Bath Time for a Good Cause

Let's start with the back story before we blog about our adventure.

Millie

The CheeseHounds have a friend at momma's work named Mille. She is a very sweet chocolate labrador who has a very rare form of cancer sickies. It's got a really long crazy name that we can't remember. Millie is one of between 8 and 12 doggies in the US with this type of cancer sickies. Millie's momma had a Hot Dawg Wash to help raise kibble monies for Millie's chemo treatments! And of course the CheeseHounds attended!

Now our adventure begins:

Momma had told us about the Hot Dawg Wash and so Saturday morning Mickey and Droopy were loaded into the car. Side note: Smiley had gone to work with momma the two days before and was basically a basset shaped lump on the sofa. Kayah does not like new places and hates baths so she was not a good choice for this adventure.

Droopy got her bath first

One clean but pissed off Droopy basset hound

I don't want to be clean!!!!!!!

Mickey even attempted an escape

While Mickey was getting his bath, Droopy had her own personal human hand-toweling her off. She was a very happy basset hound.

Action shot!!!!!!

Once we were done Momma talked, ate a gourmet hot dog, shared some bits of hot dog with us, and did a bunch of boring human stuff! Then it was time to go home.

We didn't even make it home before we had to nap from all the excitement!

Want to know why Smiley was so tired????

Well she has a boyfriend at Momma's work!!

His name is Corbin! Isn't he cute???

Sniff ya later,

The CheeseHounds

P.S. We're still waiting for addresses for our Name Game winners!!! Our e-mail is me@moptoss.com! Email us! Can't mail you your prize if we don't have your address!

Name Game Winners

Boy oh boy do your humans have funny nicknames for you dogs!!

The nicknames highlights: Booboo, Sammish, Monster, Mister Mister, Cochi (which means Piggy), Bubba, Pea, Girlfriend, The Round Hound, Happy Feet, Far Far, Peachy Keen, HUGE! and Beefy.

But our paws down favorite was Amiee who's nickname is Happy Feet cause she does a little happy dance when she needs to go outside to potty or when she's excited! Yay Amiee!!

So now our prize winners:

Our friend Lorenza won the Save Our Shrimp t-shirt!

Our friends, Sam and Monty won the Keep Dat Erl Off my Ersters t-shirt!

Our friend Beauford won the Mardi Gras necklace!

Our friend Kim at Golden Pines (and her crew) won the Saint's tennis ball!

Our friends at K9 Katastrophies won the strawberry toy!

Our friends, Amiee, Winston, and Cleo and their HoundDog Mom

won the basset car accessories!!!

We had soooo much fun playing the nickname game!!! We should do this more often, if momma will let us!

To our winners: please e-mail us. Please put Nickname game in the subject line and we will need your address!!!!

To those who didn't win, we're sorry! We wish we had enough prizes for everybody!

Slobbers,

The CheeseHounds

Our 100th Post!!!!! Plus a fun game

Hey everybodies

Guess what????? This is our 100th post! Hurray!

So we figured we'd play a little game and have some fun!

We want to play the nickname game. We're gonna tell you our funny nicknames and you tell us yours and why your human calls you that!

First off

Droopy a.k.a Super Pooper.

It started off as Super Droopy cause I went to a costume party dressed as Superman and the crazy nickname slowed changed into Super Pooper.

Smiley a.k.a. Miles of Smiles

Any explanation needed?!?!

Kayah a.k.a. Kayah Papaya

Not much else rhymes with Kayah.

Mickey a.k.a. Mr Mickey

As the only gentleman of the dog variety in the house it's up to Mickey to remain dignified.

And last but not least our dear Callie girl

Callie a.k.a. The mountain goat

Callie loved to climb on everything!!

And now our prizes!

We thought we'd pick out some fun New Orleans stuff for our winners.

First some rules:

1. Our game ends June 9th.

2. You need to supply your nickname and why your human calls you that.

3. Please note what prize you would like to win and you are more than welcome to put your name in for more than one prize!

A Save Our Shrimp t-shirt size Large, which fits a smaller than basset sized pup.

A Keep Dat Erl Off My Ersters shirt ( a.k.a. Keep that oil off my oysters) size 2XL,

for our slightly larger than basset friends.

A medium sized purple, green and gold necklace. Perfect for Barkus!

A tennis ball with Saints rope, for our tennis ball lovin buddies!

And a strawberry toy, for our smaller buddies.

And two car accessories for the basset lovin' humans!

Well we can't wait to hear all of your funny nicknames!!!!!
Slobbers,

The CheeseHounds

Super Trooper Drooper

Droopy here!

