October is the time for skeletons, so here is a puppy leg. The reason I have this xray of a puppy leg? She sprained her foot running full tilt across the yard. We needed the xrays to make sure nothing was broken (nothing was). Guess what we get to do this week? Keep a 4 month old puppy calm so her foot can heal. More October nightmares. We keep her on a leash when she goes outside, and provide lots of lap time inside. We were given some anti-inflammatories, but they disagreed with her tummy. Poor kid.

We are slowly getting little Missy to fetch. At first she just liked to chase our older dog Griffin as he ran after his jolly ball. Then I figured out that if I had the jolly ball and the bucky ball, I could throw the jolly ball for Griffin and then throw much lighter ball for Missy. She chases it rather than Griffin! Yay! She doesn’t bring it back so much as drops it on her way to get Griffin as he returns, but it is at least in the right direction. She is amazing at “drop” when I take it from her, which is remarkable because we haven’t specifically worked on that command. Smart pup.

My human children never took to a pacifier, it is amusing that our youngest dog does. She runs around crazy, then asks to get on my lap. Once there, she likes to chew her bumpy nylabone until she falls asleep. Silly puppy. She also watches the TV.