My Life with Dogs

Recently, I have been searching on www.meetup.com and I have found some groups to join where I have common interests – one of these groups is the Chicago Pomeranian meetup.   Last weekend, I took Mia to the Clark Street Ale House in Chicago for the first meeting of this new group.   Thanks to my GPS, I found the place without much trouble.   Then, I realized I had been there before – with the old Pom meetup group!   Well, after feeding the infamous Chicago meters, I took Mia into the bar.

The Clark Street Ale House is a typical, local Chicago bar – long wooden bar, wood floor, dark inside.  But, this was one of the few places that lets dogs in on Sunday afternoons!   When I arrived, there were already 3 Poms there.   They are all so cute!  Of course, none were parti-colored like Mia!

Poms at the Meetup

About 10 Poms I think ended up being there, including Connor, a tiny baby Pom.  This little guy ran up to everyone and played with all the Poms.   Mia loves playing with her brothers, but wasn’t really into playing with the Poms.  Not sure why.   But, we stayed about an hour and I think she had a good time.    I will still definitely take her to some more meetups – I just love seeing all the Poms!

Connor the baby Pom

Well, I learned the hard way not to leave food on my counters.   After losing a bag of nuts and a whole tin of hot cocoa (that was fun to clean up…), I make sure before I leave the house that all food is well out of reach….but what about canned food?   Shouldn’t be an issue, right?

Well, I had all my chili fixings on the counter, cans of beans, tomatoes, and of course, the Rotel diced tomotoes with chilies already chopped up – yum!    Well, I went out shopping – I know I was not gone more than 45 minutes, but when I came home all three kids met me at the door from the garage into the kitchen….and I saw it.  

The poor can of Rotel tomatoes and chilies after Bandit got ahold of it!

A can was lying on the floor.  At first, I thought it was an empty can of dogfood that I did leave on the sink.  But, after closer investigation, I saw it was a full can of something – the label was gone.  The remains of the label told me it was the Rotel.   The teethmarks in the can had pierced the can numerous times.  The liquid had obviously spilled out – and probably licked up too!   Hopefully, the picture does this justice.

While I was on vacation, I boarded Bandit and Shelby at the Yorkville Animal Hospital.  They are really great with them, and I feel better that Bandit is at a vet in case anything happens.  Well, sure enough, when I returned, they told me that he had a grand mal seizure on 2/23, and they gave him valium and he was fine.  It was actually the day before I had requested that he be upped on his meds.  I know that he can have seizures when he gets excited, and I try to plan for it, but I missed it…

Thankfully, he is o.k. and did not have any further seizures now that I have him home.