Pics of Dusty's haircut...

These are before and after pics of Dusty and his new style...enjoy! :D

After...

Before...

Sorry, the pics uploaded backwards and the 'net is being stupid so I don't want to risk doing it again!!

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Dental news...

Devin went in for his teeth cleaning today! I was so happy...now I don't have to endure his breath. :D It was less then sweet, that is for sure!! He did great....I took him in at about 7:15 and picked him up at 5:45. The vet said his teeth cleaned up beautifully...she was afraid we were going to have to remove some teeth. Yeah, his teeth were ugly! I was so hoping they would be fine...after all, you really don't want a young dog to have to endure missing teeth. ;) But God was good to us and Devin and he was just fine under all the tartar. Right now, he's resting in his crate. The poor guy is so out of it from the anesthesia. When the vet tech brought him out to me he did his best to give me an excited greeting, but he just couldn't. So instead of jumping around and licking me he opted for pressing against me very hard and trying to lick me. :)

Oh, it looks like sis just let him out of his crate and he's doing much better...he actually jumped around for her. :) So he's recovering quickly. Hopefully he will be pretty much normal tomorrow.

So, there is my news for today about the pets! Until next time....

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Sad news :(

On Friday night at 11:30, my 9 yo parakeet, Pal, died. :'( Poor girl....I was laying in bed and suddenly heard her thrashing around in her cage. I suddenly realized I'd forgotten to give them food that morning! Yikes...well, needless to say, it was too late. She died. It wasn't completely my fault though...she was old and had been sick; and also Pippen, her mate, was fine without the food. So I know that something else was wrong with her; not having food certainly didn't help though.

I take comfort in knowing that she lived a long, happy, fairly healthy life. :) She always had lots of toys. treats, a mate...everything a 'keet loves. :D I guess it was just time for her to go. :-\ Still, it was very sad....I miss her now. I did love her an awful lot!

You can see pics of her to the left. :) She's the yellow one...

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Devin

Dusty playing again.

Dusty playing

Pics....

OK, here are some pics of Dusty and Devin. :)

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Random news.

It's been a while since I posted on here. ;) SO I thought I'd go ahead and do one about random stuff....I'm also going to be composing another informational article, so keep an eye out!!

Dogs:

As you all probably know, we acquired another one: Devin the poodle! He's doing awesome...settling down wonderfully, is extremely intelligent and eager to please, is getting to love everyone (it's a work in progress. ;)), and is almost housetrained. Sadly, we found out this morning that he cannot be left alone outside his crate. We all left for about 10 mins and when we came back, he'd made about 5 puddles; I guess from nervousness. Anyway, live and learn! We're also switching him to raw chicken, and that's going great. :) The others are doing just fine, too!! Dusty now weighs in at a whopping 20 lbs!! He's such a thick little bugger. :D Actually, I have a story about him: last night, I was sitting on a sib's bed with Devin lying behind me. Dusty came over to get pets from me, and I unthinkingly picked him up and plopped him in my lap. Oops...big mistake. Devin immediately attacked him. I simply (and very calmly, might I add. :D) pushed Dusty off the bed to get him away from Devin. However, Dusty did not realize that Devin was now far away from him, and so he whipped around to retaliate...only my leg was in the way. I now have a circle bruise with welts on my ankle. :P That little stinker can deliver quite a bite! He felt bad after he realized he'd hit me instead of Devin, too. You know how dogs get all "apologetic" after they do something to you!! The other two, Patsy and Pepper, are pretty much just hanging around, getting fatter and lazier by the second. :D OK, not fat...both are in pretty good condition! Although Pepper could stand to get some exercise....she's looking a tad chubby! Oh yes, and not too long ago she cracked one of her toenails open. That was kinda gross. The whole quick was exposed. Thankfully, everything healed up very quickly. :)

Cat:

The cat is...well, the cat. :P He's just fine....lays around on a recliner during the day, eats his meal at night, then prowls around outside until morning. Then his routine starts over again....:D I think I've said before that I'm not fond of him....:P

Birds:

We got rid of 6 finches....oh, well, actually 5. The 6th one will be going soon. We are only going to keep two. Mom got fed up with them. Oh well....they were fun while we had them! The pair we kept seems to be doing fine...they've been trying to nest for the past week or so. I hope they quit soon! It's annoying to have to be constantly removing eggs. ;) The parakeets are fine; I had to start rationing their food though. Pal was eating sooo much! I guess she liked the new pellets I got them. I switched their brand to Zupreem, which has smaller-sized pellets. That way they don't throw any out; except for the yellow ones. *rolls eyes* They don't seem to like those. But red is their favorite. Funny birds, huh?!

Fish:

I'm really trying to downsize my my betta collection. I've had one or two die, too. And a couple will probably die here pretty soon. Two of them have finrot pretty bad, and nothing seems to be touching it. One I think will make it, the other looks pretty bad. We're trying to treat it, but nothing seems to be working. And then my tealish male died, from what I have no idea. He lingered on for weeks. We treated him with several meds, but he just kept getting worse. Fish are so weird! We also have a couple guppies and a molly that have Ick. I wish my fish would quit getting sick!! :P

OK, well, hope you enjoyed my update. :) I'll hopefully be back with pictures and an article sometime soon.

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