Hurricane Ike

So Hurricane Ike paid SE Texas a bisit, and it has changed de fase of dis part ob de world fur a wong time to come. De pawrents wived in Huston when Hurricane Alicia came thru, and it did not cause nearly the damage or cause nearly as much heartache as did this Ike guy. We camped out in a hotel room de nite dat Ike came roaring ashore...living in a double wide mobile home, de pawrents decided discretion was the better pawt of valour! So, they watched the winds howl and the rain blow from a hotel room window and prayed that we would have a home to come back to. Fortunately (for us) Ike made a bit of a direct northerly track once onshore instead of the projected path, and that 20-30 miles made a world of difference for us. Our home was not damaged, not even the satellite TV dish or the internet dish, but we did come home to no electricity or water since without electricity we have no water with a water well! We were without power and water until yesterday morning....the hoomans were seeming to be more than a bit stressed! Our hearts hurt for every hooman and every pup who lost their homes and/or business....but Texans are a resilient bunch, and we would bet on Galveston and the other devastated areas coming back as good as or better than before.

Cassie

Hunter and Me Now Share the Bed With the Hoomans....Sometimes!!

Sometimes Hunter and me aktually share de bed wif de hoomans dese dayz. We hab learned dat itz fun to cuddle wif each odder on de bed, and dat duzn't nessarilee leve much woom fur de hoomanz in de familee...but datz der pwoblem!

The Invasion of the Eenie Weenies!

So the eenie weenies, Smoke and Tess, and their mah-ahm bisited us wast weekend...and we puppers had SO much fun! We played and chased each udder and bar-arked and had a most wonderful time. De hoomans had been a bit conserned about how we'd do, but it all turned out just fine. De time flew by too fast, and Smoke and Tess and mah-ahm went back home. Mah-ahm will be back in a few weeks as she and my mom will be going on a cruise out of Galveston!

Cassie

Company's A-Coming!

Mommy's been so dog-gone busy this summer at wurk....she hasn't had much time to post here for me and Hunter....but I told it's about time!

We haven't done much real exciting this summer..it's so hot outside we haven't even gone to the park again lately. Our walks are much shorter than me and the Hunter would like, too, but the hoomans say we'd get too over heated (I think they mean THEY get over heated).

But, next weekend we are supposed to have some bisitors...Smoke and Tess (mini dachsies) and their mah-ahm are supposed to be here Saturday and Sunday-that is, unless the storm that's brewing in the Carribean pays us a visit then. Mom tells us there are rules for us when Smoke and Tess are here....and we must abide by them, among them are...not everything in the house is ours, we can't bite Smoke and Tess's heads off, we can't mark our house, and on and on and on!! Hmmmmpppphhhhhh!

Mom is planning to take a cruise with Smoke and Tess's mah-ahm the end of September and dad will stay home and dog sit with me and Hunter. So, that gives mom something to look forward to while she's working herself into a frenzy during these summer months!!

Anyway, even though not much is happening, glad I finally got mom to post here!

Luv,
Cassiedoodle

We went to Bwazos Bend State Pawk!

De hoomanz tuked uz tu dis bee-uuu-tee-full state pawk wast Sunday. We had de bestest time der, we eben gotz to chase skwirrels. We twied to cwimb de twees abter dem.

We tuk a nise wong wawk around de Horsehu wake and den we picniked wif de hoomanz before we had to come bak home.

It's fun habbing a widdle brudder to du des tings wif!

Wubz,

Cassie

Hunter and Me

So, since de nu brudder waz weleased fur all aktibitees, de hoomanz desided dat we bof needed a gud gwoom job....so dey sent us to de gwoomer wady at our vet'z obbise. De hoomanz tink we's luking dog-gone gud now...dad said dat dey habz two small dawgies....it was hawd to tewl how small we were wif all dat fur!

We weally didn't mind going, eberybuddy at de vet'z obbise wubz us and gibz us wotz ob wubbinz when we're der!

