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Saturday, February 14, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Dec-Jan
DECEMBER 2014
Yes, that is my Vizsla using a pillow and blanket like a human while watching TV.
Kona licking her sister
Xmas time!! Their aunt Karen gave each of my dogs their own stocking full of treats and toys, needless to say, the toys did not last very long with these two as they immediately started playing tug of war.
Sorry for the graphic pictures, but this is what happens when you have two exuberant puppies. They were running so fast and wrestling that my vizsla bumped my lab so hard that the lab's legs buckled under her as she was running, so her front legs skidded along some sharp rocks. And all this happened within 5 minutes of getting to the park. Fortunately, Kona did not need stitches and went home from the urgent care with just antibiotics and pain killers.
JANUARY 2015
New year and all my pups want to do is sleep. It might be bc they go to daycare almost everyday, lol
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
July-Nov
My husband doing some training with Nala using a 30ft leash to practice the recall, otherwise she will not come back, lol. She still needs a lot of work.
Meet Kona, a labrador retriever mix. We estimated she was about 9months when my husband and I rescued her from the Oregon Humane Society in July. So now she is about 14 months. She immediately hit it off with our Vizsla, Nala :)
The first weekend we got Kona, we took both our pups to the Oregon coast. It was a beautiful day.
Proof they are the best of buddies, sleeping on top of each other.
My husband with Kona at the dog park
Both pups enjoying sun bathing in the Portland heat
Meet Kato, Nala's 3yr old husky cousin. My sister rescued him from the Sac SPCA. It took a couple of play dates before they got along well.
AUGUST 2014
Our little family photo shoot in August
Pooped after some long needed exercise
Nala's second race. She did a 10K with me. Kona's first race. She did a 5K with her dad.
SEPTEMBER 2014
They love their crates. Kona gets a bigger one bc she will grow slightly bigger than Nala.
And we moved back to CA
OCTOBER 2014
And Kona is very destructive
But when they are calm, they are so cute
I carved it :)
NOVEMBER 2014
What I used as my table numbers at my wedding
Just lounging on Thanksgiving
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Nala Feb-now
I know I haven't updated the blog since Feb, but instead of wasting time explaining/giving excuses, let me catch you up on Nala's life. Let's start with the most recent and go back to where I left off in Feb.
HIKING ADVENTURES
hiking the 5 mile King Mountain
The past three weekends, we have gone hiking with Nala all over Oregon: the coast, the Columbia River Gorge, and Tillamook Forest. There are a million more hikes to explore in Oregon, well not a million but enough to keep us busy for a year at least. She loves hiking, even the strenuous, steep mountains. That's one way to semi tire her out, lol.
Nala turned 1 year old on June 3, 2014 and she got pampered. I took her to a doggy daycare/spa where she got to play with dogs all day and get one-on-one attention from people too. She also got many presents, this cot being one of them. Needless to say, she loves it.
From all the time she spends at daycare, our vet believed she got the canine papilloma virus from daycare. The link has information about it, if you're curious, and no, it's not contagious for humans. After about 2 months, it is almost gone. It went from tiny little pimple-like bump to huge cauliflower-looking wart. It got so big that it eventually popped but a little piece was left behind. Overall, it's healing at it's own pace.
SKIN ALLERGIES
Nala also suffered some skin allergies. In the picture above, you can kinda see bumps on her back which looked like she has her fur raised. We did a process of elimination with her diet and figured out she was allergic to wheat/grain. We always fed her grain-free kibble and treats but one day we decided to get the cheaper treats which all have some form of grain and sure enough, as soon as we took it away, her allergies were gone.
We signed her up for a race in Portland that benefits dogs in shelters, sponsored by the Oregon Humane Society. She had so much fun running with hundreds of dogs and their owners.
So in a nutshell, Nala has experienced A LOT since my last blog post, from all sorts of diseases to turning the big 1-year old!! Can't wait for more adventures with her...
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