Hello lovely Lupies. Lots of us are struggling at the moment so I thought you might like to see how my Finlay returned from his Saturday field trip with the wonderful dog walker and his fur pals.
In fairness the dog walker did send us a video before they left for home so we had the towels over the floor and the bath running ready.🫣💩🛁❤️🐾🐾
I hope it gives you a laugh and that life starts to improve for us soon 😘
Awwwwww 🥰🥰🥰
What a lovely mucky little rascal. No wonder you love him to bits 🐾🐾🐾
It made me giggle Meg, he is such a beautiful, loving,little boy. He had fun that’s the main thing xxx
he certainly looks as though he had fun ☺️☺️☺️
Fantastic 😁😂🐶🐶
Thank you Carol xx
What a gorgeous picture. Thanks for sharing. Has helped to brighten up this weekend. 🐾🐾🐶🐕
Thank yiu so much xx
Gosh ! how big he got. Lovely boy having so much fun abd not a care in the world 🥰 thanks for sharing making me smile. Hope youre ma aging to smile too 😉x
Yes he is very curly at the moment after a dreadful groom in November I am trying to grow it out so that the new groomer has a chance to make him look like a cocker rather than a skinned rabbit. He makes me smile every day and that has been impossible for anyone else this past year xx
Ah to be so free and so cherished. Wonderful. xx
Thank you Rosie xx
Hi CecilyParsley
What a lovely picture. It really made me smile . Which hasn't happened much lately as I've been feeling so rotten.
Such a gorgeous dog.
Thank you.
Xx
Bless you I empathise. I have been unbearably miserable, sad, angry, despairing and yet I see Finlay and smile. He is my ray of sunshine. I really hope things improve for you xx
Awwww💕 He is adorable. Must have had so much fun and mud can be washed off. Xx 🛀 🚿 🧼
Thank you so much. Yes several changes of bath water and he was his sweet smelling self again.Just seeing the videos and photos the dog walker sends is a real tonic. I so miss going out with my boys but I can hardly walk at the moment so it is the next best thing xxx
That’s good he is sweet smelling again. Will have to post an after pic to see the difference! Xx 🐕 🐶
All clean
Beautiful! Butter wouldn’t melt! Xx
I hope that big snake doesn’t try and swallow him up 😆
It would have to get past me first lol xxx
love it. Got a good laugh. Looks like he had fun.
Thank you, yes he loves mud and water xx
Obviously a before "Crufts" photo, although I would've awarded best in breed for wearing mud. He's still gorgeous and looks so happy. Bet the after match bath was good too. Bet it didn't slow him down though. Beautiful spaniel. Thanks for sharing. He's a beauty, mud and all. Have a good day 😊
Thank you so much. He is a real goofball, so soft and cuddly. He loves the other dogs, especially the Dog de Bordeaux Pumba, Alsatian River and a Labrador named Gwen . He is however lead reactive and a nightmare on a lead so the free running dog walker who does twice monthly field trips is perfect for him. He wasn’t impressed with his bath but he looks and smells much better now, well he wasn’t impressed but he has gone out with the dog walker again this morning 🫣 xx
Need to teach that dog "actions and consequences" Good luck with that - he is a spaniel. You can't be cross - he's living his best life thanks to you. "He's just a teenage dirt bag baby!" 🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵 It was a great song me and my sons used to sing. Not sure they'd do it now in their 30's. Just think we should all be more Finlay. 🙏 bending old ladies this morning - me included - teaching yoga 🧘♀️ 😲😁 and on repeat again this afternoon with another class 😭Enjoy the boy - you're welcome. No extra charge for poetry about Finlay (say it Finlee). 😊😉
Ha ha no chance. I remember Wheatus well. When my husband graduated as a social worker..a mature student, they were playing at the University ball.
