The lifted paw is proof he is physically suffering as we so heartlessly go out the door without him, the misery, the pure torture, especially when mama came back in to get the camera.  It’s getting worse, soon he will be up for an Oscar nomination in the drama category.