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Tomorrow we meet with the doggy dentist but we probably won’t be able to get Kody in for surgery until early next week. When I talked to the receptionist this morning, she said he should be fine with the wait. I’m not thrilled at the wait, but to tell you the truth, Kody seems to be [...]

They just showed a great Doritos Superbowl commercial where a guy offered a dog wearing a bark shock collar a Dorito if he would speak. What a douche. So the dog took off his own shock collar, placed it on the man, then proceeded to bark, thereby shocking the man, and eat all of his [...]

Today has been a bad day. Whenever I personally get sick, I get really depressed and sort of lonely and everything feels weird. Now that Kody’s sick, I feel the exact same way. However, I just read some good news. Dog root canals are common among heavy chewers and quite successful. The root canal is actually [...]

We just got back from the vet and Kody has a fractured tooth. That means that one of the points of his molars broke clean off, most likely while he was chewing on a bully stick. Since he is so young, the best bet is to do a root canal and have a cap put [...]

Well, I finally figured out what’s been wrong with Kody for the past few days. He has hurt his mouth in some way or maybe a tooth is sore. I doubt it’s a cavity or anything like that since he is only two ears old, but who knows. We tried brushing his teeth (letting him chew [...]

Poor Kody isn’t feeling well tonight. He wants to be either next to me or in his crate. I’m always so curious as to what the cause of his sickness might be. He has a pretty regular diet. He doesn’t seem all that sick though, he still grabs his bully stick and jumps on the couch. [...]

Last night Kody had a good barf, I think it surprised him because he didn’t have a chance to make it out from under the covers before he did it. Then he did it again a few minutes later at which time I was able to get a couple of paper towels underneath first. I cleaned [...]

If you are a regular reader, you know I cook lunch for Kody every day, and he gets Merrick Turducken kibble out of a Canine Genius in the evening. I don’t feel that cooking for a dog is necessary by any means, but it just makes me feel good that he’s getting “real food” and I [...]

Today I gave Kody one of those beef esophagus toys/treats that I get sometimes when I go to buy new food. What I like about these toys is that they are very interesting to Kody because he doesn’t get them very often. They are tube shaped and I’m sure they smell great to him. My observation today [...]