So far habbing a brudder is ok, he knowz I'm de top dawg in dis familee, and dat's a gud ting in my opinion. We wrestle and chase each over and pway until I wear dat boi owt. I pullz him by his eer and nibble at him until he finalee haz enuff and he wuns to the bed and jumpz on it...I can't do that yet!! I almost made it de oder day dough.

Hope eberybuddy haz a gud summer....it's HOT here in SE TX already!!

Cassie-role

So I have a brother now!

So, Hunter was released by the vet to run and play and do eberyting a "normal" corn terror can do, and mom and dad let us pway, and BOY did we pway and pway and pway for hours!! This picture was taken that furst day while we were grrrring and pwaying!

Mom and dad and me appwied to adopt Hunter, and we received de appwobal dis morning, so Hunter is going to be my brudder.....dis is a gud ting, as wong as he continues to unnerstand dat I'm de boss here!

He's a sweet boi, dough, and we are going to wubz habing him as a member ob our pack!

Wubz,

Cassie

Hunter and Me.....

Well, my foster brother Hunter is doing lots better this round of HW treatment. He hasn't been so sick, with the high fever/lack of appetite. In only one week he will be treated for the baby HW's in his bloodstream and then hopefully we can let him out to run and play with me.

I sure like this fewwo, we hope once he can run and pway, we will still wike each uder and maybe mudder and fadder will tink bout dopting him to be a fureber member ob our famlee.

Our wedder has turned to spwing here, it'z been downwight warm heer, we'b eben run the a/c kwite a bit.

Mudder went and bisited some dogster furriends and der hoomanz a couple ob weeks ago, she enjoyed it. I don't wike widing in de car pwus I'm not uzuallee bery comfortable with peeple I don't know, so me and Hunter stayed home wif fadder.

Well, dat's about it for now!

Cassie-role

My Foster Brudder and Udder Stuff.......

Mudder hazn't been a bery gud sekretawy ob wate.....wotz going on heer at home wif Hunter undergoing his HW tweetment and all the special care needed for our boi n his medication schedule....pwus, 6 dayz abter dat furst tweetment he gotz a feber and wudn't eat, so it waz off to de vet fur him, antibiotics and a steroid shot and home, den he was gud for anudder day, den he wudn't eat n had a feber egin...back to de vet for more antibiotics and anudder shot.....and a nite spent der....and I WEALLY missed him!! By de 9th day abter dat injecton he was doing gud....but he has to spend most ob de time in his cwate---poor widdle fewwo, but we kan't hab doze nasty wormz bweaking up in too big of pieces and going into his heart/wungz/brain and dat wud be de end ob him. Tursday ob dis week he had his 2nd injection, and he spent de nite at dat vet pwace egin.....I was mopey Tursday night and kept wooking where hiz cwate uzually iz....and neder de cwate not my fosser brudder were dere! He'z home az ob wast nite egin, and we hope he duzn't hab az much twubble diz time. He haz to be kept kwiet for anuddner monf, den he's tweated for de baby HW in his blood stwean and we can pwy wif each udder......and mom and dad day if we getz along when we can aktually pway wif each udder, dey mite tink bowt dopting dis boi, dat mite be fun!!

And, my grand-ma's wong-time "friend" (of the male kind) is BERY sick....it wooks like in a likelihood to be the big C of the liver....and grandma is habbing a hard time dealing wif it.....so mom has had to be devoting a gud amount ob time on de fone tingie wif her and bisiting, a 4 hour dribe one-way!

I am doing gud, mom and dad tink habbing Hunter heer is gweat for mee, I am getting bwaber bowt lotz ob tings, like going outside when de neighbor is on his widing mower!

So, diz pwetty much catchez yu up on wat's been going on wif me!!

Lubz,
Cassiedoodle

Thunder and all kinds of things.....

