Whazzup With Rosie the Dog

It's been a bit since I wrote a post about our beloved canine member of the family here at the Fortress of Ineptitude.

What indeed is up with Rosie the dog? 

Rosie continues to put up with us. 

Here she is cuddling up with a stuff fawn that her mother Randie brought home.  

When Andrea and I are home with Rosie and Randie is not, Rosie likes to lie on the couch between us while we watch Wheel Of Fortune. She's mostly OK with us as we watch other shows but she prefers Wheel. 

But with the slightest noise from outside, Rosie will go into high alert. No longer content to rest on the couch between Andrea and I, Rosie will jump down and position herself somewhere in the living room to stand and stare at the door with an intensity that defies description. 

It's the kind of stare that could set the door on fire. 

Then Randie comes in and Rosie is very happy to see her mom. 

Even when her mom does this to her. 

Randie likes to carry Rose aloft like this and calls Rosie "my little puppy".  

Rosie is a bit bigger than a puppy and I refer to her as a "wolf elk".  

Rosie is a black lab mix and the mix is a casserole dish of genetic mayhem including various forms of cat, deer, rabbit, kangaroo, platypus and quite possibly goldfish. 

As in sometimes Rosie has the memory of a goldfish. 

Rosie considers the possibility that my left arm is food.

She clamps her jaw around my left arm and wonders, "Is it food?" 

I will disavow her of the notion that my left arm is food.

One minute later....

Rosie considers the possibility that my left arm is food.

I think after almost a year, Rosie likes living here. 

Although recently she was seen borrowing my laptop. 

Perhaps to write a sternly worded letter to the SCPA over their lax screening process for families who adopt pets? 

We are currently monitoring an ongoing health situation. A recent visit to the vet revealed that Rosie had somehow someway gotten heart worms. 

We had her on a regimen of medication for a few weeks and we've been working to keep Rosie settled as much as possible to not create any added exertion to her heart. Which means discouraging Rosie's favorite exercise, "zoomies".  Zoomie is when Rosie gets it her head to rush around the living room from one chair to another.  

You know how cats will just go crazy and rush around a room? Yeah, Rosie likes to do that. 

Tomorrow is her follow up visit to the vet to confirm what progress has been made in her getting rid of her heart worms.  

We're hoping for some good news. 

To sum it all up, Rosie is a good dog. 

And that is whazzup with Rosie.