Can you bend legs that are as stiff as a poker? Mine is excruciatingly painful for 14 months now and getting up stairs is so bad and hazardous I am needing a stair lift. The cause is still unknown but the latest theory is that it is deferred from the spine..who knows. My physio today, dealing with my hypertonic pelvic floor said that yoga might help me eventually but currently my pain levels are prohibitive. God old age is no damned fun is it. Oh to run like Finlay 😫 xx
I think your physio is right, but yoga has been my saviour since my back surgery in 2018. I think you could work towards it, but it's finding the right class and the right teacher for you. I bend even more old ladies tomorrow, my oldest is 92. We do chair yoga, which I love. Remember Finlay has 4 legs - you've got 2. You can only do what you can do. Stair lift or not. If you need it, then use it. My current plan is that if I keep very busy and ignore the fact that I have Lupus. Malar rash, all in my mind, sore mouth, dry eyes, painful legs, nothing to see here. I'm taking the approach that most doctors take and working on the theory that it's all in my head. Seems to work for them. I'll let you know how it's working out for me. 😉😁🙏
I love your sense of humour. I have lost mine. It disappeared when my leg became so painful it made me scream when bending it. My other stuff nasal, oral genital sores, severe osteoarthritis of the knees with a loose knee cap that dislocates, pernicious anaemia, the constipation, Underactive thyroid, rectal pain and bleeding, bladder that will not empty are less painful combined that my leg so much so that I yelled at my Rheumatologist take it off I cannot bare it anymore. I am at a loss as to what to do about it, sadly I cannot ignore it as it stops me walking, sitting, standing and anything functional xx
I cannot possibly understand how your life must be and feel. All I have left is what my husband calls my ironic sarcasm or sarcastic irony - you choose. I get it from my father who by the time he was diagnosed with bowel cancer which we diagnosed several months earlier by ourselves died within 8 weeks after his emergency surgery. I get so frustrated, upset, tired by all of our experiences with auto immune whatevers, that I just can't fight some days so my ironic sarcasm kicks in and gets me through the next however long together with the lovely Finlay and all the other posted photos of dogs, et al that takes me away from what is the reality of our collective lives. I hope with all my heart that you can get some sort of help/relief from what must be just awful. If only I had that magic wand.......
I do understand, I find humour helpful too just struggling to find it currently. There are plenty worse off than me I know which makes me feel guilty but our limits aren’t boundless are they we are human. You keep on doing your ironic sarcasm if it helps you through. Finlay and Skye make life worthwhile for me, they bring me joy and comfort. I love them dearly.
A magic wand or a Lotto win for specialist care would be so wonderful for all of us wouldn’t it’?
Keep laughing and doing the yoga, maybe down the line I may be able to do chair yoga too 🤞🏻xx
Is Skye a fan of mud?
Absolutely but not as bad as Finlay. He doesn’t go on the field trips as he is younger less confident and gets knocked by bigger boisterous dogs but he goes out on the mountain and river runs three times a week with Finlay
Another gorgeous one. It's lovely they have their separate activities and together ones, both involving mud by the looks of it 😀
Skye has such short legs for a cocker spaniel and although he loves Finlay he is wary of other dogs whereas Finlay loves them. Both love the water and especially muddy water. Just hoping and praying Skye does not have hip dysplasia. He goes for his castration on 25th and will have an x Ray under general anaesthetic bless him 🙏🏻❤️🐾🐾
Aww, little love. I will keep my fingers crossed for Skye. 🤞❤️
Thank you I am really worried for him poor boy . The Orthopaedic vet said it was nit classic hip dysplasia but he does not have the flexibility in his back legs expected for such a young dog and he should not be experiencing pain so there is an issue and the sooner it can be diagnosed and treated the better xx
Yes. I know what you mean. Our final Spaniel did one of the worst injuries when bombing along - her crushiat knee at 9 months and the vet said he was not happy doing that sort of operation on such a young dog, so we followed orthopaedic advice which was awful at the time - no taking out for walks for 6 weeks; then gentle 5 minute walks, etc - you get the picture until the injury began to heal enough for her to have the operation, hopefully not, a bit older. It was really hard for months, she did not need the operation, her being so young meant that she healed better than an older dog. It was kept under control by frequent observation, good pain medication (whilst it was going on). In her later years, she did have arthritis which we managed through pain medication and hydrotherapy. The hydrotherapy helped far more than I could imagine tbh. She was 15 1/2 when we lost her 3 years ago. I think if you have a great vet that you can trust, then that's a huge help. The rest you're already doing. Bucket loads of love. I'm sending you all lots of love for everyone's pain manageability at this time and to be pain free in the future. Namaste 🙏 xx
That is amazing that your girl did not need surgery. I truly hope it is something similar with Skye but I really feel it is his hips. My friend has a Great Dane mastiff cross who goes to a physiotherapy centre and she has hydrotherapy and it does her more good than any pain medication. You must miss your girl terribly? Thank you for your kindness. Much love back to you xx
I was very impressed with hydrotherapy which meant we could cut down on the Metacam and I know this sounds a bit silly, but it really was very good for her doggy mental health. I do miss her and her lil dog brother terribly, but I feast on all the photos that are posted here and other places. I can't easily have another dog as my caring duties to my brother who has cognitive disabilities have become more diverse since the deaths of my parents and having no other siblings, but I've had so many loving years from dogs and in my early married days, puss-tats too. 🙏❤️ Just about to bend this mornings paying victims in Chair Yoga 😀😊
Yes they live on in your heart these beautiful creatures. Not having children was a huge blow but my fur children have brought me so much joy over the years.Caring is such a hard job, thank goodness your brother has you.
