2 days ago, I was home with the dogs, as usual, and Phaux comes up to me on the couch and just puts his head on the edge. I first noticed his eyes looked weird (puffy and red) and then I started feeling around on his face and noticed about a quarter-sized really hard puffed up pocket right by his nose. I called the vet and told them that I thought he was having an allergic reaction. While on the phone, I found another quarter-sized pocket on the other side of his face near the corner of his mouth. The vet told me that he probably got stung/bit by a bug and to bring him in for a cortizone shot then a Benedryl-like shot. I did. Here's puffy face Phaux:

So yesterday I go out to Chouteau to hang out with Nikki and I take the dogs. At some point she needed to go to Wal-Mart in Pryor and pick up a movie from a co-worker that we were going to watch that night. We put my dogs and her dog in the dining room fenced in with a baby gate. My dogs have been in here before with minimal problems (pee and poop last time). Well, we get home from Wal-Mart within an hour and what do I spy on the floor? Roach bait. Chewed open. We read the package first, hoping that it was just sticky stuff, not actual poison, but no such luck. I'm guessing that Phaux got nosey and pulled it out from under a China cabinet that was in there that Nikki never knew anything was under it. Nikki called her vet, and the vet told us to give the dogs 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide to make them throw up. We choked that down Lyka and Phaux (I didn't figure it was Lyka who did it, but I didn't want to take any chances), and then walked them outside while they threw up about 3-4 times each. Somewhere in there, Lyka thought chicken poop would make a great addition to her shiny coat and globbed a fistful on her neck. Then she must have grazed by Phaux at some point and got it on his back haunches. So when they were done throwing up, we had to take them in and give them a semi-bath to get the chicken crap off. So they're on house arrest for the next few days.
Oh, and on a completely different note, I finished up a 2 week teeth whitening regiment a few days ago. Here's the before/after shot:
That's all folks.
Tabitha