Randomness

This is just another random photo-it does not look like this here anymore, most of the snow has melted.

I woke up yesterday with more congestion and a throbbing pain in one ear. I suspected I might have a sinus infection since a common cold should have come and gone by now. I didn't want to wait to get in and see a doctor since they would probably just give a prescription for antibiotics and call it good so I wrote "my dog" a prescription and had it filled at Walgreens. "My dog" no longer has an ear ache and is slightly less congested today. I am hoping "my dog" will be all better soon.

Meanwhile it's pretty cold here and not wanting to prolong my illness I have elected not to take the dogs out to play this afternoon. They are pretty bummed about it and so am I since I have some new things I am anxious to get started working on with Legend. I wish we had a basement so we could set up some sort of training indoors.

I am hosting a baby shower this weekend and so sometime this week I need to squeeze in getting the house cleaned up for a lot of company and figuring out where everyone will sit! We have plenty of space in our house which is why I volunteered to have it but not so many chairs. At least if someone has to sit on the carpet they are freshly cleaned!

And now, from the "what are people thinking" collection...

The clinic has a client (she's not my client, for obvious reasons) who has decided to purchase a "something"-poo (I think a malti-poo). I don't understand why people don't realize this is an overpriced mixed breed dog. I like mixed breed dogs but you can get one for significantly less money at the humane society while at the same time not encouraging "breeders" to produce an endless supply of pet quality mixes that they can charge an arm and a leg for while similar dogs are put to sleep at shelters every day. And you know that they are not choosing the best poodles and malteses to breed because no respectable poodle or maltese breeder would allow that to happen. So you are probably paying for a mixed breed dog with luxating patellas, an underbite, and umbilical hernia. Beyond that the puppy's tail is not docked and she wanted to know if she should have that procedure done now that the puppy is old enough to make it a major surgery. Well, since a malti-poo is not a breed and has no breed standard and the AVMA has recently taken a position against all tail docking and ear cropping I think that docking the puppy's tail now would be inappropriate. But then again so is the whole situation. See why she's not my client?