He really is - even more so in person.

He is the cutest little land shark evah. 

Sadly, the teething toys didn't arrive in time, so am improvising with his plushie toys, cardboard tubes and a rolled up puppy blanket.  He would, naturally, prefer to use my hand, slipper, dressing gown or anything else that comes near his maw when the devil is upon him, but we're working on that 

How is it a month since I posted about choosing Clive??

i picked him up evening of 23rd Dec.
So we are now on day 2
He's ludicrously cute.

when I picked him up the woman was still at work and had left hubby in charge of kids, dogs  and puppies.
conseqeuntly he didn't get his final bath 
yesterday morning, he did a poo, jumped thriough it to get to me and then sat back into it to scratch .... so we attempted a bath.

i would say it was a partial success - i think of the two of us, I was wetter. Not sure I got all the shampoo washed out of him. Drying a wriggling pup who wants to play was an adventure.  

i forgot (sort of) just how full on they are at this age lol. 

here's a pic of him, still a bit damp after his mini bath

 

Dictator?

Thanks guys. 

Carrot passed away today, around midday. 
He was helped on his way to the Rainbow bridge by a very caring vet. 
He was at home, with me and mum came by as well. 

i am broken. 
and i feel guilty for shouting at him so much lately when he wouldn't strop barking, or when he kept tipping his food onto the carpet
I feel guilty for all the times i told him to go and settle, because i just wanted to watch tv or youtube and didn't have the mental energy to engage after work, and walks and meals.

I'd give anything to have those evenings back. 

but i also know that he had lovely times too. 

i miss him so much already. i am dreading bed time. 

Clodfobble wrote:

Oh man, I envy you, getting to watch it for the first time. Make sure you have no distractions when you watch the last episode of season 1. It is a fucking doozy.

oh it's a quiet house type of watch all the way through so far. looking forward to the finale. I'm on ep 5 now.  I love everything about it. it's so atmospheric. 

Late to the party as ever, but i am 3 eps into season  1 of Severance.
Wow it is good if a bit unsettling.

i called this an update, but i cant remember how much of this i talked about when i mentioned the situation in an unrelated thread

It's been such a strange few months. Every now and again the enormity of what he has been through and is going through hits me full force and it takes my breath away for a moment. Sometimes, i just get this flash of an image - him in the hospital, the look in his eyes, or the way his face used to look, his familiar quirks and mannerisms. Sometimes it sets off a mini-panic attack. Sometimes it just breaks my heart. 

He's still here though - he's still him.  As bad as this shit show has been it could have been so much worse.
 

Clodfobble wrote:

Fun fact I learned the other day: nearly all of the developed nations that have single-payer healthcare instituted those systems in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression. The US government attempted to do it back then, too, and the key reason they couldn't get it through was that it would have created racially-integrated hospitals. Bigots were so determined to avoid sharing a building with a black person--or being a white doctor forced to treat black patients--that they killed a program they otherwise were widely in favor of.

The power of hate

monster wrote:

I Stand By My Assertion-  Diane Dessill

 

That one took me an embarrassingly long time to get

that would be amazing!

the Audible app is doing my head in. the most recent update has left it so unstable. so annoying whne you are totally immersed in the story and then it goes silent.