Sam

  • Post CCL Surgery: A Beagle’s Story

    Three months after Sam’s surgery for her torn CCL and I’m here to report that all involved survived.  Sam walks, runs, plays, hops and dances.  She may need to stretch a bit, before bounding out the door, but overall she is looking good. I’m basically going to evangelize a bit to those thinking about surgery for ligament tears,…

  • “She” is Not Code for “Him”

    Sam came with her name, which is a fine name, but not necessarily a name I’d give a pet. If I’d actually had the opportunity to name Sam, she would have been given a name generally reserved for pets, hillbillies or very old people, and it wouldn’t have been anything like Sam or even Renee…

  • The Chronicles of Sam: Week Two – Milestones

    I know you’ve been waiting around all week hoping for the latest Sam update and you’re in luck. I know! How exciting! (We all know “shut up about the dog already” is actually just a thinly veiled plea for more beagle news. It’s “code”. I have it on the best authority. Mine.) This week Sam…

  • The Chronicles of Sam: Week 1

    This first week has been about establishing new routines and I’m very glad to be on the end of that week and not back at the beginning. Taking a dog that used to have the use of four legs and free range of the house and forcing her to become one who lives with a…

  • Worth It

    Sam just got home… if she could speak I’m sure it would be something like: you feed me, you betray me and now you have a camera – on a suck scale you’re rating a 10. Good job.

  • The Sam Chronicles: A Rant

    “Is she worth it?” If you suddenly feel this question coming out of your mouth and you’re talking to me, the high-pitched sound of someone slamming on their brakes at top speed to avoid a disastrous incident with an immovable object better have played in your head before even the slightest little hiss pops out…

  • The Sam Chronicles: Surgery

    As most of you know, today we start the lengthy process of getting our beagle Sam back on track to being the goofy, glad to greet the world, ever-starving, flappy earred mess that we love and adore. Sam recently tore her cranial cruciate ligament (CCL), which is a lot like your ACL – it’s one…

  • Tenacity Prevails!

  • (Insert Your Photo Here)

    Hmph. Well, either Blogger or the Interwebs don’t seem to want you to see a photo of Sam. So, I’ll describe her – she’s beagle-y, all ears and nose with four paws and exceptionally cute. (I’m exceptional at descriptions – you can practically see her frolicking about now.) If the web relents, I might actually…

  • Sam Update: Revelations

    For you Sam groupies out there, here’s an update — We recently learned Sam loves chicken. Sure, as a beagle she lives for her nose and all the neat things it can snuffle out (rule of paw – the smellier the better), but food is food is food to Sam (and sometimes food can be…