A Disney Trip 10 Years in the Making. PTR 10/14 - 23/2011 - Page 10 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Thanks everyone for the good luck wishes. Tomorrow morning is my final day for ADR's so hopefully I'll get the character breakfast I want and then be able to update you all on our plans.
I hope you had a nice holiday. My Easter wasn't so great. Friday night I came home from work and went to pull my son's little bean bag doggie out of the dryer (he a peed on it and I had washed it) well it had gotten a rip in it during the drying and there were like 500 beans all over the dryer. They were all in the lint trap and I was trying to catch them so then didn't fall into the dryer and down into the vent tubes. As I'm picking at them one at a time my dog come into the house with a giant gash on her leg. I knew immediately she was going to need stitches
I called my mom to pick up Evan and I packed Trixie off to the emergency vet. Three hours and $400.00 later we come home. Evan spent the night at my mom’s so I was able to get my then “stoned” dog into bed.
Saturday comes and I’m struggling with the dog and her Elizabethan collar AKA the cone of shame, and getting the plastic bag over her bandage. I spent the whole day home watching her and getting ready for Easter dinner at my house on Sunday. Evan comes in with Trixie’s bag and said he found it in the middle of the lawn. And the grass was wet so now her bandage is wet. I cross my fingers and hope for the best…I head to my mom’s for dinner to come home at 9pm to find her bandage had slid about 3 inches. I can on longer see the “toe nail” hole they cut for me to make sure her paw doesn’t swell. So back to the ER we go for a bandage change.
Yesterday things were going well. She is getting around fine and they gave me a new and better bag to cover her leg and she is getting used to the limited mobility. We have dinner and everything is going just fine. My brother and his family come over for dessert and Trixie bolts out the front door when they try to come in. She has never done that before. She was like lightning – Kachow – and she was gone. So much for a lame leg. It was a beautiful day and lots of people were out but she just started running and no one was able to grab her. She was about 4 houses away by the time I hit the end of my drive way.
The little girl across the street who was on her scooter started chasing her and a teenage girl was chasing her too. We finally caught her because she ran into someone’s yard with a fence. Once inside she just walk right up to me like “hi mommy, what are you doing here?”
I was about 5 blocks away. I thought I was going to hurl. I had just eaten a really big dinner and know I’m sprinting down the street. YeeGads!
The scary part was the yard she ran into has 2 really mean boxers but fortunately that family was not home and the dogs were inside.
As I’m chasing her down the street I was thinking – Oh God, I left all the desserts on the table, thank the Lord there are 5 ADULTS back at my house or else Wrigley (dog number 2) will help himself to the food.
So I get back to the house and you guessed it. EVERYONE is on my front lawn; NO ONE is in the house. Wrigley had eaten about 10 cookies and an entire container of the mini cupcakes (12). I was so angry – at Wrigley, at Trixie and because no one stayed in the house and for them letting to dog out to begin with…Then my mom said there aren’t any wrappers. I said “well did you think he UNWRAPPED the cupcakes???” Can’t wait to clean up that mess in the back yard.
I had taken Trixie’s collar off of her and later I thought if she had it own I might have been able to catch her as she would have had more wind resistance.
Thankfully no one was hurt and we all made it home safely.
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Good gracious--that was an awful and scary Easter!!! That is a horrible feeling when you see your dog sprinting away from you! Hope your week gets better!!!
Yikes, Holly! What a rotten weekend! And I need to know - was the bean bag dog fixed?
Hope the rest of your week goes better!
Yes, Thankfully I was able to save enough of the beans and using a funnel get them back into the dog and sew him up. Evan did get a new little dog with bunny ears for Easter from a friend of mine and he slept with that last night (as well as "diggity" the new name for his doggie) so now I have a back up.
I actually like the name diggity. That dog has changed names so many times. It was doggie then Mack (after Lightning McQueens truck) then it was Evan and now it's Diggity. Maybe this name will stick.
Good grief Charlie Brown. Your Easter sounds like it was quite the misadventure. Dogs make life interesting (ane a bit pricey as well). Hope the cone of shame comes off soon. Dogs hate those!
Ol my gosh! I have some crazy dog stories of my own!...Long story short I dont keep the soon to be inlaws dogs anymore! They are horrible dogs! And I have to replace pieces of the door frames everytime one of them finds there way into the house! So I know how you feel, so I am sendin you pixies and lots of them! : pixie:
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Me and Cole in the Sears Tower Skydeck, 103 floors up, in a glass box hanging off the side!
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