SNOW!!!!!

 Yesterday we had about three inches of snow and we are again getting more of the flakey stuff.  What a way to start the New Year!  As you can see from yesterday's photos, Tasha and Anna Rose had different ways of celebrating our first real snow fall of the year, and of winter!  Tasha decided that What's Her Name did not need her bathrobe, as she needed to get inside and ended up wearing the left sleeve herself!  Thankfully WHN was wearing a flannel nightgown that Dad had given her several years ago- she is flakey enough as it is!

Anna Rose, the love of Max Da Odder Weinie, loves the snow and pranced around for quite some time in the flakes as they fell from the clouds.  She is doing better, but will probably need to have the IV fluids every other day.  She is drinking more, and going outside with her Daddy every couple of ours.  She devours her vitamins and her new foodables, as long as her Daddy feeds them to her!  After her adventures in the morning snow, she snuggled up in her new Christmas blankie and supervised her Dad while he worked on his Navy correspondence courses!

Pittie Pack Quilt Blocks 9 through 12 arrived today!!!!!!

 

I has a boo boo

Dad with Her Majesty, Anna Rose

Da Weenies of FLorida

 Today's mail brought an overflowing of love for Sandra and her family, via Blogville!  Quilt blocks from Sagira (red), from Minnie and Mack Cooper  (black) and TWO from Da Weenies of Florida (Winnie the Pooh and green with bones) WHN also is posting Anna Rose's homecoming photos, for her boyfriend Max Da Odder Weinie

From Sagira

From Minnie and Mack

From Amber Da Weenie

SHE'S HOME!!!!!

Yes, the love of Dad's life, Her Majesty, Anna Rose, Queen of Fur, is home!!!!  Full of perkiness and on a new diet- kidney/renal and NO TREATS!  Low protein too.  Will have to see which of the three brands of canned she will eat and also if she will eat the new kibble.  What's Her Name is going to try and find recipes that she can make- Anna Rose will not eat even canned foodables without something homemade!  Her calcium levels and something else are elevated, and she returns on 9 January for a follow up blood test.  At that time, Dr. Parker will determine if Fur will need IV fluids every other day to keep her kidneys flushed out.  DAD will be the one handling this!  What's Her Name and needles- maybe on her sewing machine, but no where near a dachshund!  She also has a new, one a day prescription treat, which she will eat if she is hand fed by her adoring servant, Daddy.  Right now the two of them are ensconced on the couch, watching Emergency, Season 1. 

BTW,  Zona's auction item arrived yesterday and was successfully installed for Fur's return home- Yes it is a wonderful car seat and apparently was made just for Anna Rose, who was seated in it onher triumphal journey home from the vet.

UPDATE- ANNA ROSE, part 2 and Pittie Pack Quilt Progress- Blocks 7 and 8 arrived today!

 For Max, Da Odder Weenie, a few photos of his girl, Anna Rose.

Dad called the vet earlier and Anna Rose is a lot perkier and will be coming home tomorrow morning.  Dad could not find a veterinarian in Northeast Ohio that does the laser surgery, but Ohio State down in Columbus does the hydrotherapy procedure.  We will know more tomorrow.  

Ginger was very busy today, keeping WHN chained to her Janome and making sure she did something other than cry!  You can see how hard a job it was for Ginger to keep WHN under control, as usual.  Puddles suggested lots of adult beverages, such as beer, so WHN will be taking her up on that idea once she gets off the computer!  

The quilt is coming along nicely- ZONA and the SLIMMER PUGS sent fabric that arrived today- blocks 7 and 8.  WHN was able to combine Goose's donation with both Zona's and Sarge's and came up with two nine patch blocks!  Then Dad laid out the Fearless Five blocks with these on our bed, to see how they look- What do you think?

Jazzi's Mom will be sending lots of fabrics next week and posting on her blog!  LOVE JAZZI'S MOM!!!!

What's Her Name would like to thank everyone in Blogville for their kind comments and their prayers for Anna Rose- It has been a very unpleasant shock and she is embarrassed that she didn't handle it well, but at least Dad knows how to be the grownup in this group!  The Furst Mom of Blogville, the Head Flake, has been a great support for WHN and she wants everyone to know what a great person Lana is.  We are lucky to have her.

Ginger busy supervising What's Her Name

Zona's quilt donation

Slimmer Pugs Donation

The Fearless Five Blocks with theGoose, Zona and Sarge blocks on a queen sized bed

Goose, Sarge and Zona Quilt Block

Goose and Zona Quilt Block

UPDATE- ANNA ROSE

Her Majesty, Queen of Daddy's Heart, Daddy's Beloved Fur, is at the vet as we speak!  She will be there overnight and on IV fluids to flush her system out and should return home tomorrow.  Dr. Parker does not think she needs surgery and that this is what she went through when we first got her.  Dr. Parker wants to get her better first, and then we are going to look into the emergency vet doing laser removal of her kidney stone.  What's Her Name of course broke down in tears at the vet, even though it is better news than expected- what else would you expect from her, the blonde moment nitwit!  Dad is a rock, and is doing his best to keep the blonde moments from taking over completely. 

Crosses Paws- PRAYERS NEEDED- ANNA ROSE

Yesterday afternoon, Anna Rose started to tremble as if she were in pain.  We thought that her back was going down.  As our vets were unavailable, we had to take her to an emergency vet, who determined that it was NOT a back problem, but an abdominal one, requiring xrays and blood work, which she will have done today at our vet..  She make have eaten a foreign object or have another kind of bowel blockage, ore pancreatitis.  (She is the only pack member who does not eat everything in sight- she is very picky so we hope and pray that it isn't the first two things)  .  She would only eat her canned foodables if Geoff hand fed her and she screamed in pain when the vet, during his exam, touched parts of her tummy. 

We had a sleepless night and her vet's appointment is for 11, if we cannot get her in sooner.  PLEASE PRAY FOR US!  Geoff as you know is out of work and she is his baby- her nickname (to which she does call when used ONLY by him, is "Fur")  Anna Rose slept in the big bed curled up with me till 4 AM then her Daddy till we got up just now at 7:30- she would not eat her bedtime snackie and refused her tramadol in the pill pocket, but did drink water.  She dozed most of the night but would wake for us to pet her.  She went out for her morning constitutional and had no problems and had no pain when we picked her up.  She was even playing her favorite game with Geoff if catch me if you can!

We are praying that surgery is NOT needed, but your prayers are for her and for Geoff.