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The Surgery – the Final Chapter

Posted in First Six Months, Health, tagged , , on February 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »

The Cone of Shame was quite a horrific accessory for Duchess.  You know the nervous drooling thing I’ve written about before?  Well, just imagine that but now only with a nice, nifty, big bowl around the head to catch it all.  Just wonderful. Not only that, but apparently the Cone of Shame impedes all movement [...]

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The Surgery Part ummm… four?

Posted in First Six Months, Health, tagged , , on February 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Again, we had another sleepless night since Duchess absolutely refused to leave her dew claw bandages alone (both the professionally done and the Bubba-fied ghetto triage method one that Dad and I had done).  However, my lovely vampire wife got up early as always on Christmas morning to fix brunch for the family… another tradition [...]

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The Surgery Part Trois…

Posted in First Six Months, Health, tagged , , on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

We always open our Christmas presents on Christmas Eve.  It’s a family tradition that we have and one that we’ve done as long as I can remember.  Maybe my family wasn’t big on delayed gratification – I dunno.  So anyway, the Christmas Eve of ’09 we sat down to a lovely dinner that my vampire [...]

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The Surgery Part Dieux…

Posted in First Six Months, Health, tagged , , on February 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Where were we?  Oh yes (strokes his beard, lights his pipe, and leans back in the rocking chair to spin a yarn white whittling on a stick).  The belly had been filleted open by some eager chewing and licking by Duchess. So there we were late at night, looking at a fresh surgery wound.  This [...]

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The surgery (or why oh why did I get a girl dog?)

Posted in First Six Months, Health, tagged , , on February 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I’ve been meaning to get to this for a while now, but things just kept coming up, photo opportunities presented themselves, etc.  Plus, this is such a looong drawn out story that I was afraid I might lose interest (especially since it’s not something currently going on that I can get pictures of). So how [...]

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Von What?

Posted in First Six Months, Health, tagged , , on February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

We have a very long history of weird stuff happening to our dogs and family members.  It’s something in the genes I think.  Or perhaps one of our ancestors built something on top of an Indian burial ground.  Whatever it is, the cosmos, fate, karma… it’s usually stacked against us. Whether it’s purchasing a flawed [...]

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