Calling Dr. Ole - stat

Dr. Ole, calling Dr. Ole - stat - please come to the kitchen and change Beau's bandage.

So Dr. Ole performed another operation this morning because Beau's bandage would rather hang down around his ankle than stay where it's supposed to. I think it falls due to the weight of all the dog saliva that gets injected into it. And of course the vet's orders were to keep it dry, but then how do you do that? Rubber band his tongue or something? We've even sprayed the bandage with bitter apple, but I think he's actually learned to like the taste of that!! Beau has got to have the busiest tongue of any dog I've ever seen. He licks anything and anybody whenever he can. You don't have to worry about him biting you, he'll lick you to death first. I think I need to buy a new doormat for our house. One that says "Caution - dog can't hold his licker!"

So here's a picture of Beau sporting his new sock/bandage with a Nike emblem. Now he thinks he's a pretty cool kid and can spend the afternoon watching football with Ole out in the shop doing *man* things.

And here's a picture of Daisy getting her sympathy bandage. She's not into all the sports emblems and stuff like that. But if you gave her a Coach purse she'd probably proudly wear it around her neck and carry her things in it. She loves to carry things like tennis balls and empty cat food cans, so then she'd have a place to put them where Beau couldn't snitch them all the time.

Speaking of Beau learning to like the taste of bitter apple on his bandage I have a little story to tell you about Lovely Daughter (Hi Lovely Daughter!! She always gets so embarrassed when I tell stories about her, but after all, isn't that a parent's job? to embarrass their children? snicker)

Anyway, when Lovely Daughter was a little girl about a year or two old she developed a bad habit - eating the backs of her books. Remember all the Little Golden Books that you used to buy for your kids? Well, I think all of hers have teeth marks along the backs, in fact some of the backs are even missing. Maybe we should have given her bones to chew on during that time period of something. Anyway, we were trying to break her of this habit and Ole came up with the bright idea of putting something bitter tasting on the back edges. I don't remember what he started with, but whatever it was it didn't work. He eventually graduated up to Tabasco sauce, and she LOVED it! She just kept chewing on her books. She must have been missing some valuable vitamin or mineral at that time in her life. Now ask me if she likes Hot and Spicy now? Uh-uh - not on your life. Guess we must have burned her taste buds out or something.