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Realistic, Relatable look at life with multiple dogs

05/09/2025

I took the pups for the first swim of the year last weekend and forgot how much of a water gremlin Nova is 😅

Oscar was much more content hanging out where his feet were in solid ground.

Is your dog a water lover like Nova or do they prefer dryland like Oscar?

05/04/2025

Just a girl, a dog who loves to sniff, and a big fancy ribbon 🥹

Nova and I finally got her Scent detection championship with 2 perfect score passes today.

Tomorrow we try Elite for the first time and if today is any indication I think we've got a pretty good shot at it 🤞

04/02/2025

March 2025 photo dump and a pretty low key month around here. Early spring is always a weird time for me.

Started a new volunteer position at the shelter, as we're probably taking a step back from fostering for a while.

We have our first scent work competition of the month coming up this weekend. We haven't done much bikejoring or canicross as it's been quite Muddy and snowy still.

I made my first long form YouTube video.

Anyways, what's new in your life?

03/26/2025

I had myself a good cry and a pity party last night, Nova had an absolute melt down over her ears and we had to go home from our scent work class.

I'm frustrated and tired. More so frustrated that no matter how many vet trips we make for treatments and med adjustments, her allergies never seem to be completely under control. It breaks my heart more than anything that i cant take away her discomfort.

Don't get me wrong, my dogs are my world, but sometimes I wish things were easier.

So, I love my dogs, but...

03/16/2025

Something I still try hard to prioritize when having multiple dogs, is taking each of them out for individual adventures/fun time.

So this weekend Nova got to go on a long trek by herself and sniff to her hearts content.

02/25/2025

Huskies I tell ya. He thought he was so clever with his bone hiding spot.

04/28/2024

We call this "launch mode"

Oscar has this thing where he "play bows" but makes it look like he's going to lay down, and holds it for a second too long, and jumps at you 😅

I love it, but he's accidently head butted a few unexpected victims.

04/08/2024

Just a goofy faced girl to share a CCL tear update!

She'll be going in for surgery on the 24th of April, BUT she will not be getting a TPLO. She will instead be getting a zlig procedure. This is a newer surgery in dogs that is alot more similar to humans, and has alot less intense of a recovery. She basically will be getting 2 artificial ligaments put in a drilled into her tibia and femur replacing her tore ccl.

This procedure is still new to our surgeon (she's done about 30 of them now), which makes me anxious of the long term outcomes, as there is a potential for these to "tear" as well or pull away from the bone. But our vet is willing to guarantee the surgery, if she needs them tightened or replaced or if it ends up failing they will fix it or perform a tplo at no cost to me 🙌

I'm really excited about this because if you've been following along since Noas last surgery she had a VERY rough recovery from her tplo. She was completely non weight bearing for about 3 weeks. She had extreme swelling and pain. She had to have extra check ups and X-rays and tests to make sure everything was actually healing okay.

This surgery is supposed to have a much easier and smoother recovery. There's no strick crate rest required, so hopefully it will be much easier on her

03/28/2024

Extremely sad to say that Ember is not going to be staying with us.

Shes an amazing dog and absolutely brilliant and so fun to work with.

But there are a few things that make us believe she will be better off in a different setting.

She has a hard time settling around our dogs and they need to be kept separate when not supervised.

Our dogs have been very stressed by her restlessness as well.

She is still also extremely reactive to vehicles and will redirect her bites on the handler. We are unable to walk her in our neighborhood, so need to drive her to secluded areas to exercise her. It's alot more time consuming than people realize not being able to exercise a high energy dog nearby home.

Today she landed a bite hard enough to break the skin while i was trying to get her from the car to the house, because 2 vehicles happened to drive by.

Shes a super good girl and I just know she'll be better off living in a less busy household that has the time to take her out and exercise her.

She goes to meet another potential family tomorrow that will hopefully be a better fit for her ❤️

***leash and collar edited out

03/04/2024

It's was freezing cold and Oscar wanted to go out even though I didn't. So we comprised and went out for a bike ride lol.

The husky gets what the husky wants 🤣

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