Archive for February, 2010
Building Versus Buying a Doghouse
If you’ve decided to have a dog house for your pooch, you’re probably wondering whether it would be more cost efficient to buy a doghouse, or put one together yourself. You can find kits both to build dog houses or blueprints to make them from raw materials; but is it worth it? The manufacturing process for doghouses is quite efficient, and if you have a job that takes up a lot of your time, your best option is to purchase a dog house unless you want to put an afternoon into assembling one from a kit or a day into making one from scratch.
Build it yourself kits also often cost slightly more than a premade dog house, kind of defeating the purpose. In addition, if you put the dog house together yourself, there’s a chance it won’t turn out quite like you want it, or at worst, it won’t be waterproof or weather well.
Scary Time
I have to admit my husband and I had a very scary time this morning at about 4 am. It seems to us that our 13 yr old four legged friend, baby, had a mini stroke. She couldnt walk correctly and leaned to one side. She had thrown up all over the place. I had a strap from when we had one of our other pets in a wheelchair and we got her up and I walked her around. Of course she walked me through the deep snow 
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She did get better throughout the day and by the time we got her to the vet she was doing great with very little residual affects. The doctor stated that not many vets will tell you that dogs have strokes. Most will say it has something to do with their middle ear or some other cause.
Well what would you call it??
She did say that I did the best thing by getting her active and massaging her.
Has anyone ever been through the same thing? I am curious as to what you have been told.