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Boogie has a girlfriend
This is Sadie, a 6 month old terrier mix who lives next door on our street. Boogie sees her only once every couple of weeks but when these two meet up, whoa, sparks fly! I have never seen him play so freely with any other dog.
Sadie is a puppy so she is extremely hyper. Surprisingly, Boogie (who is 10 times her age!) matches her enthusiasm and energy level, and they both play and play and play and play. They chase each other around the yard at 200 miles per hour (which makes me nervous) and then roll around in the grass nibbling and chewing at each other’s body parts. People walk by and smile at the spotted pumpkinhead boston terrier and the bundle of white fluff who are all over each other and oblivious to the world around them.
I was lucky I had my camera today!
Boogie and Kibble
If we didn’t spoil Boogie with “human food” so often, it would easier for me to know if the Hills I/D diet that the vet prescribed is working as best as it can or should. Well, I am happy at least, to report that after I switched Boogie to the Hills I/D canned food about 2 months ago, the signs have been positive:
2. The vomitting spells stopped completely
3. He stopped doing frequent stinky poots
4. His poop looks good – smaller quantities, firm, etc.
About 1 week ago, I added Hills I/D kibble to his diet as a few different people had suggested to me that he should eat kibble and that wet food isn’t enough. Now I mix the kibble in with the wet food and all seems well except… WHOA – what’s up with these horrendously painfully-stinky FARTS!?!! They come at around 7pm each night. They are stinkier than the farts he used to do when eating Innova EVO. They are really piercingly stinky, that’s the best way I can describe them. Like something chemically-rotten.
So now I wonder if the kibble is a good thing? Is it really really necessary?
On a more positive note, I believe the Angel Eyes supplement is making a difference! Only two-three weeks later and I swear his tear stains are looking less pronounced and the whites of his coat are looking whiter (and not so “pinkish-grey” like a few weeks ago). I hope I am not imagining this and that the Angel Eyes is really working.
The bottle I have was ordered online but I found out recently that they recommend this highly and sell it at For Pets Only on Hillhurst, which is super convenient and very cool!
Boogie meets Reggie, Mighty and Stinky
Today we met Reggie, Christa’s new perky little BostonBuddies foster boy.
Reggie is tiny and skinny, probably under a year old and the poor boy has mange and luxating patellas. In spite of his troubles, he is so cute, so full of life and vim! We hope that Reggie finds a happy new home soon. (After the mange clears up)
This afternoon the four of us visited the All-Mighty Headquarters where we met up with the owners – Erica and Jen, and their two BT babies: Mighty and Stinky Pierre.
Some photos…
Stinky, Boogie, Reggie with Erica; Reggie on Christa’s lap (Christa is wearing an All-Mighty tshirt)
Mighty says RUFF RUFF! to Boogie; Boogie watches as Stinky sniffs out Reggie
Erica and Boogie; Jen and Stinky Pierre
[larger versions of these pics over at Boogie’s flickr set]
Check out this video: Boogie at All-Mighty HQ
Boogie the pumpkinhead was ready to leave after 5 minutes!!! He tried to get as much attention as he could but kept returning to the door with a sulky look on his face. That was until he found Mighty’s half-chewed bone and went to work on that.
Thank you to Jen and Erica for letting us visit, for supporting BostonBuddies and for the supercute All-Mighty T-shirts!
Battle of the Dinosaur Cuz and more…
Some videoclips below.
SUNDAY/yesterday
At Silverlake Dog Park. This is not the most action-packed video clip.Wes has better ones on his camera which I will upload later. Here, you can see Butch sorta running after the ball and Boogie is acquainting himself with someone’s boot.
Check out this video: Silverlake Dog Park 1
MONDAY/this morning
I had to break up a fight between Boogie and Butch. I am not sure who started it, but thank goodness I separated them in time before anyone got hurt. Then I removed the toy that the boys were fighting over, and the two made up (a bit of butt and face sniffing here and there) and became friends again. Whew.
Battle of the DinoCuz Toy: Part 1 – Boogie gets the toy! Whenever this happens, Butch, being the vocal one, barks and barks and barks. Boogie completely ignores him while Butch keeps barking.
