Dr Copa

For many years I’ve been wanting to get a Shih-Tzu puppy. My wife says she would prefer a Pomeranian. We already have two dogs, one is about twelve years old, the other is two years old. The older dog is a large dog, the younger is a small dog. The younger dog is deaf, and we have talked from time to time about how at some point we will need to get another dog in the house to “help” the deaf dog to cope with life. One of the things that has prevented us from getting the new dog is the cost of buying a purebred dog, as well as the stalemate of what breed to get.

Well, I ran into a friend of mine two days ago and he tells me that his chihuahua dog is pregnant and he wants to GIVE me (for free) one of the puppies. What a dilemma! We are considering it, not sure yet if we really WANT one of those little critters! I mean they are REALLY little! And our HUGE cat might mistake the puppy for a mouse and eat it!  Well, we’ve agreed not to be TOO worried about it at this point, the puppy hasn’t even been born yet, so we will bide our time and see what happens.

We spent hundreds of dollars on the pets last month at the vet.  Shots, neutering, buying flea/tick/heartworm/mosquito medicines, the K-9 Advantix topical ointment and the Heartguard chewable tablets.  We’ve been faithful about giving the dogs their medications, and the dogs are primarily indoor dogs.  Yet every couple of days I seem to be finding ticks on the dogs anyway!  I really don’t like finding ticks on the dogs, I have to pull them off, and pulling ticks off of a dog is nasty work.  So I am not impressed with this K-9 Advantix claim to repel and kill ticks.