trebuchet beats anvil

mom, that is really ridiculous. everybuddy knows a wolf would win any day over a coyote. no only do we have better skillz but we have better equipment. :) 

however

mom, what do u mean if i am feeling well enough 2 goto the candy store then i can goto school? the candy store is for eating and school is for thinking. and besides, duk duk ate all our gummy worms while i was spinny spinny and if i am going 2 have 2 pee again for the tushie man next week, then i may as well try 2 eat enough gummy worms to make my pee blurple,  dontchoo stink i mean think? :) 

tiny chumley has been running around happy as a little wolf this week, his tummy full of canned wet food instead of the dry kibble he has chosen mostly to ptoo, his little eyes bright and focused, and his long nails wolfier than they have ever been. 

However, as one might expect for a little boy his age, his blood work and urinalysis have told us that that are not out of the woods of worry yet, that we have more testing to do.  

Were I my younger self, I would be furiously googling every aspect of the situation at hand, mired in the muck of what ifs and maybes, and living in stressed out world of my own making. Oblivious to the moments of now. But if anything life with mister happy go lucky has taught me, it’s that life is more about the fun. Until it is not. And then you find a way to make it fun again.  I am not sure what we will be doing this weekend, but so long as there is a twinkle in tiny chumley’s eye, I am sure that whatever we will be doing, will be fun. :) 

picky hungry happy boy

tiny chumley keeps walking and feeling better every day,  but as the tushie man noted, there are a few anomalies from his exam that make baxter’s diagnosis less than clear cut, some things that i would like to see subside,  that the blood and urine work taken on wednesday may explain, or may not. time will tell, and as we wait,  please don’t be alarmed if we post with less frequency, or respond with less timeliness, in these next few weeks. some days even social media isn’t an escape, and it’s all about enjoying the real world as best we can.  have a good weekend, friends, and thanks for all the love and prayers ❤️ 

three days of the spinny

It’s been a rough few days for tiny chumley in the real world. Suddenly on Friday afternoon his world became spinny, his shorty legs unsteady underneath him, his eyes uncontrollably darting back and forth, his head turned and tilted, his little mouth drooly and his tummy so unhappy with his situation that it emptied its contents.  Luckily, there was no pain, no incontinence, no numbness or paralysis, no lingering nausea, nothing to strongly suggest that anything other than patiently comforting, waiting, and indulging his wildest food desires would be the best course for the weekend.  Tiny chumley’s symptoms were fairly consistent with idiopathic vestibular disease, or as it is called in more recognizable terms, old dog vertigo.  A sudden, lingering spell of crazy scary looking and feeling dizziness that can happen to an old dog for reasons nobody knows. At least not yet. A condition that often shows marked improvement after 72 hours. 

And just like clockwork, on Monday, he began to improve, his eye darting significantly slowed, and his world a little less spinny. Yesterday, he ventured off his bed more times that we probably would have liked, making his way over to us like a sailor in rough seas, ever hopeful to encounter a delicious fallen morsel of food.   

There are still some loose ends to tie up, a visit from his regular tushie man that we hope to have in the next day or so, actually managing the balance of baxter’s physical recovery, whatever that may look like, and, having been reminded once again that meals are more delicious with birthday meat cake, dealing with a voracious but stubborn little wolf who will be snubbing his plain ol kibble and lobbying for his dizzy dinner mix. As I get my keys to drive to the pet food store to buy more canned meat for little wolves, something tells me he has already won that battle. :)

in the springtime there will be poop :)

hey, hey - how about right here, mom, in this sedum stuff? i am telling u, i can plop some micro poops here and nobuddy but the bunny would notice and he when he finds them he would be like, ooo a scary wolf lives here. i best skeedaddle out of here before he chomps me. and then our tomatoes and strawberries would totally be safe  :) 

never would i ever :)

well, i guess see your point, mom. but… i would not need to promise 2 be a more gracious host to cootie i mean cassie if u promised there would never be a next time, would i? :) 

ipso fixo gonezo

hee hee - ugh! sheesh, cassie, can u stop panting even for just one minute? u r creating so much turbulence in here it is hard to keep a camera still! anyhow, hey mom, looky! 

