Christmas weekend

The dogs got a bunch of nice toys from my mom and dad and from My sister.  We left them home this year - even though it was Dozer's first Christmas, I didn't want him hurting anyone cause he is still a spaz.  We did take him over Sunday night so we could meet my cousins and my uncle lee - they all have had or do have boxers.  They all loved him. We took him home before dinner was ready so Bryan and I could relax and eat.  He did ok but you could tell he was never going to relax.  Bryan gets a little over stressed about the dogs, I try to tell him they will be fine.  But there were a lot of people there so I was a little uneasy about l.letting him roam the house.

Day 111 - 12-22-2010 Wed

By the time we got home it was done raining.  It had not rained at my work that much, but Bryan's work looked like they got a bunch.  It didn't really rain again till the middle of the night.  Dozer wanted to go out aat like 4:30am and it was pouring down rain - had to dry him off.  Now I can not get back to sleep.  This weekend it going to be a bit stressful but fun.  Get to see some family we have not seen in a long time, that will be nice.

Day 110 - 12-21-2010 Tuesday

Dozer is loving his marshmallows - little does he know they all have a Benadryl pill stuck in them.  His  skin looks much better - he no longer has scratches above each eye.  He still has lost some fur from around his eyes that needs to grow back.  Tomorrow and Thursday we have a chance of rain again.  I hope it is nice for Saturday - I am not going to bring the dogs to my parents this year for Christmas. First reason is that it is stressful on Bryan and I cause I have to watch them to make sure they don't get into stuff (Dozer is still a curious baby) and second is that My parents have my Great Grandmother there and thats all I need is to have Dozer push her over, the third thing is that my sister is bring over her cat.  Well in true doggy fashion, Portia hates cats. Dozer has never been around them so I have no idea what will happen if they meet.

weekend update - Days 107-109

Friday - We are going over to Colts after work today - we try to go over to his house every other weekend cause he had his daughter over there and she loves to see us.  We aunt and Uncle to her - as we are to most of our friends kids.  I love being an aunt to the kids.  She was being very cute - a little cranky during dinner but she was super tired. We were there till almost 2:20am.

Saturday: We are going to a friends for a BBQ

Sunday - we got home after 5am - yes I said 5am - the friend we hung out with we have not seen since our wedding 7 years ago - we spent most of the day sleeping - we did watch two movies.  Tosh.0 Movie and Shrek's newest movie.

Dozer got a new toy this weekend - it has 9 squeakers in it - and he is having a blast with it.

day 106 - 12-17-2010 Thursday

Not much has been going on here - we had rain today and it was kinda cold.  We lost power at 3am early Friday morning - it did not come back on till we were already on our way to work.  I hope it is not too cool in the house for the dogs today.  it only got down to 65 in the house before we left.

Day 105 12-14-2010 Tuesday

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Day 104 12-13-2010 Monday - 6 months old!

Today Dozer is 6 months old!  He is about 36lbs and growing up to be such a good boy.  Still a bit of a spaz - but he is getting there.  I cannot wait for racing to start again so we can take him back to the race track, he loves it there.  If the weather holds out we might go to Bowie for New years - we shall see.  We have done that before and froze - so I am not going to go unless it stays nice like it has been.  My parents will get Gizmo and Portia and we will take Dozer with us.  First we have to work on the little bit of car sickness he had the morning we went to the Vet.

weekend update

Sunday was Portia's birthday - We hung out at the house all day cause I had a bad migraine.  Dozer got his last pain pill Sunday night - so now it is just 3 allergy pills a day he will get.  He loves his marshmallows.  I swear I don't even have to remember what time he needs them - he will let me know by sitting like a good boy by the kitchen and wait for me.  I am all out of sliced cheese now - I will get some this weekend, and another bag of $.99 marshmallows.

Day 100 - 12-9-2010 Thursday

Day 99 - 12-8-2010 Wednesday

Day 98 - 12-7-2010 Tuesday

The vet called me back today- they want me to give Dozer 25mg of Benadryl 3 times a day for a few weeks to see if that helps with his allergies.  The poor guy is scratching his face and tummy really bad.  I have spray but that only helps so much.  He is still on his pain killers till Sunday - so I am only giving him 2 Benadryl a day for now till he is all done with the pain killers- I don't want to give them to him together.  The pain killers make him sleepy and so does the Benadryl (well to a point)  He is not like Portia, I can not give her Benadryl - it is like giving her crack....she can not settle and goes nuts.  Luckily she doesn't have allergies like Gizmo and Dozer do.  I am going to a neighbors house on Saturday to play Bunco - a dice game that seems to be a lot of fun.  Bryan can go too, but he doesn't get to play, he can hang out with her hubby and drink some beer.  They are going to make a replacement panel for the skirting around our house, Bryan had to remove some of it to fix a water leak, and now a neighbor's cat can get under our house, that is not a good thing.  I don't want anything to happen to the cat and he gets stuck under there.   Well it is late but I wanted to wathc the news - 78 on Saturday, 80 on Sunday and 81 on Monday!  Only in Southern AZ will it be in the 80's two weeks from Christmas!

