Happy Woof-Day

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Happy 3rd "woof-day" Dazzle!

(for the record, that little cake was painstakingly handmade by me - I am pretty proud of it actually)

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Dazzle's birthday was March 1st. I can't believe my little girl is already 3 years old. It seems like just yesterday she was a goofy little 8 week old pup - and sometimes she still acts like she is. I don't know how I ever survived without her.

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Popcorn likes birthday cake.

*shake shake shake*

Unfortunately it was raining on Dazzle's birthday so the camera couldn't go out and play.

But the good news is that we got to have a beautiful rainbow right in our backyard.

It was a really good thing that the rainbow was right out our window, because like the camera - I couldn't go outside and play on Dazzle's birthday.

I had my ACL reconstruction and meniscus "repair" surgery (it was more of a "clean up and let it heal" than a repair for the meniscus) . It went very well according to my surgeon. If you had asked me how I thought it went right after surgery I would have screamed - the pain was pretty intense for those first few days.

Thankfully now I am doing much better and I am very happy to have had the surgery. I am now 3 weeks out and ROM is little more than 130 degrees, quad strength is coming back pretty well, and I can more or less walk with a normal gait. Really the only pain now is my hamstring tendon (where they took the graft from). Hopefully that will go away in a few more weeks.

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Dazzle is pretty happy to see me mobile again. Just in time for the beginning of spring! .

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In case you didn't know, Dazzle loves spring. Not too hot, not too cold - and you can play outside for hours and hours.

Would someone like to explain to me why Aussies have springs in their paws?

I just don't understand...

It's ok that nobody understands Jackson sometimes, because he is drop-dead handsome.

Ya know, sometimes I don't totally understand Border Collies either...especially when Dazzle does things like this.

Maybe that is why they get along so well - the two misfits.

Happy Easter!

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"meet our new addition"

Well, temporary addition anyway. She is a foster rabbit that is currently available for adoption at the Humane Society for Seattle and King County. Her name was originally "Smipples" but because that is impossible to say without getting your tongue in a knot, we changed her name.

Meet Lyla

She is a very sweet bunny and doesn't mind the dogs at all. She is also very smart - she picked up on litter-box training in just a couple days.

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Popcorn secretly, well - not so secretly sometimes - wants to eat Lyla.

And Dazzle, well, all is fine in Dazzle's world as long as she can still go outside and play with her funny-shaped toys.