Pompei's Blog

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In case you was wondering why there wasn't much posted about Pompei on dis blog, its cause he has his on blog all by himself. Well and all da other puppies my mom has brought home. 
Dat way i can have dis blog all by myself. um... also Mom will be changin day URL thingy too real soo...probably sometin like: twodachshundsandco.blogspot.com 
And probably on Saturday. 
So if you can't even find us dats what happened. 
Anyway mom has been VERY mean to me lately, cause her bed got throwed out and she has to get a new one, so she and me and Bubbles has been sleepin on the couch. But BOY let me tell you dat makes her VERY.VERY. GRumPY! 
She doesn't even like me to sleep under da covers no more. Somtin about me Hoggin them!? 
WHAT?! 
Read My Lips. 
Or Teeths.
Do Dogs have lips?
Whatever.
Loooook intoo my eeeyeeeee.
I.Never.Hog.Covers.

Ever.

Oh Fleas....

This is kind of an embarrassing post, but its something I know we've all had to deal with at one time or another. In the 8 years I've owned a dog, this is the second time they've gotten fleas. Still... telling someone you have fleas in your house somehow implies that you don't clean or are a dirty person. 


However that indeed is the case in my home. Back in July, Pompei came in contact with the little buggers and they have given him a run for his money, one really bad skin infection and an expensive vet trip later we were loaded up with antibiotics and medicated shampoos for the infection. We also put him on Comfortis since Frontline and Sentinel were doing no good. 

Bubbles and Texas were on Frontline as well, but I put them on Advantage Multi after spotting a flea on Texas. I take no chances. I thought we were good. All dogs were medicated Pompei's infection was clearing up, school was keeping me busy and I hadn't noticed any fleas lingering on the dogs. 


Pompei's shampoo treatment requires me to bathe him every three days, I have to leave the shampoo on him for about 10 minutes before rinsing him off. I really can't tell you who has more fun during this 20 minute ordeal. Actually I can, that would be Texas who sits whining by the tub wanting to get in too. (If I let him, he'd sit in the tub with Pompei and I while i bathe Pompei. Don't let that last picture fool you, he likes his baths...)

Anyway as I was massaging the shampoo into his skin, I noticed something run for cover. NO. PLEASE? NO! It was indeed a nasty little flea, I quickly squashed it and glanced down in time to see another floating towards the drain. Hmph. But I didn't think too much about it since, I mean he was medicated, and I'm sure these fleas were going to die anyway. Right....right?


A little later, curled up in bed with a book I thought I felt something jump on me, but chalked it up to my imagination at seeing the fleas earlier. It wasn't until the little perp landed on my book did I freak out. Seriously? Fleas in my BED!? How am I supposed to sleep now?  I grabbed my phone and googled "natural flea repellents" and got some tips for ridding my house of fleas, cause I refuse to do the "bomb" route. Too much work. Hassel. Etc.


What I found:

• Salt 
• Baking Soda
• Apple Cider Vineager + Water
• Earl Grey Tea
• Vacuum Cleaner
• Washing Machine 
• Lots of Work.

Yay.

So if you don't "see" me around the intraweb much this week. Know this. 

I'm Cleaning.

PS -If anyone would like to write my paper for me while I do this it would be greatly appreciated!!

New Beds...or Are they??

So mom came home all excited from work today, our dog walkers had brought in a big box, when the came and got us this afternoon, but it didn't look like anything special, so I don't know why she was all excited about it.

She started acting all funny, and started *gasp* Tearing the box up with one of those sharp pointy things, and then took out two funny rolled up things.

We were glad she was home and everything, but were wondering why she didn't take us outside, as we normally do when she gets home from work. So we busied ourselves by playing around the house. When we came back, all (well most) of our old beds had disappeared, and these new ones we're in their place!!!

Weird thing was, they smelled like our old beds, but they looked completely different! Can anyone help us out here??

Where have our old beds gone???

[Bubbles curled up on a blue round dog bed, with dog shapes patterns on it]

[Texas and Victoria laying on huge chocolate colored dog bed, with a white city scape on it.]

P.S. ( We really do like them though!!)
P.P.S(Hope had to go away for something called eval? Don't know what it is, but we sure miss her, like a LOT!) 
P.P.S.S (Oh if you have a chance you should check out this blog: http://bishoptheservicedog.blogspot.com - He's in training like Victoria and Hope!)