BOXER ADVENTURES

 I love the smell of lilacs! We have so many bushes on our property, in different colors, and they are just beautiful this year!  I wandered around this afternoon enjoying a break in the rain and smelling that sweet spring smell and taking pics.. Including this one:

 As I've mentioned, the dogs are allowed to sleep with us.  During the winter Sisko would crawl up next to me while I was watching TV before going to sleep, but would get too warm and get down onto his dog bed. Booker would sleep next to me or at my feet most of the night. Now that it's gotten warmer, Sisko doesn't get up at onto our bed at all.  Booker might get up for a while or not.  He prefers to curl up in a ball with a part of his back touching me. Last night it was warm and neither got up.  This was actually fine with me because I didn't feel well.  Booker and I had a great run yesterday morning, but I started feeling off throughout the afternoon and in the evening I had chills and was planted in front of a space heater. I woke up this morning at 5 AM and had to pee.  I was chilled and shaking.  I felt feverish and popped some ibuprofen and crawled back into bed.  I lay there shaking so badly and my teeth were chattering.  Booker ...

 Poor Sisko. He still has a severe eye ulcer despite a week of treatment. I know, it hurts to even look at it!  He is such a good boy.  I have been putting an antibiotic cream in it 3-4X per day in addition to 2 drops per day of a corneal repair gel. Since those weren't working it was time to visit the vet's and break out he big guns. For years, one of the "magic treatments" for eye ulcers like this is called "plasma-rich-therapy" -- this is a treatment effective in humans, dogs and cats.  Years ago our cat Spock had recurrent eye problems and I am sure we would have had to remove the eye if this hadn't worked.  Basically the blood is drawn and spun and then the plasma is captured and this is what is used to treat the eye by doing a few drops 2-3 times per day. It is very effective but also has a lot of downsides.  First off, you have to take the dog in every time to make the serum.  You can't keep the it on hand.  It has to be refrigerated at all...

 We were headed straight in and then Booker really wanted to have a meet and greet with a barking Border Collie who was clearly just cheering us on, so we veered off a little!!  But we crossed the finish line either way.

 I've ,joked before that Booker actually thinks that he is a lab.  He loves water.  And not just like swimming.  He takes every opportunity he can find to run like a maniac through streams - and he seems to prefer MUDDY streams.  Today we went for a walk and he made sure to run through every single messy pool of water he could find! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Booker and Sisko (@boxeradventuresny)

 I signed up for the local Cinco de Mayo race.  It was the first year for this race, but my friend Sheila was one of the organizers and I have run past races she has been in charge of so I knew it would be great, and the proceeds went to the local ambulance service.  Plus, major bonus, dogs were allowed - so YAY! The forecast was not pretty and unfortunately completely accurate - it was 47 degrees and raining when we got up this morning.   I was planning to run with Booker only.  Earlier this week I got ready to run after work, and Sisko stayed where he was on his bed when I was getting their collars and running leash ready so I left him home.  Between his eye ulcer, which has not completely healed up, and his disinterest in running earlier in the week I didn't want to make him go this morning if he wasn't feeling good. But as I started getting my running clothes on this morning, both dogs were so excited.  I went out before we had to leave to do ...

 Yesterday was miserable.  It was cold and windy and the forecast kept saying the rain was going to end but it didn't.  No adventures for any of us!! Today dawned the same.  But as noon approached, the skies cleared and the sun came out bright and beautiful.  It was in the high 50's but the wind was terrible.  The need for sunshine won the day so we headed to the beach. The dogs got their run on.  We strapped a camera to their tactical vests .  The video was super cool!  But I'll wan you, if you are prone to motion sickness the video of them running and playing might trigger the need to puke!  That's what it is currently doing to me!!  Hopefully I can watch it in pieces and edit some cool clips to post! The dogs were so happy!  The took off running down the beach and splashed and played in Lake Ontario.  I don't know how they stand being so cold! Sisko must be feeling better, because he was full of it! The were chasing and...