Dog Days

Do you ever get 1,100 words into a blog post and then realize you hate it and no one is going to want to read that? Just me ? boo...
It was a rant about the complicated process of getting Bonnie to Hawaii. But that was garbage.

This is still going to be a dog post though, so if you're not into that... here's where I'll leave you *cough cough caroline...*

Do you know much about dog nails? There's the nail and then under that is the quick, which is all skin and nerve endings and blood vessels. Pretty tender and sensitive. Well, somewhere along Bon's journey over here last week she broke one of her nails and injured the quick. When we noticed it, it was super red and swollen and reeally painful looking. It was also prone to bleeding if ever she got too excited when we were playing and bumped it against anything. We took her to the vet and what had happened was her nail had lifted and torn away from the quick. It was still hanging on though and that was causing even more pain because it was trapping dirt and nasties against the quick. So they numbed her up a bit and ripped her nail the rest of the way off,  cringe  to give it a fresh start and all... Now she just has a sensitive little naked nail

We have to keep it super clean and put medicine on it, which takes the two of us- Allan holding her immobile, in a chokehold and me applying the ointment to her nail bed- because she doesn't want anyone to touch it, because it hurts.

Another really great thing about having a dog- dog hair. Every where. I didn't use to think that Bon was much of a shedder; as long as I brushed her regularly I didn't notice too much hair anywhere. Well when Bonnie got here last Thursday we were all excited and even let her on the couch with us to snuggle. Two days later we regretted that cause she was jumping up whenever she wanted and covering the couch in fur. so. much. fur. So she's not allowed on the couch anymore. We also decided that it was probably time to get a vacuum because we bought a little a rug for our living room, and we also wanted the hair off our couch. We bought one yesterday and did a quick trial run on our rug just to see how it works...

and I guess it does pretty good. That fist and a half sized ball is all Bon hair. From a 5x7 rug. So gross! The vacuum also came with a little pet attachment, its got a brush part on it and brags about being great at picking up animal fur. So obviously I'm considering vacuuming Bon. You know, stop the problem at the source.

Even for all that though, I guess Bon is alright. She's pretty good for snuggles, even if you did just get home from work and are grungy and stinky...

And on a completely unrelated note- we almost adopted a one-eyed kitten while we were at the vet's. It was Allan's idea and he got me all on board and excited.... and then changed his mind. The nerve.