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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

A Note From Joey and Maggie: We're Back! And We Visited The Wienermobile!

The Mothership landed directly behind your Long and Short of it All hosts 'Joey' and 'Maggie'

Greetings fellow Dachshund Lovers.  We're back from vacation, and boy did we need it.  We visited our grandparents for Mother's Day, and they are two of our favorite humans, so we had a great time.  We also visited with our Dachshund country-cousin 'Rudy,' and his young pain-in-the-neck brother 'Baxter,' a Havanese who is just getting out of puppyhood.  We had a fun time though.
We headed back to Chicago for MidWest Dachshund Rescue's 3rd Annual Cross Town Bark Around Fundraiser on Saturday - and WOW!  What an event!  There were over 500 humans in attendance, and a good 300 or so Dachshunds.  Between the wiener races, free hot dogs, Wienermobile, cake walk, raffle prizes, silent auctions, and Doxie store, we sure kept ourselves busy.  What an awesome event.  If you live in the MidWest, make sure to plan on attending next year.
On the home front, Joey and Maggie were in good health for the vacation.  Maggie has to spend a day at the vet's today to get an ACTH stimulation test to see how her trilostane is helping her for her Cushing's.  Joey won't like being left home alone.  We're hoping to schedule Maggie's surgery for next Tuesday to remove her anal tumor.  It's starting to bug her more, but she should be far enough away from her pancreatitis attack to go ahead with surgery (surgery can induce pancreatitis).  It's going to be a risky surgery for her with her heart murmur, Cushing's, and pancreatitis, but she's feeling really good right now - running around outside like a puppy - so hopefully all will be OK. 



Here are some fun photos that we took from MWDR's event.

9 comments:

Jayne D. and AnnieBelle said...

Welcome back, Joey, Maggie and Carson!! We sure did miss hearing from you but are glad to hear you all had a fine vacation!! What a fun time you must have had at that doxie event - thank you for the wonderful pictures!! Will be keeping you in our thoughts and prayers in the days to come - hope Maggie will do well with her surgery. Love to all!! Jayne and Annie

Holly Diane said...

Awesome pictures! My two doxies are so jealous that you got to see the weinermobile!

firstyouleap said...

That is such a great photo of the dynamic duo! So gladyou had a wonderful vacation and that everyone is feeling healthy! We're sending good energy hearts and hugs to all of you....Melinda and Jeeves

Oscar and Hans said...

Hey guys! Glad to see you had a fun vacation. We saw the Wienermobile last month - it is really awesome!

We will be keeping our paws crossed for Maggie to have a safe surgery. WOOF!

--Oscar and Hans

Alison said...

It was absolutely wienerful to see you adorable little furkids at the fun-raiser. Our very-most famous guests! Love your picture by da Wienermobile. Your expression says 1,000 words. (I felt the same way kiddos!) Maggie, I hope your procedure goes off without a hitch and you're back home with Mr. Joey in no time. And Joey, help take care of your sister. Give her the soft spot on the couch and stuff like that! Dog-love.....ain't it grand?

Anonymous said...

Welcome back!

I have a weinermobile xmas ornament that I use on my doxie xmas tree as the "star" for the tree. Just something a wacko doxie person would do, doncha think?

Liz

Debi said...

So glad to have you back, we missed you! But we're glad to hear you had a fun vacation ^-^ We will be praying that Maggie's surgery goes well.

*hugs*
Debi & Ringo

Anonymous said...

Thanks for coming and we are glad you had fun.

Maggie I am thinking about you and I am sure it will now you will be just fine. Just think your tush will feel so much better

Lori MWDR

Anonymous said...

Your photos of those two are always so awesome :)

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