Crazy week! D:

 Well this week has been crazy Fridge not fitting, but luckily taking base boards out worked. We didn't think about the baseboards adding a bit for length. Ah well lesson learned.

Wednesday Bella started to have loose poop in the pm she hasn't gotten into anything in the house she's been much better behaved and no odd stuff in the field, but who knows. She did eat grass a few times when we were hanging outside Tuesday and some on walk. Spring being here grass is new and exciting..

Thursday morning sometime she vomited foam it had grass in it.

She's been getting same brand of kibble and haven't had any raw treats or raw meals.. I got her some pre and probiotics from ark natural gentle digest stuff on Wednesday. coarse soon as I noticed the loose poop I fed her a bland diet. it helped some, but still not 100%

Thursday She stayed same loose poop once in while watery so we got her a vet appointment the next day.

Friday she was bit more calmer didn't try to get in mom's lap to cuddle or try to lick her still same loose poop.

I noticed after mom left she was limping on her right back foot I checked her foot pad and inbetween no cuts, thorns or anything. I had her lay on the couch to rest for bit. I then headed upstairs to make small lunch and she coarse had to follow me up and she was slow climbing the stairs I went to help her and carried her up it.. 56-58lbs of pure boxer muscle.. hehe

I checked again and saw a bump on the leg she was favoring it was soft. Luckily she had the appointment.

This how she walked no pressure on this foot she kept it up when walking or standing she could site or lay down fine.. Poor girl.

Finger for size reference. I'm sure this was reason for her limp. The vet checked the stool sample and said no signs of parasites or anything too bad like infection..

She took some fluid from the bump to send off to be tested and prescribed some meds for her.

So far she has made a total improvement with walking she is putting pressure on it and not acting tired well after the vet visit she was sleepy too much excitement greeting all the people. Today she is back to her old crazy happy boxer self.

Still not 100% good on her poop. It is better though it's not as frequent and is loose not liquid. Still not as formed as should be, but it's an improvement over before.

She is taking her meds fine hiding it in cheese seems work good. She gets the probiotic on her food and she eats that no issue.

I'm hoping tomorrow she'll show more improvement poop wise. Eventually once good I'll slowly work back her kibble into her meals.

Dad wanted to feed her just kibble this morning luckily mom heard it and stopped him.

I hope the stuff the vet sent in is nothing bad and the antibiotics help. Coarse antibiotics can cause diareah, but hopefully the pro and prebiotics help little.

The bump has gone down which is good.

Crazy month

Well in Feb I broke the camera.. That sucked accidentally dropped it.

We eventually got a new camera this one has video which is nice.

Got Saya 4lbs of beef thymus and 3lbs of beef heart maybe bit more I forgot how much it weighed. Payed about $17 for it all.

The beef sweetbreads(thymus) gone up in price was $1.49lb now is $2.99lb. Heart is still about the same I don't mind the price hike it's not too bad. one person said thymus was 5$lb where they are so I rather $2.99lb..

Been while since I gotten thymus need to be sure I keep it in stock.

I usually rotate it with kidneys. one week she gets thymus and the next kidney.

Beef Thymus fed frozen nice warm weather treat. hehe

Well as usual when it rains it pours.. Fridge has been on the fritz lately it came with the house so I'm sure it is old.. It was leaking water and just down right annoying food would get lost in it.

We got a new one coarse mom forgot to measure the baseboard and in order to fit the fridge in had to take it out. coarse after that it still needed half inch more.. Crazy.. We got the counter out by the fridge so it would fit.

Just gotta trim the counter so it can fit without an issue.. we'll see how that goes.

I like the fridge and it roomy and well lighted. freezer is at bottom decent space. No need for water jug in fridge since the fridge has one in it. so that saves room in the fridge.

Other crazy thing during winter storms our pussy willow had some branches that grew too close to roof and it rubbed on it which damage the roof some. :\ Repairmen from the company that put it up came and fixed it coarse gotta pay that luckily we have replacement roofing shingles in case stuff like this happened so was just charged for fixing it so it was bit less if they had to bring material over.

