It’s spring time and Nattai is loving the April weather and wants to be outside playing with his toys all day. Unfortunately it is raining today and his insistence on playing got me to prompt out this banger.
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Nattai adjusted to our new living arrangements really well.
Crazy stuff happened at the beginning of the year and I wasn’t able to write an update of a year having Nattai, my Australian Cattle Dog Blue Heeler.
He’s doing awesome and it’s the best thing that has happened to both of us. I’ve been slowly working on his noise anxiety issue and we make progress and lose some at times. The over all his he’s improving. I can get him to push through the fear when outside playing with his toys. Going on walks is still a speed run, but he still enjoys them, although he’s definitely a home boy and loves his comfy living room bed and his cubby hole den in the bedroom.
May 25th Nattai turned 5 years old. I got him some cookie treats and a haul of toys from Pet Smart. A Chuck It flying Squirrel, 3 pack of Chuck It balls and a couple basic toys.
It’s been almost two months with Nattai now. He’s adjusting to his new life very well. I tried to set him up for success and I feel like it is working well. Might have thrown him into the fire in certain instances too soon on some things. It’s hard to not know that he hasn’t experienced things that are normal day to day for me. Or some things that you’d have expected a dog to have already experienced.
Meet my re-homed Australian Cattle Dog Blue Heeler, Nattai.
It was time for another chapter in my life.
It has been a few weeks since my last update on our dog Cobar. The blood transfusion was like getting a new dog. I am still amazing that just the blood transfusion made him that better, all in about 24 hours. It was difficult to keep him from not barking, but certain things alinged to help out. Mainly bad weather kept door to door salesmen from coming around, which is the biggest thing that makes him bark a lot. We were able to keep any other barking to a minimum. It is now almost three weeks since the blood transfusion. He’s transistioned from prescription diet canned food, to very low fat dry food that is soaked in water and then given to him in a soupy mixture. I think this change in diet has helped quite a bit. And we may have narrowed in on some past issues with constipation he has had. He’ll be going to his normal vet for a check up tonight. I don’t think he’s completely recovered from this ordeal, but he’s definately improving day to day.
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Don’t Step On The Grunties
Grunties?
Ok, so yeah, my family is a bit odd. As a small child going through the whole potty training of going to the bathroom, my mom had come up with taking a crap and turds in general as Grunties. Not sure exactly where she picked up on this term, perhaps from her own mother, I don’t know. From what I can remember she explained that the term is from the faces we would make taking a crap. The Gruntie face, because, we grunted, or something to that effect. I think it was myself that might have ended up being the one who did the action for my mom to coin the term. But for the longest time my sister and I would call dog turds or whatever turd we found on the ground Grunties. Not having any sort of clue that this wasn’t a common term or that others wouldn’t know what we were talking about.
The day came when the realization that no one has a clue what the fuck we are talking about when my sister and I are playing in the backyard with some friends and my sister screams out “Don’t Step On The Grunties!” The other kids are just baffled at what the hell my sister meant. The dog crap! Don’t you call them Grunties too? Blank stares and that Are you crazy look came out of our friends.
So yeah. Don’t step on the Grunties!
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Cobar bounces back!
In my last post I had mentioned that my dog was sick. It took about 4 days for whatever he ingested to work it’s way through his system and be done with it. I hate not knowing what caused him to be sick, I will probably never know. Very happy that he’s for the most part, recovered from whatever this was. He’s back to the happy dog that he normally is.