Vaccines, Exams and a Special Tag

 Well it's that time of year again.  Yep annual vaccination time for me! 

 

I got paw my appointment onto the schedule.  How cool milk bones is that?!?!?

 

 On the day of my appointment we had to wake up furry early, eat a good healthy breakfast and go into work with momma

When it was my appointment time Dr. Flanary called me up to the treatment and area pulled out all the tools of torture. 

And for my annual "im not cooperating with this" photo.  :)

After vaccinations it was wrestle time with Bobo!

One weekend back in August I was snooping....dusting the rabies tag bin at work and I found this rabies tag with a way cool number, 60310.  "6" is the number of toys I keep in my bed, "03" is the year I was adopted, and "10" is how many years I have been adopted come this November. So I slipped it into the doggie bag and when my vaccination day came I gave it to Dr. Flanary and said I would like this rabies tag.  She giggled that I had chosen my own tag but when I found a tag with a number this special I just had to have it.

Wags and Licks,

Mollie, Bobo and Buttercup

Cat-Tracts in my Eye

Well the drops did the trick.  My eye is no longer red!  Which is good.  Dr. Flanary said the next thing to do is check the pressure in my eyes.  I didn't know what this involved or I wouldn't have agreed to it.  This Toto-Pen has to touch the surface of my eye for like a million minutes and then it tells what the pressure is in my eye.  Thank dog I had Buttercup to hold my paw through the whole thing! 

The pressure in my right eye, the eye with the cat-tracks, was 19.  It should be under 15.  

Dr. Flanary said that I need to continue my eye drops for another 6 weeks and recheck my eye pressure. 

So everynight momma or grandma tucks me in to bed, administers my eye drops and gives me a kiss on the head. 

This growing older stuff is for the birds!!!

Wags and Licks,

Mollie Jo & Buttercup

Piggie Sitting

 Hello furiends!  You will NEVER guess what we got to do today!

We got to pet-sit a little piggie!  Her name is Penelope.  She is Morgan's (Vet Tech at the clinic) pig.  She is a rescue that she took in and is bottle raising.  For Labor Day Morgan wanted to go to the lake with friends and asked if we would piggie sit.  Well of course we said yes!

She is smaller than my stuffie buddy Buttercup!

 Penelope says "Hello my barn yard furiend, I'm Penelope Pig"

 She even has her own piggie-bag.  Filled with foods, meds and dishes.  She is a posh piggie!

After we got her home we realized she squealed a lot at new things, like poodles, so we went outside to play while mommy fed her and when we came back inside she was sound asleep!  She is super cute when she sleeps! 

We had fun piggie-sitting!  What did you all do on this long weekend?

Wags and Licks,

Mollie Jo & Bobo

Penelope & Buttercup

The FVC Cleaning Crew

 We help momma clean the clinic every weekend.  This week since we had our hair did we posed nicely for pictures with our cleaning supplies!

 We will have it smelling lemon-fresh in NO time!

Wags and Licks,

Mollie Jo & Bobo

Colorful Lizards, Cleaning Collars and Eye Drops!

 Here are a few highlights from the past few weeks!

 We have a new friend that has been spotted more than once around our porch.  He is a fast little blue tailed lizard. Isn't he the cutest?!?

 Some of our collars have been getting dingy so Buttercup helped us wash them by paw.  Tide works great to get them looking brand new and smelling fresh!

While giving me one of my numerous skunk related baffs momma noticed my right eye, which has a cataract, was red when my left eye was not.  So she had Dr. Flanary take a look at it.  Dr. Flanary stained my eye green to look for a scratch or ulcer but found nothing and determined the redness came from my cataract making my eye inflamed.  So now I has to have drops at bed time.  In one week I will have to have my eye rechecked.  Getting old is no fun! :(

Wags and Licks,

Mollie, Bobo and Buttercup

Skunk-ified Country Poodles

 Our time in skunk jail was long and hard mentally!  We were forced to eat our meals, snacks and sleep in skunk jail!  We spent 23 hours locked up cause we stunk. We only got out a few times a day to go outside LEASHED to pee.  They were horrible conditions!  And it gets worse...