Enjoy the bending xx
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Thanks CP. Sooooo cute!
EJ🤗🩷🥰🙏🕊️🌿🌸🦋💋
Glad you like it EJ xxx
Sorry I’m late seeing your post Cecily, but Finlay did make me laugh - a real mucky pup!! 😂 But what a lucky boy he is to have such a lovely Mum and Dad who allow him to enjoy himself like that. 👍🏻👍🏻
Our neighbour has a Labrapoo named Dexter who hardly sees the light of day. When he is out he is always on the lead despite them having literally a couple of acres of ground. They have 2 children aged about 9 and 11 yet I never see them out playing with him. It is so sad. Dexter would love ’parents‘ like you and your hubby.
Looking forward to hearing what else Finlay gets up to. I hope he enjoyed his bath as much as the mud. 😉 xxx
Oh thank OU you are so kind. I always feel so guilty that I can no longer walk Finlay and Skye. I worry that they would be better off with an active family. But they are so very much loved, spoiled. I sit and play with them, have stimulation puzzles. Lick mats etc. Neil takes them out individually on the lead twice daily and three times a week they run with a pack of other dogs on the mountain or by the river or lake for 1 1/2 hours then Finlay goes on a field trip every other Saturday for four hours to a secure field.
We are so worried about Skye, he is only a year old but very weak on his back end. He whimpers when we put his Equafleeces on for his walks. He is having a castration op on 25th and the Orthopaedic Vet is going to x Ray his hips at the sane time. Whatever is wrong we will do our best by him l He is only a year old bless him. He bunny hops really fast and nothing stops him so I sincerely hope it isn’t hip dysplasia 🙏🏻 xxx
There’s absolutely nothing to feel guilty about with your two. They have far more stimulation, exercise and most of all love than many poor doggies do. That sounds worrying about Skye though - so sorry to hear that. I hope it is better news than you fear on 25th. 🙏🏻 I’m off to Ophthalmology for Hydroxy toxicity tests again as they lost the results from the tests last June!!🙄 Enjoy your day Cecily and give Sky and Finlay cuddles from me. 🤗🤗😘Xxx
Good luck with your test. Thank you for your kind words but I do feel guilty and that I am missing out. Depending on how it goes with the leg pain I really might have to consider a scooter or electric wheelchair in which case I can actually go with them again. In the meantime I look at the fabulous photos and videos the wonderful dog walker sends me xxx
Thanks Cecily, it went well although the Dr said he was disappointed they dilated my pupils before the ’field test’ was done so I’ve to go back in 2 weeks for it alone. Wouldn’t mind but we live 12 miles away so 24 mile round trip!
A scooter or electric wheelchair sounds a great idea. They’ll enjoy having you with them as much as you’ll enjoy it too. You’ll have to post a photo of you out with the boys!! Take care and I hope the leg pain subsides very soon. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 xxx
Oh no what a palarva.
I really hope they sort my leg so I won’t need it but I have given in to haveva stairlift as I am literally screaming getting up the stairs and not safe coming down. Xxx
A stairlift is a perfect solution. Thankfully we are in a bungalow otherwise I’d be considering one for the future too. Take care Cecily and cuddles again for Skye and Finlay. Xxxx
Thank you so much. I have no choice now so I just hope they hurry up with it.
Yes, I can actually see the colour of his coat this time. 😂 He is so gorgeous. I hope it isn’t long until your stairlift is fitted.🤞🤞 Love and hugs. xxxx
Thank you so much. Big Cwtches and lots of love xxx
My cat is self isolating in a draw 😍😍😍
Feal free to giggle 
Happy Easter to you all
This is what happens when you go to the er with lupus and a kidney infection
