New Toy

I posted this on Facebook, but didn't post it here. Karma has a new squirrels in the tree toy with 3 small squeaky squirrels in a plush tree. She has to put her mouth in there and grab out the squirrels. She loves to get them out by grabbing their tails and slinging the tree back and forth. She has figured out how to get them all out in much less than a minute and then I have to reload it.

From Karma

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It's a dogs life if you are lucky.

Here is a shot of Karma hanging out in the window while I am working at the home office. The window sill is just the right height for her to rest her chin on it and look out the window.

From Karma

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Bouncing like a Tigger

Karma was excited to see me yesterday as I was up at the shelter to fix some window screens and pick her up. She was bouncing up and down like a Tigger from Winnie the Pooh. After all the other dogs went in to have supper, the dog caretakers let her run in the yard and she came over and kissed me while I was fixing the last screen and then went off running. She was hopping on me trying to get me to finish and take her home and I soon did and she came home and layed on a comforter and fell asleep. We went for a short walk and she went in and out and wandered around and just hung out with me while I watched some TV and had a conference call. Same old "follow you around" Karma.

A week at the shelter

My house is a wreck with painters here this week. There is texturing material, spackle, paint, etc all over the place. There is paper on the floor, plastic over furniture and it all around isn't a place that a dog should be if it can be avoided. Thus, Karma will have to stay at the shelter for a few days until this is finished. They are making a lot of progress already today.

No love for Karma today

No one visited with Karma today. The person that wanted to meet Karma yesterday didn't come back today to setup a meet and greet with their dog. Perhaps tomorrow. He seemed to really like her, but not sure whether the dog they previously adopted from the shelter is a good match for Karma or not. Time will tell.

Much better about getting into the car

Back when I used to do the monthly Petco adoption day,I remember trying to get Karma into the car to take to the adoption day and she was resisting all the way. Even when walking her in the yard at the shelter, she would pull away if walked too closely to the shelter's van. Now that we have gone back and forth to the shelter a lot she seems much more eager to get in the car. When I open the car back, she puts her paws up, but doesn't jump right in. I have to lift her, but that isn't too hard. Just the fact that she isn't pulling away is great.

Chewed window sill

I haven't had a bit of damage from Karma until this morning and even then I have no idea how it happened. We got up early, went for a walk, she was carrying around one of her rawhides and laying down and chewing it. I remember there was a rawhide on the top of the window sill in the room where I was working and I thought her chewing the rawhide was kinda loud, but it wasn't until later that I looked down there after she had left the room for a while and I got out of my chair and I found that she had chewed up the corner of the window sill. It isn't where her rawhide was sitting, so I don't know how it came to pass. Oh well, another little repair to add to the other dog chewed window sills that will soon be repaired.