Well, we had big thunderstorms last night. I did my usual hide under the end table thing. Even Hunter, who's not been scared of anything, was sort of trembling a little bit.

And, Hunter is having to get another liver test done on Tuesday. His blood work shows a bit of a high liver enzyme reading, and we've got to get him "normal" before he can be treated for his heartworms.

We love Hunter, and we pray we can get him well and ready for a long and healthy life with a wonderful forever family soon.

Love,
Cassie

I Haz Anudder Fosser Brudder.....

and his name is Hunter. He came to stay wif us wast Sunday. He had been in a "kill" shelter in Houston and he was scheduled to be PTS de bery day dat Col Potter came to wescue him. He is a cairn "mix" it seems, pwobably bowt 90 pct cairn, 10 pct who knowz what??? He is bigger dan I am, about 22.5 lbs, wif WONG weggies. He jumped wight owt ob mommie's 36 inch high ex-pen like nothing to it, not once but twice!! So, mommie ordered the "lid" to the ex-pen and it awwived yesterday. Sadly, Hunter haz heartwormz, so he iz going to hab to go through dat tweatment pwocess and he will hab to be kept pwetty still and calm before he is tweated and most sertanly abter it. He is taking doxyclcline twice a day now for 3 weeks before hiz furst tweatment and he is getting neutered on Monday. He is a sweet boy, mommie and daddie alweady weally wove dis guy, and dey are alweady saying maybe he will become a permanent member ob our famlee. We will see how it goez. Hunter is a light wheaton cairn boy, he needs gwooming but mommie and daddie aren't going to stwess him out duing it kwite yet.

Pwease tink gud tots for dis widdle guy as he goez through the neutering on Monday and his heartworm tweatment!

Wubz,

Cassie-role

Happy 2008!!

Happy Nu Yeer ebereeone! Mi gudness, where haz dis yeer gone? So much has happened diz yeer. I found owt dat I kan get awong wif anudder dawg in my howz, wurked on finding more ob my inner cairn self, learned to pway wif toys more dan I eber tot I wud, got mi furst pwofessional gwooming, recovered fwom a corneal ulcer!!

My mom and dad are tinking abowt fostering anudder cairn in a fu monfs or maybe adopting me a brudder--I'm tinking fostering is bedder---caws den dat dawg won't stay here fur always!

Enyway, hope all my fwiends have a safe and happy Ny Yeer!

Wubz,
Cassie

My Fosser Brudder Went to His Fureber Home!!

Today mommie and daddie and Tibo weft de hows togedder and weft me here at home. Dey met a sweet wady who is going to be Tibo's fureber momma, and she wubbed ourTibo! She wooked into hiz big bwown eyez and she waz eben more in wubz wif him dan she waz just seeing his piktures. Mommie and daddie and I hab wurked so hard to help Tibo be weady for a fureber home, we all are pwaying dat dis is de wight home for him, and we tink it is! Dis wady iz bery nise and gentle and pasient, and she unnerstandz dat Tibo still haz some tings to wurk on fwom being in dat puppy mill for ober 4 yeers. Tibo has a widdle cairn sister named Sandy, too, just adopted fwom a shelter a cuple ob monfs ago, too. His momma e-maled mommie tonight and said dat Tibo and Sandy are getting awong gud, Tibo haz been enjoying wunning awound in de bak yard, and he's expworing de house wif his bewwy band on for now! And, he putz his pawz up on her neez for sum wubbingz. Dat made mommie cry, cause she felt wike it showed dat Tibo knowz he's wubbed in his nu home.

Happy fureber widdle Tibo, we will alwayz remember yu and wub yu! We hope yur nu momma will keep in touch!

Wubz,
Cassie-role

I haz sumfing kalled a fosser brudder!!

