My Thundershirt arrived today! We’re hoping that it’ll help me with my fears when I’m out and about.
I think I look GORGEOUS in it even though my foster mom screwed up and put it on inside out, ha!
Had a blissful hydrotherapy session again! Soooooooooooooooo nice! And it helps me build muscle, my legs are getting stronger!
I was hit by a car.
August 31, 2011
We later also found out that both of my femur heads were shattered.
Here are some pictures from the first month after I was found while I was going back and forth between the shelter and the vet just about every day…
Multiple surgeries, lots of hydrotheraphy sessions, lots of TLC from my foster family and this is me a year later:
Couch zoomies are the best! And yes, I’m still a little clumsy sometimes 😉
I can finally be a real puppy! I can run, I can play, I can jump! I am a survivor!
To celebrate my comeback, my foster mom thawed a liver cake she hid in the freezer. CAKE!!!!!! Unfortunately I have to wait until later in the evenin – I have hydrotherapy at 7:15 pm and my foster mom doesn’t want me tooting in the pool like I have before after my birthday cake. I say gas powered me is awesome and would like to have cake NOW but no… Apparently we have to think of my poor hydrotherapists 😉
Many thanks to all the people who made my recovery possible – Bully Buddies, the many people who donated towards my vet bills, the many people who sent me toys/treats/food, my lovely hydrotherapists, the people who drove me back and forth from the shelter and the vet! Thank you!!!
I still have to work on my fear issues when outside but I have made tremendous progress in the last 2 weeks and if I continue making progress like I have, I should be ready for adoption in a few weeks. Stay tuned!
As part of the apparently never ending renovations due to the leak we had mid June, my foster parents had to move the table behind the couch again.
I took the opportunity and had a lovely tete-a-tete lunch with my foster dad…
Oh yay, mac & cheese, my fav!
*slurp*
Hello there – I’m still waiting for my share!
It smells so good! I can almost taste it from here!
How about now, can I have some!?! Pretty please!!!
What do you mean “bad dogs don’t get anything!”!?! I just wanted to have a lovely tete-a-tete lunch with my foster dad!
My foster mom finally took me aside and said that if I’m good and let her clip my nails, I’d get a cookie. I was good… Yay cookie!
I know, I know…. It’s been a long time since I blogged. Still living in a construction site. My foster mom’s computer still has a virus.
But we’ve been keeping busy!
A few weeks back I went to the VEV Pet Social. I was really scared walking there but once I was there I did really well and had fun!
This is me and my friend Brando. He’s an ambassadog like me!
I was more than happy to smooch people, even complete strangers!
Then a celebrity came and visited me! Mouse and his foster mom stepped by!!! Mouse is so tiny!!!
Mouse has since been adopted by his foster mom #2. Yay Mouse!
I still go to hydrotherapy with the lovely ladies from Aqua Paws!
I work hard…
Floating is bliss!!!
I got a parcel from Meghan and Spud! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!
I also got a parcel from Danielle again! THANK YOU DANIELLE!!! Unfortunately I can’t find the pics right now of me opening the box but I can show you what I did with all the “art supply” I got from Meghan and Danielle. Pretty sure it’s a masterpiece!
I could do this in my sleep! Maybe I should try it blindfolded next!?!
I’ve been working hard on my fear issues when outside. My foster mom says that I did really good in the last week and that slowly I’m getting better. Of course just today I completely froze when we went for a walk and refused to go on. I can’t help it, sometimes I get so scared, I just want to run home where I feel safe.
Been working hard on tricks
Beef liver on my nose…
Beef liver on my footsies
My foster mom also got the crazy idea to try and teach me how to paint. Yup, you read that right. PAINT. She came across this video and decided that *we* need a challenge. Clicker training is fun but it’s hard! We had two short sessions so far and I already know how to grab the brush and I also know how to touch the canvas (check it out!) but I can’t put the two things together yet. Hold and touch. Oh boy. Charlie managed to hold the brush AND touch the canvas in his first session but then he seemed to have forgotten it all for the second session. Ha! Don’t know if we’ll ever pull this off, we’ll certainly try but painting might not be my strength… My foster mom says she can’t paint/draw either so it might just run in the family 🙂
PS – I still make funny faces when I try to catch a cookie…
Remember me?
I know, it’s been a while!
Things have been a tad crazy here… As you know we had a big leak here in mid June and while it’s no longer dripping, they are still in the process of fixing it and the whole place is a bit of a disaster zone. My foster mom’s computer also caught a nasty virus and according to her, the other computer is a “PITA”.