Back to dog related stuff Saya has had two quail from her quail collection.. so 46 left to go.

Crazy the amount I ordered, but Saya loves whole quail and it should last good bit.

I count it as bone in item it has pretty much everything, bone, organs, meat, blood and even extra feathers.. Saya only eats the feathers surrounding the quail she leaves the ones on the wing.

What remains of the quail..

 Saya has had her sardines before and she loves them she had them canned before, but never raw. The herring she didn't like as much at first Not sure why, but I kept offering it and eventually mixed cut up pieces of herring into her egg, or ground meat. She'd eat it mixed with something and eventually I offered it plain and she ate it.

Glad she decided she liked it as I got a lot. If she didn't then Bella would get all the herring.

Today she slept in the whole fridge event. Bella was put in the basement till we were done.

We went for nice walk afterwards and on way back I saw a great blue heron in the yard we came home different way to not scare it so I could attempt a decent pic.

The heron comes to the pond every so often probably eats some fish maybe a garter snake or who knows. I don't mind there is plenty of fish for us and any animals that want it.

Today Saya got egg for breakfast plus joint supplements and salmon oil for dinner she got sardines. Yummy.

Saya liked the cooler temps today it snowed some this morning! It's melted now. Luckily the flowers seem fine and the fruit trees haven't flowered yet so they're fine.

second hare today order

Again haven't posted in while seems like either something chaotic happening or just don't feel up to posting something or too busy.

Anyways I had ordered some yummy stuff from hare today. Luckily it's close enough it comes in good time. This is second time ordering from them first time I did a variety of items. It was nice to try the different things.

This time I only ordered three different things. Whole herring, whole sardines and quail.

The fish I bought four of them each and quail six. Fish is 2lbs so good bit of fish. Quail is 8 per bag so not bad.

Saya loves fish never had whole raw sardines or herring before she has had canned sardines.

She loved the quail from last time I got it. It has shipped today and should be here sometime in Wednesday or any day after that.

I also ordered 2lb back of ziwipeak had coupon so got free shipping and 20% off had order a bit extra stuff to get the free shipping. I got a 5lb bag of kibble to use as training treats.

I'll write more as things come.

Saturday adventure

Friday night it started to snow and eventually looked like this in the morning.

Me and Saya hanged outside Saya potty and messed around in the snow while I shoveled the drive way she came to check on me every once in a while and I played fine the kibble with her I tossed hand fulls of kibble in various spots in the snow and she found them and ate it.

After awhile she got a bit adventurous and headed to the woods. I was almost done shoveling the driveway. Once I finished that I did the basement porch and then headed to the woods to call for her to come inside for breakfast.

Saya was in the woods the wood area is a bit hilly and there is a small stream of water where it empties out to the wild cat creek..

Saya was done there hanging sniffing things. She came right away when I called her and we headed home.

She got chicken gizzards for breakfast.. We hanged inside for a bit then went on a nice walk.

Saya lagged behind for a bit so Bella and mom went on ahead. She finally caught up. :)

She used my path to make walking bit easier. Smart pup. She can run good in snow if she wants to.

Some animal trails in the snow..

Bella had fun in the snow she loves the snow and following animal tracks.

Another set of tracks. Bella followed them for bit and came back when we got too far from her.

Neighbor's goats they have two of them same coloration and size.. Cute things love to baa at us. Fence looks to be electric.. Saya saw the goats, but listened and stayed on trail.

Usually it is covered by tall grass, but snow weighed it down so the dogs can see the goats now they also have one pony..

                           

Snow ball fight! Sadly she can't throw her own snow ball, but she enjoys catching it. :)

Two hanging in the backyard sniffing.

Saya likes to check this area not sure why maybe there is mice or raccoon or some type of smells.. The trash always is locked when a bag is in it so I doubt raccoons get into it. maybe they come by hoping I forget the lock.

