Beets. Really?

last night in a culinary adventure I decided to make fresh beets. Oye what a mess.
For us I mixed them with toasted walnuts, feta cheese, fresh dill, olive oil, cider vinegar and seasoning. They were good.
What I totally didn't expect was to have a dog sitting next to me drooling in the hopes of getting some beets.
Really Bugs? You think you are going to like beets???
When he has new things he usually takes them to the living room and plays with it before decided whether it is edible or not. Because of this habit I was quite concerned about giving him a piece.
No worries
I took a small piece and let him sniff it. Gulp. Gone.
Then the boring eyes and drool started.
You like beets?
"I wuv dem. need more"
OK
gulp
"more"
gulp

I was really shocked, still am. He behaved as if this was the very bestest thing he had ever had.

Beets. Who wouldn't guessed.

The one that got away

Well it has been looming for weeks and weeks now.
Today it couldn't be stopped.
You may be wondering, what is this I am referencing?
A zoomie

Yup a ZOOMIE!!

Good gracious me we know the tank is overflowing.
We have barely prevented zoomies on countless occasions now, usually after the last of the night business, where I feel like I'm trying to tame a wild stallion as I hold the rope and he would tuck his tail and start to fly and give me this look like;

LET GO OF THE ROPE LADY!!

And there were the inside frolics that occurred after the above attempted looney runs were squelched.

But this morning I gave him too much room outside, too much rope.
Literally.
And off he went........................
and went






and went..................gulp and went.

Now I can't lie to you.
Watching Bugsy run a zoomie is as entertaining as a dog can get. His legs suddenly seem so very long as they all go in different directions.
The look of pure madness on his face = priceless
The tail tucked unless needed to work as a rudder,
Its all just FUN


Let's hope that his minutes of lunacy don't equal a setback for him. We are getting close to having regular off leash time.
I can see what that is going to look like now

oh happy day!

I took Bugsy down near the lake for his walk today and we met a nice couple with a pretty dog named Sammi. Bugsy and Sammi got to say hi and play a bit in the icy lake. He was so happy to be able to interact with a dog and with new humans.
Joy oozed from every cell of his body.
He has been less confident around some dogs and people so I was thrilled to see 'the old' Bugs wiggling and waggling with reckless abandon.
Good boy Bugsy!
He was also very impressed with being able to break the ice on the lake - sigh.

And today we also discovered he really, really likes turnips - who knew?

baby its cold outside...........

but Bugsy doesn't seem to mind. We are now doing 1 mile a day walks (really we have been doing just over a mile) and he is loving it. He even got to walk with his girlfriend Izzy today :-)
They were both exceptionally happy and difficult to contain LOL
I have written before about how he seems to have forgotten some training well interestingly as we allow him to return to his previous freedom, let's say roaming the ground floor of the house, he suddenly remembers things........... hmmmmmmmm something seems fishy here.
One new habit he has developed is moving the curtains so he can see out the window. It is really cold out so I have had them closed to keep the cold out, only to find they have been opened again.
Silly Bugsy.
OK off to put the fire on......
soon he'll be chomping away on his elk antler enjoying some classical music in front of the fire.
It's not a bad life

Happy 2010!!

Bugsy wishes all of you many reasons to zoom in the year ahead!

He woke me up with oodles of slobbery kisses and much tail wagging - did he think I had disappeared??
Good thing I love him as I was looking forward to a long lie in!
I got a great picture of him today


This evening I took down the ex-pen and he had free roam of the ground floor. It was so cute. He clearly has missed cleaning the kitchen floor, had his head in the pantry, rediscovered his favorite spying window, etc. Apparently water tastes much better if your bowl is in the kitchen, who knew??

Great news to bring in the new decade!

Bugsy got great news from the surgeon the other day - his bones are healed!! He can increase exercise and in three weeks we can start some off leash activity -
REJOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He seems to realize that he has been semi-freed and is joyous and impish 24/7!

This morning we had a nice walk by the lake and up and down a hill. His nose was to the ground the entire time, the look on his face - when he looked up - was priceless.
He is clearly overwhelmed the the scents of nature, he appears to be on opiates, and his brain is engaged with nothing else. No command is effective, he has no sense that he is 'owned' or being walked. He's just out there doing what he loves to do. He gives me this, um hello I need to go THAT way, expression when we have a difference of opinion on direction.
Despite having aching shoulders now it is so incredible to see him doing what he loves to do again. Its been a long road. A road some day we may need to traverse again for his other knee but for now we will all rejoice in seeing my crazy, wild child dog being who he is!


Happy New Year everyone! May it be your best year yet!

Note to self............

Don't give a dog a stuffie that has little beads in it LOL
Bugsy was full of the devil earlier and needed an outlet so I gave him the last of the stashed stuffies, which of course had a very short life. It was a cute little bear that had some beads in the butt I suppose to make it more stable when sitting.
When I went to check on what beastie was doing I found little plastic beads all over the place. They were contained in a little pouch but he had opened the pouch and clearly enjoyed slinging it. Gulp.

I am glad though that he doesn't eat the innards of stuffies and I am also glad that he could care less what I do when he is 'playing' with his toy. He was lying there finishing off the little bear while I was lifting his paws trying to clean up all the little beads.

He's a good boy most of the time ha ha ha

In other news we had a great walk by the lake yesterday, said hi to a pretty yellow lab today, and I was able to squash an attempted zoomie!!

Tomorrow we have his 8 week xrays!!! Wish us luck