 All of our beds and toys were taken from us!!!

Momma handled us with gloves, spayed the room with air freshner ALOT and caked our furs with baking soda/dawn/vinegar/peroxide mixtures!

The night we got sprayed we got sprayed we were loaded up in the car, and forced to sit on the mudflap, and hauled to the clinic for our first bath.  So as a result our car stunk!  Momma emptied bottles of lysol into it but nothing helped except a ton of airing out!  Only now a month later its finally quit smelling.

In the rush to get us to the clinic for a baff momma forgots to take out out stroller and well it stunk too.  Took a wee for it to air out but smells fine now! :) Thank dog cause what is a mature poodle like me supposed to do with no stroller!?!?!

 Momma's heart sank once she realized our tags, rubits and collars smelled!  Bobo's worse than mine as he took a direct hit...I just got a mild spray.  BOL There is an up side to not being first at everything!  ;)  But a 2 week soak in vinegar, dawn, baking soda and peroxide saved both collars, both rubits and our name tags.  Our soft plastic homeagain tags sadly were goners and were tossed away!

 And after many scenes like this one....

We are free country poodles once again.

Since Bobo did take the bigger hit he still kinda smells if he gets wet but its mild.  Not like the first night.

Ewww I think he got a wiff of himself! :)

Shake it off brother!  It feels good!

Oh my poodle doodles!

Brother says it wasn't worth this much baff time to chase a wild animal!

Momma hopes we has learned our lesson and threatens that if we do it again we will be sleeping outside.  I don't think she is serious but ya never knows!

Non stinky Wags and Licks,

Mollie and Bobo

Note From the momma: They only had to spend 72 hours in jail.  Mollie Got released first and that depressed Bobo to the extreme but they both lived.  Im not sure my nose will ever be the same after smelling it but thankfully its all gone!  The vinegar, peroxide, baking soda and dawn mix really did the trick and highly recommend it if your pet get sknunked.  Rub it on the dog and soak the collars/accessories.

Skunk Jail

Yep we chased a skunk and now we live in skunk jail!

A Dental, Bump-ectomy and Bloodwork...Oh My!

It was a chilly day back in January 2013 when we went to work with momma.  Nothing out of the ordinary....except we didn't recieve breakfast before leaving home.  But we were sure momma had something in the diaper bag for us.  So we put our things in lucky cubby #13.

And got tucked into our suite at the clinic.  Buttercup was just hanging out with us in her bag!  What does our kennel card say Bobo?

Dentals and Bump-ectomy's?!?!?  What the heck?!!?!?  We is patients today?!?!?!

Yep we had been tricked!  And it wasn't even Howl-o-Ween! I refused to participate any further in this...Whats that over there?

Oh Poodle Doodles!  Thats a needle and blood catchers!

It was time for our annual bloodwork too.  Oh that momma.  She's a sneaky one!

After they stole all the bloods out of us they returned us to our suite and we felt groggy!  I think that vet tech, Miss Liz, slipped us something funny!

Hello, Buttercup here!  Mollie and Bobo went sleepy night night so I will take over this post from here.  While my poodle friends were being put under anesthesia...I checked out the dental pack.

Mollie's toofers before.

Bobo's toofers before.

Cleaning in process!

After their dentals Bobo had a fatty lump removed from his chest and Mollie had three sebaceous cysts removed from her back and leg.

Post dental Mollie had a wet head and sleepy eyes.

Bobo tried to sit up but was slowly going down....down...down.

  Dr. Rushing said they looked good after surgery, prescribed some pain meds and gave mollie her very own cone of shame!

 As we left the clinic that night it was snowing!  We didn't get much but it was pretty!!!

When we got home I noticed that the cone of shame was so plain.

So Debbie II  and I looked through the scrapbooking tote and found these super cute stickers and decided to make it a fashion cone!

TaDa!

Im sure every pup will want one!

Recovery went well for the poodles.  Both Mollie and Bobo chewed some of their stitches out (Mollie didn't like wearing her cone much) but Dr. Rushing said it was healed up already so no worry.  

Wags and Licks,

Mollie Jo, Bobo and Buttercup :)