updated 132 days ago by Benji | 31 views | 3 barks

Thanks to all my good, good friends!

Thank you everyone for all your good well wishes.  I have a disease that effects the muscles in my hind quarters.  So I do have bad days now and again. 

Today has been a better day.  Momma gave me a good massage last night and a great massage today.  It helps a lot.  She tries to do it everyday, but you know how humans are.  They tend to forget, but hey, after all, they are ONLY human.  Thanks again for all the good thoughts that you sent.

My hind quarters don't work so good and sometimes standing up on my back legs just seems too much trouble, but I do have certain things that I like to do.  So I try to figure out different ways of doing them.  Sometimes the humans help.  My fried Foxy, (thats her in the picture with me) she likes to play a game that we call "fence runner."  In this game we run up and down the fence to see who can get back first and who can bark the loudest.  One day I didn't feel too good, but Foxy, who is much younger and has a little trouble understanding why any dog would not want to play our game, wanted to play anyway.  My human cousin that I call Moonbeam came over,  He saw what was going on, and so he ran up and down the fence with Foxy, and I barked and barked and barked. We just had the best time.  Humans get tired much faster than us dogs.  So he would have to rest a lot, and he can't run as fast as Foxy so we always lost, but we had loads of fun.

There are certain things that I do that humans can't help me with.  I have to figure out how to do those all by myself.  You know how sometimes they gives special treats on a dish, and after awhile when we lick the dish it will scoot away, and we have to follow it?  Well one day, Momma and Daddy gave me some lasgna (my favorite food and if you say just like that stupid cat Garfield, I will bite ya) I sat down to eat, and of course the plate started scooting away.  I tried to get up to chase after it, but it just seemed like too much work that day. So I just scooted on my butt after it.  It made Momma make the human happy noise, but I didn't care, the lasgna was good, and I like it when Momma makes the happy noise.

When I have something that tastes really good, I like to wipe my mouth on the couch (Momma keeps a sheet on it so that I don't mess it up too much).  Tonight, Daddy gave me a little bit of roast beef.  Oh, it was soooo good.  After I ate it, I went to the couch, I usually walk up and down rubbing.  Tonight though, I didn't feel like getting up so I just hopped on my butt up and down.  This made Momma make the happy noise again.  She always says that I am so innovative, and I guess that means that I do a good job at making her make the happy noise.  My legs feel better, and so Momma and I are getting ready to play the stinking couch game.  Thank you my friends, you made me feel so much better!!