Check out this video: Battle of the DinoCuz – Part1
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Part 2:Butch gets the toy! When this happens, Boogie looks at ME. He doesn’t do anything. He just sits there and looks at me and expects me to make everything alright.
Check out this video: Battle of the DinoCuz – part 2
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And here is a photo from last night when we visited the Best Fish Taco in Ensenada place on Hillhurst Ave. Joseph the owner is a huge dog lover (he always spoils Boogie) and brought out a plate of fish for all three dogs.
There ya go.
Until next week!
Boogie, Emma, Wubba
Check out this video: Boogie tries to play with Emma
Emma Dietz doesn’t *play* and Boogie is the most playful dog in the world. He was running around her, barking, bringing her his toys, but she still wasn’t interested. sigh. So I played with him instead. Threw his one-legged rubber chicken back and forth…
Months ago, I submitted this photo to WubbaWorld, they make the “Wubba” – a type of doggie toy that Boogie likes so much that he even sleeps with it….
Today WubbaWorld sent me an email 
:
Thanks for the great picture. You can show it to
Boogie at http://wubbaworld.com/gallery/044/
Be sure to email Boogie’s friends. They’ll want to see
Boogie on WubbaWorld too.
Spread the word: Wubba Wubba!
Keith
Team Wubba
Boogie and Friends
Sharing some cute pictures…
Firstly, Boogie and Chumley at Aunty Judy’s house. Chumley is an adorable and funny lunkhead. He likes to lie down with his back legs sticking out like a frog’s legs.
Both boys played together for a short while but were really more interested in bones and treats.
Judy thinks Chumley is very “well-endowed” but I think Boogie is more well-endowed for his size. Just take a look at that photo up there.
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Pic of Boogie in the car on Sunday, going downtown to the Southpark Flea Market. He LOVES car rides and looking out the window.
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And then this morning…. pics of Boogie with Emma and Butch (while their mom, Christa is away). All three dogs are lying next to the heater because it’s a cold rainy day. That “boston terrier doorstopper” positioned between the cushion and heater is there to prevent the cushion from getting too close to the heat… It’s very warm as it is, but the dogs seem to love “cooking themselves”…
Butch is working away at that yellow squeaky ball. When I took this photo he had already been at it for 30 minutes. Emma is snuggled up to him with her butt hanging off the cushion; and Boogie, as you can see, is hogging most of the cushion.
I think Boogie is feeling a little bewildered by the presence of other dogs…. He sees Butch playing with his toys, lying in his new bed, getting attention from his humans, and he’s not sure what to make of all this. He jumps up onto my lap, sits there and observes around him silently…
And of course, the two boys want to play with the same toys at the same time. Each one wants the toy that the other dog has… 
Boogie & Emma have a party
Firstly, a cute picture of the two snuggling up together (this morning):
Yesterday evening, Wes and I were out walking Boogie and Emma when the rain poured down very suddenly. We were nowhere near my apartment, I didn’t have an umbrella and all four of us were completely saturated by the time we made it home.
It poured down continuously for the next few hours. Both dogs stayed on the couch; a towel underneath Miss Emma (no diaper) because I had taken off her sopping wet harness and hung it up to dry. Everyone was relieved to be indoors out of the rain. Doggies were calm and content.
Later in the evening, Wes and I were out of the apartment for about 30 minutes. I should’ve put my stuff away, closed the bedroom door and put the diaper back on Emma but …I didn’t think …
When we came home, the apartment was quite a sight. I counted about five puddles of pee on the apartment floor, and there were two nuggets of poo in my bedroom. Everything – books, papers, dvds, candles – had been knocked off the coffee table, and one of my shoes was on the couch. The only thing that was missing was booze….
Boogie’s Sat afternoon with Butch & Emma
It all started with the artichoke that Wes had brought home from Catts and Doggs. This was no ordinary artichoke. It cost FIFTEEN BUCKS. (Me to Wes: “Oh well, it will last a long time. It feels indestructible”)
This afternoon, while Alicia (who is taking care of Butch) was out, I decided to have all three dogs at my place – Butch, Emma and Boogie – one big happy ‘ahem’ family. Butch was thrilled to be reunited with Emma Dietz rather than left alone, but as soon as he saw the artichoke, he made a beeline for it and started attacking it with gusto. Boogie, who had been playing with the artichoke before Butch arrived, stared at him, then at me, then at him again…
Boogie: Why is that dog here? What is he doing with my artichoke?
