Graduation Day and other good stuff

Yesterday Annabelle graduated from her Petsmart beginner class. I can't believe it was 8 weeks ago when I was desperately signing up for 8 Friday nights of classes after an incident occurred. I took Annabelle and Piper to visit my coworker's sweet Doberman mix named Molly. Piper did great with Molly, but Annabelle growled a little bit. The next door neighbors have rotweillers and would not take them inside. Annabelle got so stressed from one of those dogs getting aggressive through the fence that she got HGE. It is a condition that can occur for different reasons in dogs- eating spoiled food, a bacteria, a virus, and stress. Basically the dogs intestines slough and bleed. The dog can get dehydrated quickly. So Annabelle received two fluid boluses in her chest ( placed under the skin like they do for feline dialysis), antibiotic shots, antidiarrheal shots, and po antibiotics ( Flagyl which tastes terrible and was hard to get down her throat). After that whole ordeal, I trotted over to Petsmart in Matthews and talked to a trainer. Ours is April and she is great. She has a pound puppy that has way more issues than Annabelle. We loved our classmates and their parents. We were all so sad when our class was ending. :-( So last night, the dogs were put through their paces to demonstrate all we have learned these past few weeks. Everyone did really well and was so cute. We all got certificates, magnetic bumper stickers ( My Dog has Class hee hee), and some toys and treats for the dog. I also bought two African dwarf frogs to live in my peace lily water pot. I moved BJ to a new home- he has a great curly bamboo and pretty clear stones with colored sea shells. :-) So far everyone has lived through their transitions, but I am still keeping my fingers crossed with the frogs. Apparently, they can be delicate little amphibians.

Yesterday was also the day that I made my decision, and I got rid of some really old furniture I had. In 45 mins and 60$ later, the couch and chair were off down the road with You Call We Haul man. I then had to do tremendous vaccuming because lots of stuff fell out as the guy dragged it out the door. I then rearranged the living room with my remaining hide-a-bed couch. It is a lot more open and organized.

My other mission for the day was to buy a nice winter coat. I have some casual ones, but my black ones from previous years are quite worn out. One has a zipper that doesn't zip. I happened to see an ad Thurday night that Old Navy was having a 40% off winter wear sale. So yesterday I got a little red pea coat and a little black pea coat for just a little bit more than what I was going to spend on one I saw in a catalogue that ended up being sold out. The red coat is one of the toggle button kind; the black one has buttons. I was going to try to put up some pictures, but I can't get them to copy from the site. Oh, well.