"We love to play together." - Chad and Lambeau

We now have color!

Today we finally got the living room and hallway painted (Mom, thank you for all your help!!). We also sent most of the past week painting the vaulted ceilings what had popcorn texturing on it. That was no easy task and I will never roll paint on like that again. I do have to say that the ceiling does look a lot better. I’m so glad to have it all done now and have color in there besides the white walls and dirty ceiling. Just waiting for the paint to fully dry before decorations can go up.

Also today we started to take apart our deck out back so we can get rid of the bigger section (we are moving and keeping the smaller section). Our plan is to have a smaller deck and more grass for us and the boys to enjoy. I can’t wait to get it all done.

That is what happens when I take the day off from work, home projects that are a lot of work. I love doing it though.

P.S. Both dogs are doing great!

Introducing Lambeau.




See the boys get a long great. They can even sleep on the same bed.



Also Lambeau is doing great now; he is eating his hard food with out any problems. I still give him a bit of mashed up canned food with rice and soggy hard food as a bonus to get some meat on his bones.

The frustration and Love

Oh the frustration of having a new kid (yes I know it is a dog but to Steve and I, Lambeau is our second child). I’m learning that getting Chad as a puppy was less frustrating then getting an adult dog that we don’t have a good history on. Yes I did have to deal with house braking Chad and training him what he know along with other stuff but not having to come up with different ways to get him to eat. Lambeau has been a challenge in that department for us. He has eaten some hard dog food and now he won’t eat it. The vet gave us some different food to try and some pills to help digest the food better. Lambeau will eat canned food, (he is not throwing it up anymore) but when I try to mix rice and or hard dog food he will spit it out. It is very funny to watch him spit it out but very frustrating at the same time. We think once he gets settled in better we will eat the hard food again.
On a happier note, Chad and Lambeau are so good together, last night I got home around 7:30 and by 8pm both dogs are sound a sleep. Before Lambeau Chad would want to play ball all night, non stop. They are playing so much out side and all day that they wear them selves out. Steve and I are very happy to see Chad tired for once.
Also we can tell that Lambeau is a momma’s boy. He is attached at my hip, goes where I go, wants to sit in my lay (yes a 50 pound dog wants to be a lap dog) and loves to lay in bed with me. When Steve gets home he will tell Lambeau to get in to his own bed and he won’t move for Steve, I have to wake up and walk him to his bed and tuck in you could say.
We love him so much. It has been an eye opener to have a second dog but we love it. Good for us, good for Chad so he is not so lonely and best for Lambeau so he is no longer living in a shelter.

Worried!

Oh the worrying. Lambeau has not been eating. Between Thursday and Saturday he has only eaten about a cup of hard dog food and a hand full of home made cookies (that is all I could get him to eat). This morning I gave him some cooked ground turkey we had not used yet and rice (Thank you Aunt Claudia for the idea) and mixed his hard food in it. He ate the meat out and a bit of the rice and would spit out his hard food. I was thankful that he was eating something at least. Then I got him some canned dog food. He ate that all up and then it came back up.
Steve and I are very worried. We keep thinking maybe his month hurts and he doesn’t want to chew the hard food, but he chewed on a bone all night yesterday and has been playing tug-a-war too, and he would eat the homemade cookies. Thought oh maybe, he only had canned food up until now, but why did he eat some of the hard food. So we don’t know what to think right now. I just want him to eat something and keep it down. I’m worried with him playing so much and not eating that he is going to get even thinner.
We are going to call the vet ASAP on Monday and see what we can get him in and see what they think could be going on.