We were busy! I met lots of nice people who came and picked up their items they won in the Bully Buddies auction. Some even brought me gifts, yay! I also got a few more parcels, woohoo! We will catch up on all of that after all of this is over and my foster mom has her computer back.
I met up with a trainer – Sarah from Bad Dogs Gone Good. 2 hours and my brain was fried but she said that I’m a very good girl and that we’re on the right track, just gotta be patient. So we’re doing lots of clicker training outside and when I walk off the property it’s always a big party. But sometimes I’m still too scared….
I’m still a regular at hydrotherapy… twice a week.
I’m on a new supplement and it seems to help along with hydrotherapy and everything else because I can jump up on the bed again which I haven’t been able to do since my second surgery. I also like to do jump on and off the couch and do zoomies.
I also met a celebrity on Sunday – Chevy Stevens came to meet me, Charlie and Boo! She is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO nice and didn’t mind me giving her kisses. There are pictures on her Facebook page.
Apparently I’m still a cheeky monkey….
They also call me dork a lot… and yup, everybody always mentions my ears when they first meet me.
I learned all about playing tug…
There’s a video of Charlie and me playing tug on the Bully Buddies Facebook page.
Charlie and I still wrestle ALL THE TIME.
I go to the park quite a bit now, just me and my foster mom. I get to wrestle a lot with other dogs there. I’m also a regular at the community garden. It’s very peaceful there and I like to play with the hose. All the gardeners like me a lot.
So yes, we’ve been keeping busy! Hopefully things will soon be be back to normal so I can catch up on blogging. They almost fixed one hole…. one more to go…. but at least once they fixed the first one, we’ll get our big walk in closet and wardrobe back and we can put all the stuff away. The other hole is right above my XPen. I’m pushing for letting me run wild in the apartment but my foster said something like “We just bought that couch a year ago and would like to have it with us for at least another 4 years”. So I’m guessing that means no and that they’ll just move the XPen somewhere else. Maybe around the couch, yes?
I almost forgot… Something you clearly all want to know, I’m sure… YUP, I STILL SHRED. A LOT.
I woke up yesterday and my foster mom went “Happy Birthday, Picks!” and gave me a bit smooch. I knew right then that my day was going to be great!
After our walk, my foster mom went into the chicken and pulled out 7 lbs of chicken liver and went to work.
I wasn’t so sure at the beginning what she was working on….
But then I knew – Liver cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She said that this one is for me. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!
The cake decoration btw is thanks to Amanda and her lovely family who stopped by a few days ago and brought me goodies! I still have to blog about that but it will come!
I also got to lick out the frosting bowl! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!
She sat me on the couch and explained that this day is all about me! I like the sound of that!!!
THIS DAY IS ALL ABOUT ME! YAY!!!!!!!!
She then made it rain cookies! COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s more you say!?!
TOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got new toys!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Could this day get any better!?!?!
I of course went straight to work!
So… at about 2:30 pm this was me – PASSED OUT! TOO MUCH EXCITEMENT!
My foster mom let me sleep until the evening. My foster sister Boo also had a little seizure during that time but luckily she bounced back fast and could join us!
All was ready for the party
The guests were there too!
While Charlie was waiting patiently…
… Boo showed what neat party tricks she’s got up her sleeves!
Well, I finally arrived to my own party and made it very clear I didn’t want to socialize but wanted to get straight to the cake!
They said “leave it” but I said “Screw this, this is MY party! And if you won’t bring the cake to me, I’ll perform a circus trick and go to the cake!”
CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What? Do I have something stuck to my nose!?!?!
More please!
MORE CAKE!!!!
Charlie got mad and said that he wasn’t so greedy when it was his birthday, that he shared it nicely! He’s right. I got greedy. I apologized with a kiss….
…. and let the others have some cake!
They were so nice and left me some cake!
*slurp* I wish it was my birthday every day!!!
My foster mom wanted to continue celebrating by giving us all our bi-weekly paw-dicure but we kindly declined. I can’t believe she wanted to ruin our fun day! Pffft! But tomorrow she can bribe us giving us our paw-dicure with a little more cake!
I’m alive and well!
The Bully Buddies auction was a huge success, we raised $3700 for dogs in need just like I was! Thank you so much to everybody who bid!
I’m especially thankful that my friend Gail bid on items because she bought me a new bed!!!!!!!!!!! So so happy!
