all-knowing

by kym | Friday, November 9, 2012 |

the universe seems to know things. these pictures were taken the day before zander's extremely unexpected loss... in hindsight i'm really happy i shared that time with him.

trick or treat

by kym | Thursday, November 1, 2012 |

it's time for the annual earthdog treat (see 2009 here, 2010 here, and 2011 here): row 1 (l to r):  simon, jewel, phineus, wilson row 2 (l to r):  indi, fletcher, watson, reilley row 3 (l to r):  speck, flanagan, carly, dooley row 4 (l to r):  benny, slater, zig, odin we hope you all had an enjoyable halloween!...

to quote dave's title "curveballs and heavy hearts"

by kym | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |

yesterday started out as a perfectly normal day and quickly became a heartbreaking mess. if you’re a fan on our facebook page then you may already know we lost zander. we probably should have realized we were on borrowed time with him since his seizures started, they were so aggressive and we were having a hard time controlling them with phenobarbital, but we remained hopeful. even as i say that i know full well that even if we were clear we were on borrowed time it wouldn’t have made a...

fragments

by kym | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |

last week we added another chapter to the dooley saga and i’m very hopeful we’re currently smack dab in the middle of the conclusion.  last wednesday things weren’t right and after rushing him to our vet we found that his stomach was packed full of food.  he had a rare complication called gastric apnea and after another nail-biting surgery where we weren’t sure the surgeon would find a viable stomach and we might lose him we were fortunate that no resection was...

home is where the dooley is

by kym | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |

we're so happy to have dooley home safe and sound with us.  he’s not completely out of the woods yet as his bloodwork was still not where it should be as of yesterday.  dr. au felt comfortable enough to let him go home so that’s a good sign to me.  he’s much less swollen today, is finally eating and seems generally to be feeling better so we’re cautiously optimistic.  he won’t be totally out of the woods until the 5 days past surgery mark and...

uncertainty and fear

by kym | Tuesday, September 11, 2012 |

we'll just have to punt

by kym | Thursday, September 6, 2012 |

it seems the odin effect has yet to take hold of carly...although he's got the whole family smitten.  in the midst of baking 300 mini-cupcakes for the benefit we're hosting tomorrow night...did i mention we're hosting a benefit tomorrow night?  if you missed that please check out the website and consider joining us if you're local - it's all to benefit spay & neuter in middle tennessee and it should be a blast! but i digress...so carly...carly, carly, carly!  like i said, in...

a not brief briefing

by kym | Wednesday, September 5, 2012 |

we’re hosting a benefit for the pet community center here friday night so things have been a little bit hectic the last few weeks.  this is my formal excuse for waiting so long to announce some exciting news.  before i get into that if you’re local to nashville please join us friday for rock n’ roll for pup control…all signs are pointing to this being an awesome evening.   dave will be playing drums all night with an amazing line-up of musicians and...