Golden Friday on Thursday

Oh furfriends and hooman-friends, we SURVIVED last week while mom and dad were gone. We missed them so so so so much! We kept wondering if we had done something wrong for them to leave us. Boy were we so relieved when we saw them came back!!!

So, what do you do when your pawrents came home from their vacation?

1) Grab a towel and start whinning..

2) With the towel in your mouth, give them your sad eyes. This will make them feel guilty that they left you.

3) You sniff their jackets to see where they have been.

4) Then you sniff their luggages.

5) Samantha's turn to sniff the luggages.

6) Then you jumped up on the bed and lay next to the big luggage.

7) Check to see if the luggage is big enough for you to fit in. Perhaps next time you will try to fit in there so that they will take you along.

8) When they take their clothes out of the luggage, be sure to sniff them. You can tell a lot by sniffing.

9) June: I know who they have been with.

10) Samantha: I think I know where they have been.

11) If you are not sure, sniff closer.

Note from mom: I know some of you have adopted one or more dogs in your lifetime before. Does anyone have any experience with dealing with abused dogs before? We adopted June and we think(from the way she acts around other people and sometimes us) that she must have been abused before. She is very afraid when around other people. It's tough for us to travel without the dogs because she doens't take it well when we are not around. My stepson told me that she just hid in the bedroom or bathroom almost the whole time, only came out when she needed to go outside. She wouldn't really eat, luckly I bought some canned food for her, so she ate some. When we got home, I could tell that she was mad at us or something because she came out, let us pet her for a few seconds and right back into the bedroom/bathroom she went. We do not dare to board her, for fear that it may traumatise her. Any idea how we can help her cope?

Note 2 from mom: Do you think your pets will get so stressed out that they get sick(like humans will sometimes get coldsores when they are stressed out)? I noticed a sore on June's lip(Friday evening when we got home) and took her to the vet on Tuesday. She has an infection and a slight fever. She is now on antibiotics.