Tags: rants

• Technical Difficulties

  We’re back! Whatever happened yesterday, (I think it was something with the server), has apparently been resolved and we’re back up and running. If I get a chance later on today I’ll post more pictures from this last week. I have some really pretty ones, I just haven’t had time to get around to posting them yet. I got a bit behind on my schoolwork and I needed to catch up on that. I’ve also got a bunch of boarding [...]

• Another Day, Another Walk, More Bad Weather

  So, I have apparently picked the worst week of spring to start getting back into the routine of walking the dogs. LOL Today I had Zoe and Dare with me, and the weather actually looked pretty good…when we started out. I had my camera and I got some pictures of the views from pretty much all directions. First the mountains to the Southeast of our house… Now the view to the Southwest of our house… and the girls at the [...]

• Still Not Spring

  I’m trying to convince myself about trying out a new schedule starting tomorrow. I was thinking that it’d be a good idea to try to get up earlier with my husband and maybe walk the dogs first thing in the morning. The problem is that I’m not great at getting up early. Odd, really because I’m not really a night owl either. Add to that, the fact that they are forecasting more storms for tonight, tomorrow and Tues. isn’t giving [...]

• It’s Back…Again

  Here’s what greeted us this morning.  It doesn’t feel too cold though, so I think this will all be gone by this afternoon. The weird part is that I even think it’s a little pretty today. Wow! How’s that for sounding positive? Are we all sure that my husband isn’t having some influence on my thinking.  LOL Just so you know it’s really still me here, I’m not all that excited about following through with my plans for this morning.  [...]

• Now What?

  This post is more to help me sort out what I need to get done today than anything. I need to bathe both Zoe and Dare this morning. Dremel nails too. I have to boarders being dropped off this morning. Then I need to go back up to my friend’s house and finish helping her clean in preparation for everyone coming in over the weekend to pick up their puppies. I hadn’t planned on a second trip up there, but [...]

• Little of This, Little of That

  The thaw continues. Woohoo! Well, except for the mud part. Hopefully a few more days of this and it will start to dry out a bit. Maybe then I can even consider bathing everybody. Till it dries up though, that would be a total waste of time. They just seem to have a never ending ability to find the muddy parts of the yard. There is enough lawn showing through the snow that I couldn’t resist hauling the jump outside [...]

• Rogue Update 03-05-09

  I have a little ranting to do…and a little raving too. Bear with me. LOL I got ahold of Dr. Overall and she agreed that it would be appropriate to add amitriptyline to Rogue’s daily meds at this point since we haven’t seen progress with the fluoxitine alone. I spoke with the vet here in Salt Lake today shared her recommendations, and he agreed to call in the prescription. Here is my rave. The vet in Salt Lake asked me [...]

• Character Flaws

  We don’t seem to making any headway with our work to lessen Rogue’s anxiety or reactivity, even though we’ve adjusted her meds. To recap: 7 weeks of fluoxitine at 1mg dosage which was an error (fortunately on the safe side). Then we changed it to 10mg of fluoxitine daily for two weeks, which made her more aggressive towards the other dogs, and now we are closing in on 5 more weeks at 5 mg. daily. We’ll re-evaluate again at the [...]

• The Trip is Cancelled!

  I’ve known for the last month that our trip to North Carolina with Zoe to compete in the AKC Nationals was not looking good. My husband came home the first part of January from work and told me that it was so slow that they were considering lay-offs. Being the perpetual optimist that he is, he wasn’t ready to cancel the trip. He wanted to wait till Feb. to see if things had picked up, as there was still a [...]

• Rogue Update 01-02-08

  I’ve decided that sometimes all you can do is shake your head and laugh when things don’t go as planned. As you know, we started Rogue on fluoxitine and alprazolam 7 weeks ago. Well, I wasn’t seeing much improvement in her reactivity and so I contacted Dr. Overall again to update her and see if we needed to make adjustments in her dosage or in the medication itself, or if this was just typical. Well, come to find out that [...]