I have had a busy busy week and it's only Tuesday!

Stupid t-shirt! But it's extra long just for bassets!

After days and days of wearing a silly shirt Momma took me to the vet on Monday and had my stitches taken out!

No more stitches!!!!!!!!

The vet and the vet techs said my belly healed super well!!! The vet also got back my lab results from my funny lump. It was a low-grade cancerous lump. I've had one other lump like this. I don't have to do chemo or anything; Momma just has to watch out for more lumpy bumpies!

Then today Momma told me it was time to go back to the eye doctor.

Mom I don't want to go to the eye doctor!

The eye doctor was the same. Lots of drops, shiny lights in my eyes, and whatnot.

Not a happy Droopy!

Momma said I was very good, even though I whined and grumbled throughout the entire visit. The doctor said I still lots of drops but I don't mind.

Momma was loading me into the car when I heard her say 'Hey look there's Fetch!' and I replied 'What's fetch? I know of no such word.'

Well we have a new doggie store in New Orleans called Fetch! and it's across the street from the eye doctor! Of course Momma and I beelined it over to the store!

Fetch!

I though it was an awesome store! Lots of treats, foodables, toys, bowls, and shampoos! Momma bought me a bag of delicious crunchy liver treats, which I was told I have to share with Smiley, Kayah and Mickey. Too bad cause those treats are yummy!!!!!!

Then Momma drove us home and I immediately went to my busy day of napping.

Well back to my nap!

Sniff ya later,

Droopy and the other CheeseHounds

P.S. These two are so silly!

P.S.S. Momma here:

I know the cancerous lump thing sounds a bit scary but let me explain. Droopy was spayed late in life, when she was 9. Droopy is an old lady who is prone to funny lumps. I found a lump 3 years ago, which was also cancerous. Our vet feels that with the lumps being so small, the fact that the entire lump has been removed, with no signs of it spreading anywhere else, and the fact that it is low grade that we don't have anything to worry about. We keep an eye out and have managed to catch both lumps when they were extremely small; we're talking pea sized! So no worries! I hate putting Droopy through surgery to have the lumps removed but the last lump was cancerous and so was this one so I feel like I'd rather be safe then sorry.

Super Droopy Returns

Please excuse my delay is posting about my splurgery but I've been resting.

My teeth are nice and shiny and clean! Plus I didn't have to have any of them pulled.

I also had a small lump removed from my mammary area. I have about 15 stitches. I'm doing well with them but they're so itchy so Momma's forced me to wear this silly shirt.

The v-e-t also took more pictures of my bladder stone. And good news: it hasn't gotten any bigger. Hurray!!!!!!! Meanwhile, the v-e-t is trying me out on a super duper bladder stone dissolving food!

I think the new food is delicious while Momma thinks it looks and smells gross! If it makes my bladder stone go away who cares!

Well time to back to recuperating!

Sniff ya later,

Droopy

P.S. Smiley, Kayah, and Mickey are doing great but this post is all about me.

Paws Crossed

Keep your paws crossed for Droopy today! She's going to the vet to have her teethies cleaned, get a small lump removed and get some x-rays of her bladder stone.

Droopy got a clean bill of health last week at the vet but there were just a few things that needed to get taken care of, like the funny lump. We always worry about Droopy getting anesthesia since she is an old lady but the vet did blood work and everything came back ok!

Paws Crossed!!!!!!!!

Slobbers,

The CheeseHounds

P.S. Everybody else is doing good and we have lots of catching up to do!

Back to the eye doctor!

We have been horrible bloggie friends and haven't been reading blogs! We hope you'll forgive us and we will be catching up with our bloggie friends, post haste!

Well it's been 6 months and it was time to go back to the eye doctor.

Mom, can we go home now???

I don't really like going to the eye doctor, there's way too many funny drops and weird shiny lights in my eyes. Like this:

This is the eye doctor checking the pressure in my eyes. Basset Hounds are prone to growl-cloma, which is where the fluid in your eye creates pressure and can hurts lots! It can also lead to blindness!

Then the stupid eye doctor turned out the lights and shined this really bright light in my eyes!!! He was checking the lenses in my eyes. Apparently the tiny blood vessels over my corneas are very inflamed. Whatever that means! Because of all the nice weather we're having down here, the pollen from the plants is everywhere and is making my eyes all red and ouchie!

So the eye doctor said More Eye Drops!!!! I now get 5 eye drops everyday, instead of 3! Momma says I'm super good about my eye drops.

Now some happy news!

Mickey started going to work with Momma. He loves it!!!!!

Sniff ya later,

Droopy, Smiley, Kayah and Mickey