Getting better

My lovely sister leaving the vet, last week. She goes back on tuesday to have that nasty sling removed.

Our little friends have been nursing her and she is feeling so much better.

I can't wait to play ball, chase birds and yell at the truck that fly up the hill. So much for the quiet life in the country! Love you & miss youxox Braise

Oh lonesome me :(

Considering his real name is 'Lonestar' the title of this post kinda suits this week...

O what a horrendous week we have had, I have to admit to something terrible. We have a dog down. I am entirely at fault for this calamity and if there were a way to repent I would.

I backed over Pede in the venga bus( I am so sorry babe).

She has had her dislocated back leg surgically relocated and is resting and recuperating in her special cordoned off warm (in the corner of our bedroom). I am nursing her, with the help of my three little friend and the husband is devoted to her care when he arrives home after a hard days labour.

So outside of this recovery bubble I sit and write from, the BOY....is lonely and pining for his 'skin & blister', YA - his big sister!

Anyway, we are getting some one on one time and he is acting more interested (less distracted) than usual, but still attached to my hip and I love him for that. Braises unwavering devotion is monumental, I have a lion bow to my feet, even while I'm at the washing machine....domestic bliss!

Ill keep ya'll updated on Princess Pede's progress xx

Mr Big

Finally I will have a camera back today, so the visual FEAST that is my gorgeous Dane will be back for your viewing pleasure.

A few of Braise's current stats:

Weight: 70kg

Height: 93cms from shoulder to ground

Tricks: A perfect straight sit, drop, retrieves ball and sometimes drops it, and he has learnt to sit on his mat inside ( when Man about the house is not home).

Its starting to look a lot like xmas and I have been stocking up on the squeaky toys for Mr Big and his Sissy to devour come the 25th.....Fun times!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAISE!!!

Its Braisey's birthday!

Sending big furry love across the globe to Braise's brother and sister Shining Star ( New Guinea) & (Tahiti)

Lucky Star they all turn 1 today.
Braise enjoyed a tasty cake of bacon, chicken, beef & his puppy euk...! yummy.

Compostable Dog

My hand & arm. Braises enormous gooby floppy chops & throat. Not a pretty picture is it.

So I entered the unknown territory yesterday afternoon of my big boys throat. Not for fun but to try to retrieve a 100% biodegradable compost bag that Mr dirt eating, compost snaffling Dane consumed whilst I was watching and telling him not too.

These bags are home to the daily potato & carrot clippings, used sad looking teabags (not the type previously discussed - last post)and random nail clippings (ewww). When the said bag is full it is laid to rest in a hole in the earth in our front garden.

Its now come to my attention that my dirty nosed young man assumes these care full placed packages are present to HIM. Not so.

On instinct I stupidly and not at all gracefully flung my hand (wedding rings n all) into Braise's mouth and I'm afraid a little down his throat:(

It was gone, the whole funky bag. And my arm was putrid and coated in dog slime. Etchhhherrrrt(spewish noise).

The moral of the story is great Danes swallow shit whole. Its not nice, its just their nature. I'm just great full my rings didn't fall off and I...don't really want to go there.

~Tanianni

Teabag or Handbag?

After ignoring the blatently obvious absence of more than 4 months, she will continue to write...
Much to my horror I have discovered that when a male dog is desexted the baggy bit that the fertlie baby making round(BALLS!) shaped thingys came out of is
....left behind???
Big fat WTF!
And moreso, why?
Why do they need it , what is it good for and hello? It looks so so bad.
Braise is going to the vet in 2 hours time to have this surgery and I am planning on begging and pleading with Doc to trim the excess...
I finally have a new phone and camera so will take a photo (of his beautiful face:) this evening. He has again grown alot Ill add his weight later also.
So my question is in a little dog ive heard this bit of skin leftovers be called a teabag...so whats Brasiey's? Ewwwwwww a handbag.