Ava here...

Can you tell I am soooooo sick of this collar? I can't eat, can't drink, nothin'! It sucks gettin' old and gettin' hurt. Mom says she did me a favor gettin' me a clear one but I can't tell why that would be any better. The other day she found me tryin' to lick my chew toy through the plastic. It sucked!

I'm doin' a lot better now. I'm not in so much pain. I just hate this collar. Do you think you can put in a word to Mom to let her know that I mostly promise not to chew my ouchie?

Thanks,
Ava

Recovering...

Poor Ava, apparently she fell on the ice a couple of weeks ago when it was icy outside. This caused an abscess that none of us saw until she chewed it open. I thought it was a simple cut that she had been nursing, so I cleaned it up and left her alone only to find the next morning she had pulled all the hair off and had busted a hole through her skin that was draining. Of course all this on Sunday before Christmas Eve.

We've nursed her back with antibiotics and pain reliever, changing her bandages twice a day. It looks good. We are letting it heal out in the open now. Poor girl hates the collar but she wouldn't leave it alone.

I thought we were going to lose her. We lost Kelsey a few days before Christmas a few years ago. It's so sad and heartbreaking. I am so grateful that Ava is going to be ok.

Images from Halloween 2007

Cookies, cookies, cookies... Yum~!
Is it a monster?


Ava

Smudge
Scrawn- after 8 years she knows the drill and just surrenders but she insists she doesn't have to enjoy it. lol Oh the shame!
Time Out
Cool projector light I've had for years and was finally able to put up this year.
Ava the Princess again.

Dellyne or UNDERDOG-she's modest
or maybe just a lil stuck up. Maybe she's just showing how tough she is.
Purries...Oh the humilation...

I think she's adorable. She was not happy.

Hope Everyone has a HAPPY and SAFE HALLOWEEN!

Is that shame I see?

This is Dellyne... Dellyne doesn't look very happy. You see, yesterday when I went out to water the trees outside, I thought maybe it would be nice to let the dogs out to stretch their legs. Dellyne has a problem with getting over excited and jumping. So what typically happens is Ava demonstrates how to sit and gets let out before Dellyne and then Dellyne gets the idea.

But yesterday went horribly wrong. Dellyne forgot that she is to bow down and let me unhook her from her lead. Because her behavior is sporadic we keep her on a lead just in case she ever gets that fence open.

So, yesterday...she decides to run for it when I open the door to let her out after she has sat down. So I say "Dellyne...is that what you are supposed to do?" She stops in her tracks and proceeds to turn around and walk back towards the dog area. Except at the last minute she decides to walk behind me instead of in front of me.

I see this is not going to be good... I panic. I yell "Dellyne NO!"

She runs full speed into the dog area dragging her metal lead across BOTH my ankles.

I wanted to KILL her. It burnt for hours. I put cold water on it and it just felt like I was slowly being seared. I could feel the burn going deeper and deeper. I couldn't find any comfort for hours and they are in such odd positions that the ice packs wouldn't sit properly while they were still frozen solid.

Poor Ava, when it happened...she knew she wasn't going to get any stretching time. She bowed her head and escorted herself back into the dog area. I thought I heard her mumble something that sounded like "rumrass" when she walked passed Dellyne, but then that could of been me...in agony...