Things have not been great over here but at least I can say that Jezzy seems to be healing well. She hates being in her crate all the time but she’s being so good…

Chuck has been doing well with his morning walks. I discovered today when trying to teach him to “heel” that he will do it on the right but not on the left. Of course the correct position is on the left but I’ll take what I can get.

I haven’t been doing much of anything rescue wise. I haven’t even been visiting the Petfinder message board. I’ve been reading the Craigslist ads and those are just as sad as ever.

Today I had to turn down a petsitting job for a fear aggressive great dane. This man wanted us to go into his house, where his 200 lb. biting dane would be alone. I wrote him a nice email and then referred him to a kennel that accepts aggressive dogs.

I know this is choppy and not really rescue related but it’s all I’ve got for right now.

Heidi gave me this book last night. (We just now exchanged our Christmas gifts.) It’s beautiful and I think everyone should have one. I also think Traer Scott needs to publish VOLUMES of these.

Well, she’s at my sister’s house with me. I’m staying here for the weekend.

Jezzy is in good spirits. If you were judging by the way she’s acting you would never know she had any work done on her legs. If you were judging by the way she looks you’d think she got hit by a train and you would wonder how she’s moving at all, let alone WALKING. I really want to snuggle with her, mostly to make me feel better, but she has to stay in her crate. She won’t sit still, she jumps, spins around, and is just hyper. I may have to ask from some sedation meds to keep her calm. I’m afraid she’s going to hurt herself.

I’ll take some pictures of her legs tomorrow. Right now she’s resting and earlier she was way too wiggly and I couldn’t get any shots.

Oh, and her surgery cost less than they estimated! I don’t know how that happened but I’m not gonna complain.

When I took Jezzy to the orthopedic vet today I didn’t expect to leave her there for a double TPLO…but I did. Both of her knees were in really, really bad shape. One of them was even backwards! The vet said she didn’t know how Jezzy was walking at all, least of all how she was able to run around the back yard, jump up on the furniture, jump in the car, and wrestle with Chuck.

She came through surgery fine. She felt immediately better when she got her epidural and was able to rest comfortably for probably the first time in weeks.

How much of a loser do I feel like? This is the second dog I’ve had who had serious orthopedic problems and I didn’t know until it was bad. I feel like I should have known. The vet assured me that there’s no way I could have known…two vets couldn’t tell that she had that severe of a problem. She said the fact that we got it checked and got it fixed is what matters.

Wish us a speedy recovery.

(Yes, I know my site looks funny if you have IE7. Lisa knows and I’m on the list to have it fixed.)

It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say….it’s that I haven’t had the time to say it! Which is good because that means I’ve been super-duper busy pet sitting, but bad because I’ve recently decided to drop my other blog to concentrate on this one…but I haven’t done a lick of anything on this one.

I’ve got a few things to report…like Jezzy has to go to an orthopedic surgeon and I’m scared to death that if she needs surgery she will go crazy and start eating people and we’ll have to put her to sleep and I. WILL. JUST. DIE. if that happens. But, I’ll write more about that next Thursday, after her vet appointment.

I want to talk some more about some of my clients but I’ll have to save that for another time as well because….

One of my favoritest dogs at the rescue is having a really hard time finding a home. And another one of my favoritest dogs found a home about six months ago but has been returned so he needs to find another home.

This is Kelan. She’s a cute little pocket pittie and she’s very shy. She’s actually a pit bull who NEEDS the company of other dogs. She’s calm and sweet and would love to be someone’s lap dog. The problem is that no one is understanding enough or willing to work with her to help her be the dog she can be. I would take her in a second but we’ve got enough issues over here. I feel so sad for her!

This is Phoenix. He lived at the ranch for a year before he finally found a home. I really loved his new mom, she is a manager at Petsmart. I don’t know what happened because I wasn’t there when he was returned, I just know that he’s stuck back at the ranch. I hope it doesn’t take another year to find him a home. He’s a difficult placement because he needs to go to a dog savvy home and most homes don’t want to have to work hard at keeping their pets away from other animals.

This is discouraging but the group will do the best it can to find homes for these two, even if it does take a long time.