When Boogie had the artichoke, Butch was upset and barking. When Butch had the artichoke, Boogie would stare at me with big sad eyes, like his entire world had fallen apart and he was in unbearable pain. He is very good at giving you that look. (It is the same look he gives you when you grab your jacket and keys to go outside)
Both boys circled each other hoping to claim the artichoke for himself. Both boys looked to me to throw the artichoke for them. I could see trouble brewing so I removed the artichoke. Placed it on my table next to the computer. NOBODY GETS THE ARTICHOKE. It’s MINE. All Mine.
Boogie sat at my feet shifting his eyes from me to the artichoke and back to me. He jumped up onto my lap and stared at the artichoke. From behind me, Butch was trying to jump up onto Eddie’s table to steal the yellow squeaky toy that he had acquainted himself with yesterday. He couldn’t reach the toy so he started barking for it. So imagine… there I was with two desperately unhappy dogs. I took both the artichoke and the yellow squeaky toy and put them in the bathroom, closed the door. I mean, you can’t want what you CAN’T SEE, right?
Next… Boogie brought me his tennis ball.
Butch brought me the big blue geodesic ball (the one toy that Boogie isn’t interested in… I don’t know why)
I spent about 10-20 minutes playing fetch with both dogs and both balls. Throw tennis ball, throw blue ball, repeat… These guys know that I am such a sucker.
[Boogie & tennis ball; Butch & blue ball, which had fallen to the floor in this pic]
Then Butch lost interest in the blue ball. He was more interested in Boogie’s tennis ball….
Butch started barking and crying. He wasn’t interested in the kong, nor the wubba, nor anything else I gave him. He wanted the tennis ball. I kept encouraging Butch to go for the blue ball but with no success.
Boogie continued to drop the tennis ball in my lap and eventually put his whole body in my lap with the tennis ball between his paws. Butch was crying for attention so I called him up onto my lap too, and he received a nice long butt scratch. They both still wanted to play fetch but nobody wanted to share the ball.
Miss Emma, on the other hand, couldn’t care less. She was comfortably lying down on the couch next to me. Yaaaawwwwnnn…
So there I was, with three dogs on the couch… I had to stop playing because there was work to be done.
Boogie followed me to my desk, upset. He sat at my feet staring up at me again with that look. Then he looked at his chair (where he usually sleeps when I work) and was confounded that there was a dog in it.
I don’t know how Emma does it. A minute ago I swear she was on the couch. Now she was in the round chair. She’s a fast one. Meanwhile, Butch was pacing the apartment whimpering for attention. Next thing you know, Butch had joined Emma in the round chair getting his weenie licked. (Example: photo taken last night)
Boogie came back to my feet and gave me the look again. He wanted up on my lap.
Somehow, I finally managed to ignore ALL OF THEM. I don’t know how it happened, but eventually I turned around and saw Boogie on his round chair, Emma on the couch, and Butch on the cushion.
Peace at last. I was getting some work done…
Until the mailman showed up. RUFF RUFF RUFF!!!!
Barking and mayhem with three little dogs running around and jumping at the door.
When the mailman departed, Butch and Emma took over the round chair curled up like two little snorey bundles, and Boogie was back at my feet wanting up on my lap. And as I am such a sucker (I am so due to watch more Dog Whisperer), I carried the lunkhead up onto my lap where he slept peacefully and emitted stinky gases while I worked.
And there you have it. My afternoon with three bosties. 🙂
Boogie and Emma
I know Christa is reading this so my blog posts for the next few days will also include Miss Emma Dietz!
Emma is Christa’s sweet boston terrier girl whom I am babysitting while she is away on her whirlwind booksigning tour of the USA.
Perhaps the most interesting thing to report is that Boogie and Emma are totally NOT INTERESTED in each other. Right now, Boogie is sprawled out asleep on his cushion (near the heater) and Emma is lying down next to my feet.
