Since Tort Baby has woken up...

Since Tort Baby has woken up he's been SUPER walky, so we've been putting him outside in the kennel to get some sunshine and exercise. By the time I've gotten off work, Tort Baby has played "Hide & Sleep" and it's our turn to find him. Bear and Cub decided to help us today, and Bear was spot on! It's kind of a boring video, but I was pretty shocked at how deep Tort Baby had buried himself.

He's not on the couch with us...

He's not on the couch with us; he's fallen off just about every time he's been on it... Other than the times he's tried to fling himself over the back because he saw Cubba parkour over. 😂

But he's here in the room with us sleeping - stretched out and chill. I'll take it.

I moved my office downstairs (Scar hates it, but he sleeps on my face all night so he'll live), so I'm with Bear and Cubba all day. They alternate between playing and napping. The worst thing Bear does at this point is take our shoes. He loves them. 😂 He still gets hype about the ice dispenser. If he gets too excited he tries to bite our legs or feet, but it's easy to redirect him to something else.

He likes to play with balls. We have tennis balls, and some Hol-ee balls, and I bought him a giant Collie Ball, too. He likes to run after the Collie Ball, but he doesn't have a long attention span for it. The longest he's played anything has been fetch with a tennis ball. It seemed to come naturally to him.

He's a super sweet and gentle boy. Still goofy as hell. His face makes me happy. He heard another dog outside today and he got his hackles up and roared. He growls when he's playful. He roars when you get ice or there is something going on. 😂 He's a funny guy who was definitely named appropriately. 😂

Anyway, little Bear update for ya. We've been keeping the boys home since they have giardia and pink eye, so no adventures lately. We're not trying to spread any of that around.

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I'm not feeling well at all today.

I'm not feeling well at all today. I woke up with a tension headache and it's only barely let up with medicine and naps. I'm still so ridiculously sleepy after sleeping all night and napping off and on today.  🙁

I am starting a new project at work and I'm excited about it, but also very nervous. I've moved my office downstairs so I can watch Bear since he'll probably never have the knees to go up, so the house is in disarray and that adds to my anxiety. Also, that sweet boy is like having a toddler around, so he's keeping me on my toes. 😂

In other animal news, Tobi (orange kitty) is still being medicated twice a day. We're about to try to wean him down and see if his pain / hair pulling resumes. Balthazar (old man kitty) had a senior blood panel done on Friday and we are awaiting the results of that. And to top it off, Bear came with free pink eye and giardia, both of which have spread to Cubba, so we're medicating the boys several times a day. It's kind of a lot.

Anyway, I'm off to rest and hopefully get right before Monday comes. I hope you all are doing well. We're a bit of a mess over here, but I know it'll pass. Just gotta keep working at things and hang in there.

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Y'all, Bear sleeps in the floor all the time. He rarely gets on the couch. (We even got this dog a ramp and he just won't get on the couch). So he was asleep and Shaun wanted to show him that it was ok to sleep on the couch. Shaun went and picked the sleeping Bear up and put him in this spot by his ramp.

Not 30 seconds later Bear went to scratch himself and rolled off onto his ramp and into the floor. 🤣🤣🤣

He's back to napping in the floor, and I guess we're just going to let sleeping dogs lie. 😂

There weren't any other pups at the park when we went, but...

There weren't any other pups at the park when we went, but Bear and Cub got their sniffs in and played for a while. When Bear got tired / bored he came and laid under my seat on the bench.

Then when went out for doggie bagels. ❤️

I know I need to clean my floor, but I do housework on the weekends.

I know I need to clean my floor, but I do housework on the weekends.

We took these boys to the vet. They're having nasty eye boogers, so they are both being treated for that. Bear has some extra meds because I think he got cat-slapped in one eye.

Also, the vet checked Bear's knees. He's got luxating patellas in both (we've been putting his knees back in place when they get jankey. He doesn't mind.) It's looking like a surgery situation, which we knew was a possibility when we adopted him. They said it's Grade 2 now and it's better to try to get them worked out while he's young so he doesn't have more issues as he ages. We're waiting for the surgery center to give us a call.

Unrelated to vet stuff:  I've never had dogs who would share like this, but these boys share pretty much everything with no growling or other issue. It was uncomfortable to witness at first because I assumed that one of them would growl or snap, but nope. They share. I kind of love that. ❤️