It's been a while AGAIN

I know I haven’t been very regular in updating my blog. It seems to take a major announcement with the dogs to do it. Well, we are having Shih Tzu puppies sometime in the next 2 weeks. If feel for Kitty Cat, her belly is huge! She didn’t gain any weight this week, but I also have not noticed her eating a lot. She has to be eating because she still poops! She is getting a little stir-crazy. I’ve had her in my room for about 2 weeks. She is accustomed to spending part of her day outside. We just don’t want her out there unsupervised right now. The temperature has been in the 90’s. Plus we don’t want to risk her having pups under the shed! I guess I need to walk her a little more. It should help move the puppies along too.

At the same time we are getting ready for son and daughter-in-law to move into an apartment. It’s not like they have much time to work on it. My daughter-in-law changed jobs and works 50 to 60 hours per week. My son is headed to California next week for a seminar. And their moving date is September 10. It’s a good thing they are living here and not somewhere they will have to vacate quickly. Then I will be moving back upstairs where the bathrooms are! That is the one thing I have not liked about having my room in the basement. The privacy is great, but to take every trip to the bathroom under consideration due to my bad knees was getting old.

Some of our dogs are getting new homes because only 2 can go to the apartment and I can only handle so many. The ones I am keeping are all small and for the most part very well behaved. Hopefully a couple of the dogs will be going with family members so that we can visit with them. My dogs are such a big part of my life, but life seems to be changing and so it is best that things change for some of the dogs as well.

08/18/2008

From what I read, I started this around the first of August. I write on MS Word and then publish to my blog. Every time I do start writing something interferes. Since I started this Kitty has given birth and I turned 54. I have to tell the family no more birthday cakes for me. I had a gastric bypass in 1999. Sugary stuff like decorated cakes causes “dumping”. It is very unpleasant and painful. I decided in spite of knowing what dumping feels like, to eat some cake. It has finally passed, but I still feel yucky!

Kitty had 5 puppies; 3 males and 2 females. She was very frightened with the first and cried out. It scared me to death since the puppy was in a breach presentation. Luckily she pushed hard and out it popped. It was mostly white with black spots on its head and back. I think I am going to nickname him Domino. She waited a couple of hours and the next 2 came back-to-back. One is black and white and the other is brindle and white. The girls were born last. One of them is black, gray and white like her father Ozzie. The last is the most beautiful. She is white and golden brown. I think Kitty has post-partum psychosis. She looks for hiding places and digs on top of a plastic container under my bed. Fortunately she is leaving the puppies where they belong when she goes off on one of her forays. She is so thin and bony since having the pups. I feed her boiled beef liver and puppy chow softened with puppy formula. I hope she gains some weight. The puppies certainly are.

By the way, Hamburger had a false pregnancy. Too bad, her puppies would have been really cute. She has been spayed now and lives with my daughter-in-law's brother.