Blood work and teeth cleaning

As mom tells me often (sigh, thanks mom), my breath is terrible and I need my teeth cleaned.  So yesterday we went to the v-e-t so they could do some blood work. The vet said my blood work was “all basically normal”, but of course mom had to call back to find out what the not normal stuff was. Of course. BOL   The vet said my globulin level is high, normal is 3.6 but mine’s 4.5. A high globulin level is consistent with me though, heck, last August it was 5.0, and the vets ran all these tests and found nothing. Anypaw!  But, my albumin and liver and kidney values were normal, so that’s good…

.. wait a second, those being good meant the vet told mom he sees no reason not to proceed with the dental. Drats! Well, ok, I do need my teethers cleaned, and those dental cleaning pads mom uses aren’t getting much of my tartar off, and I hate them, and I don’t like tooth cleaning treats (have I mentioned how picky I am lately? BOL), so I guess I don’t have much choice.  At least mom will stop bugging me about my bad breath, geez. And it’s not like I don’t eat mostly mushy soft foods already anyways cause it’s what I like the best.

BOL, mom posted about this stuff on the facebooks and a bunch of her friends said their doggies who are or were the same age as me, their doggies did fine. Stop worrying mom, geez. But keep up the pets and treats of course! Woof!

Oh! My teeth cleaning is scheduled for Tuesday. Mom started giving me liquid antibiotics yesterday – YUK!!

Hope everypup has a good weekend! Mom says it’s supposed to be a beautiful weekend and we’re gonna spend as much of it outside as we can!  Just like I did yesterday, woof!

I love my yard!

Luv, 

Lacey the nature girl!

Pictures!

I have weeks’ worth of pictures to post!

So during the week before we fully moved in, mom brought boxes and stuff over to the townhouse, and she also brought me so I would feel comfortable there.

I’m gonna stare out these windows all the time!

Mom brought one of my beds over so I could get comfy with that too.

Zzzz… Are we moved in yet?!?

Mom also fed me lots of treats before we moved in so I would feel comfy there. Treats + me = pawsome

I’m starting to feel pawsitively Zen about this place.

During the first couple weeks we were at our new townhouse, mom’s roommate took a bunch of pictures of me at various security posts. He wanted mom to know I was happy, but I also have him wrapped around my paw! He makes me chicken and pasta and rice, and he feeds me lunch when he’s home. I also know how to trick him (and mom of course!) so my nature loving self can go outside – I’ll go by the back patio doors like I need to go outside and ~privacy please~, but then I just go hang out on the deck and don’t do anything but watch my yard. BOL!  Anypaw, here are some pictures!

Views of my front window security post

 

View of the back patio and yard security post (back when the weather was yucky)

 Super Princess guarding the yard (also, it was still cold)

 

I’m wiped out from setting up these security perimeters (also, mom and I had just finished a comfy brushing and petting session)

Me in my yard!!!  For now I’m on a tether or my leash, and sometimes for my quick late night ~privacy please~ I don’t wear either cause mom stands in the yard with me.  

And finally, me on my patio just this very afternoon!

The weather’s been gorgeous so we’ve been taking nice afternoon walks in the park and sitting outside just chillin’.   I’m so glad it’s spring and I have a yard to enjoy it with!

Long time no bark!

Hi pups! Long time no bark! Me and mom have been super busy, we just moved and my grandpawrents visited last weekend! Also there’s no internet at the house right now cause the cable company doesn’t have lines directly to our place, but they’re supposed to fix it next week. Don’t ask how I’m posting this cause I don’t want to get in trouble, BOL.
We’ve been super busy packing and moving over the past few weeks. We moved into our new place a little over a week ago. It’s pawsome! There’s carpet, which I love cause it’s so much easier for me to walk on. Heck, I run around on it! I also have a yard! I love it cause I love being outside, but I’m still getting used to doing my ~privacy please (tm Zaidie)~ cause I’ve been walked on a leash for a long time. I still take mom on walks though, every morning and every afternoon.
Mom’s got a roommate too, and he’s been taking pictures of me at my new security outposts. I’ll have to post them when we have internet back.
Speaking of, gotta run, hope everypup’s doing pawtastic and I’ll post more as soon as I can! Woofs! Lacey

I went to the doggie park!

