Thursday Dec 23

Blues snores like a trucker with a beer belly. Jazz is a quiet sleeper. Both are amazingly lazy, I have a hard time getting them to go outdoors. Perhaps it's the snow and wind and cold? In any case, I still find pee in the morning, now and then. Even if I drag them outside around midnight, the sphincters remain tightly shut till I am fast asleep.

Oh well.

Now and then they become playful in the snow. Usually, a tennis ball is involved.

I have been working at home most of this week (my car is snow-bound), things are fairly slow. I'll work at home next week too. Beginning next year, I'll see how much I will work at the office, and where.

Jazz is not coughing any more but now and then still clears her throat like she's a TB sufferer. She and Blues have started acting territorial over the space on the couch next to me, there have been a few snarling confrontations. Poor Sam is barely tolerated in the same room. So, he sleeps a lot (which never is a hardship for Sam).

The other day, Sam and Blues were out back playing "chase the ball". Blues banged into Sam's front end rather hard, he walked a little way on and then lay down in the snow & proceeded to have an epileptic fit. The two deerhounds became very agitated, I first had to get those two inside before tending to Sam. The attack lasted about 3 minutes at least, could be longer,. After, he was very disoriented and drooly, could not stand up and when he finally did, could not walk a straight line. After about an hour or two he seemed right as rain again. This is the second attack in under 3 months, so once the two deerhounds are back home I'll take Sam to the vet.

Here are two vids of Sam and Blues playing in the snow (a day before the epileptic attack), each in his/her own unique way.

Blues playing chase:

Sam playing chase:

PS I gave the dogs some horse meat scraps from the butcher in Alexandrium. I've never seen Jazz scarf down food like Sam does - 800 grams in a minute, all gone! I guess she likes it ;-)