When Emma first arrived, Boogie watched her calmly from his cushion, and then turned and glared at me for the next 10 minutes as if to say: “What’s going on? Why is there another dog in here? Who is she? Why is she sniffing the floor and licking it?”
And then he totally lost interest in Emma and brought me his toy to throw. Just like old times. He hasn’t paid her any attention since.
Emma is even less interested in Boogie than he is in her. She is more fixated on what she might find to eat on my floor and has been doing the rounds.. kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom…. She also follows me from room to room and stays close to me. She does not even look at Boogie. He may as well not exist.
Emma is such a sweet and good girl. When she nosedived into Boogie’s food bowl (which still has food in it because Mr Boogaloo has eating issues), I said a firm “NO. Emma, NO.” and pulled her away, and she hasn’t returned to the bowl since. Well, maybe once or twice. But each time I say No, she moves away from the bowl, leaving the food untouched.
I think Miss Emma is feeling a little bewildered and nervous being here, away from her mom and best buddy Butch.. A little while ago she was sitting at my feet shaking. I put her on my lap and she still seemed tense… but has stopped shaking, at least. Don’t worry Christa. I’ll take good care of her!
Anyway, in spite of the two dogs not being interested in each other … there has been one sweet “sharing-the-cushion-together” moment….
…and later, this…
Boogie’s miserable morning
Boogie has been a little weird these past few days. I don’t know what is wrong with him. The usual “Morning routine” used to be:
2. Go for a “poo walk” with Dad
3. Back home to play ball with Human 2 (aka Mom) who is still asleep – Mom pushes him away.
3. Curls up in bed, sleeps in with Mom
4. Wakes up with Mom (9.30 am-ish)
5. Ball time! Plays with toys
6. Eats breakfast
7. Ball time again! Plays with toys
8. Short nap while Mom checks emails, drinks coffee, showers etc.
9. Big Walk time! Out for 30 to 45-minute walk with Mom (around 10.30am)
10. Ball time! Home to play with toys… and so the day goes on.
For the past two-three days, Boogie has been reluctant to go for a poo walk in the mornings; preferring to stay in bed with me. He will go and do his poo, but isn’t crazy about walking. And when we wake up, he prefers to go sleep on his cushion instead of follow me around with his toys as he used to do. He hasn’t even been interested in eating. He hasn’t gone near his food bowl these past two mornings (he hasn’t eaten yet today and it’s already 12.30pm!!!). Yesterday he had his first meal at around 2pm in the afternoon, after much prompting… I hope he will eventually eat.
So what has changed in his diet?
I am slowly switching him over from Innova EVO to Nature’s Variety (which is also grain-free). He ate normally all week so I don’t think he dislikes the new food.
I have also introduced Angel Eyes to his food… I read lots of rave reviews about this product on the WOOF board (Boston terrier forum) – it is supposed to be fantastic for tear stains, and Boogie has been having super-weepy eyes and intense tear stains that have been impossible to remove even with the horrible chemical-smelling “Diamond Eye” stuff I bought from Catts and Doggs store which he hates. I wonder if the Angel Eyes has anything to do with Boogie’s strange new extra-sleepy/not eating behavior.
Poor little Booger Meister. I don’t know what’s up. Weather change? Just one of those mornings? His poo is normal. He was happy when we went for our walk this morning. On the way home I dropped him off at For Pets Only to get groomed. (bath, nails, ears, anal gland expression…). He was filthy from yesterday’s trip to the Silverlake Dog Park. He can’t be happy about this.
In the meantime, I am still looking for a good vet and I may have found one – finally! Has anyone here been to Dr. Reina of LA Pet Clinic? (Melrose/La Brea) For Pets Only recommended him very highly, and every single review I have read online has been a glowing one. The only downside is that he is very very popular and overworked…
Another vet recommendation just received: Parkview Pet Clinic.
P.S. Home from the Groomers – BALL TIME!
This is more like it! Boogie is eating a little bit (he revisits his foodbowl from time to time, takes small mouthfuls… ). There seem to be more important things in life like… running after the tennis ball and playing with his toy collection.
This photo was taken on Saturday at Scoops Ice-Cream. I think this dog is spoilt!!!
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