UPDATE: Thank you, everyone, for your kind words and prayers! They're obviously working! I'm so excited to update that Emmett's screening was ALL CLEAR! Wahooo!! So he's now been cancer free for one year post-surgery. He has his next screening in March, then another in September... after which point he's 100% clear! He was such a good boy at the oncologist's office, jumping up on the x-ray table

Yesterday, I was gone for four hours. I returned home to find this: I posted the picture on Facebook, and it sparked a big discussion. Lots of people shared stories about things their dog ate or destroyed - my favorite? 5 lbs of butter! - and lots of people had really great advice. (Crate training was a recurring suggestion. Crate training is another topic for another day...) I probably

On Saturday, we packed up Emmett and Lucas to head a couple hours north for a little dog-sitting action. My aunt has two pups: Louis, a bichon/shih tzu mix, and Lucy, a 10-month-old Portuguese water dog. The four dogs were joined by my mom's dog Otto for a weekend of fun, fun, fun. They all got along really well and spent the two days running, chasing, wrestling, and playing keep-away