Today I did something I never thought I would ever do as a dog owner (really, dog adopter or "Puppy Father"); I held my dog's poop AND urine in my hand. Yup, both. Gross.
My lovable pup, Pepper, (who is actually a full on adult at over 3 years old) was recently diagnosed with a UTI. There is nothing fun about that. Anyway, the Vet ordered a secondary urine sample 10-12 days after the antibiotic injection had been given. Today is day 11. At least, Heather -- while her friend assisted -- was the one collecting the sample. I simply took the Tupperware to the Vet.
Lets hope for clean urine! I sound like a professional athlete.
I recently participated in tryouts for an elite Ultimate Frisbee team from Philly. The team is Pike and they are known as a "team to beat" in the Ultimate World in the Club level Open division (Open = men's) at least on the East Coast. This was an excellent experience for me. I have just come off a really fun, yet fairly disappointing College career in terms of success. I have never made it past the first round of the Championship Series (Sectionals, Regionals, Nationals) in College. Pike is a team that used to consistently go to Nationals until recently and the captains seem hungry as hell to make it Nationals once again. I started the tryout period by going to random pick up games in both New Brunswick and Philly. There I meet some of the veterans on the team and learned how their system worked a bit. The main tryout weekend was an intense experience. The last weekend of May anyone that wanted to try out for the team was invited to a brutal tryouts in Philly at t...
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