Adventures of a Cattle Dog

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Post-Crate Rest Insanity

9:09 AM | Posted by Elyse and Riley |

Riley FINALLY started to stop acting so crazy yesterday evening! I guess she had pent up energy from being in her crate for a week... It was a flashback to puppyhood, 4 years ago. And it was awful! So far today, she's been pretty calm, so hopefully she got it out of her system.

Apparently, she fell off the back of our loveseat this morning while she was up in the window barking (of course she was barking!). She seems to be fine though. I swear, this dog is going to be the death of me!

~~FINALLY~~ zonked out!

I am leaving for BlogPaws tomorrow morning ~~and haven't even started packing yet~~! I'll try to post from my iPad while I'm there, but sometimes the Blogger app doesn't work right, so we shall see. I'll for sure be posting about it when I get back!

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

She's Back in Action...

8:30 AM | Posted by Elyse and Riley |

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I went to a NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) meeting last night and got home around 8:00 PM. I let Riley off of crate rest when I got home...talk about one HAPPY dog! She and Chloe did zoomies in the yard and in the house and Riley was jumping up and off of the furniture with no problems. She also RAN up the stairs about 3 or 4 times. So I would say she's feeling back to her old self now!

I haven't heard her cry or yelp since she started crate rest last Monday. She's not on her pain killers or muscle relaxers anymore and she seems to be back to her old form.

On a scale of 1-10, 1 being extremely cool and collected and calm and 10 being "insane cracker dog," I'd say she's probably at a 12 right now! She has gone in and out about 87 bazillion times this morning and has had to bark at anything and everything outside and up in the front window. I'm considering putting her back on crate rest just so she won't drive everyone NUTSO! ;) Somehow, I don't think she'd go down without a fight on that idea...

Chloe was exhausted after playing with Riley last night!

Riley is back to her intense Cattle Dog stare and puppy eyes when someone is eating food...sigh.

Barking in the window first thing this morning!

Finally, I'd like to ask all of our readers that have Facebook accounts for a favor... Riley eats Canidae dog food and right now on Canidae's Facebook page, they're having a "Smiling Dog Contest." I entered a picture of Riley...I mean, she's ALWAYS smiling! I was wondering if you could vote for her picture? Voting ends May 31st and the folks at Canidae will pick the winner and take the amount of votes into account. The winner gets a 6 month supply of dog food--we could sure use that! You can vote once per 24 hour period, but we're only asking our friends to vote once (don't want to be THAT person!!). Of course, as with any Facebook contest, you have to "Like" Canidae's Facebook page, but you can always "Like" it and vote and then hide it or unlike it if you don't want to follow them. Click here to go to Riley's picture and vote! Thank you!

Also, I'm getting ready (or actually, I should say "I SHOULD be getting ready") to head to the BlogPaws Convention in Tyson's Corner, VA, about 3 hours away from where we live. The conference starts on Thursday and ends late Saturday night, so we're (Aunt Baddy is coming with me) heading back home on Sunday morning. Riley isn't going, but her counterpart, "Flat Riley" is! I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and share them on the blog and Facebook page! I'm very excited that it's close enough to home to drive to (didn't want to spend money on a plane ticket) this year and this is my first year going!

Question: Will you be at BlogPaws this year? Let me know, I want to meet you! :)

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Monday, May 13, 2013

Last Day!!

11:52 AM | Posted by Elyse and Riley |

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Thank heavens today is the LAST day of crate rest! Today is trash pickup day at our house...Grandpa usually empties all the trash cans in the house and puts them in the big bin in the backyard on Sunday nights so he doesn't have to get up extra early to do it on Monday morning. For whatever reason, he decided he'd wait until this morning. Riley normally "helps" with the trash...meaning that she likes to go flying out the back door and run around the yard while my dad takes the trash around to the front.

I was awakened ~~very rudely~~ at 6:30 this morning to Riley barking, and barking, and barking, and barking, and BARKING! She was pitching a royal fit in her crate because she couldn't go outside while the trash was being taken out. I was sleeping upstairs with my door closed and she still woke me up. The bad thing is, Bailey doesn't come over for me to babysit her until 11:00 on Mondays and Tuesdays, so it was a "sleep in" day. Needless to say, I was not very happy with Riley first thing this morning!

I am going to let her off crate rest tonight to go to bed upstairs, then she'll be free roaming tomorrow. She seems to be feeling back to her regular old ~~crazy~~ self. She jumped up in the air the other day, trying to catch a bumblebee. And she practically climbed up the front of Grandpa to give him a kiss in his face, which is something she couldn't do last week. So we shall see how her stair climbing and jumping on the couch goes tonight and tomorrow.

Of course, she's been a perfect angel in her crate all morning since the trash went out, so I got to take a nap before Bailey came over.