But then my foster mom took it away again. Something about not being able to document my art project properly…
You see, we’re dealing with some stuff…. A few weeks ago we had a massive leak here and since then things have been a little crazy. First it was dehumidifiers and fans… and well now they are cutting out our whole ceiling and we can’t even get out through our door but have to climb over the patio… There’s also stuff everywhere because it hit a big walk in closet and wardrobe. Basically it looks as if I had a party in the whole apartment! Ha!
But see… this is no fun! This was our lobby but that’s going to be our place in just a few hours.
But you know what, we’re still going to have fun tomorrow because I’m getting two visitors all the way from Switzerland!!!! My foster parents are excited too, they said something about chocolate and how they are not going to share with the dogs. Something about it’s not good for us. Pffft.
I also had another awesome visitor this week – Amanda and her family including their super cute Frenchie came for a visit! They won an item in the auction but you know what, they also brought me gifts!
I was thrilled but my foster mom said that I have to wait, that she wants to document again. Not fair!
My foster mom was also busy getting ready to show her first photograph at a gallery. Look, it’s Charlie! He’s going to hang in a gallery, he’s famous!!! He’s also going to be in a book!
It’s part of the This is East Van project.
Oh more big news! I’m going to work with a trainer! I know what you’re thinking – “Pickles, a trainer? But she’s already totally AWESOMESAUCE!”. Yup, I thought the same thing but my foster parents said I’m a bit quirky. With with a little help & hard work I could become SUPERAWESOMESAUCE and well… who wouldn’t want to be SUPERAWESOMSAUCE!?!?! I’m going to be working with Sarah from http://bad-dogs-gone-good.com/. You might remember that her and her wonderful students from The Breakfast Club raised a whole bunch of money towards my vet bills so it’ll be nice to say thank you in person!
And finally – I’m going to turn 1 on Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, we don’t actually know my exact birthday but I was about 8 weeks old when I was found on August 31 last year… so that would make it around July 6 so that’s what it is! I hear there’s going to be CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And party hats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And a few people emailed and said that they want to sent me parcels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s going to be EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, stay tuned for a post AFTER things have calmed down around here. It’ll be good, I’m sure you all remembered when we celebrated Charlie’s birthday a few months back!
Hydrotherapy! I’m going to hydrotherapy!!!!!!!
But you know what, waiting to go in to hydrotherapy sucks!
I’m trying everything to get away and run in…. pulling, even backing out of my collar.
ACK! Waiting is booooooooooooooooooooooooring!
Oh boy, I was working soooooooooooooo hard today! Jacqueline, Brenda and my foster parents were amazed. I was really kicking my back legs and I was standing nicely. I also managed to really stretch my left leg, the furthest thus far!
Uhm, hello!?! Some privacy please? Remember, you were going to document how my walking is getting better!?!
I suppose with 30000 hits on my blog I should be used to be a public figure by now, puparazzi and all… That’s right, people! 30000 hits on my blog!!!
Anyway, this is better… Look at me! So much better than just a few days ago!
Do you know what else is great? The Bully Buddies auction is going well! Luna has her ACL surgeries paid for and we’re working hard to try and cover Boo’s and Mouse’s bills. Or at least part of it because there’s A LOT OF VET BILLS. Ha! At $4200 I still hold the record. Bully Buddies is so awesome to help all of us special pups, please support them and hop over to the auction and BID!
Do you know what’s not so awesome? Leak. Leak from the sewer. We have it! So if you won’t hear from me for a bit, it’s because my foster mom got tired of the noise, dirt and construction and packed us all up and headed to Alaska. Ok. One can dream.
Did you hear!?!
A massive tornado hit Vancouver last night!
It hit us real bad here! It was centered right in my XPen! YIKES!
Please come on in, let me show you the damage!
My poor chair!!!!
There was no tornado in Vancouver? *snort* You caught me!
Dear foster mom, could you please take the other cushion down for me so I won’t have to sleep on the floor pretty please!?!
I promise I won’t shred it! No, I’m not licking my chops in preparation for Shredfest 2012!
Oops. I don’t know what happened there
Heeeheee! I’m SUPERBAD!
High 5! I said I would get the job done!
Free dog to good home?
Nah, you wouldn’t do that, I’m far too cute and I make you laugh and laugh!
My foster mom wants me to tell you that the irony isn’t lost on her – She currently has 10 dogs bed here that are being auctioned off for Bully Buddies….
I suggested that she should start bidding on all of them 😉
Pickles 