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Hi everyone,

I'm finally able to post some pictures... I've just been super busy (potty training baby at work -I guess she's a big girl now, and then Olive [the cat] came home after a month of being missing! so it's been a lot of vet visits since he came back wounded and super skinny! but is actually healthy and recovering and gaining weight like a champ!), but I finally got some more recent pictures from my camera and phone so here we are! this is how the kids look these days!


1st off, all three kids in formation -from eldest to youngest


the boys -last pictures taken of Olive before he went missing for over a month


this is Lucca now -showing off my tacky zebra print blanket!


and Lucca then!


posing for mom right around his 1st birthday -I'm always worrying he's too skinny! but I also want him to do his growing up on the slender side... but I don't want him malnourished! so conflicting!


playing at the park with a Pyr mix!


with big sister Frida! oh I love them <3


cuddles!




more cuddles now


and cuddles then...


and some Olive last week for good measure -doing kitty yoga while recovering


he wants me to leave him alone, but we're all happy he's back home!


yay.

agh -I'm still pretty agitated! sorry it's going to be long, but I just need to let it out and know no one will understand this better than BPOers 

I wanted to go get some caffeine before taking a long bike ride in the nice weather, and decided to just bring Lucca with me (Thank God, because Frida would have gone completely apesh*t!)... We got to the coffee shop and this older couple with their Golden Retriever was leaving... The dogs were greeting and then the other dog growled and immediately launched at Lucca -who is submissive and went down right away crying like I've never heard him cry before  we were separating them, but the other dog wouldn't let go of his ear!! at which point I start screaming "HIS EAR! HIS HEAR!!" because Lucca was crying and obviously in pain, and I know he's a cry baby anyways! so I kind of lost it there... the dog finally lets go, and is taken away by his dad, and the mom stayed with me checking Lucca's ear... which had several puncture wounds, the biggest one almost completely perforated his ear from inside -it didn't make it all the way through, but pretty much up to his outer (skin/fur) ear layer 

So there was blood, Lucca just wanted to run home, and I got blood everywhere (hands/clothes), and I know I was hurting him too, but I just had to check the wounds  I called our vet, and THANK GOODNESS they are open today -so we (included Penny, the dog's mom) headed over there. I, of course, was more shaken than him -heart going a mile a second and trembling hands and voice... he immediately wanted to go play with another dog, as long as no one touched his ear...

Fortunately, his vet was there, and she had a good, long look at him. We all agreed that the main concern was infection -since his ears are very floppy and, well, really don't know what's in the other dog's mouth... no need for stitches, which our vet likes to avoid if possible anyways. He got some antibiotics injected in him, somewhat of a cleaning (three vet techs couldn't hold him down enough to finish it -because Lucca is now 80 lbs! and strong! we weighed him when we went in) and for some reason our vet was worried I wouldn't be able to clean his ear by myself -since she knows I live alone. She even mentioned that he might snap at me! I know when pups are in pain, they can act differently, but I just can't see Lucca ever trying to hurt me  So we went home with pain killers and vet scrub sheet thingies with stuff (I obviously didn't pay much attention to actual terms... uh, that iodine-like thingie -if I saw a bottle, I would know, I just can't recall the name now...) oh, and the dog's dad met us there and they were a really nice couple and took care of the bill. It was nice meeting them... just bad circumstances. ..

We walked home, to work off some of that adrenaline, I told myself... so Lucca and I made it home and he got a nice, big, drugged lunch  I waited a little and then cleaned his ear without trouble -Just sat on the floor, and of course he would come over and be a lap dog... at which point I can do anything to him 

agh! sorry it's SO LOOOOOONG... I was tearing up at the beginning, but feel so much better now and Lucca is fast asleep on his mamá's bed, with the AC on  I think he feels better too 

specifically the fish/salmon oil??

I went to Whole Foods today to get ME groceries... and wouldn't you know it? I ended up spending more money on the dogs than on my food... so I finally got Lucca some "Clucosamine, Chondroitin & MSM Complex" capsules and "Carlsons Norwegian Salmon Oil" and I was reading the label on the latter and thought that maybe I should take some too!  You know, they say that we should eat fish about twice a week... and I'm lucky if I get it once every two weeks... once a week when I'm on a roll! ...unless shrimp counts as fish... which I don't think it does!!

So, I was wondering if anyone felt like this... Any of you BPOers partake in the "supplementatio n" with your dogs?

Just a quick post right before bed! So, Lucca is 4 months old now! Well, since May 23rd... WOW! what happened to my little flufferball?! He no longer looks like a stuffed animal, in fact, I might dare say he's beginning to intimidate strangers  when we walk down the streets HOW?! with THAT face???!! he's not quite a "large" dog yet, obviously -more on the medium side still, but getting there!

Well, just one picture today... some times it's hard to remember he's still just a baby! 

Lucca loves the park... and he loves loves LOVES meeting other dogs and people






trying to keep up with big sis frida... not happening. at all.


he still tries tho!








oh no! he's on to us! -he now knows mom's bed is the most comfortable place to sleep


this is what I get to come home to 

Don't you hate it when people who obviously don't know what they're talking about insist on voicing their opinions AND are convinced they are awesome?  Anyone with me?

You see, a while ago, I met this one friend of my mom's and her 'tard boyfriend's. They always say great things about him and his family, so I was going into this thinking this was some great family ... well, I had Frida with me (this was before Lucca's time), so the conversation turned to dogs... and then the guy starts talking about how he used to have a bull terrier and BRAGS about FIGHTING the dog!!    how he made her aggressive and then would let her lose to attack when they saw a group of dogs in the street (probably homeless, but who knows!)!!!! and he was all smiles and pride and somehow thought that was funny! I didn't even wait for him to finish the story, just shook my head, gave him a glare and walked away. Later I told my mom that no decent person would fight dogs and therefore I couldn't stand his guts -so if she wants me to visit, she better not invite scum like that 

I was reminded of this because a few days ago some guy that lives in one of the buildings on my street saw me with Lucca and approached us (can't wait for Lucca to get big and intimidate jacka**es so that they don't come near... of course, he already loves everyone -but they don't know that!). He was telling me how he used to have a saint that was 260 lbs!!  Now, he was definitely proud and bragging, and more than likely exaggerating (said the dog got so big because he was working at a restaurant and would feed him all sorts of scraps -steak, lobster, blah, blah), but that anyone would even consider that a dog getting that size is healthy, let alone good! I seriously doubt the dog was tall enough to be proportionate. ..

ugh...

on days like that, I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots -so I spend the day inside with my dogs and cat 

ever have anything like this happen??


**modified because I wasn't sure if I could say -write- that here!**

-not the same smell, just to the same degree  not that I would know...

Anyways, Lucca had his first bath since I got him (It will be 4 weeks on Friday!)   



THE FACE...


Flash way too close


"I can't look at you right now.. I need some space"


sulking in his crate