The orange bucket is the compost. I fill it then once that is full I take it down to the bigger compost bin.

 Saya hanging in the driveway.. The snow we got from morning to now covered it so I had to shovel it again.

Saya paw prints so cute!

 

I go inside to put camera up so I can shovel and I see Saya laying down in the driveway so I had to get the camera again to get pictures!

 She looks so comfy. :) I took a few pics then put camera up to finish shoveling. She got up eventually to check the side of the house for rabbits or mice. once I was done we went inside.

 Bella was so tired that day and Sunday too she was still a little tired on Sunday.

Nice Christmas looking pic would been perfect if Bella was laying on the other side. ah well. Saya was so tired too. Next day she still had energy for nice walk..

Winter walk adventure

                                                               Today was a good day.
We had gotten some snow not enough to coat it with thick layer of snow, but still nice. There was more snow in the trails and wood compared to my back and front yard.

Saya and Bella hanged outside while I did some outside stuff then we headed for walk. I could tell Saya was ready for a walk as she kept wanting to chase leaves blowing in the wind..

Which I wouldn't have minded, but the leaves were in neighbor's yard. I just told her to come and if she tried to go for the leaves again I told her no and she got hint and headed for the side of the house to look for rabbits or mice.

We then went for walk in the field went six times around the second field trails to get them bit worn down some since it was our first wood walk for the year. We then headed into the woods for final round. Some fallen limbs, and fallen trees, dead vines hanging around in the right side of the woods.  Next walk I'll have to bring my clippers to cut the vines down.

I had to move one fallen tree luckily it was smaller tree compared to thick ones, but still hard to mess with since it was long. I just dragged it off to the side.  Still need to move three more trees..

Saya did good as usual she hanged off to the side sniffing stuff and out of the way and Bella hanged bit too close for a bit so I had to tell her to go and pointed where she headed out of the way and waited for me to finish.

Took nice picture of Saya with my cellphone on the big fallen tree. My phone is a flip type phone not fancy iphone so sending my pics to computer is a bit of a chore..

Also saw some raccoon prints and opossum prints on various areas each time I called Saya to come and pointed to the prints. Saya had fun sniffing them.

Saya smelled the animal den at the base of the tree. Not sure if it is occupied or not.. Maybe when I get a game cam I'll set it there for bit to see if anything goes in or out of it. Which won't be getting one for while as I still need to get a smaller camera.

I'm thinking of getting those tough type cameras or just a small camera. I'd like a waterproof one to protect from snow.

We headed to the trails and I had to drag out a fallen locust tree.. Good workout! Saya was off sniffing around so I called her and she headed to me and we headed home. Bella did well she didn't go off to find deer poo to eat.. yucky Bella.

Cute bird in the yard

I brushed Saya as she is still shedding her coat. once done she went into shiba 500 mode.. Running all over the yard chasing down her balls of fur when wind blew it.

Saya ate her breakfast in am and later after our walk gave her pork ribs which she only ate little bit so she'll get rest of the ribs tomorrow.

Saya is hoping we'll get more snow. I love how happy and excited she acts ready for our walk.

Basement is done.. sorry for lack of updates

Basement has been done for while. I got the bathroom repainted it looks much nicer than before. More brighter. Need to caulk the bath tub then I'll be done with it.

Winter is arriving so mostly been prepping for that cleaning the garage out, put the canoe up and prep my bog garden to survive any snow we may get. The bog's pot is way too heavy to take to the garage so I leave it outside all year. Most I do is trim dead stuff and put good layer of pine needles on top.

Once spring comes I take pine needles off. if I don't get all the needles it won't hurt the plants.

This spring I'll be re potting the plants as they're growing so well. Especially the purple pitcher. I might just get one of those liners for ponds and plant the stuff in that much more room for the plants to spread out.

I seen some people who make raised gardens where they have raised bed and liner with peat, perlite or peat and sand for drainage..

Anyways I got few good updates to post so I'll post them this week.

Sorry for lack of updates been kinda occupied.