Running away to the US of A...

Yup, Alaska bound...

Things have been pretty hectic this week so less of Sable's awkward moments were captured. We'll be taking plenty of pictures on the drive up to my homeland and of course plenty more when we get there, but I can't promise prompt posting throughout my vacation :-P

Sorry for the lack of images this week, but I'll be sure to make up for it in the coming weeks!

Hope everyone has a safe and happy long weekend/holiday break/few days off!

Cone head...

Sable is now officially an 'it'... we had her lady organs removed on Tuesday and have been laughing at her inability to maneuver with a neck cone since.

Lounging lookin' cute

I also gathered more proof of Sable's psycho ways. Dropping Sable off at her spay appointment seems like an easy task, yet holding her down despite her every effort to jump on the three individuals sitting next to me with their dogs was difficult at best.

This is what sharp evil puppy teeth look like...
yay for new big teeth!

Not only did I need to restrain her, I was doing so while clinging to a clip board and filling out paperwork with the other hand. If you know Sable, you know this was not an easy task.

While she doesn't trust the bathtub,
she frequently decides to search it.

Ok, so the drop off fiasco can be considered pretty normal for some dogs... not so unusual. The pick-up, however, was ridiculous... albeit a little less jumpy. I arrived at the clinic along with a decent group of other families there to pick up their dogs. While waiting in line to pay and pick-up Sable, everyone could hear a whiny barking puppy in the back that sounded a lot like... guess who... Sable!

She's never seen grass before...
she thinks she's supposed to eat it all.

Yup, Sable was just as exuberant after being drugged as she was before. I wasn't initially positive it was her until I got to the front of the line and the whiny barker was lead out from the kennel room in the back and you could see the full body tail wag going full on. Coming through the door into the waiting room she caught the edge of her cone on the carpet and did a full face plant... needless to say there was a noticeable chuckle that spread through the group in the waiting room followed bye a few "aweeee"s... she's a character all right.


Once we got home she finally settled down a bit, like she was hitting a new wave of anesthetic. The look on her face was pretty priceless... a mix between 'I hate you', 'don't laugh at me', and 'I think I'm gonna throw up' (she did not throw up... thankfully).

She can't quite reach her toy :-(

There were multiple times where Sable would slowly gather her strength to get up, proceed to walk a few steps and then stop... for no reason. It was like she forgot what she got up for as well as where she was... she'd begin to whine while staring off in to nothingness until we got up and turned her around so she could see us. Pretty sad little puppy that first night.



Now she's back to her usual self with the addition of a hilarious cone around her neck. Before the cone, she enjoyed long walks, accessible dinners and tearing around the house causing mayhem.

Now she's not allowed to go for a walk since it snowed (yes... AGAIN... more snow... ridiculous) and she can't get her surgery area wet, her dinners are difficult at best with a giant cone impeding her ability to scarf down food with ease, and tearing around the house now elicits the fear of catching the edge of her cone on couches, door trim, carpets, and pant legs. Such a tough life.



And now... Sable is an 'it'

Yup, she's crazy...

Her top right eyetooth is gone! Wooo

The 6am barking NEEDS to stop... I may actually go insane!

She barks for longer and gets louder if you ignore her... and although getting out of bed to tell her to stop will work for a while, it doesn't seem stop the progressive and endless re-occurrence of the noise. The worst part of the whole thing is that she SOOOOO freaking cute!

I'm having a hard time staying mad... or staying awake for that matter. Darn puppies and their ridiculous cuteness.

So hard to stay mad at this cuteness...

And if Sable wasn't injury/illness prone enough... I managed to injure my own poor puppy. No, it was not intentional (you're nuts if you thought that) and it was very minor. Actually it was her fault really...

We decided to try to start teaching her about bikes and how to run along next to them so she could release a little extra energy. In the process of this "biking" (going as slow as possible in order to maintain my balance on the bike) another puppy + child came out of their house to go for a walk...

Friend Time!

Sable immediately ran in front of me... fail #1 for the lesson.

Too cool for school.

Of course I slammed on the brakes, but managed to roll over a paw. At the time there was no sign from her that anything had happened, no yelp, nooo slowing down... proof of the resiliency of a puppy I guess. Turns out that the top of her toe was cut open... although if you asked Sable I don't think she noticed (she continued to run around and pull me home on the bike).

She has bad posture...

That being said... the paw is pretty much all healed anndddd we'll be trying for some more biking practice soon. maybe she learned her lesson? No? Haha, ohhh puppies...

Watch/Guard Puppy

Enjoy!