It's My Dog's World: I Just Live In It

Someone got a few pins in her

Source: flickr.com via Martha on Pinterest

Faith's joints are getting creakier and creakier, so we went to our vet for some acupuncture, electrostim, and cold laser therapy.

The vet, who has a lovely New Zealand accent (Flight of the Conchords!), was kind and gentle with Faith, and Faith held out through the acupuncture (I did think of HELLRAISER for just a second). The electrostim seemed to rile her, through no fault of the vet.  On went the muzzle. Sigh. Faith seems somewhat better, but it takes a few treatments to really establish what will improve.

Meanwhile, Faith is also dealing with a persistent plantar's wart on her front left paw, which causes her to limp. She wears a purple rubber sock on her paw, kind of a paw condom thingie, when she walks on the street.  People like to make comments. We deal.  

She is still capable of: swimming a half an hour. And causing a shiba inu puppy to stop dead in the middle of a New York street to sniff her butt. So: there's that. 

We also saw Bernadette Peters and her sweet dog Stella. Celebrity AND celebrity dog spot(! Stella has her own book and CD!)

Blogging Weather: Slow and...Toothy

I realize that it's my dog's world, but unfortunately, this week, it's very much my oral surgeon's world. 

Repeat after me:  Floss is my friend.  My boring, boring friend.

I'm fine, basically, just recovering from an extraction, which will lead, eventually, to my becoming about 1% bionic.  I joked with my editor at Fetchdog that when I got my shiny new fake tooth installed (that's a few months away), I'd have Faith's picture engraved on it, like an old scrimshaw.

  Perhaps this is the dog-related blockbuster business idea I have been looking for?

Anywho, it means that blogging will be light for a few days. I  will be thinking of you while I drink a lot of liquids, although not through a straw--my oral surgeon tells me that the nano-robots now rebuilding my mouth wouldn't like it.