The Rumpster is such a wonderful dog. He is always available as a dinner companion. And he’s so polite. He rarely whines for me to get up in the morning, though I may get a soulful, begging face like this one. Rumpy loves everyone, even the evil June Buggie. But I know who he loves […]
Nine years ago today I stopped to keep a furry dog from darting into the road and to help him find his way home. Little did I know his home was with me. Unlike with DeDe, ours has not been an easy relationship. His size, his high activity level, and his breed have forced me to be […]
The Rumpster is sick. Yesterday morning while we were walking, Rumpy produced a particularly stinky poo. When I got home for lunch, he’d had an accident in the laundry room. It smelled awful. I switched him to a bland diet, but he continued to have diarrhea today, and this afternoon there was blood in the […]
I woke up this morning and my body didn’t want to move. I’d worked 65 hours in 6 days, and I felt it in every bone in my body. Right now we’re so short of staff that we can work all the overtime we want, and since there’s a chance there will be no budget […]
One thing is true about every walk I take with Rumpy- it will be filled with stops to sniff things. There’s the trees in front of the insurance agency where the neighbor dog does his thing. There are squirrels to sniff around trees. It seems as though Rumpy can tell how long ago a squirrel was […]
This morning Rumpy decided he wanted to sit outside awhile in the cool morning air, so I took the opportunity to give his coat a good brushing. I haven’t been as attentive to Rumpy’s coat as I should, and it shows. While I was brushing him, I thought, “I wish I could just shave all […]
Some days Rumpy and I go for walks and things go smoothly. And then some days, Rumpy gets into one of his moods. Take yesterday, for example. We went for a walk on our new route. It’s a new route because a certain dog one day refused to walk the old route any longer. Our new […]
This week I stopped by PetSmart and I saw this: It caught my eye, because usually dog warning signs look something like this: As I am wont to do, I began to think about the meaning of each sign, and the purpose of displaying either of them. I’ve never before posted signs where I lived, because […]
It was time for Rumpy’s annual vaccinations, and I was scared. I’ve talked about how uncomfortable I was with the vet that had been treating Bubba. I’d already decided they weren’t a good fit for the Rumpster. I’d honestly thought of driving him to Dothan to see our old vet, but I knew that […]
Who told you to do that, Rumpy?
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