Thursday, January 29, 2009

Poor Puppies

Well our litter of 13 miracle puppies was quickly reduced by 4 the day of the birth due to complications, and now 3 more have died. Jen tried to keep them alive feeding them every 15 minutes, but they were too week. We still have a couple not doing well- so in the next day or two we will know what Lilo ended up with. I hate this part. The litter was huge and they were so small- it makes it hard to survive.

On a brighter note- I am going to the school today to talk to 6th graders about safe dating and self esteem- I hope they don't eat me alive. Kids at that age can be so difficult. I am sure you are wondering how I got roped into this one- I volunteer at the Domestic Violence shelter- and I run the woman's group on Wed's- I am on call one weekend a month for crisis calls- in the same building there is a lady that runs the sexual assault program by herself- so I volunteered to help her. Last year she had me do some classes at the Middle School- and now it looks like I am doing them for the 6th graders too. I hope it goes well. I dreamt about it all night- about how awful the kids were and rude. So it can't be worse than my dreams right?

I am shipping a dog to Hawaii tomorrow- she has been waiting for 8 months to go to her new owners- so that is pretty exciting to have that journey completed. I wish I was going to Hawaii tomorrow with her, but I have to wait until June.

Jen has just informed me that we are having a Super Bowl party- have I ever mentioned I hate football? I can't figure out who has the ball. I just don't get it- too many rules. So maybe I will scrapbook while they sit around yelling at the TV like someone can really hear them.

Have a happy Thursday.

4 comments:

  1. Soooo sorry about the puppies. I hope the remaining ones do okay.

    I'd go to Hawaii in a heartbeat. Let's just rent a plane or something and go. :)

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  2. So sorry about the puppies. They're all so beautiful.
    Scrapbooking will be a good distraction!

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  3. Oh... sad. When we lived on a farm, when I was growing up, people sometime stossed bags of litters of pups and kittens onto our property. We'd always try desperatly to keep them alive, but mostly it was a losing battle.. just too weak, poor things.
    Dating wrokshop in gr 6- good call! They are starting sooo young these days with "serious" relationships.

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  4. Oh Im sooooo sorry. It must be hard to watch precious tiny lives come into the world only to see them leave so soon.

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