Men!!!

Why?!!! I hate Neal reading over my shoulder. No, it's not okay to correct or complain about what I type. I know many times my mind is working faster then my fingers so words get left out, but grrr... He is sitting on the couch complaining right now because I told him to stop reading the post I was working on.

Edit 1:30am: You know you like these little random tidbits. I really do hate Neal reading emails over my shoulder and he knows this.

He was home because I had to take Kensey to the vet. They think he will be just fine and that the meds he has been on will clear up his problem. Well... the bleeding that is. His bigger problem is that he is old. He has the start of cataracts in both eyes and needs his teeth cleaned and a couple pulled (one is about to fall out). I now must soften his food to make it easier for him to eat. I would hate for him to swallow it whole.

"Ken-sey"

Kaitlyn learned a new word yesterday. After months of her calling everything with four legs and sometimes two (ex.a peacock) Sadie, she finally said Kensey yesterday. She has never been able to say K's so tackling this name was big for her. I got her to say it a couple weeks ago, but after two tries she was done. Yesterday she kept calling Kensey Sadie and I would correct her. Suddenly she said "Ken-sey". She played around with the word a little bit until she felt it was perfected.

Speaking of Kensey, he is doing really well. Or at least he isn't vomiting and pooping indoors anymore. I'm hoping yesterdays success wasn't just the product of all the shots he got. I still have three meds I'm squirting in his mouth or pills I'm having to put down his throat; I hate forcing pills down a dogs throat.

Yuck!

I woke up this morning to the smell of poop. Great. I went into Kaitlyn's room and asked her if she pooped. She hadn't. The house really stunk so I knew I was in for a nasty job, I just didn't know how nasty. I walked down stairs to find poo blown all over (in and out) the dogs pen. Both the dogs were having to sit in the middle of the nastiness. It was just gross. After taking the dogs out I knew for sure who the culprit was. Because Sadie is on a special prescription diet our dogs eat different foods. In the middle of the poop splashed pen was vomit. Kensey was really sick. Last week when we went to Germany our dogs were kenneled. The lady said on Monday she noticed blood in Kensey's stool so she took him to the vet. We have been giving him some kind of cream in a big syringe three times a day. The drug ran out yesterday or the day before. When we picked Kensey up the lady said he had intestinal problems. Well they are apparently worse. Neal tackled cleaning the pen while I washed the bedding, cleaned a toy of Kaitlyn's that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and bathed the dogs. While bathing Kensey he kept trying to melt over. I called Neal in and said start with the guy who saw him last week and see if we can get him in today to be seen. Now $400 later we have a pile of meds, some dog food, and one drugged up dog quarantined in our kitchen. The vomiting has stopped, but that's only because he was given a shot to stop it. He is still pooping blood, but not like before; it's darker and not looking like a dripping cut. We were still not told what the problem is. I'm going to call our vet on Monday and see if they will look over everything we have been given. I think I will set up an appointment for the following week to have him seen too.

Needless to say we missed church today. About the time Neal made it home from the vet our church services would have been 3/4 over. Of course all our fun didn't stop there. I had to clean the kitchen floor while he was gone; poo and vomit everywhere just in the 15 or so minutes from his bath to leaving for the vet. The floor was still wet when he returned so I was holding Kensey wrapped in a towel while Neal ran for a spar kennel we keep in the garage. Kensey went poo (blood) on the carpet while we waited. =( I swear it seemed our morning would never end. We only ate breakfast because after all the cleaning the dogs were still outside. Thankfully Kensey is sleeping or seems to be right now.

Grrr... Kaitlyn's not sleeping. I need to go get her out of bed.

Kensey Spotlight

For all the dog lovers here's an old picture of Kensey. I haven't taken recent pictures of the dogs because they have been getting the full body shave. =( Actually I may have pictures of them mixed in with Kaitlyn's pictures; they wouldn't be of just them.

Kensey likes the camera, but he will not smile for it. I guess he has to look tough. I could be taking a picture of something cute Kaitlyn is doing and he will park himself right in the middle of the action and look at me just like the picture above.

Kensey isn't crazy about Kaitlyn. Actually I think he views her as a parasite that our lives must be free of. I guess my one hope is that he viewed Sadie the same one at one time and now they are always together.