Hello again.
So, i am still trying to get used to all of this blogging stuff. Last night we had guests over for the usual LOST night, and Muppy and Gertrude were very happy to have more people in the apartment besides us(for more loving i assume). Gertrude is always happy to see our pal Jenny because Jenny is in love with Gertrude:). I think Muppy has more of a thing for Isaiah, who also came over last night and gives her lots of love. Whereas Kit, Jenny's husband, seems more wary of them and their evil intentions to distract our guests so Steve and I can pick-pocket them. i don't blame him:). This morning, Muppy got to start her final regiment of intestinal parasite medicine after a bout of terrifying sickness a few weeks ago, coincidentally around the same time we got Gerti. And of course, once we got Gerti's stool tested, she was the one with the internal parasite and had given it to Muppy. Hundreds of dollars later, mystery solved. But of course its a small price to pay to have both of our puppies healthy. Anyway, Muppy, who is normally a VERY picky eater, ate all of her food with the medicine mixed in with it this morning, which was a pleasant surprise to me and made life easier because if Muppy doesn't eat all of her food, Gertrude will finish it off, and I didn't really want to risk her getting sick from eating Muppy's medicine-food. It has been a complicated couple of weeks for my husband, Steve, and I, and these dogs. First, about a week or 2 after getting Gerti, we were visiting our in-laws (who think of Muppy as an almost literal granddaughter) and Muppy got VERY sick. she was vomiting and had bloody diareah, and we were terrified, being that in the year we have had her she has not as much as had a cold. the thing you have to know about Muppy, and when she is at Steve's parent's house, is that she does basically whatever she wants when she is there, and she is used to that. so at the apartment, she doesn't try to eat her own excrement, or Gertrude's, but at Steve's parents it is impossible to watch them the entire time, and we think she probably ate some of Gerti's leavings and got the "infection" or parasite and became gravely ill. A couple of trips to the vet emergency later, we decided to keep the 2 dogs apart until Muppy was feeling better. That next week it was time for Gertrude's next round of vaccinations, and i mentioned to the vet that she coughed in the mornings, but that i sort of assumed that it was normal as pugs are very.... i dunno- LOUD. snorty and snarfy and all that fun stuff. she was acting completely normal (for her) otherwise. Turns out Gertrude had a slight case of PUPPY PNEUMONIA and had to be nebulized and given antibiotics and all that fun and kept away from other dogs (so Muppy being at the in-laws was a blessing in disguise). Gerti's recheck was the following week, where they told me she had fully recovered (thank god), but that she had an intestinal parasite. more medicine and 5 days later, Gerti was parasite free and Muppy was good to go home too (we missed her so much- you have no idea). Muppy's parasite treatment was apparently different, as hers was a 3 day regiment, then three weeks medicine free, and now three more days of medicine. as i said, it was a complicated, but we are happy to have them back and be able to blog about them finally! yaay! i can't wait to see the both of them today after work, as they are the cutest things in the world. i tend to wake up early, definitely unlike my hubby, and when his alarm goes off they go running into the room and lick him to death. its the cutest thing EVER and i will have to get photographic evidence and put it in this blog. thats all for now. hopefully more pictures later.