Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: The Hound is Home

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

28 September 2011

The Hound is Home

Three days and MANY dollars later, Bullseye is back home. She's still a bit slow on her feet and it will be a few weeks before we can take her for walks again but she's alive and we're all thankful for that.

She's looking quite funky her hew new summer do. She's short from the neck down, showing off her Dalmatian spots in her white bits while her black is pure black. I love her short coat, which is the sweetener for the fact that we'll probably have to clip her every August and keep her hair short until Autumn each year. This way, we'll be able to feel ticks on her skin before they cause her too much trouble.

The paralysis tick that caused all the heartache (and cost) is languishing in prison. There is no hope of rehabilitation and therefore there is no recommended parole period. If she lays a trillion eggs now, they can perish in prison with her.

4 comments:

Tracy P. said...: That looks remarkably like your dead fly! Glad she is better. I can only imagine how your heart sank when you found her like that. I trust that Jessie is now recovering also. :-); 28 September, 2011 22:56
tinsenpup said...: Poor Bullseye! What a nasty little critter. I'm glad she's going to recover. We want to shave the Spoodle when it gets warmer. Not that we get ticks down here, we just think it might be lower maintenance. I predict he'll look delightfully odd.; 28 September, 2011 23:08
Allegro ma non troppo said...: I just don't understand the tick's motivation for paralysing an animal. Surely there are easier ways to get a millilitre of blood?; 29 September, 2011 16:02
Hippomanic Jen said...: We used to use anti-tick spot-on stuff when we lived in an area with them. Has to be applied ridiculously frequently and cost a small fortune, but it was worth it (still had to check him over, though); 05 October, 2011 15:42

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In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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28 September 2011

The Hound is Home

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