THAT WAS FUN!!!!.....snore.....

Mom took me to the park! Mom took me to the park! Mom took me to the park! Mom took me to the park! Mom took me to the park! Mom took me to the park!

We ran and ran and ran and ran....ok, *I* ran and ran and ran and pulled mom along. She's SOOOO SLOW! She said we walked the entire 3 mile loop in an hour--whatever that means. I just know that I had SOOOO much fun walking on the trails, sniffing all sorts of leaves and grasses and strange poops.

And then I saw them! The BIGGEST doggies I've ever seen!!! They were 100 times my size, swishing their tails back and forth, and they were staring at little me. I AM NOT FOOD!!! Mom called them horsies but I call them the big scare monster dogs.

And then we went back to the car and I ran into the house to tell Buford all about it but I saw the couch and thought nap time first!

I hope we go back again, and soon.

----della

With Buford it is never easy

A month ago I took the guy to the vet because he had a sore at the middle of his tail and it did not seem to be healing. I had also thought he had been looking a little thin---and I was right. Buford was down to 51 lbs--his slimmest ever and that is NOT a good thing.

My vet walked into the exam room, was just starting to look at his file to find out why were there, and stopped, starred and said, "I never thought I'd see the day when I said Buford was too thin." And so it began---

I changed the boy's food from the weight control canned he has been on for over 5 years to the normal adult canned food that Della gets. I also put him back on his all time favorite Milkbone biscuits, the large ones! I thought he was starting to gain a little weight but was unsure. What I was completely sure about was the fact that his water intake and TRIPLED!

I needed to travel so when I do the pack gets boarded at the vet. I know they would rather be at home with someone house sitting, but that's another story for another day. Buford was due for his annual physical, shots, etc., so I added a urinanalysis to the list to see if he had a UTI.

Careful what you look for---his test came back with a slightly low urine specific gravity. This could mean anything, but with the weight loss the initial thoughts were diabetes, liver disease or kidney failure!!!! My vet wanted to do a CBC to take a closer look at everything because he was also down to just barely 50 lbs. So we did......

All test results came back negative! There was NOTHING wrong with his kidneys, pancreas, liver, glucose levels, etc. She could find no cause behind the weight loss and water intake/output.

So we watch now. His energy level is through the roof. He gets to eat more than ever (vet wanted him to go back to dry food....so I did what I knew I shouldn't do, and gave him a bowl of half dry/half canned and he gassed up and went bloated without the torsion part--thank God). He wants to go for walks again, he plays with Della for the first time EVER, and he has started chasing the cat again.

It's never easy with THE MAN, but I hope he's around for another decade of joy.

It Had to be Destroyed!

You leave your eyeglass case on the coffee table and go upstairs to take a shower---what did you expect me to do, just leave it there? Puh-Lease!

---Della