Spring Brings Health and Happiness

So, the episode is ovah! Yea........

Rox is back to her old self, finally, finally, finally! She's talking and singing, wants uppie-uppies and has even gone back to her pre-steroid, lady-like nibble when taking treats from hands.

The lack of Her Walks for so many weeks has had interesting implications. We no longer have to get up at 5:30 AM for walks in the dark. She also sleeps in much longer because she's in her own bed on the floor instead of between us on the big bed.

Dog on floor in own bed

= mom gets a good night's sleep
= sheets stay clean longer
= no one wakes up with dry doggie spittle from licks

This is our first spring with The Roxter; first spring where bunnies, birds and other critters dare to walk in her yard. She's proving adept at gardening and hunting. We're learning to get the dirt clots out from between her toes and dirt boogers from her nose. She's pretty good about allowing us to pick her clean.... in fact, she takes the opportunity to guilt us into a massage after picking her for dirt clots. Oh the guilt..........

She has also developed an interesting little quirk - she tells us she wants us to accompany her outdoors in the back yard when she goes. She comes to get us, then makes sure we are following her; she stops and turns around to see if we are walking behind her. If we stop walking (which we do to tease her) she returns to us and 'rah-rooooos', the returns to her lead position, which we are to follow.

She particularly loves it when I sit in the grass as her home base. She gets pets, then goes out exploring in the yard, the perimeter of which is her exploration route. Periodically she'll return for some rubs and discussion, then off she goes again. She's turned back yard trips into family outings!