Free Kindle Book

Somehow I messed up with this Hilbert Wednesday.  But How (Not) to Kiss Your Dog will be free tomorrow and Friday.  Please, download it, read it and let us know what you think!

And be on the look out next Wednesday for both Hilbert's Playful Day and Hilbert's Happy Day Bilingual free on Amazon!

Sick in Bed

T: How was your day?

S: I kept waking up coated with sweat.

T: What about Minipoo?

S: She slept on the floor by the closet.

T: No-- did you wake up in a pile of Mini poo?  Never think that I would ever use a term of endearment to describe that dog.

Free Kindle Book Wednesday

It's another Hilbert Happy Wednesday!  This time you can download Hilbert's Playful Day.  For FREE.  September 19.

More Crap Eating

I was walking Mini and Shoebee when Shoebee squatted to pooh.  Because of his food (ZD Ultra) his poo is often soft.  The pooh came out of his butt in one long soft string, like brown toothpaste being squeezed from the tube.  As he squatted, Mini came over and started sniffing his anus.  After telling her that her behavior was disgusting, she took a bite out of the pooh!

I did a little research and found a suggestion to cure her of this behavior – feed her pineapple.   I’m trying that now, so stay tuned to find out the results.  I also spoke to the vet who performed her last surgery (more on that perhaps in a later post).   He informed me that the clinical name for pooeating is coprophagy.  His advice was to put a little MSG on her food.  So far, the pineapple seems to be working.  Or else she is pooing so much that she can’t keep up with it all.

Why (not) kiss your dog?

Mini’s bladder control

Mini had lived at CISAR for over 18 months and then at Paradise for nearly 6 months.  She was seven years old when she was dropped off at CISAR, and, according to her adoption papers, she is seven years old now!  At CISAR, she did not have to worry about housetraining.

When she arrived home Mini-bert had a problem with peeing and poohing in the house.  It took a couple of days to teach her how to use the doggie door, but once she learned, she was in and out. 

That did not stop her from continuing to mess in the house. 

I caught her eating her pooh.  At least she is not a kisser like Shoebert, who loves whipping his tongue around inside the mouth of anyone unlucky or foolish enough to have their face close enough to his and their lips not tightly sealed.

This may have its bright side.  So long as she eats it, I don’t have to clean it off the carpet. 

 

Free Kindle book today only!

I put together some photos of Hilbert with a simple rhyming story and published it on Kindle.  I don't know how to make it free all of the time, but Amazon allows me to pick up to five free promotion days every three months.  I'll try to make a version free most Wednesdays.  So, if you miss today, look for another Happy Hilbert Wednesday!  Hilbert's Happy Day (Bilingual English Espanol)!

Mini-bert Joins the pack

I brought Miss Minnie home on a Thursday to see how she would do.  The plan was to take her back to Paradise on Friday so she could see the vet.  She was still healing from having a tumor removed from her spleen.

On Friday, I got a call from Paradise telling me that Minnie would have to stay the weekend with the vet.  She had been eating pea gravel and it had blocked her stomach from emptying!  The tip off to the vet that she had a blockage was when she barfed rancid, stinking, foul vomit all over the exam table.  After a weekend on laxatives, she passed the rocks in her poo, was fine and ready to come home with me.  We filled out the paperwork and she became a Bert-dog.

We rode home in the convertible and soon as I took off her leash, Mini-bert ran straight to the Lazyboy, jumped up and plopped herself down.  She was home!