This is me and my $#@%# dog!

So Rodi, my silky terrier who I love is trying my patience. If you’ve read my blog you know that when I adopted her I had to have 12 of her teeth pulled (yeah no fun for her)! So every since then she has felt tons better, her energy level has skyrocketed and you can just tell she’s happier! Oh yeah I forgot the biggest thing, she drools like crazy now! She doesn’t drool on you, you can just tell where she’s laid on the LoveSac cause there’s a big spot (comparatively to her four lbs body) of drool there. Well while brushing her last week I found a big mat underneath her chin, very common with silkys, because they have very fine hair that tangles easy. So Glenn and I decide to try and get this mat out. I’m armed with a tiny tooth comb, slicker brush, and a tiny pair of scissors (to trim away chunks of matted hair if need be). She hates people messing with her face, so this was a challenge. I finally start freeing some hair and she starts BLEEDING!!!!! So I’m think I’m the worst mom every, I just caused my dog to bleed. So I get a paper towel and start blotting her chin in hopes that it would get better, and it did. So we gave up. I took her to the vet yesterday and they tell me she has a skin infection (again, common in terriers, I think I picked the wrong breed). They said it is probably attributed to the extra drool.... great. So just when she gets off medicine from getting all her teeth pulled, she has to go on more medicine. But this time I have clean out the spot and put ointment on it, on top of having to give her antibiotics twice a day, which of course she hates! I think she was mad at me for all the medicine I made her take last night cause when I woke up this morning she’d peed on the carpet. She’s only done that once before right when she moved in, GRRRRR. So I thought I was getting a great deal cause I got Rodi for free, hasn’t exactly turned out to be the steal I thought it was. But when I found out her teeth had to be pulled I got a Wellness plan at PetsMart where her vet is, and I’ve already saved over $500 dollars because I’m on it, granted it costs money but those are great savings! Pretty crazy.

But on a fun note, I ordered some doggy tanks online for her to wear and they came yesterday! She was very cute in her hot pink tank top and across the top written in sparkles is “Daddy’s Girl”! It couldn’t be any more true.