Archive - February, 2008

We Be Burnin’ Part II

You may recall a previous post I wrote entitled “We Be Burnin”, and you may also remember that it was a captivating tale of the dog’s obsession with the electric space heaters during the joke-of-a-winter months in our So Cal climate. This usually is not a problem and we stare in awe as the [...]

First Time Ebay Experience

Butterfinger spotted an item at our local Big Lots the other week that he felt was an incredible deal for all of the components included – one part being the three rechargable Nickel-Cadmium batteries used to power the device, which, obviously, shall remain nameless. Butterfinger and I are a pretty good mix of hot/cold, [...]

One Week Post-Op

February 20 3 Comments Category: Adventures with Dogs

A week ago today Tucky had his extracapsular CCL repair done, and so far his progress has been great, despite the mediocre treatment we have been receiving from the vet’s office. Just so I can get it off my chest and not let it affect the rest of this post, we had another incident [...]

Welcome to the Jungle

February 19 1 Comment Category: Adventures with Dogs, The House

When we returned from our cross-country trek many things around the house were in various states of disarray. Our water had been shut off, the fluorescent light in the kitchen decided to mysteriously turn on and remain on during the majority of our absence, old tofu was culturing in the fridge, the internet was [...]

Operation Tucker

On Wednesday the dreaded day finally came. After successfully missing his first two surgical appointments due to our tardiness leaving the east coast, and Tucker coming down with a canine version of the dreaded 24-hour bug, we arrived at the vet’s office at 7:30 am sharp on February 13th, 2008 to let the vet [...]