Poor Boo

Slider lost a toe nail sometime Saturday. It was still attached but fully severed all the way up to his paw. OUCH. He went to the vet, and $300 later, he is infection free and has a boot.

Dave is now calling him Boot-san. Or Slider-Boot. Haha. 

My poor little boo-san

I picked up Slider today. And Mav. After spending 16 days in the kennel, Mav is fat and Slider is 1/4 the dog he used to be. He got sick while at the kennel and was on a diet of rice and chicken broth for 3 days.

Even his tail is tinier! You can see about eleven vertebrae... He's getting three meals a day for three days.

And he is super stinky.

Slider and the Bone

Slider ate an entire "edible" nylabone in less than 5 minutes. No puke. yet.

Booface's "Birthday"

Two years ago, on June 7, 2007, Dave and I left the apartment in very early. We drove 3 hours to Austin, Tx, found an obscure park. At this park, Austin Boxer Rescue was holding an Adoption Day. There were about 10 different boxers there, all needing homes.

That was the morning we met Drake. He was a little underweight and his coat was pretty raggedy. But he was brindle, male, and had floppy ears. We decided he was the dog for us. It was 2:28pm.





Booface, last Adoption Day. Since we don't know Slider's real birthday, only that it's sometime in January, 2006, we celebrate the day he joined our family: his Adoption Day.

Even though we aren't with Sliderboo this year, we still made cupcakes to celebrate his adoption day.

Promotion!

Letter from Dave:

Saw one of my calendar squares is our little boo-san. Everyone thinks he’s a nice looking dog. Love you boo, look forward to seeing you in a couple of days.

:(

I miss our boo-face :(



In other news, Dave officially was promoted on Monday. Yay, Dave! Did you know: technically, he should be promoted on the same day he was commissioned? In his case, it's graduation day, an easy day to remember - and event to which i was NOT invited... I digress. But because every school graduates or commissions on different days, if every one were promoted on the day they were commissioned, there could be problems. Now your best friend out-ranks you, but only for a few days, but has just ordered you to (fill in the blank). So to maintain continuity and prevent power-trip issues, everyone is promoted on the same day. I believe there's also a fall and winter "day" too.

Congrats, LT. Now where's that O-3 paycheck??

An Afternoon at the Beach, featuring Sliderboo