Winter fun

The day after Christmas and it good weather to take a walk in the Zuigerplaswood. Everyone enjoys the snow.ChimayEoosAri

HD and ED results

Today we got the official HD and ED results from Eoos.
As expected it was not good at all: HD C and ED grade 3 (both sides)...
Eoos wil spend her life with us as beloved pet, as these results make her not fit for breeding. We hope to keep her in shape with limited excersise and a supplement containing Glucosamine, Chondroitine and MSM.
There won't be any Chow Chow pups born at our pace, at least for the next years.

Next week Endo's ellbows will be examined. If his ellbows are as bad, it will be the end of our small contribution to the Chow Chow breed...

cosy picture

This morning, when Frank came home from work, all dogs snuggled up together with Daddy:Even Chimay gave permission to take her picture ;-)

Ari in the snow

Winter came early this year, freezing weather and snow!
Ari never saw snow before, he likes it :-)
Today I took some nice pictures of him in the garden, playing with his snowy tennisball:I thought this was the best picture of Ari today, just before he came back inside, snow still on his snoutyou can see all pictures in our Picasa webalbum

And to my surprise the only picture of Chimay turned out rather well:

disappointment

Last Monday we went to the vet with Eoos, her eyes were tearing again. We thought her tear duckts were blocked, and she was sedated to flush them. But it turned out she had a little curl in her eyelid, entropion, and she got surgery right away. While she was sedated the vet also took X-rays from hips and ellbows, for official HD and ED results. Her hips look allright, but her ellbows not :-(
We don't have the official results yet, but if they are what the vet suspects, Eoos is not fit for breeding, so our breeding days might be over.
After this we ended up in the worst evening traffic jam ever, so the drive home was not a bit more than an hour, but 4 1/2 hours!

Poor Eoos wears an Elizabethan collar now and that while she is in heat too, life ain't easy for a young Chow Chow... And neither for her owners...

France 2010 - part three

November 19th, 2010
The morning walk with Chimay and Eoos was nice and quiet. Sadly the walk with Ari went not so smooth... On the way back the rolleash fell out of my hands and got Ari scared. He ran back, crossed a busy road just behind a big truck and just before a car... Nearly the end of our little Ari.
He ran upon a hill where the rolleash got strangeld and I was able to catch him. SIGH I was shaking all over!

That afternoon we went to the beach, to catch some fresh air.The Chow Chow ladies discovered fresh water in a river that ended at the beachEoos in the rivierEoos on the beachAri againAri en ChimayTwo pictures of the Mediterranean Sea:

Some water in the car before we go on
We drove to the old village of Gassin, upon the hill we can see from the appartment.A picture of La Croix-Valmer seen from GassinGassin is beautiful renovated, the capel (12th century)Flowering bougainvillea in November!Frank and Ari in GassinAll pictures of this day can be viewed at the Picasa webalbum.

November 20th
Still a bit shocked from yesterday but it is cleaning time, tomorrow we will travel back! Frank walked the dogs, so I could work on. The weather was awfull: rain, wind, showers and thunder. A good day to think about leaving LOL

November 21st
Everyone and everything packed into the car. Today we go to Luxembourg, we booked a hotel there.

November 22nd
Funny warning (for us, as we have no electronic navigation): situation changed, put your navigation off. Frank still trusts his Anita with her road maps.
Arrived at home at 4 pm and started the washing machine. That went well, but then the dryer broke down :-(
That resulted in this::All washed socks on the radiator in the bathing room. Luckely the mechanic came the next day and repaired the dryer.