Month: April 2015

WTH??? Walked Jasper to the vet for a weigh in….. and he gained weight yet again…… could be muscle weight as his front leg is getting stronger but its discouraging when we are doing everything and he gets on the scale and to see he has gained weight. We go on walks twice a day, he is still on the metabolic diet and we measure his food to what he suppose to get, he is outside running around and he is not “sneaking” or getting extra food. The kids are not feeding him table scraps WHAT AM I DOING WRONG??? Before his accident he was a heafty 80+ pounds….. the vet wants him down to 65 -70 pounds… we got him down to 67 and today he is 72….

Jasper had a great day playing ball, rough housing with his lil brother Rosco (9 month border collie) and going for a walk.   I love getting down on the floor and cuddling with him.

Today on of my mom’s friend came to visit ME (not my mom but ME). She was so impressed with me.  Even though I don’t like my picture taken I let her take lots of pictures of me. She was so nice even thought I tried to play shy.  Miss Debi has Goldens at her house and she knows just how special we are, she kept saying I look like her “Brutus” he sure must be handsome if I look like him.

This is what she wrote on her facebook page. “I got to visit JASPER today. What an amazing dog!! He runs, plays with his ball, goes up and down stairs like he has four legs. Jasper is one happy dog.”  She forgot to say that I was handsome and intelligent, I will forgive her this one time :)….  Here are some of the pictures she took of me today…..

 

Jasper cheated on his diet……. Ok I allowed him to cheat on his diet.  He loves to clean the peanut butter jar.  I was concerned that he wouldn’t be able to hang on to the jar.  He use to hold it between his front arms so it would not roll away…. looks like he figured it out!!! I love him so much

 

Before I start I will say Jasper is doing amazing. As I write this he is chewing on his kitty’s head (dont ask because I have no idea why the cat allows him to do this and why he likes to do it).

 

 

I often wonder if Jasper ever misses his leg.  Or does he even understand why he is missing it?  Did I make the right choice or should I have taken him to see the specialist to see if we could save his leg?  Then there is always the “What if’s” and the “I should have’s” ……. Like I should have made sure our company shut the gate when they left, I should have made sure the gate was closed before we let Jasper out, and what if something worse happened to Jasper.  And what if I made the wrong decision for him.

AND THEN……………………….

I look at him and I see how happy he is, how he flies when he runs, how he can out run his little brother and get the ball 1st.  How he is still the same Jasper and I realize that I made the right decision for everyone.  He may be missing a leg but we still have him. We still have his kisses, we still have him dropping his ball on our lap and giving us the biggest doggy smile as in saying “lets go play ball”, we still have tons of Jasper fur every where, and we still have the best dog any family could have.   My daughter still has her  independence, her companion, her confidant, and best friend. The other kids in the house (I am also a foster parent) has someone to cuddle up to when they feel they have nothing in their lives, they have a friend, some one to go play catch with out in the yard, they learn that having a disability does not mean being out of the “game”. WE STILL HAVE JASPER AND HE STILL HAS US!!!

 

I MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE!!!