well lastnight was not as blissful as i would have liked. at about 11pm bohdan decided it was time to take another walk.. at least that is what he was telling me. it didn't happen, no extra walks.

today when i got home from class and the marketing was all put away i took bohdan for a walk in the neighborhood. i keep trying to stretch out our walks and go a little bit further each time. today we went about a block further and i started the walk out on an uphill.

i would have to say that he is pooped. he needed to rest but that wasn't until we were at the end of our block. does he rest to extend the walk, or is he really tired? somtimes my simple dog can be so complex.

i knew he wanted a walk, since he didn't get one lastnight... well that and he always wants a walk. so when i got home from running my errands and had caught my breath.. we went around the neighborhood, but we had to hurry before the kids from the school next door were out. then the neighborhood gets crazy.. cars and noisey kids all over the place. not what we wanted for a peacful walk.

We walked up the hill 4 bloks and over one, and back down.
we kept a pretty good pace, and bohdan is tired out now.

maybe it will keep him quiet tonight.

tuesday was a day for people.. and the bohdan dog didn't get a walk. he was a little peeved about this and let me know. i had been gone all day... and when i came home, after he had eaten... he wanted his walk. i wanted to go to bed.
so i put on my pj's and crawled into bed, for hour he lay there off and on whining to tell me it was time "to go"....

nope not tonight it isn't.

we have been trying to get in at least one walk a day, and on some days two.
bohdan has been eager every morning to go on a walk, even when he looks stiff and is limping. he has had some muscle spasms in his back which i have been rubbing and trying to work out.

i have started him back on his suplements since it has been so long and he seemed to be having some problems with his muscles and joints. we are also looking at the bohdan getting his rabies shot early feb and in the past he has had problems with it. mini seizures, temperment changes etc. so I am working with the homeopath to come up with something that will help him tolerate the vaccine better.

i took the puppy to the vet today and one of the things that came from our visit is that she needs to lose about 10-15 pounds. I was aware that she was a little heavy but not just how overweight, so both dogs are on a diet now.

I have been researching better ways to feed them a raw diet that will help them lose weight and keep them healthy... we shall see how it goes.

well we have made it 7 weeks between chiropractor visits and today I was able to get bohdan on the scale, he is 160 now. he was 154 before surgery. He is looking trim, but I think it is mostly new muscle.

After the visit we went for a walk around the block and I then left bohdan in the
car to go in and pay the vet. When I got back bohdan was sitting in the passengers seat waiting for me. Now if he were a smaller dog I would have left him there
and just driven home, like I had when he was a puppy. Now he takes up too much space, and I had to get him into the back seat.

I was able to get him into the drivers seat, but that was no good.... all I could think about was the fact that he had just had a chiropractic adjustment and now he was going to knock everything out of alignment.

got him into the back and then homeward we were.

we went to the beach yesterday and had ourselves and adventure....then today we went to the East Bay and went hiking in concord. we were supposed to meet up with a friend, but he was not available at first.

Just as we were beginning to head back to the cars our friend jon and his dog action joined us.. our walk was about an hour long, and it is the longest bohdan has been out and about. he was really tired, and his front leg was shaking, but it was good exercise.

well it has been a very long time since i have posted. we have just been going along with our lives. walking now and then when it hasn't been raining too hard and trying to come up with ways for bohdan to get more exercise meet more dogs and behave himself. talk about a challenge.

on new years day we took a short stroll through the neighborhood. when we were a block or so from our home, we hit a 4 way intersection with two big dogs
barking at eachother from opposite corners and us on a third.

it was amazing my dog was the best behaved out of all of them, and he was whining and yipping to go play.

today we went to the beach, we wanted to take trillian to the offleash part of the beach. so we walked in the sand and it was hard on bohdan but he kept up, he even wanted to run after trillian and shari so... i wouldn't let him off leash cause
there would be no way of catching him if he ran too far and who knows what kind of trouble he would get into.

we walked and walked and when we met up with other dogs, he whined and yipped, and one dog didn't want to come say hi... and then on our way back a teenage australian shephard came running at us. both trillian and bohdan were well behaved until, at some point something triggered bohdan and he snarled at the puppy and took out a huge tuft of her hair.

i have no idea what triggered him, his leash had become tangled and i was in the process of telling him he was good and we should be going.

i apologized to the owner and then watched the same dog approach another group of dogs, and had nearly the same thing happen with them. who knows what set bohdan off.

we walked for 45 minutes in wet to damp sand... i know i am tired. we rested a lot on the way back, and i know i pushed him pretty hard, he will be sore.

oh and we are going to see the chiro on tuesday.