The Holidays and the New Year
I know in my last post I promised that I’d be back with many an update and photo after the holidays, but things have just been far too hectic and crazy to sit down and write everything out. All in all, though, everything has been pretty good and I’m glad to finally be on an almost normal schedule and routine with Yara.
My uncle’s wedding was an interesting experience. I was very shocked that both Dolly and Yara had their own program1 and gift bags. Aside from some soft whining throughout the ceremony, both dogs were very good. I’m sure we were quite the spectacle walking in late with two dogs, especially since we were sitting right up in the very front. At the reception word spread pretty quickly about the dogs. It did amuse me that no one could keep the dogs straight as to which was whom and I must have explained how to pronounce Yara’s name about a hundred times. They both seemed to really enjoy all the attention they were getting, but once the waiters started circulating with the hors d’œuvre, Dolly became quite a handful and as we were staying the night at the mansion, Dad put her in one of the rooms for the remainder of the reception.
Yara, on the other hand, was on her very best behavior. She did whine a bit here and there, but for the most part she was content to just lie on the floor. I did give her a few breaks both outside and in my room to relieve some of her pent up energy and de-stress a bit. Not surprisingly, she didn’t touch her dinner or breakfast the next morning, but she did eat some treats from her gift bag.
We spent the rest of the days until Christmas at my father’s and it was a mixture of fun and stress with the two dogs. Dolly’s such a timid and submissive dog; not to mention old and fat. While Yara is still full of puppy energy combined with being in yet another new place. I wasn’t really sure what to expect. But after a few days they seemed to be all right with each other. They even slept together a few nights on the same dog bed! And despite being very much out of shape, Dolly got quite rambunctious a few times — once they got so excited and crazy they crashed a chair into one of the fish tanks in the living room and caused a rush of water to slosh out the back!
The biggest thing I noticed was they were both extremely jealous of one another. If one girl had a toy, the other would steal it. If one girl was being paid attention to by one of us, the other would shove her way in to get petted, too. Yara was especially annoying with her lack of rear-end coordination — she kept slapping everyone with her tail, including Dolly! The absolute funniest thing had to be the slight identity crisis that kept going on with them. Everytime I’d call one dog, the other would charge up to me. Or if I gave one girl a command, the other would listen to me. Though, there were a few times both girls would promptly “sit” or “down.” Usually when I was trying to get one dog to come and the other to “stay.” It was very amusing and only a little annoying.
While I was at Dad’s, I did notice that Yara had somehow ripped a pad near her wrist. Of course I discovered this the Saturday before Christmas and had to ability to call my vet! There was a good chunk of dried pad hanging off that I think she’d been chewing on. She didn’t seem bothered by it and as it wasn’t on her paw I didn’t think it was a huge deal. Keith looked at it and said it appeared to already be healing up and wasn’t red or oozing anything. I have absolutely no idea when or how she ripped the pad, but a few days later she gnawed off the excess bit hanging off.
Since we’ve been back home, things have been pretty mundane. We’re finally working with a pretty regular routine now and Yara seems to be adjusting fairly well. She was a bit off color about a week ago and she got sick in the middle of Walmart much to my embarrassment, but otherwise we haven’t had much issue. The weather has been horrible for outside traveling, though, so we haven’t had much chance to do curb work which is annoying. Megan called last week to check up on us and I made a point to note that as we’re due for a home evaluation at some point. Hopefully we’ll be able to find somewhere decent to work whenever Fidelco comes to see us.
I’ve got many a cute photo of the girl, but for now I tease you with this because it makes me laugh:
And on a completely different topic, in the last few weeks I’ve gotten a lot of comment spam here on the site. If you leave a comment and it doesn’t show up, it probably isn’t an error, but rather it got dropped into moderation. Don’t worry, I’ll see it no matter what, so please don’t try and resubmit. :)
1. Instead of the normal place cards, everyone was given a little program that detailed the events of the ceremony.
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daysies on
Mon, 7th Jan 2008 12:30 pm
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Cyndy on
Mon, 7th Jan 2008 12:42 pm
oh, that’s so cute! i’m so glad the girls got along and did well at the wedding. (wait - had they met before?)
before going to bed, hubby wraps Maddie up in a blanket, too. we call her “Burrito Boo.”
Nope, they met in the car on the way to the wedding. Dolly was in the backseat with Keith and Yara was up front with me on the floor. They both tried to sniff each other by leaning over the middle armrest but couldn’t quite reach, and after that they both could have cared less about one another.
They got their first big meet-and-greet when Keith and I brought them down to our rooms to feed them both.
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