Merlin and Jack (and the rest of us) arrived home from several days of camping. It was so nice to camp right on the river up in the Adirondacks, we even got to watch a blue heron catch and eat its dinner and saw a doe and fawn swim from one side to the other. Unfortunately we didn’t get to kayak or play in the river due to algae, but we still had a blast. We thought we’d share a few pictures with you all.

Hi everyone!!!! Thank you for letting us join. I’ve got an almost 11 year old chihuahua mix named Jack. Embark says he’s 3/4 chihuahua and 1/4 Maltese. Jack has several AKC performance titles, was a certified therapy dog and was my service dog. Merlin is my almost 2 year old long coated purebred chihuahua. He has multiple AKC performance titles and is my service dog in training. I’m looking forward to getting to know all of you.

I get My dog food at Costco but lately it seems that Duke will eat flies. What? Does your dog like to eat?

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I just realized this past week the deep emotions that dogs actually feel. I know they’re always happy to see you or can get separation anxiety etc but this week actually blew my mind. Bailey, my mom’s cockapoo of course she misses my mom very much. My mom is her person. Lately Bailey has been attached to me because I’m the closest to her in resembling my mom and I’m female. But even now the longer mom has been in the hospital the sadder Bailey gets. It’s been a rough couple of months for Bailey. First we all had to go to Minnesota for 5 days for two of my uncles funerals. Then we came back and mom and pops had their long vacation ( we all remember how that ended up) then my folks are home for a week and a half and mom has her fall and has been gone for another couple of weeks and now will finally come home on Friday. Bailey even though she loves me and I love her it’s now to the point where that’s not enough for her which is understandable. We all want mom back home safe and sound. Back to her emotions especially at bedtime. She wants to lay on my feet or by my feet and I can’t have that with all my leg issues so I’ll move her over a little bit so I don’t accidentally kick her in my sleep. She will literally sit up and pout. Yes , pout. I call her name and she’ll move her head and look away from me and do that for several minutes. Finally she’ll lay down still kind of pouting but not as bad. I try to make up with her trying to reassure her that she’s good but I need my leg room. This will go on and off throughout the night. Now she’s not eating her breakfast but luckily at dinner time she’s hungry enough to eat that. If I’m taking a break from cleaning or whatever I’m she always sits with me in moms recliner which is fine . I don’t care but as soon as Tink or Bailey needs a little attention Bailey jumps on my lap and get in my face so I move her a bit to share my attention with the other two as well. There again Bailey will go and pout. It does break my heart but I have to share my attention with all of them. I just know when she finally gets to see mom on Friday she’s going to have Happy tears. I just know this. I have to put all the dogs in my room with me when they get home on Friday because they’ll all be so happy that they’ll be jumping all over mom and that’s too dangerous right now. Pops will get mom onto the couch) she can’t use her recliner right now) so after she’s all settled down and safe I’ll be able to let all the fur babies out. Bailey is stronger than I thought. I was leaving the living room the other day to go to the bathroom and Bailey panicked thinking I was going to my room without her and she ran so fast to catch up that she bumped me and I nearly fell. Bless her heart. She literally follows me everywhere. Winnie is doing that now and she’s pop’s dog. Until mom gets back home all three of the dogs sleep with me. I’m not sure why Winnie wanted to but I didn’t want to leave her out and she becoming upset. Thank goodness Tinkerbell has been a good sport with sharing me and our bed.