The pen arrived. Molly is Not impressed. It has two doors on it, and we put her inside with her toy box and sheep skin rug and left the doors open, so she could go in and out. Then we both went back to work, but she Could see both of us from different directions. She moaned and groaned and barked and carried on something fierce, but wouldn't go out the doors. Then it got quiet. After about 45 minutes we went over, one to each door and molly was laying down, flat, tail flat behind her, head flat in front of her between her paws, we both reached in and petted her and she refused to acknowledge either of us. Wouldn't look at us, wouldn't acknowledge we were touching her, nothing. Molly was pissed off. LOL

She stayed that way until the kids came home, and opened the front door. At which point, she ran out of the pen and to the gate. Pen failure. She won't go back in. We've blocked off the entry to the living room, and the entry to the kitchen, opened the french doors and we've blocked off the window seats and anything she can jump on. That for now is working.

Molly is just like Flynn and Tipper, she doesn't think there is any problem at all with her and wants to run like crazy and jump. She hates going outside because I have to pick her up and carry her down the step. So, she wags her tail to go out (at the gate) but then when I open the gate to the door, she doesn't want to go up. Eventually she will but she puts up a bit of a huff when it comes time to pick her up.

Molly had two disc areas, one in the center and one in the back, lower towards the tail (thank god neither close to her neck) and the one closest to the her tail, no longer seems to bother her. The middle of her back is bothering her, but the medicine and laser seem to be helping. The vet said she is amazed at how molly acts like nothing is wrong at all. We'll see what today brings as she is now on a 3 day break from medicine. We'll evaluate again monday morning at the vets and then on Tuesday she'll probably start back on a 4 day series of medicine again. She has 3 more laser treatments, 2 next week and 1 the week afterwards.

Hopefully she'll be back to herself, but I've ordered a ramp and some stairs to get her to the window seat, and we'll see if she needs those or not. I might be using the pen tonight as I have that dinner and don't want her being too rambunctious.

So, menu for tonight is, chicken chipolte chowder, beef enchiladas, chicken enchilada casserole, chili rellinos, spanish rice, coleslaw, black bean and corn salad and to finish up, churros with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. That should keep everyone happy. Then when everyone is so stuffed they can't move, we'll watch a movie on the couch.

hugs all,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin