Boxer puppy Dozer plays with Dad and Air Compressor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=4v2-o1Oi2_4

Good Morning

Hope you all are having a good morning - I know I have been so far.  You would think that with little sleep, and getten a broken replacement screen would put me in a bad mood - but no.  I have decided, that this year I was going to make a decision to be happy.  The replacement screen I ordered off of amazon was very late - and I mean VERY late on getting to my house.  I ordered it like a month ago.  So I get it last night from our mailbox, I opened it to make sure it was in there.  So this morning when I got to work and gave it to my co-worker to put the screen on - he noticed that is was more broken then the one on my Ipod touch right now.  Oh wonderful!  here goes email # 3 to Amazon about this, If I do not get a response by lets say Friday - I will file a claim with amazon an just get my money back.  I will order it though someone else, or just deal with the broken screen.

Bryan and I had to come up with a way of letting me get more sleep - getting up every 30 mins to let Dozer out was starting to get to me.  So at 9pm - we picked the water container up.  It worked!  he only went out once at about 10:30pm and slept the rest of the night.  YAY - I can do that every night now.

no sleep - again

This time it was not Dozer's fault.  My good buddy - no wait - our Brother has to have surgery today on his leg.  He had a bad motorcycle accident about a year ago and some hardware has to come out to relieve some pain he has been having.  We almost lost him then - he had a 30% chance of making it to the hospital.  Due to a conflict of interest on the part of his girl friend at that time Bryan and I were not allowed to help him during that time of need.  But we are in his life now where she is not, this time it is our turn to help.  So when the call Bryan and I today we will have to leave to go to UMC to pick him up and take him home.  Then I get to babysit him tille Bryan is able to leave work.  He should be fine the rest of the weekend - but today is going to be very important that he has someone there to help him. Oh - did I forget to mention that he lives in a two story house that doesn't have a bathroom on the first floor.  Yeah this should be fun.

I hear a rat!

So for the last few months we have heard a rat in our master bathroom at night chewing away on the cabinet. So we got some sticky traps and put them out on the floor in the bathroom.  Well he was quiet for a few weeks and then he started again, he push the sticky traps out of his way!  OK fine!  Bryan put some cheese out on the sticky traps and still nothing for weeks!  Till last night, I heard him starting to chew - then I heard him running around in the bathroom like a wild creature who just got a sticky trap stuck to his butt.  Bryan jumped up out of bed at 1:45am to go see if that truly was what I heard.  Yes, that was the sound of a pack rat running around in my bathroom with a sticky trap stuck to his butt!  Well I will not go into any details but Bryan took care of it and we were able to all settle down and go back to sleep.  The whole time this was going on Dozer was right there on the bed with me to protect me from the wild mouse making all the noise in the other room.  Such a good boy he is!

Dozer's new Bed part 2

Well he seems to still like his new kennel - even though it was a little bit of a fight this morning to go to his room - but once in the room he went right into the kennel.  I need to call Dr John and see when he can come off the puppy food, and if he still wants me to be giving him the benadryl.  It seems to really be helping him, my poor little guy.  He has stopped itching really bad like he was wthere for a while - but he still has little bald spots around his eyes.  I hope it all grows back one day.

Dozer's new bed

This Sunday (1-16-11) we went to Petsmart and got Dozer a new very large kennel.  He broke the lock on the door of the other one - also it was not that big.  We would of had to get him a new one at some point.  This new one is so big that Porta and Dozer could both be in there all day together.  Dozer loves it so much that he kept bouncing in and out of there all day Sunday.  I was home yesterday due to another migraine - Dozer's first day in his new kennel will be today, it has four bars that lock the door into place - I don't think we will have an issue of him trying to bust out of this one.

No sleep

So last night Dozer thought it would be fun to keep Mommy up allllll night.  I must have jumped off the bed 5 times last night to go outside or get some water - drove me crazy!  So finally I had enough and just held him the rest of the night.  He seemed happy with that.  I have not had a night like that with him in a long time.  He has been a very good pup and sleeping most of the night - until last night.

Dozer The Rock Star!

Bryan was talking to someone from the Drag strip yesterday and they asked him if they were going to see Dozer at the Races this year.  Wow - I knew my little guy was going to be famous one day.  I have to get something made up to advertise this blog for him.  I have to find a way to get the work out there about this wonderful breed of dog.  He has been the best dog I have ever had, it is a different connection I have with him vs the other two.  Not saying that I love them any less - it is just different when it comes to Dozer.  I hope we can take him to a bunch of the races again this year - he seemed to really love to go.  I just have to make sure that we always take the toy hauler.  Dozer has made a lot of friends out there and we need to make sure he has not forgotten about how to behave around a lot of people.  I think it was good to get him used to people at the very start, but I still have to work with him on not jumping up on people or jumping up to lick faces.  Not a lot of people like to have kisses, and to be honest - I don't want him kissing that many strangers - ewww.  it is bad enough that I have to wash him down as soon as we get home after everyone with popcorn hands has touched him - gross people really!?  Kids are the worst - and not but one person has ever asked to pet him, thank goodness he likes everyone so far.  well that is except the lady out front, he fears her for some reason.

Out sick

Dozer helping me write on the Blog

I was out sick for most of last week and was still sick for most of the weekend.  Dozer is getting so big - but he has slowed down a bit - I am not sure he is going to get much taller - he might just fill out from where he is.  Only time will tell.  My friend has asked me to be there in the delivery room with her when she goes into labor.  It made me feel very honored.  It is at a hospital right across from my work so i can walk over there if it is during the day.  Little Jack Jack better be nice to his mama and Auntie an not decide to be born in the middle of the night - lol.  I spent all day Sunday in bed with a migraine - we were able to to go TTT truck-stop for Breakfast and take out neighbors out with us.  It was a lot of fun.

Holiday update

Well the holidays were very busy for us - I am sorry I didn't get my daily updates posted.  But now it is back to normal.   We had an uneventful holidays and a quiet new years at home with the neighbors.  I have lost 30 lbs now - and was able to do that by new years so I met my first goal.  Dozer is up to 37lbs and growing like crazy - I know this by the amount of food he is consuming.  Oh boy - that is going to be fun when he is fully grown.  I made a wonderful breakfast for us on Sunday and a yummy dinner, we watched some TV and then tried to go to bed early - HA!  That didn't happen!  It took forever to go to sleep last night.  Dozer slept all night witch was good - I don't think he stopped for one second during the day on Sunday so he crashed at about 7:30pm and really didn't move the rest of the night.