Cricket, our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, has been on medication recently.  I hide half of a pill in a piece of American cheese, pop it to her plus a couple more chunks, then put the rest of it on top of her dog food.  I am not talking about a whole slice of cheese, just about a half inch wide strip.

A few days ago we ran out of American cheese... so I substituted mozzarella  string cheese.  It worked for the pill, but also set off a gas bomb on four legs!  Cricket can let off gas as good as the best Boston Terrier you'd ever know.

This morning I decided that she could take her pill buried in canned dog food. Cricket took one look at that bowl of breakfast and immediately noticed the lack of cheese bits sprinkled on top.  She protested by refusing to take a bite, stalking around the kitchen like a kid who just found out that all Santa brought this year was clothes!  No amount of coaxing or cajolling on my part was going to make her take a bite.

And how did I resolve this delema?  I let her watch me pretend to sprinkle Parmesan cheese onto her bowl!  She dove in and cleaned it down to the bottom....  ya, I know she is spoiled!

hugs, Marilyn

(written December 29, just got it posted)

Why Chiropractors Should NOT be allowed vacation time.....

Yesterday my neck and back were getting ouchy... could be because I got bucked
out of my wheelchair again. So we loaded up and went to see the chiropractor.
Only trouble is, that man dares to take a week off without consulting me
first!!! He won't be back until Jan 4.

So last night I couldn't get comfy in bed, so I got up, took a pill, and watched
tv until 2:30 a,m,. Back to bed, slept until 6:15 am... decided it wasn't worth
the ouchies, so I got up.

We have one of those Amish Friendship Bread starters, you know the one where you
add stuff to the starter on day 6, then bake bread on day 10, and hand out 3
bags to your closest friends... in hope that they will gain as much weight as
you do so that you will still 'fit in' with your gang.

So today is day 11... yes I am a day late and probably a dollar short too! As I
am stirring the batter and adding a little this and a little that, I somehow got
sugar in my eyes. Well sugar tastes sweet, but in your eyes it feels like sand.
I went back to my bed, eyes itching and trying not to scratch them. I reached
over on to the night stand to get my eye drops. Just a liquid moisturizer...
thought I could use it to rinse the sugar out. Trouble is.. you remember that
ear infection I had a couple of weeks ago? Yup, the antibiotic drops for my
ears was still on the night stand. Now, can you see where this is going???

I squirted ear drops into both eyes. Ywow-ser!!! that hurts! Randy handed me
the real eye drops and that didn't help much. Called the doc and got transfered
to poison control. They told me to get into the shower and let the water run
through my eyes for at least 15 minutes. Is that Chineese water torture, do you
suppose???

Randy got me the nicest, most expensive I've ever had, sunglasses for Christmas.
I didn't know I'd be wearing them in the house to keep the light out of my eyes.
Its now almost 5 pm and I can see out if I squint my eyes a bit. Very sensitive
to light, but feeling better... sort of like how your eyes feel after you've
been crying for a week.

So back to the Chiropractor's vacation. I AM blaming Dr. Chris for this. Boy is
he going to get an "ear-full"!

wink-wink-blink-blink, hugs,
Marilyn