The dog days of summer

The dog days of summer
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Yeah, it's 93°F right now, Ohio finally got it. Record high temperatures for the beginning of June and it's been like this for the past 3 days. It's so hot the air conditioners can't keep up. One great thing about having a dog is you can give them ice cream cones to cool them down (vanilla, not chocolate!). I swear, Meatball eats ice cream cones like a human as demonstrated by this mosiac. He licks the top and bites around the cone evenly. Now wouldn't you expect a dog to chomp the cone whole? How does he know how to eat it like that?

Nose shot

I'm tired. I worked this whole weekend waitressing. I'm a bad pet parent too, bribing my dog with treats and sneaking out to work the whole weekend. It had to be done though since I was given the opportunity to get these extra hours and I still have tons of bills to pay this month. In my whole 2 hours at home, I did manage to get my first nose shot of Meatball. Not too bad for a first attempt.

I love nose shots of dogs, especially Golden Retreivers. It makes them look so silly! Thank god dogs are so understanding when you ditch them for a weekend.

Meatball = Love

Here's a picture I took of Meatball when he was 4 months old with a point and shoot camera and black and white film. I was cleaning my desk and found it and thought I would scan it in and share.

Christmas is not cooperating this year!

This is my third Christmas living in this apartment and my third real tree that Danny has gotten and set up for me while I was at work. This year, the tree lasted a day and decided to fall right when Danny walked in the door at 6pm! The tip even broke off! The tree is back up with the tip ducktaped in, but I haven't had time to RE-decorate it yet.

On a happier note, here is my Meatbally Pooper. He hates wearing any type of clothing. Note the spit mark where he tried to bite the scarf off!

Paws with Clause

Tonight I came up with the brillant idea to bring my crazy dog, Meatball, to have pictures taken with Santa. At the mall. With tons of other dogs. I ended up really enjoying the experience! It was a long wait (an hour) but they gave us numbers and called the number rather than waiting in line with a bunch of dogs sniffing each other's butts. Meatball was so cute slipping on the smooth tile floors and smelling all the other dogs. This event drew some hardcore pet owners because we saw a Great Dane, a lady with three Weimaraners, cats, and a little girl riding a PONY! Danny said what else can the girl ask Santa for? She already has a pony! So $20 later, we got 2 5x7's of Santa, Danny, me, and Meatball with his huge pink tongue hanging out. :)

Prima Donna Dog

Meatball has been a wreck all week biting at his butt so I took him to the vet today. While I was there I figured I'd have them do the yearly shots and rabies vacc. It turns out he had a staph infection on his tummy, an ear infection and needed his anal glands squeezed. I walked out of there paying $192! The vet told me he would be high maintenance for the rest of his life with skin and ear problems. Leave it to me to buy a high maintenance dog! I've probably been the happiest I've ever been having him in my life though so it's all worth it.