tadaaah!  señorita floofy mc panty pants can see clearly now! 

in fact, she can see so well now..




i bet she can see herself right out the door and all the way back home, dontchoo stink, mom? :) 

floofed

well, okay, fine, mom. she can stay here for the day but a) her entertainment is not my responsibility bc me and duk duk already have the entire day planned and it most definitely does not involve cooties or panting, and b) per our agreement from last time she came over, me and duk duk will be pulling trigger on all the things from our cootiepocalypse amazon wish list the minute she leaves.  okay? okay. 

now it’s time to get this farty started. cassie u can stay here with mom while - 

eeeek! hey hey hey! what the heck?? not again, cassie.

how many times do i have 2 tell u to look out for ferocious wolves before u start walking?? 
i am standing right here cantchoo see??? 

yeah that’s right, just keep walking away like nothing happened. it’s only me that got all cootiefied.  nothing that a zillion baths won’t fix. sheesh. it is really not fair considering u r the one with all the floofy floof hair. if only there was a way to…. o i know! hee hee hee stay right there, cassie, i have an idea….

smell u never :)

o boy, i c this is really happening. sure, cassie, come right in and make yourself at home. u know, i wish i could really stay longer but

as luck would have it, i have 2 go get the pedal car inspected and well, u know, stuff that will take all day so yeah, 

try not to slobber up my water bowl and smell u never! 

who can it be now :)

aw great. 



moooom! r u sure i do not have 2 take a bath or goto the tushie man today??? 

maybe probably

hee hee, um, well, dad and i r not really up to anything, mom. especially definitely not anything 2 do with the cheesy string snacks u think are missing from the refrigerator. i am sure maybe probably they will turn up while me and duk duk are at the movies, dontchoo think? :) 

strawberry monday :)

hee hee, um, what strawberry, mom? 

three seconds to mayhem ( or, how good friday became really good friday )

hee hee, o little buuuuneee, come out come out wherever u are! 

o little buuuuuneeeeee! where are u? me and duk duk made u carrots and huneeee! 

hee hee, o little buuneeee, something smells me i am getting a little warmer!!! :) 

rainbow sprinkles :)

(pfweeeeeoooOooooOooOOOooOooooooot!) 

hee hee hee. hooowheee! that’s riper than a day old raisin soaked in poopie water! boy, if only duk duk were here to sm- 

what? me? disruptive?? mom, u said wait patiently in my bed while u finish up your computer work, and that is exactly what this wolfie had been doing for like, the last eleventy hours. no barking, no whining. just me, sitting here. waiting….hee hee, and smelling. hey, while it seems u r taking a break now, may we please go get a wolf cone? today is bogo free rainbow sprinkles and u know what they say, rainbow sprinkles bring rainbow tinkles. i can pedal us if u want and everything. :) 

little wolf big mission

hurry, mom, i smell bunnies this way! :) 

inside u can smell the difference

well, mom, seeing as how it is raining and u r outside already, maybe how bout u go and poop for me and i will stay inside and make us dinner?  :) 

sleepy monday

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :) 

sefi :)

hee hee, please be vewy quiet, mom. even though this wolf has his enhanced hearing mode enabled, there are still a lot of noises he has to filter in order to listen for alien foofies in outer space. :) 

meal planning :)

well, i was stinking i mean thinking that we could make jiggly wiggly meat jello and that way it would be dinner and dessert and entertainment all in one. and we could even put glitter in it. for entertainment later. :) 

springing it :)

well, how bout instead of u spending every day outside gardening and being too sore after 2 make anything, me and duk duk rent a mega back hoe and we can finish all the yard work for you? our genius ideas are not gonna make themselves, u know.  and,  we really want to have a spring tooty doot  doot! plus, hee hee, well, mega back hoe. we could make a bunny trap the likes of which shai pooplud has never seen! :)