Monday, April 16, 2012

E-card from Grace's brother!

Grace got this card from her brother. Grace on the left, Justifier (Billie) on the right. 



Merci beaucoup, Sandrine, pour cette carte! C'est merveilleux!


Birthday girl!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our dear Gracie!

Happy birthday also to Billie 'Le Roi' and Falcon. They all turn 2 today! :)


Gracie, just a couple of weeks old

Gracie

Grace, 2 years old!

Saturday, April 14, 2012

We have a birthday boy in the house....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VIGGO!!!!

Today Viggo celebrates his 7th birthday! We wish him a very happy day with lots of dog candy, toys and everything he desires!

Happy birthday also to his sisters, Iris & Noelle II and to his brother, Noè!
Viggo, 1 day old! (picture by Iwonna Salak)
With his brother and sisters. Viggo is at the bottom, right. (picture by Iwonna Salak
The very first picture we had from our boy
when we knew he was going to be ours. (picture by Iwonna Salak)
Our boy now! All grown up! 




Thursday, April 12, 2012

Like cat and dog...

Our pets are the best in the world and I'll tell you why!
They get along really fine, every once in a while there's a little rubble, but come on that happens in the best families! 
They're loyal to us. 
They love us unconditionally. Even if you look terrible or are having a bad day, they're there for you, no matter what. 
They beg for cuddles if they think you left them alone for too long (Mr. Boombastic, Shaggy, is the master in this matter!). 
If you're down and out on the sofa, they almost want to sit on your lap to give you the warmth you need after a long day of work out in the cold. Shaggy can do that, no problemo, but when our girlies try to get on to our laps, we have to tell them no... Viggo will comfort you just by sitting beside you and letting you warm your hands on his neck (always really warm there, just behind his ears, heaven!). 

We took our Shaggy in, after we discovered we had a little (very big) mice-problem! We said to the lady in the shelter we weren't sure how our dogs (than just Viggo & Mona) would react to the cat. 
A lot of barking the first evening. The next day eskimo kissing (nose rubbing) and in the afternoon they found peace with each other. Mona and Shaggy used to play a lot together. That's actually why I started writing this message. Mona and Shaggy just played with each other again after not playing for a few months! Grace usually plays with Shaggy nowadays, but today she was too tired. Shaggy tried to get her excited to play, unfortunately when I took the camera they stopped (as usual!). It was really funny, though, how he teased her! :) 

So what I actually want to say here is that I love my pets soooo much. I couldn't do without them. They bring so much joy into your home. Every time I walk by one of them, I have to pet them or give them a kiss. 

I sound really sentimental, I know, but it's the truth... 

One more time: the movie where Grace takes Viggo for a walk... (please don't mind the laughing)




Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Hot spot

Hello everyone!

A little update about Viggo's health. Viggo recently had two hot spots in a row. In January the first one healed pretty good with antibiotics and disinfectant. Now he's had the hotspot for over 5 weeks. We tried with antibiotics (Baytril) and disinfectant for two weeks but nothing changed. Now we started new antibiotics (Clyndamicine), because apparently the bacteria were immune to Baytril. The vet discovered that there were apart from staphylococci, pseudomona present in the wound. Those pseudomona are really hard to defeat. So apart from the new antibiotics we have to wash the wound every two days with chlorhexidine (let it work for 10 minutes) and than blow dry it very good.
We hope that will work...

Hot spot

"I don't like you taking pictures of me in bath!"