His name is T-Bone, but daddy didn't wike dat name much soz we kallz him Tibo (widdle brudder in Wussian). He's a pwetty widdle wheaton boi wif bwack tipped eers and he wuks wike he haz purfect maskara awound hiz eyez! He iz a 4 yeer old puppy mill boi, just into Col Potter's care. He came to our howz on Wednesday nite. He'z doing gud, he'd neber been on a weash and neber pottie twained and neber krate twained b4 eder. He'z doing gud on all dat, but he'z grrr-snapped at ME at cuple of timez when I've twied to sniff him. Mommie and daddy hab ordered an ex-pen so'z we can get to know each oder wifout actually BEING togedder (dis is one ob Col Potter's suggestions).

Mommie and daddy had been wowwied dat I mite not wiek anudder pup in my howz, but so far I'm ok, I know I'm still de top dawg!!

Here's a couple ob pikturez ob dat Tibo guy!

Wubz,

Cassie-role

I Gotz Gwoomed -- By a Real Gwoomer!!

Mudder tot dat dis wud be a gud ieeea. She hadn't had time to do dis in a wong time, pwus she wanted de fur between my paw pads twimmed. So, dey made appointment wif de gwoomer at my vet's offise. Dis wady waz bery nise to mi and she gabe me a baf and I came home wooking wike a Cairn, not a bwack Westie or someting else. Mudder was pweased. Now she kan keep me twimmed for a while in between and take me back egin in maybe 6 monfs of so. Here's a pikture ob me taken abter yesterday's gwoom job. Mudder wantz to kiss my tummy!

My Portrait!!

A wooferful, deer fwiend ob mommie and daddie offered to paint my pawtrait, so mommie tuk wotz and wotz ob pikturez ob me until dis fwiend cud find one to use, and dis pawtrait waz dewivered yezterday. Mommie n daddie are thrilled wif dis permanent pikture ob me, mommie callz it a tweasure!!

I'm a Cairn Princess!

Ohhh, the indignity of it all, mom put a DRESS on me! I was NOT a happee grrl, to say de weast ob it. But, momma kept saying how cute I wukked!!

Cookie Bumstead....

Cookie made my mah-ahm laugh this morning. She thinks this pikture is so cute!! Cookie iz one ob de 8 Bumstead puppies resently born to Blondie wile in dat Col Podder's kare. I let mah-ahm share dis pikture eben dough dis widdle gurl is nowhere az cute as I am!

Cassie-role

Manpurse Stroll......

for my best fella Vinny and his brudder Ozzie. Dey bof hab been bery sick doggies, Vinny wif liber failure and Ozzie wif kidney failure, suddenly at de same time. Der hoomanz hab been heartbwoken, but de are duing eberting possible to help deze sweet boiz. Vinny has a majical manpurse on seberal ob de bords he bewongz to on Dogster, so his fwiendz started a manpurse "stroll" for deze boiz, and here is my "manpurse" pikture for my boi!

De boiz r eeting bedder now, so we r hoping dat maybe sum of de tingz de vet purson and der mudder and fadder r twying r helping dem.

Hope eberyone has had a safe and happee Labor Day holiday. I'm going underneef de end table egin, it's stawting to thunder owtside.

Wubz,
Cassie-role

Thunderstorms...

I know it seems wike I am aways tawking bowt thunderstorms, but it seems wike we are aways habbing dose nastee tings here in SE TX! We hab had dem almost ebery day dis week, not awl day, but ebery day! Wast nite we wost ewectricitee wif dat storm, too. Means no A/C, so it waz hot and dark in dis hows. Dat was mizerabel.

De wedder pursons say dis is going to be happening awl weekend, but at weast my hoomans will be home wif me through Monday.

And, Mom bot a new car three weeks ago, a Honda FIT, and I actually LIKE riding in it, for some reason I don't shake and pant riding in it like I always did in the CRV and in Dad's CRV. Who knowz why not?

Well, it'z de end of summer offisiallee dis weekend, I can't beweive it. Eberyone have a safe and happy holiday!

Cassie-role