Woof! I haven't been to an actual dog park in almost two years, way back when me and mom and Shakespeare first moved to Richmond. Me and Shakey just wanted to sniff and mark stuff, while the other dogs wanted to play, so mom decided we were more of a leash walking at the park kind of pack.  Oh! So first, me, mom, and her friend had a picnic at Chimborazo Park, and they ate fried chicken and I got little pieces of chicken.  Bunches of people walked by our picnic spot and I barkbarkbarkbarked at them all!

Watchdog!

In this weird photo, it looks like I'm only as big as mom's friend's shoe, BOL, but it's just the camera angle. Mom thought the way I was sitting was adorable (of course, everything I do is adorable!).

Photo weirdness - I am bigger than a shoe!

Mom's friend took this photo and posted it to Facebook, and people said I look like a bunny.

I'm not a bunny, I'm a supergirl schnauzer princess!

After our picnic, we walked over to the small doggie park.

I had the park to myself for a bit, and I sniffed everything! 

Eventually a LWD named Henry showed up! He was all nice and groomed and wore a tartan collar, and he sniffed me and tried to play with me and I barkbarkbarkbarked at him! His mom said it was ok, Henry can be pushy and he needs somedoggy to give him boundaries. Well, I'm somedoggy! BOL  Mom liked him a lot too, she petted and hugged him and I barkbarkbarked at mom and Henry cause I should be the center of attention. After Henry and his mom left, I sniffed for a couple more minutes, but me and mom's friend were ready to go home.

Let's blow this popsicle stand! 

So it's been a good Saturday!  Oh, also, mom facilitated an adoption for this schnauzer, BJ - he's gonna have a pawsome furever home.

Hope you pups are having as nice a Saturday as BJ and me!

Princess Supergirl!

Oh! I almost furgot, Finley and Mini Mischief nominated me for a Leibster Award and I haven't answered any of my questions - sorry Finley! I will post them soon!

It's warmed up now, but last Monday was cold and snowy, yuk! Mom covered me with my Little Princess blanket, but whenever I moved, I kept it on like a cape.. cause I’m Princess Supergirl!

 Princess Supergirl is keeping an eye out on the neighborhood!

Weekend happenings

Hi pals!  Sorry I haven’t been keeping up on my blog – it’s mom’s fault. She’s been busy and stressed looking for and accepting a new job (her contract’s up on her old job and she’s really sad about it cause she wants to stay but budget and contractor rules say no.. *pout*), and now she’s stressing finding a new place to live that’s affordable and pawfect for me – I need a window to look out of ya know! 

Also this weekend, mom did two rescue transports – I know cause I smelled two different dogs in the car!  One was a schnauzer – on Saturday, she helped bring this guy came into rescue: http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/28717528/:

My name is Tito and I'm adoptable!

And on Sunday, she helped drive a daschund girl to her forever home:

My name is Abby Rose and I was adopted last weekend!

As for me, I did get belly time and scratches from mom’s friend:

My name is Lacey and I'm spoiled rotten! p.s. You missed a spot!

And they took me to Byrd Park, where I walked around a couple lakes and scared off some geese!  (Mom didn’t take any pictures.)

Hope you're all well! Woof!

My weekend so far

Hi pups! Hope you're all having a good weekend!

The good news from yesterday is that mom went to Three Dog Bakery! The bad news is that she did not bring me.  Three Dog Bakery is in a dog-friendly outdoor mall, and you did bring me and Shakespeare (we miss you!) there once.  I think they should also let dogs in the nice Italian restaurant too, that's no excuse for not bringing me. Anypaw! Mom brought me mini-pizzas and peanut mutter cookies:

I'm not big on the "mini-pizza" cause, well, it's not actual pizza, but I love the peanut mutters!

Today it's been nice and warm, so mom and I went to Three Lakes Park again. I did my usual sniffing, barking at dogs and people, leaving p-mail, sniffing, swiftly changing direction depending on the sniffs, observing dogs and people, and hogging the whole path so other humans couldn't walk by (mom had to pick me up a couple times cause I didn't want to move. Why should I? I'm a princess, people should walk around me!). I made mom carry me a few times cause I was just done walking. She was carrying me towards some humans and they looked at us and chuckled - they must not know what a princess I am!  We had some nice sunshine for an hour or so (it's raining now, sigh).

 Lots of sunshine!

Lots of sniffs!

Even some shaking!

 Lots of pmail, BOL!

 Walking along one of the three lakes

Watching the dogs and people