Molly, 13 yr, shih tzu - lhasa aspo - Molly has passed

Seems to be the time for our routine checkups on the forum, here's hoping all of them do well and get good results.

When was her last ultrasound done? I do think it is worth checking them regularly, look at Flynny for example when he had kinda some cush symptoms but negative on testing, it was the ultrasound that eventually picked up his pheo so on that basis alone I would recommend them. Crikey I am not suggesting Molly has one of those but sometimes whatever is wrong with them takes a while to declare itself so I figure catching things early has to be good. But Miss Molly is going to pass her next round with flying colours!!!

LOL I know exactly what you mean. :) She is going to do well and that is exactly why I was wondering about getting another one. She has one last year. Still no symptoms of cushings.

She is currently begging me for some pasta which she has never been allowed but continues to try and convince me that I'm a big ole meanie for withholding it from her. Her begging is that she will sit and look at you and then rock from foot to foot with impatience and eventually if look at her too often, make this humph humph noise at you. She'll get a doggie treat later. :)

Hope you are getting a good start to your holiday.

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Love those Diva Molly stories!

Well, the diva is still a diva with paranoia of the steps.

So, here is the latest. My husband left on Tuesday for a business trip. Molly had all her normal walk times then around 8:30, while I was on the phone yakking with a friend, she went down to the basement and peed, then tried to come up and again, about 4 or 3 steps from the top, I heard her scuffling on the carpet, I ran to the steps and she was just making it to the top. Brat.

She'd just been for a walk at 5pm too. I told Hubby when he called around 10pm that she must have been acting up because she saw him take his suitcase and not come home. The last time she did this was when she had the bacterial infection. I cleaned the pee up with the bissel hand held and there was no discoloration, perfect yellow. I repeat BRAT! she hasn't done it again either.

However, today she goes down the steps, while I was on my work laptop, talking with a colleague and gets to the bottom, sniffs around the basement for awhile, then starts barking. It took a good 15 minutes to convince her to go up the steps on her own. You'd have thought I had asked her to do an impossible task. However, she did finally go up them, with me behind her, and she didn't miss a step at all. She even over jumped the last one to get to the landing. Then she jumps up and down because this is such a major accomplishment for her, she looks like she is on a rubber band going straight up and down on the main floor landing. (so yea, I gave her a yippeee treat) I swear that girl, is such a character. But now the paranoia is even worse. She was bound and determined I would carry her up the steps and I was bound and determined that she would do them on her own. (I won This time).

and so the saga of molly muffin, diva dog, continues. :)

hugs,
Sharlene and molly muffin

So Sharlene, aside from overflowing the pie plate :(, how did the coconut pie turn out?? Would you make it again?

Marianne :)

I'd say it turned it pretty good, my husband had 3 pieces as soon as I told him it had cooled enough. He started with one, and kept going back for more, so that is a good sign. :)

Yes I think I'd make it again. Probably play around with reducing a bit of milk or increasing a bit of the bisquick for a thicker consistency. It does firm up nicely when put into the fridge though.

Sharlene

That Molly sounds so much like Tia. She thought I was supposed to hold her all the time and I always did, just like a baby on my hip! Times like this, I'm glad I did even when everyone made fun of me. What I'd give now to be able to hold her again...

Love and prayers to you all.

Donna and Angel Tia

Hi Sharlene,
It is nice to read that Molly is still up to her princess ways at your house. She sure does know how to keep you in line. :D

I want Coconut Pie!! I think I might make one now and take it around to my parents where we have a working bee this arvo.... I will do a report :D:D

I so know that begging rocking from foot to foot stance! Putting on their I am starving face at the same time, hard to resist!

Right, I am off to search back through your thread for the recipe! xx

Hi Sharlene,
Still going through all the posts and now that I've read all yours and I'm hungry for pie!! Ha..just what I don't need!!
So what do you think Molly and steps is all about?? When my younger daughter was 4 she would say " I just want some "be-ttention"..instead of attention. So, I'm thinking maybe Molly just wants some "bettention" :D or she likes the idea of you spotting her on the way up the scary steps!
Thank you for your sweet messages on my thread while I was away. Getting back to a routine around here and starting to sort out things at my parents house. A big job ahead there...and I've already gotten started this week with the help of a friend and my mom's caregiver. So much stuff to deal with. Decided to take the weekend off and not go to the house until next week. It will be strange having a whole weekend again, it's almost 3 years of what I called eldercare Sunday. We'll have some nice outdoor time this weekend. Trixie is enjoying the chill in the air. Even needed my gloves the last few mornings.
Glad Molly is doing well! Hope you have a nice weekend.

Barbara