Posts from the ‘Auggie’ category

Our Monday

Bear is fine, but we did have an unplanned trip to the vet.

Bear was running toward me and suddenly did a kind of half somersault, half roll and came up shaking his head violently.

Foxtails are everywhere and I check both Bear and Auggie’s ears as it is easy to get them out of the outer part…

By noon, Bear was still obviously uncomfortable and I couldn’t see anything so off we went.

It WAS a foxtail and it was so far in, they had to sedate Bear to get it out.

Between the heat (90F), anxiety and the sedative, Bear was done by the time we got home.

Auggie went out but he’s not a heat guy either and he was soon back in. He flops down just inside the door like he is so tired and hot that he just cannot go further.

Despite the hard day, Bear got up to check on Auggie.

That porcelain…it is nice and cool – that’s the next place Auggie goes to cool off.

I succumbed to a glass of wine or 2 and an early night!

Happy Birthday, Auggie!

Today is Auggie’s Birthday – He is 1 year old!

He thinks he should be able to decide when to go outside.

He thinks pretty hard!

His face looks much better and I’ve been letting him out, but going out after him in about 30 minutes.

Today, though – back to normal and all went well.

And he had some wonderful seared salmon for his birthday supper!

Bear and I love you, Auggie! You brought joy to help us with our sad. You are a wonderful gift to us and a credit to your namesakes: Gus and Bob. You help me remember them with happiness.

Happy Birthday, dear Auggie!

So, Auggie…what does the other guy look like???

I took this photo of Auggie and intended to write about how he watched and looked and was aware…

Auggie has alerted me to the skunk several times…ahead of Bear.

Uh-OH.

Auggie roared into the house and immediately hid, then slunk around checking out windows and hid again. I knew something had scared him.

When he’d calmed a bit, I picked him up and thought…”gee, you have ‘stickies’ all over your face.

Not stickies…wounds.

I phoned the ER to find out what to use to clean the wounds which I described as punctures.

They said bring him in.

We went.

I was told the wounds were abrasions, not punctures.

We got antibiotics.

No damage to Auggie’s eyes and all vitals good.

“Mama, you are a worry-wart!”

Yea-yea-yea. We’ll see how the next few days go. The Auggie boy will be confined to quarters until we know that he is tolerating the antibiotic.

Looking out on a rainy day

A seriously rainy day today as in it started yesterday, continued through the night and all day today.

All day!

AND…midafternoon, my temperature gauge read 39.7F. Yep…about 8 degrees from freezing.

BUT.

I am NOT complaining.

Early June was dry and warm-hot.

We needed some moisture.

Although it seems like we are catching up in a BIG fell swoop, well – if we don’t float away, no catastrophic flooding and no mudslides, I will take it!