Sky, my Mini Australian Shepherd, has a propensity for needing veterinary attention. If there is an illness to catch, a disease to inherit, or an injury to get, he is there. I affectionally call him my "lemon" dog because everything seems to go wrong with him.



Well, Friday was his 1st birthday so he decide to go big (Sky never does anything halfway!). I had 3 kids over for the evening and we were letting the dogs out before we went to dinner. We were all standing on the patio and I… Continue

So tonight was Lyla's first Puppy class. I debated for a while about whether or not to even sign her up for one, since I can teach all the commands at home for free, but eventually decided on it because Lyla is a little timid and could benefit from the socialization.



First night of class, we walk in, and Lyla's instructor reminds me of an older version of the dog trainer off of Marley and Me. Yikes! Sure enough, the first class was spent practicing alpha rollovers with the dogs. I… Continue

Lyla went on her first walk today! I loaded up both of the dogs and went down to the Riverwalk for an evening stroll. I will definitely have to invest in a double leash so those two don't get so hopelessly tangled, but other than that it was great. We walked close to 2 miles and poor Lyla was so tired! On the way home she fell asleep in the car. Big brother Sky, however, was sitting up looking at me like "that was a nice warm-up mom, what's next?" =)

Things seem to be working themselves out quite nicely. After a lot of thinking and soul searching I decided to switch vets. I just simply wasn't comfortable with the fact that my vet didn't even know that some medicines could be fatal to my Aussie, Sky. While I did like a lot of things about our vet, and I will miss going to him, after taking Lyla to the new vet today, I know I made the right choice.



She agreed that the medicine Sky is on is very dangerous for him and took him off of… Continue

Whew! It has been a week full of painting, unpacking, and vetting. The house is coming along nicely, although there is still a lot of work to be done, and it's in that "it always looks worse before it looks better" stage right now. The animals, however, are all conspiring against me to my life as stressful as they can.



Izzy, the cat, was diagnosed with Inflammed Bowel Disease about a month ago and put on a food trail. I called the vet yesterday to say things were going great and is… Continue