Over The Bridge

"Trip, trap, trip, trap who's that walking over my bridge?"

Busy week starting today.  Let's see - tomorrow I'm taking Tibby (and Dhali) to her appt. (our appt?) at the U of M.  Yes, we got moved up from our appt. in March.  Whoo hoo!  And I'm also super nervous.  I not a big fan of driving in the Cities and our appt is at 8:30am, so driving right into rush hour.  We'll have to leave very, very early, like 5am.  Then the appt. - not sure what we are going to do or how it will work.  I want to be able to answer all their questions and get things figured out, but I am so NOT a morning person plus stress of getting to the appt.

Then on Sat. Dhali has his first real show!  Very exciting!  We are going both Sat. and Sun.  Tibetan Terriers show after 2 on both days and it's in St. Cloud for any one that is interested in seeing a dog show.  The entrance fee for visitors is a food shelf item.  There are just under 800 dogs entered on Sat. and over 800 dogs entered on Sun.   There are 7 TTs entered and one of those is Dhali's litter mate Nickle.  Can't wait to see him again and see the boys together.  When I was looking for a TT puppy one of the things that I wanted was to be able to see their family every once in a while.  I don't know why, but that seems kind of nice - maybe because I don't have a big family, I want my dog to have a family?  

Speaking of family:  My Grandma has taken a turn for the very worst.  She was baking cookies, doing mental memorization exercises and took a marching walk around the block on Wed.  Wed. night she started vomiting blood and since then she has been in bed heavily medicated and mostly sleeping.  The Hospice nurse checked on her Friday and prescribed a liquid form for of one of the meds.  She hasn't eaten since Wed. and has only had tiny sips of water for the last 4 days.  My Mom is doing an amazing job taking care of my Grandma.  I hope I can do as good of a job when it's my turn to take care of my Mom.  I have taken a few turns sitting with my Grandma, but mostly my Mom has been doing everything for her.   

Visiting Tug

Tibby tugged in a new place!  Twice! 

This is the first time she has ever tugged outside my house.

We went over to my Grandma's house and I got Tibby to tug with me twice.  We had so much fun!  And we had everyone watching us.  It didn't phase Tibby at all.  She was all about the tugging.

We only tugged for a minute - I wanted to keep Tibby eager to GET THAT TUG!!!

It worked.  She chased the tug back to its hiding spot and was ready to tug when I brought it out later.

She also chilled in her crate (with the door closed) during dinner.  Then I took her for a walk and she went back into her crate for an hour while we talked.

Notice my Grandma's cat in the right upper corner?  She sat in that spot the whole night.  Tibby doesn't even look at her any more, because she isn't fun like Catty.  LOL!!

She also got to play It's Your Choice when we ate pie at the end of the evening.  It took a while, but she made the right choice and got to eat some whipped cream.

Grandma Zoomies

My Mom (Tibby's Grandma) saw her first zoomies tonight.  She thought it was the funniest thing ever!  I caught them together in mid zoomie.

I like this one the best.

We went hiking and Tibby had a blast.  I love hiking here.  Tibby can run off-leash and we have never met any other people.  It's like our own private multi acre forest.

In other news my grandma came for a visit today.  She last saw Tibby almost a year ago.  Today we realized that Tibby is her ONLY GREAT-GRANDCHILD.  We all had a good laugh about that.  Funny that there are 5 grand kids and none of us have (two legged) children. 

Visit To Grandma's

Today I took Tibby to visit my Grandma and Grandpa.

They have a cat named Rata.  She was NOT impressed with Tibby.  Tibby couldn't figure out why Rata didn't want to play.  Catty plays with her - why didn't Rata like her?  It was so confusing for Tibby.  For her efforts to make friends, she got a nice smack across the nose from Rata.

Rata- Tibby.

Tibby - Rata.

"You are an evil dog."

"Awww shucks, I'm not evil."

"Where's she going?"

"Hello again!  Do you want to play?"

"NO! GO AWAY!"

"Are you sure?  You look like you want to play."

"GO AWAY!!!"

"Really?  You don't want to play?  How 'bout if I just sniff you a little?"

"Grrrrrrrrr!"

"Please GO AWAY!"

Grandma and Tibby.

"Kiss!  Kiss!"

Grandpa and Tibby.

Look how big Tibby is in these pics!

She looks like a giant dog!

Thank goodness for rawhide.  Tibby is chewing on a bone in this pic - not my Grandpa's foot!

Tibby settled down to chew her bone.  It only took 4 hours for her to settle down.

"Who?  Me?  I'm chill."

Tibby had a busy weekend.  She played with people from 10 to 87 years old.  She took orders from an 11 year old.  It took her a while to understand that I wasn't giving her the directions, she had to pay attention to someone else, if she wanted a treat.  Once she understood she was 100% on all her commands. 

She also took 2 long car trips.  Tibby is a very good traveler.  I wouldn't think twice about taking another long trip with her.  She curls up on the backseat and goes to sleep or she chews on her bone.

I brought her new puzzle food ball with us to my Grandma's house.  It kept Tibby entertained for a while, until my Grandpa felt sorry for her and opened it to give her all the treats.  I couldn't get him to understand the concept of a food dispensing treat ball!