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I can finally start walking my dog again!

November 9, 2008 by Tricia

I’ve been starting wonder if I’m still a blogger. It sure doesn’t seem like it lately. I have a number of blogs and so far this month I’ve written very few posts in each of the blogs. Well … I can blame it on my Crohn’s disease this time. I’ve been very sick for most of this month, and I just haven’t really felt up to writing.

Hopefully I’ll get back in gear soon and start posting at my usual rate.

I’ve had one positive area this month. I can finally walk my dog. Well … I’m not feeling that great, so the walks from me are hit and miss, but it’s progress.

Midnight is only a year old, but she’s so strong! She’s a Lab and she’s really hyper outside, especially if we encounter other people or people walking dogs. Tug, tug, pull pull … I don’t know how many times she’s almost pulled Chris or I off are feet and there’s been a few times when she has actually made us fall.

We finally gave in last Monday. We went to PetSmart to look for a new harness for her. We’d been using the Comfort Wrap harness since June and it helped, but obviously she was still pulling much too hard on our walks. She’d also started to outgrow her current harness so we were trying to get her a larger one.

When we didn’t find a larger harness (she was already wearing a large) we decided to talk with one of the PetSmart clerks. The person who helped us was a very small woman, maybe 5 feet tall if that. She told us that the only way she could walk her big dog (species unknown sorry) was with a prong collar. She said it made a huge difference.

Neither Chris nor I were all that big on trying a prong collar, but we decided to try one out while we were in the store so she found one that would fit Midnight- even taking out two prongs so it would fit better and we proceeded to walk around the store with Midnight.

It was like Night and Day! What a huge difference. Suddenly we were in control. Midnight wasn’t pulling. We walked around and she tried to pull towards some people and other dogs and she wasn’t able to drag us where she wanted to go. She also didn’t jump at people as much either. There was absolutely no sign that the prong collar hurt her so we decided to buy the collar and try it out at home.

That evening Chris and I both took her for a walk and marveled out how nice it was to walk without constantly telling Midnight to walk nice, and not saying “no pull” all the time. In fact, we must have said “good girl” and “good walk” twenty or thirty times on that first walk with the new collar. No more coming home frustrated and sometimes in pain from being dragged along on a walk, and Midnight must have liked being told she was good so many times instead of hearing the frustration and sometimes anger in our voices that usually occurred on walks prior to getting the prong collar.

The next day I took Midnight out for two walks! That was the first time I’d walked her on my own in ages. She was just too strong for me, especially when I’m not feeling well. Don’t worry Chris has been walking her all along so she was getting two or three walks a day with him, but now she gets at least one and sometimes two with me.

The only time I noticed the prong collar hurting her was the other day when she tried to run up to another dog to greet it. She was super excited and just charged at the dog in glee. Unfortunately as she pulled on the leash the collar must have tightened and pinched her skin because she did make a few sounds like she was in pain, but that’s the only sign that the collar hurt her, so if we can try to control her better when she gets really excited around other dogs that shouldn’t happen again.

Have you ever tried a prong collar on your dog? Did it work? Did it ever end up hurting your dog?





Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Crohns Disease, Health Fitness + Beauty, Our Puppy, Walking Tagged With: Blogging, Comfort_wrap, Crohns, dog, dragged, fell, halter, posts, prong_collar, pulled_off_feet, pulling, tugging, walk_dog, Walking, walks

It’s November and my garden is still puttering away

November 2, 2008 by Tricia

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I wrote a post on my gardening blog earlier today about how my roses and other plants are still blooming even though it’s becoming quite cold here in Toronto. Can you believe that some of my Cleomes are still blooming?

This is a purple Cleome:

Purple Cleome
Purple Cleome

It’s actually growing in my garden, but it’s poked through the fence and the flower is blooming on my neighbors side of the fence.

This is one of my White Cleomes.

White Cleome
White Cleome

I like the dark moody sky behind the flower, don’t you?

How is your gardening doing right now?

Filed Under: Canada, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, My Garden, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: blooming, blooms, Cleomes, Cold, cool_weather, flowers, garden, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, not_dormant, November, roses, Toronto

My neighbors Halloween yard decorations

October 31, 2008 by Tricia

A few years ago I noticed that one of my neighbors had really gone all out and decorated their whole front yard for Halloween.

Faster than you can blink I had my camera out and I took a series of Halloween pictures.

These are a few of the decorations in my neighbors yard, and yes, they did their property up again this year, with a few changes of course.

bottled heads!
Bottled head!

and then there’s the Mummy?

The mommy
The Mummy!

I hope that you’re having a great Halloween! What are your plans?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Recreation, The neighbors, Toronto Tagged With: bottled_head, decorations, fun, Halloween, Halloween_decorations, happy_halloween, mummy, neighbors, scary, yard

My dog is driving me nuts today

October 30, 2008 by Tricia

My dog Midnight is driving me nuts today.

She normally has a long nap in the afternoon that’s broken up by trips outside and a treat in the late afternoon. However, today she just wouldn’t settle down. She’s been moaning and whining and sitting looking at me like I’m supposed to know what’s wrong.

She doesn’t seems sick. We’ve had a few play sessions and she was as excited and active as normal, plus she’s been eating well too.

I can’t get any work done here at home because she’s pretty much demanding my attention. When I ignore her I get the moans and groans and she goes over to the door to ring the bell signally that she wants to go out. I’m at my wits end and I’m just about ready to pack my luggage and escape for a day or two!

Honestly … I don’t know what’s up with her.

what’s worse is that Chris isn’t home this evening. He came home from work early, had dinner and then he left again to go and audition for a band. Yes, he might be the lead guitar player for a progressive rock band if they like his work. Maybe she’s just picking up on Chris’ stress as he was nervous about meeting up with the band tonight. Frankly he doesn’t have anything to worry about since he’s an excellent guitar player … but he’s a perfectionist so yeah, he’s stressing.

Hopefully Midnight settles down soon and has a nap. Maybe she’ll wake up in a better mood. I’ve never seen her so grumpy.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, Our Puppy Tagged With: attention_seeking, dog, driving_me_nuts, groaning, Labrador_retriever, Midnight, moaning, nap, no_nap, nuts, settle_down, sleep, whining

Is it wrong that I’m happy the Canadian dollar is dropping?

October 30, 2008 by Tricia

Is it WRONG that I’m sitting here hoping that our Canadian dollar will fall a little bit more? Probably …

I know it’s not very good if our dollar really drops as it will eventually cost more for items imported into Canada and forget taking a holiday anywhere, but … I get paid in US dollars for the most part, so our dollar being lower than the US dollar is a good thing for me.

A few days ago our dollar really dropped and it was at about 79 cents US. At that time I did some calculations on money I’m expected to be paid on November 1st and if our dollar had stayed that low I would have walked away with about $400 extra bucks in my pocket. However, our dollar started rising again on Wednesday and now it’s getting close to 82 cents. I’ll still make a profit, but not quite as much.

Around this time last year our dollar was higher than the US dollar. Last November when we went to Vegas our dollar was worth 1.12 US. That was good for us spending wise in the US, but again, since I mostly get paid in US dollars I was losing money when it was converted to Canadian.

Any other Canadians getting paid in US dollars who are kind of happy that our dollar has dropped a bit?

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Finance, Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: Canada, Canadian, Canadian _dollar, Canadian_dollar_droppingm paid_in_US_funds, economy, making_money, money, profit, Us_dollar

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