Flash thinks he's swimming

Catching Up

Flat Flash

Apologies for neglecting Flash's blog for so long. There are several reasons for this:

We determined that Flash, at least for the present, is not interested in sheepherding and just skated by getting his Good Citizenship Certificate, so he's probably not destined to be a Therapy dog either.

Then, the first part of September, we were on vacation in Italy. We took Flat Flash (pictured) with us but I'm not sure he had a good time.

Then, we we got back, we were inundated with catch-up and life in general. It is now November, and the only thing I have to report about Flash is that he weighs 75 lbs.

We found this out when we took him to the vet in September. Dennis had taken him out for the day on Saturday as he usually does. He puts on the prong collar because sometimes Flash doesn't mind well around strangers. Normally, this is not a problem, but he forgot to take the collar off and poor Flash wore it day and night for almost a week. When we finally discovered it (with all his hair, it's difficult to see what's around his neck), it was a big problem. The vet shaved him and treated his wounds and he is fine today. We felt really, really bad for our poor dog, who now had the added misery of having to go on a diet. No more cookies and low-cal dry food.

Never, never leave a prong collar on your dog!

I took Flash back to the vet to be weighed on Monday, about 4 weeks after his ordeal. He had only lost two pounds even though he has not had any cookies at all. 

Flash is OK now. He's a happy dog.