Do you dress up your pets for Halloween?

Here is Hilbert in his Halloween costume last year.  He is the horse for the headless horseman.

 

 

Here he is the year before as a clown

 

 

Free Kindle book October 17

It's another Hilbert Happy Wednesday.  This Wednesday the free Kindle book is Hilbert's Happy Day.  October 17.  Check Amazon every Wednesday for Hilbert's Happy Wednesday.  And stay tuned for the next installment, Hilbert's Story Tail Day coming in November!

Mini and the rabbit

I was taking a break, eating pizza (focahia bread topped with pizza sauce and melted Ropp Dairy tomato, basil, garlic cheese curds – Yum, yum) and watching TV, when Mini came in with something nasty in her mouth.  I thought at first it was a small intestine (long and gray, like an overboiled footlong hotdog with one end open and half the stuffing fallen out).  Since she has so few teeth, she had to drop it on the floor and I swooped over and grabbed it up.  Luckily for me, I had a napkin in my hand at the time!   It turned out to be a rabbit’s foot and leg that had been taken over by maggots then chewed by Mini.

Since I was curious, I went out in the backyard to find the rest of the rabbit.  I finally found it in the vegetable garden, between the tomato plants.  It had been there for a few days.  Its guts were gone, probably sucked out and eaten by the dogs, parts were here and there, and there was a coating of tiny, rice like maggots wriggling over them.  There was no way that I was going to touch that writhing mass, so I left it to Mother Nature.

Later that evening, I went up to the guestroom to read a book (The Pirates: In an Adventure with Ahab) and smelt something musky and pungent.  I found a bone on the bed – the same bed that Mini and Shoebert spend their days on.  It appeared to be a pelvis.  It was picked clean and didn’t smell.  Then I noticed the spot on the bed.  Someone had either barfed or had nasty diarrhea that oozed all the way down to the mattress cover.   At the time I bought the mattress, I thought I had fallen for the hard sell at the mattress store when Henry, the salesman, talked me into getting the overpriced and WATERPROOF covers, but now I’m feeling much better about the decision!

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.