What About Bob?: Lola

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Caution, Live Animals

So, today was a long day. This morning we dropped Qena off at the vet for all of her shots and stuff so now she is official now, yay!!

Here is a pic of our pretty kitty :)

This is a somewhat close up picture of Qena - she is looking off to her left, you can see her little cute pink nose really well in this picture

This is Qena looking right at the camera, she has that sassy little kitty face on that says, take one more picture and you'll find a claw in your eye

This is a side pic of Qena, you can see some of the orange around her eyes, it looks like thick shimmery eyeliner.

Those are just a few cute pictures of her. She is a gray, black and brown tabby and she has one and a half orange toes on her front right foot. Even those pads are pink lol, all the other ones are black. She also has green eyes with streaks of brownish red in them. She is very calm and mellow, and not at all bothered by Egypt.. Egypt isn't bothered by her either. However, Her first impression of Mr. Bob wasn't too nice haha. Oh, didn't you hear? Bob is here!!! Yay for Bob!! lol.

At some point throughout this day the puppy raising manager, Michelle, texted me and asked if I wanted to meet them at the Airport to pick up Bob. I was supposed to get him on Wednesday but since she offered I said yes and have been anxious all day! So he's here now and I'm pretty excited about the temperament I have seen so far. At the cargo place while is sisters were barking and yapping he only uttered one little woof. That made me happy lol. We brought him home and I immediately took him out to go busy but it was a no go, I wasn't too worried though because he did go when we picked him up. So then he had his dinner and we attempted to go again - still nothing. So he was banished to the crate for about 30 minutes until he really started to cry so I took him outside again and still nothing... uh hello Bob, you're supposed to go after you wake up, eat and play... what's with this puppy?! lol. So I stick him back in the crate and after another 30 minutes we try again. Success!! So, now that he has gone and is done with his after dinner rest I decide to play a bit and snap some pictures. So let you're eyes (and ears for you blinkies) enjoy the feast of Bob-alicious cuteness!

Here is Bob looking at the camera, he is a white/yellow lab with slightly darker ears and really dark eyes.

here is another picture of him, he moved away from the camera so it's the side of his head, you can see his coloring better in this shot, he's going to be pretty light when he's older

This is him in his crate - the door is open, he had dragged his new stuffed duck toy into the crate with him, here he is laying down has one paw on top of Mr. Duck and is looking all depressed and lonely lol.

This one was taken right before the previous one, he had put his head up so the camera cut off his forehead but he still has a cute expression on his face. His head is pretty wrinkly, he has some skin to grow into.

This is him with his head kind of burried in Mr. Duck, his paw is still on top of him though and his head is crossed over his paw.

He's sound a sleep now in his crate - We'll see how long that lasts lol.

There will be another post shortly, that is if I'm able to finish with all my homework and studying - got a BIG test on Monday so gotta start now! Wish me luck!!

Oh, a few last pictures of Lola and Egypt, cause I thought they were cute too lol.

This is a picture of Lola laying on one of the dog bed beds, she has light coming in on her from outside but it's kind of a bright gray shot because it was drizzly outside, she's looking at me sideways so there is a little bit of white around her dark brown eyes

Egypt is about a foot in front of Lola, who is on the dog bed, she also has the gray outside light coming in on her. The angle of the camera makes Egypt look kind of funny but really cute, her nose and head are pointing down and her eyes are looking up at the camera making her have all white around really big brown eyes. Her eyes almost look like those cartoons where the animal's eyes get all big and cute

Friday, January 29, 2010

Lola says hola!!

Ok, she really can't speak spanish but it rhymes so there you go... Lola is a 9 month old GLX that we have been sitting since Monday.. Sorry for such a late post.. It's been a weird week. Anyways, on to the dogs.. She is very sweet but doesn't listen too well lol. She still has a puppy face but if you were to look at her from behind she looks old haha. She has medium length hair and it's all wavy right on top of her spine. Now, on to activities, well actually there really isn't much to say, when Lola first got here she had a bit of a limp in her right front leg.. the puppy raising manager, Michelle, thinks its panosteitis. So she stayed at home the first 2 days and went and got an x-ray on Wednesday but the vet hasn't given any results yet so she is taking an anti-inflammatory medicine right now.. It smells really bad lol.. we have to dump it on her food each morning.. yuck. So yeah, not too many trips for Lola, we go on short walks but after about 5 minutes she starts limping more and I get worried.. so not too much activity this week. She and Egypt are getting along ok but if they start playing too rough we have to break it up... especially so she won't hurt her leg more just incase it's something serious... so yeah, not too much news. Sorry such a boring post. But here are some pics to make up for it.

Lola is sleeping on a bed we have on the edge of the couch. Her back end is facing off to the left, so she is laying on her right side there, but in the middle she twists and her front end is facing the right so she is laying on her left side. Her head is also on its left side facing the right but its hanging off of the bed so it looks kind of upside down.

Here she is sleeping kind of funny. I don't know if you can tell but her head is actually side-ways, doesn't look to comfortable to me...

This is Lola sitting next to her fur pile, it's about the size of a dinner plate and probably five to six inches high, mostly air of course but still a big pile lol

I felt bad because she couldn't go anywhere so decided I could give her a good grooming.. I think she might be blowing her coat because we took off a lot of hair lol.. It doesn't look that big in this pic but I could have filled a grocery bag about half way with this stuff lol.

This is the comparison between Lola's fur pile and Egypt's. Egypt's fur pile is about the size of a large bagel and only an inch or two high.

Egypt also got a grooming.. her pile is the small one on the right haha. Oh and I didn't mean to lay out all the grooming tools all display like.. they just fell like that ha.

this picture is of Lola, she is in the pop up crate, the door flap is open but hanging down so you can see her face through it. The crate is red with black mesh for the little windows and door, she is sleeping on a green blanket inside.

And here she is the pop-up tent like crate we bought at Target for 25 dollars. The first day we had to leave Lola home we were running a little late and when I unplugged my computer the charger fell off the desk and landed a little too close to where Lola was on tie-down... Well she got a hold of it but not too much damage was done and Darrell was able to fix it so no damage :) Point though is we wanted to make sure it didn't happen again so when Ro had mentioned this crate in one of her posts I went out and got one. We figured we could always use it for traveling with Egypt or even when my puppy gets a bit bigger so we don't have to worry about lugging around a huge crate. I like it and as you can tell so does Lola :)

Just another angle of lola in the crate, you can see her sleeping at the back through the side window, she is between my little nightstand and the wall, there is a blue star shaped toy right outside of the crate.

Here is another angle of it so you can see how big it is.. about a foot is hidden by my night stand so it's pretty roomy, the thing says its good for dogs up to 70 lbs. I think the dimensions are 22 X 22 X 36 so its a decent size, wish it was a little taller but I guess they have to make it a square so it folds right lol. Thats where the real challenge will be. It is supposed to fold up like the window shade things for cars do.. I've never been able to figure those out so we'll see. Wish me luck!