the latest and greatest :)
first i would like to introduce *charlie* hes out newest family member .. no not ours but my new 4 legged brother *haha* yep mom has a puppy! hes a basset hound mix and the cutest little thing i ever did see .. *thanks again cassie* for finding the perfect name for him!
how charlie came to be ~
well you have to understand that mother has been dead set against getting a dog until she retires.. after all she worked long hours and didnt have the time to invest into a dog.. so when ron called me to tell me that this guy had one of the puppies and the original person who said he was going to come and get him didnt show .. that i should ask mother because maybe she would take him (after all he had already tried chris and chris said no due to the little legs and wondering what kind of boating dog he would be) ...
so i called mom, knowing she would just say *no* but it never hurts to ask right? to my surprise she seemed actually kind of interested, interested enough to want to look at charlie at least. well i called ron back and told him and he said *its not that kind of deal babe, its if she wants him hes coming home with me in the morning* pics followed which i forwarded to mom and explained in detail what the deal would be and the reason for it having to be that way. the jist of it, charlies brothers and sisters were heading off at 2pm the next day to a shelter type place in a neighboring town if they didnt have forever homes (this place would than place them in forever homes).. well since charlie already had a forever home (the guy who all day long avoided his phone etc) he was not included in the ones going off to the shelter type place. so this guy went and got charlie that morning and took him back to his place (where he was breaching his lease agreement of no dogs allowed) and holding him there until the guy came to get him. by this time the man had been called off and on all day long and a good part of the night (it was around 9pm that i was talking to ron about charlie) so mom saw the pics and we took a ride at 10pm to go pick charlie up.
now to give you an idea of how often mother screams *no dog until i retire* when i showed wyatt a picture of charlie and told him it was mor-mors new puppy he laughed hysterically and told me i was teasen and walked into the other room.. i think it became *true* to him when we showed up at the house with charlie.
its nice though, to see mother so happy with another puppy.. she comes to get the kids or to the house for a visit and charlie is always with her. we are slowly introducing charlie and clyde .. clyde thankfully is so gentle he will just lay down on the floor and sniff all over charlie.. once charlie gets a bit bigger than we will start walking them together and what not.
charlie is a small and tiny.. very young but growing so much in just the days he has been with mother. the pups had weened early (which is known to happen) and charlie is only 4 weeks old.. well he will be 5 weeks old on friday.
in other news..
while new furry babies enter our lives.. older ones leave ~
my sister (whom i dont speak to) has lost her boxer jo.. jo was a great dog and spent a good month sick.. longer than a month from the time i first learned of his not being well. at that time it had only been a month that he had been ill. the vets ruled out any kinds of worms or things.. so they figured it was an upper respiratory infection. they started to give him the medications to cure the infection and waited to see how he responded to them.. jo had good days and bad days.. on good days he would wag his nub and eat.. on bad days he would just lay there.. a once proud 95 pound boxer was now just skin and bones.. it was sad to see him so ill.
after 4 weeks on antibiotics they took jo in and they did blood work to see if that would tell them anything more.. the blood test came back positive for lymphoma cancer. it also showed his organs were slowly starting to shut down. jo wasnt going to make it.. the only question was *how much time he had left*
my bil brought jo home to spend some days with the family as they debated putting him down or letting him go on his own.. the vets couldnt determine pain factors and said they believed they were little to none since he was not crying out at all.. so my sister was loving on jo and they were deff spoiling him to the utmost extent.. they in the end decided that they would let him go naturally vs at the vet office as long as he showed no signs of being in pain at all.
a few days later they were at mothers house with jos body to bury him in the pet cemetery there. my sister told mom they had taken jo out to potty.. once he was done they came back in the house and jo just collapsed.. they think his heart gave out first.
i know my sister is broken hearted.. jo was her baby! so for now they are letting their hearts heal from their great loss.
RIP jo!
