Petted it: Junior, the Elizabeth Taylor of the dog world

Yet again, Junior has injured himself. This time it is a torn toenail that is bleeding and painful. I tried to trim it myself, but he yelped and then was shaking (sad and cute at the same time) which required me to give him reassuring hugs "there there, there there". I am perfectly prepared to perform a tracheotomy if needed. I am pretty sure all I need is a ball point pen.
Today is Junior's estimated birthday (he is 45 according to the weight/ year chart at the vet's) , nothing like a trip to the vet. Luckily, he only got the nail trimmed, not as far back as where it is broken. The tech also trimmed the rest of his nails. Junior got a day at the spa for his birthday!

He is worth it though. Yesterday he played gentle giant with Lily (our friend Tom's little girl). She loves petting Junior and he loves being petted. In many circles, Junior is known as the Mr Darcy of the dog world. He is also a super genius and as proof:


Junior prefers standing in two rooms at once, if that isn't brilliant, I don't know what is. Junior, smartest dog ever!

Petted it: Chippy

"Chippy"
RIP
?-2007

Chippy was my inlaws chipmunk. They fed him peanuts and sometimes he would visit them on their deck. We sent him a brick of chippy treats for Christmas only to learn that he is dead....
Oh, Chippy, we hardly knew you!

Petted it: Poll-who is cuter under the tree?

Kissa?


or


Mr Biscuits?


The final score:

Kissa	4 66%)
Mr Biscuits	2 (33%)

Votes so far: 6
Jerry voted twice for Kissa (shame on you!)
People who voted for Mr B were apparently only voting for the underdog...er....undercat...whatever.
He drinks the tree water. Not so cute now!

Petted it: Junior's sore neck

Junior and Addie were playing Thanksgiving Day night and Junior started yelping over and over. We ran in, Jerry held onto Addie because she was freaking out. Junior is ok. He just messed up his neck somehow. I decided to go ahead and take him to the vet this am since I thought it may be something that could get worse. He can walk fine, he just has pain when getting up from laying down and when stretching. I was hoping they would give him a neck brace, that would be so cute! He has to take a muscle relaxant and pain meds for a week or so. Hopefully he will be better by then!