Earaches, Sickness, and Pottiers Oh My!!

Sporty has a reoccurring ear infection, his vet says that it is probably going to happen every year and to just give him medicine until it gets better. Woo! Who likes cramming a pill down a dogs throat in order for it to get better? No one! Unfortunately though, my dog has figured out that if you come home from the vet and give him cheese, than you obviously have put something in it. Smart dog, and don't even start on hot dogs, he figured that out last year. He eats around the pill and then spits the pill out on your lap, as if to say, "You didn't really think that was going to work right?" Some times I wonder about him, if he really is as smart as he comes off to be. The pill isn't the only thing that I have to give him, ther is also the fantastic tube of this creme that I have to stick down his ear. To make matters worse, this tube has an extended cap that you have to put down his ear. I wish that it was easier and wasn't so time consuming. Well, at least this year, he is used to it and lets me put it down his ear. Last year, the poor little thing hated getting this tube down his ear and yelped like he was dying everytime. So, I guess compared to last year, so far this earache is better. In a lot of ways this year is better than last with his ears. For example, last year he would wake up at midnight and start scratching at his ear, well when he would scratch his ear, it would start to bleed. The vet said that he probably had popped a vessle. Well than he would start to yelp because he was in pain obviously, and when he yelped, he would wake me up. It got to the point where I would have to sleep while holding a washrag over his ear. I don't know why but for some reason it made him feel better. Well at least he would get to sleep easier.  So I am glad that this year it is easier than last. Another thing that is different from last year is that Sporty now has a hat that he wears outside at all times. Its red and really soft. It was originally my moms but she decided that he needed it more, so she put it on him and he won't go outside without it.
Also this week, everyone in the house has a cold, even the dogs, well Harley at least has a cold. She also has been getting sick this week. She got sick today and my mom had to clean it up which was kind of funny because since I wasn't home, I didn't have to. At my house, since the dogs are my dogs, they are my chores. Which means that when they throw up, I have to clean it up. Unless, I am at school or not at home. Luckily for me Harley got sick while I was at school, so I didn't have to clean it up.
Another thing that happened this week was that Harley keeps going to the bathroom in the house and tries to get Sporty in trouble for it. Well my mom knows that Sporty usually doesn't go to the bathroom in the house. Luckily, Harley finally got caught in the act this afternoon and my mom got mad at her and so she didn't get any treats after dinner.
Well thats all I have for this week, Happy Early Thanksgiving!

I thought she was gonna die!!!

Okay, this week was a very interesting week. I think that play practice made it ten thousand times more fun. This week was dress rehearsal week so every other day I was either home by eight o'clock or 10:30. Except for Thursday which was Veterans Day. (By the way, Thank you to all of our troops, former and serving, Thanks!) On Thursday I was there at 9:00 am and didn't leave until 2:30 p.m. because of pictures and that we didn't have school. On Tuesday, Harley started acting really superbly weird. I was sitting on my bed doing my homework and she came into my room, I told her to jump and she went towards the bed like she was gonna jump on it but before she got all the way off the ground, she did a sudden and scary yelp, like when you accidently step on your dogs foot at night while trying to get through your house when all of the lights are off, and they yelp like its the end of the world. So I checked all of her paws to see if she had stepped on something, but I couldn't find anything, so than I tried to move all of her limbs and push on her sides to see if she was hurt and of course, that too did not work. I don't know what was wrong but she wouldn't get up on my bed and than she made me pick her up to get on it. As if thats not enough, she than preceded to whimper like she needed to go outside or something, so I tried to take her out and she wouldn't even jump down to go outside, so I picked her up and put her on the floor, she started walking and when we got to the door, she wouldn't go out. I than preceded to put on her leash and she wouldn't even go off of the porch when I finally got her outside. I couldn't understand what was going on so I let her in my room and put her on my bed. I put a blanket on her and held her because she looked like she was going to well I don't really like to say die but that's what she looked like. I truly thought that she might have, only because she has out lived her life expectancy by almost a year and I don't know why but I thought that she might you know! Its bad I know but I was really worried! She proceeded to act like this until Thursday when I woke up and she was in my room with a toy ready to play. I was really excited :) I know its bad to say that I thought that there could be a possibility that she could have died but really, I mean she has lived longer than that expected of a boxer. I realized that she was even better, this morning when  I woke up and she was already barking because she needed to go outside. I had to go to Drama an hour after school so I only got to come home for maybe forty-five minutes. While I was home, Harley was normal Harley and all has been good since. I am really happy that she isn't sick anymore.

November already?

Wow, can you believe that it is November already. I still can't believe that in a couple of weeks it will be Christmas! Okay so this week has been kind of interesting. The dogs seemed to have fun at least. On Monday, we got to take down Halloween decorations, and Sporty and Harley both loved it. I think that Sporty liked because he got to play tug of war with Harley with the rope off of the inflatable thingy.Well after that was finished, (which, luckily he didn't chew up the actual inflatable part.) Last week, I tried to figure out what the dogs were going to wear for Halloween, it turns out that they went as just normal Harley and Sporty.
Another sort of exciting thing that happened this week was that both dogs got a bath. Baths for the dogs are supposed to be bi-weekly at my house but they usually end up being once or occasionally twice monthly. I don't know why because its not that the dogs don't like baths, its just that they are time consuming, and if you're not careful, they can be very messy. I guess they aren't really time consuming, well except for having to get the dogs into the tub. I don't know why but for some reason, every time that the dogs are told that they are going to get a bath, they both run away. Now its not like they don't like them because I still have to hold Harley's head up sometimes because she will fall asleep while in the tub, Sporty has never ever done that, but I have caught him sleeping it the tub one time when I woke up to get ready for school. Well, they had already gotten a bath once this month and so Sporty wasn't thrilled when he had to get another one. Harley didn't seem to mind though.
We also found out this week, well we really didn't find out but just guessed that both Sporty and Harley have allergies. Every time we take them outside, they sniff the leaves and start sneezing like crazy. Well that was enough for mom to say that they both have bad allergies which I think is funny.
 I think that Harley is becoming more and more lovable and lazy as she gets older. I remember when she was three, and we took her to my grandpa's. She was so hyper back than, that she ran through his house like forty times and then when she was finally finished with that, she decided to jump over the couch about forty more times. Sometimes I miss that and other times I am glad that she isn't as hyper as she used to be. Although here lately, I have been beginning to notice that she likes to sleep more, which sometimes is okay but others I wish that she wouldn't sleep because I'm bored and I want the hyper monster that I used to have, but that rarely happens, ha just kidding!
Another thing that happened this week was that the dogs got a hold of my Alabama Crimson Tide blanket and decided to fight, (well it wasn't exactly a fight, unless you count a stare down as a fight)over who would get to sleep on it. My mom thought it was funny that they both had a stare down for it, and I have to admit it was quite humorous! The stare down ended with both of the dogs on the blanket. Good compromise!
Well until next week!