All Is Quiet Except For.....Bark, Bark, Chirp, Chirp

The boys have arrived in SD to start off their summer vacay!! So all is so quiet here....except for BARK, BARK, CHIRP,CHIRP!!! Ruger has been my shadow since I got home from work. He misses Smack, I can tell. Quaker is just being a sweet parrot and talking away!!

Friday was most stressful for me. VET visit for all THREE dogs! First Shadow and Ruger at 8:30 am. Arrive and all good. They call our name....Shadow's brakes come on. Ruger started shaking!! Shadow heads for the exit and wouldn't you know it.....the exit door isn't latched and out she went with leash into the parking lot. CRAP!! So tech and I are in parking lot calling her. Shadow at my van ready to go home. Grab her leash and out of the collar she goes into parking lot again.......heart sinks!! She comes back. Tighten collar and tech hands me Ruger who is still shaking. Tech goes to pick Shadow up and she not happy and gets out of collar AGAIN....so tech takes Ruger with him (poor Steve) and puts Ruger in a room and grabs muzzle. I sit on sidewalk and Shadow comes back to me.....put collar back on and muzzle. I think everyone in the waiting room plus staff were at the window EYES THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND MOUTHS OPEN watching all of this. Finally get inside and then wonder where is my purse? I stand there in the waiting room saying to the tech, "Where's my purse?" What a great guy!! He had grabbed it and put it in the room with Ruger. Weigh Shadow...no problem. Enter exam room and poor Ruger is still shaking and drooling!! Shadow is his sista and he was a bit confused by all this.

Needless to say when we all got home, we all napped!!!

Then 3:00 arrives for Dakota's appointment. Piece of cake!! Last year he weighed 98lbs. Feb. weighed 86lbs.......FRIDAY.......76lbs!!!!!!!! Whoo Hooo!!! Thyroid meds are working!! Now just need to get him shaved down and he'd be a happy camper!!!