This is a difficult post. We’ve been busy recently, and literally, “around the house.” We installed some security equipment this month after Sandy’s car was broken into and some things stolen from it last month. I would love to go into just what awesome tech is now actively working to protect us, but I’m always worried that giving out too much information could possibly come back to bite us down the road, so I won’t. Believe me, I’d really love to post about it, but I just can’t. That’s what makes this post difficult for me. I’ve been mulling it over for awhile too, which explains a little about the delay in posting anything for a few weeks. I’m supposed to be posting more frequently, I keep telling myself, but that’s been my focus lately. There are other less-critical things happening though, so I’ll have to post about those instead.

The puppies had their “triple procedures” a couple weeks ago and are recovery nicely. They both got neutered, chipped, and had baby teeth extracted, all at the same time. They were pretty sleepy and sluggish the first couple days, on several medications, and really hated their “Elizabethan Collars”, aka “The Cones of Shame”. We only needed to use them a few times, and only for brief periods of time when they insisted on licking. I think they learned very quickly that if they kept licking their wounds they would end up with those cones on, which pretty much made them freeze completely, not knowing what to do or how to move around. They continuously bumped into things, knocking themselves over or startling them quite a bit the first time they had them on, and quickly learned to dread them, so the licking became very minimal. And as a result, they’re healing very well.

The only problem we’re seeing now is that since their surgery, both dogs seemed to have completely forgotten all of their house training. They are back to literally peeing and pooping anywhere they want. Maybe this is their payback for what we’ve done to them. It reminds me of an episode of Rick & Morty where their pet dog is turned into a cyborg – part dog, part robot, and can now talk. In anger he asks his master “Where are my TESTICLES?” I found it hilarious at the time. Now, not so much. We’re re-training them now and controlling their feedings much better to get a handle on it.