Day 97 12-6-2010 Monday 23 weeks old

Dozer is healing just fine from his surgery, little guy has not missed a step.  It was almost imposable to keep him still though.  They told me to restrict his movement for the week - HA!  Not gonna happen - he just does what he is gonna do.  I figured that if it hurt him he would stop doing it.  I can not wait till he goes back to sleeping through the night - getting up a few times during the night kills me.  It is not just him, Gizmo does it every now and then.  It has been so warm here the past week, and it doesn't look like it is gonna really let up anytime soon.  Mid to upper 70's into next week.  It is fine with me - I would rather have the 70's then be freezing.  Took Dozer for our walk - He is such a good boy, he sits when we come back in the house so I can take off the harness without me even having to ask him anymore.

Day 96 11-5-2010 Sunday

Day 94 - 12-3-2010 Friday

Sleepy baby after pain killers kicked in.

Had a nice day at home with my Dozer dog, man you can not keep a good dog down.  He hasn't really missed a beat.  They told me to keep him calm and limit his activity - now how the heck am I to do that?  Have you ever tried to keep a 5 month old Boxer pup still....it is not as easy as it sounds.  It doesn't seem to be bothering him, he has not been licking at it and there is not any swelling.  I just hope it heals with out any issues and by Monday life can go back to normal and he can go in his kennel.  My co-worker Rick is off next week so we will be short handed.  I just hope it is a nice week.  I have been so tired lately, today I am going to take some time to rest and try to get back to my normal self.  staying up till 11:33pm is not helping I am sure, but it is the weekend.  I do have to get up in the morning an go with my mom to get our nails done and do some shopping.  It is our every other weekend hang out time.  Her birthday is on Monday - I don't have anything planned - time kinda got away from me this year.  My grandmother wants to take her out on Sunday - we shall see how I feel by then.  My head has hurt a lot today - it has not gotten any worse, but it also has not gotten any better either.  I wish the Dr's would figure something out that didn't have side effects that were worse then what they were trying to fix.  well I am off to bed - I hope you all have a wonderful weekend - I will be back at my normal time come Monday morning.  Orrrr, I might just feel like typing later this weekend and do my updates before Monday.  We shall see.  From Dozer, Portia, Gizmo, Bryan and I - Good night!

DOZER IS ALL DONE

Dr John said he did just fine. The blood work looked good and his eyes look OK. But if he shows signs of his vision getting worse then we need to see a specialist. I can get him anytime after 2pm. I get off work at 4pm so it will be around then.

Surgery Day - 12-2-2010

Not much happened yesterday - So I will just update today as it happens.
Surgery Day:
  We just dropped Dozer off at Dr John's - he got a little car sick on the way.  We were trying to get him used to riding byhim self and not in my lap - that didn't happen.  We Didn't even get to the free way before he got sick.  So Bryan cleaned it up and he rode in my lap the rest of the way.  He walked right into the Vet's office like he owned the place.  All the front desk girls were ll over him - "what a cute face!"  He didn't even look back as they walked him out of the room.  Now my nerves are shot till I get the call that everything went well.

Day 91 11-30-2010 Tuesday

OMG - I am so cold!  We plugged in the truck last night to make sure it starts in the morning and so we have heat.  It is a diesel so it takes a long time to warm up and it if is below freezing you need to plug them in.  Today was a busy day at work again - the only good thing about days like this is they go fast.  I hope Thursday goes by that fast, I am gonna be a nervous wreck that day, my poor baby is gonna have surgery! But it is for the best.  I hope Dr John is as nice as he sounds on the phone - all of his staff that I talked to sounded really nice on the phone.  Bryan was there one day to fix Dr John's truck, he said the place was very nice and clean and everyone there was super nice.  The house was a little cold when I got home, Dozer's room was nice an warm, the heater in the living room just can not keep when it is that cold.  With two heaters in the main part of the house it is not too bad.  It is 56F in the house - I got it up to 68F by the time we went to bed, it was about 66 in the morning when we got up.  so it is not too bad.  Might be too cool for some people but it feels nice to us now.  I go to someone's house who is running the heater and I roast.  Work is still cold during the day - about 66, but 66 with heat on and 66 with AC om are two different feelings.  Well I better go to sleep - it is after 10:30pm.