So yesterday, I went to the park with my wife and Tucker to help with Tucker’s scenting; and by “help” I mean I sat and held Tucker’s lead while my wife went around laying a trail of mozzarella bits and hiding a sock full of string cheese, which is the “jackpot” at the end of the trail. (Also, I “helped” by discouraging her from marking the trail with flour, on the theory that after we left, somebody would come along, see the flour, think it was anthrax or ricin or something, and call in a HazMat team. I think I annoyed her a little, but at least she isn’t going to get carted off to jail.)
Anyway, my job was pretty easy. Sit. Stay. Good boy. Tucker’s job was a little harder.
So, having earlier embarrassed myself by listing the silly nicknames we have for the animals, I thought I would humiliate myself further by admitting that I also sing to them.
hello nice reederz its dennis the vizsla dog hay wot is up with this messaj i am getting wen i try to visit my nice frends at blogspot
dada sez googul is beeing paranoyd i dont no wot that meenz all i do no is i cant visit sum of my nice frends rite now so i am verry sad oh well i gess i will hav to amyooz myself in sum other way i think i will go lik myself for a wile its not as much fun as it yoozed to be but it stil helps pass the time ok bye
It seems there’s been some concern about whether or not we have been able to get help from Tucker’s breeder regarding his condition, so we’d like to assure any interested parties that we’ve been in regular communication with them for the entire time we’ve had Tucker (i.e., his whole life). He has always been a perfectly fit and healthy dog, so when he began exhibiting these odd symptoms, one of the first things we did was get in touch with them to find out if any of his brothers or sisters or any other dogs in his line had developed something similar. (None have.)
In our opinion, we couldn’t have asked for a better breeder. They have always been helpful, interested, informative, and supportive, and even stopped by to visit Tucker out here in California when they were in the state for an event. (That’s a long way from Toronto, Ontario!) We apologize if we gave anyone the impression that we have not been able to reach the breeder or that we posted the video of Tucker because the breeder has been unhelpful, because nothing could be further from the truth. We would have no hesitation whatsoever about getting another dog from them, and I think that pretty much says all that needs to be said.
hello nice reederz its dennis the vizsla dog hay i saw the skunk i saw it i saw it i saw it!!!
my sister trixie the mutt wuz barking at sumthing in the yard of the emty howse next door sum peepul yoozed to live their but then the man from the bank came and kickd them owt ennyway i went to see wot my sister wuz barking at and i saw this!
A while back, our vet suggested trying to get video of Tucker’s symptoms so that we could show it to the neurologist, who never got a really good look at them. (He just saw a few light twitches, so mild that he wasn’t even sure they were a symptom of anything.) The other day, we finally got some halfway decent footage. This is Tucker just after getting home from doing scent work:
He got his soloxine late because he was out unusually late doing his scenting. It’s not clear that his twitching is actually related to the low thyroid, though, as the pills have brought him back into the normal range and he’s been there for some time. Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts as to what this might be, we’d love to hear them.
So you know how when you go away for a few days, if you’re lucky enough to have someone come in and take care of your animals while you’re gone, you might leave them some instructions about what and how much to feed them, what pills to give them, etc.? Well, my wife is attending a birthday party this evening for a coworker, and evidently our dogs get such customized cuisine that I need instructions for feeding them.
hello nice reederz its dennis the vizsla dog hay dada has askd me to tell yoo that his draggin buk is owt now at lulu and it shood be at the other buk sites sum time this summer i am not shoor what this buk is abowt but sinse its a draggin buk it is probly the story of a driver at a traktor pull hoo overkums grate odds to win or it mite be abowt dogs hoo hav to pull a sled thru the snow or maybe its abowt sumbuddy hoo cant get owt of bed in the morning hmm i am pretty shoor it is the traktor pull wun tho
hang on it luks like dada is trying to tell me sumthing … uh huh … uh huh … oh its a dragon bukthats sumthing kumpleetly diffrent jeez dada why didnt yoo say that in the furst place onestly i dont no how yoo ekspekt me to do publisity for yoo wen yoo dont giv me the korrekt informashun well ennyway i still think it mite be abowt a traktor pull no matter wot dada sez ok bye
