That must have been some wild party!

Willow is home!

We picked her up earlier today from the vet and she is doing fine. She seemed a bit loopy from the pain killers, but once I talked with her, she recognized me and perked up. She hasn't acted like she has been in pain at all, but she's going to have a lot of medicine to help with the pain and make sure that there aren't any infections for the next few weeks.

The doctor said that 90% of his patients are in too much pain and don't bother to mess with the staples. So, or course Willow was already licking them before we got 5 miles down the road. This means that at certain times, we have one of the dogs with a lampshade on their head.







Willow is going to be confined to a crate for at least two weeks to keep her from running and jumping. Also, to keep the other dogs from licking her wound. We tried to make her as cozy as possible and got a really large crate (almost St. Bernard size) and populated it with the softest pillow that we could find and plenty of chew toys. I think she likes it as much as possible, she just hates being cooped up.

Willow goes under the knife

Another way overdue update, however to be fair, we have done much that was really exciting. We have started taking Daisy Adair to obedience training lately which has been going well. We haven't learned enough to convince her to leave our shoes alone yet, but we're working on it :)

Unfortunately, Willow is going in tomorrow for surgery on her knee. She has Patellar Luxation (her kneecap does not stay in place) and it's grade 3, so has to be repaired using surgery. We originally had it scheduled for June 15th, but found another doctor that was able to take care of it right away. This means that she's going to have to spend somewhere between 2-6 weeks in a crate without running and playing which is going to be torture for her. We'll find out how she does on Tuesday when we go to pick her up and I'll keep everyone updated.

Daisy Adair has gotten pretty big now, she's bigger than both Chewy and Willow. I have a few pics of the dogs (Willow and Daisy Adair, Chewy is being camera shy.)

First, a couple of funny ones:






WooHoo! We finally got all three in a picture without having to hold them:



Daisy Adair and Willow are still best buds:


and finally, a cute picture of Daisy Adair: