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Bixby Update

by TaMara|  June 16, 20196:53 pm| 32 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Nature & Respite, Something Good Open Thread

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Bixby turned five today. I’m a terrible pet person because I don’t necessarily remember or celebrate birthdays or adoption days. This year, was of course, different. So grateful we have this day. Emma turned 16 this week, too. So big week here.

Again, thanks for going on the journey with me – both his puppy adventures and this past April. I was so comforted by your comments, emails, phone calls and offers of financial help.  Could not have gotten through it without you guys. I cannot emphasize how close we were to losing him.

He’s down to PT once a month and we are almost walking our normal distances again.

The rest of the crew is doing great too. For the Penelope/Pearl fans – she’s STILL growing. I keep telling her she’s the Great Dane of ducks. And she’s found her honk – OMG, has she found her honk. Hopefully, that will diminish as she gets older.

Respite open thread.

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    June 16, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    Oh Bixby?

    Soooooooo big, but he looks sweet?

    The name is Pearl. Beautiful, loud Pearl??

  2. 2.

    laura

    June 16, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    Thanks for sharing your pups and ducks – a balm for these troubled times. Bixby regaining his health must be such a relief to you and spotty lass Scout.
    Pearl seems like such a personality and boo companion.
    All the best for continued good health for you and your crew.

  3. 3.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 16, 2019 at 7:07 pm

    Happy birthday Bixby!!

    Samwise’s is easy to remember because it’s 8/8.

  4. 4.

    Aleta

    June 16, 2019 at 7:09 pm

    ❤️❤️❤️ Happy birthday Bixby and Emma. ??? (Also yours, Tamara?)

  5. 5.

    zhena gogolia

    June 16, 2019 at 7:09 pm

    Bixby is so magnificent! You guys look beautiful.

  6. 6.

    CaseyL

    June 16, 2019 at 7:09 pm

    Thank you for sharing your fur-and-feathered family with us!

    I hope Bixby has all his old spirit back – dogs generally don’t do a whole lot of “looking back” so maybe he’s forgotten, or will forget, how awful that time was. He looks terrific.

    Any chance you could record Pearl’s Mighty Honk? Would love to hear it! Does the “OMG” refer to the volume, or the quantity? (Not just a loud duck, but a loud and chatty duck?)

  7. 7.

    TaMara (HFG)

    June 16, 2019 at 7:11 pm

    @Aleta: LOL, no, I adopted her on my birthday when she was eight weeks old, she was born 6/5/03

  8. 8.

    TaMara (HFG)

    June 16, 2019 at 7:12 pm

    @CaseyL: LOUD! I am going to try and get it on video – it’s just so random. She’ll be hanging in the yard and then for no reason except she likes the sound of her own voice, honk away.

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    JPL

    June 16, 2019 at 7:35 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Samwise is 8?

  10. 10.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    June 16, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    Happy birthday, Bixby.

    Our son called today to wish Mr DAW a happy Father’s Day, and he told us they adopted a new rescue dog. It’s a chocolate lab named Brown Bear. Dogs are great creatures.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    June 16, 2019 at 7:45 pm

    That dog needs to be in movies.

    Happy cake day, B-Dog.

  12. 12.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 16, 2019 at 7:45 pm

    @JPL: he’s almost five; his birthday is August 8th.

  13. 13.

    ruemara

    June 16, 2019 at 7:52 pm

    That’s a good Bixby!

    Not much happening here but working.

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    CaseyL

    June 16, 2019 at 7:52 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): If she is 1) still growing; and 2) has an ultra-loud honk… is it possible that Pearl is actually a goose?

  15. 15.

    TaMara (HFG)

    June 16, 2019 at 7:57 pm

    @CaseyL: I tease her that she’s really a goose, but no, she’s a Pekin duck, they just top out at about 11 lbs, where my next biggest duck is all of 7 lbs (Mabel) and Maddie about 5 lbs.

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    JPL

    June 16, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Even so… time does fly doesn’t it.

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    JPL

    June 16, 2019 at 7:59 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): In celebration of Bixby quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.

  18. 18.

    MomSense

    June 16, 2019 at 8:04 pm

    Happy birthday Bix and Emma. Bixby looks so sweet.

    I haven’t seen my dad in a few weeks but it turns out he is sick today, too. I worry when he is because he’s soooooooo thin since his heart surgeries.

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    zhena gogolia

    June 16, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    @MomSense:

    How’s your mother doing?

  20. 20.

    ruemara

    June 16, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    Hmm, testing, please do not remove from moderation, thanks.

  21. 21.

    Mel

    June 16, 2019 at 8:21 pm

    Happy birthday to beautiful Bixby and to the lovely Emma. (Her perfect little orange eyebrow is the cutest thing!)

    And happy day to you, TaMara, and also to any Moms out there who are both Mom and Dad to their kiddos, whether those kids are of the pet or the people variety.

    Thank you for sharing your furkids’ stories with us. So happy to see Bixby feeling so much better!

  22. 22.

    MomSense

    June 16, 2019 at 8:22 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Ok. She has a new primary care doctor so I asked if I could go with her and talk with her about some changes I’ve noticed. She agreed. We’ll go next week. This week is he last week of school so there are a bunch of things going on.

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    June 16, 2019 at 8:50 pm

    Happy birthday, Bixby and Emma.

  24. 24.

    AliceBlue

    June 16, 2019 at 9:38 pm

    So glad Bixby is still among us! Happy birthday to the big guy and Emma, and hugs and scritches to the rest of your crew.

  25. 25.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    June 16, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    Wishing both Bixby and Emma happy birthday. ?? And P/earl will always be Pearl to me. They’re all so lucky to live with you.

  26. 26.

    zhena gogolia

    June 16, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    @MomSense:

    Good luck!

  27. 27.

    Middlelee

    June 16, 2019 at 10:53 pm

    Happy, happy birthday Bixby and Emma!

  28. 28.

    Lilguy

    June 16, 2019 at 11:08 pm

    Since I didn’t know about this dog, I thought Bixby as in Samsung’s assistant Boxby. But then I saw a dog, and was like, oh. It isn’t Samsung’s Bixby at all. It’s a dog. I should have known

  29. 29.

    orchid moon

    June 16, 2019 at 11:09 pm

    Happy Birthday, Bixby!. Such a big, beautiful boy. Glad you are healthy again.

  30. 30.

    BruceFromOhio

    June 17, 2019 at 7:55 am

    What a splendid photograph! Such a good dog, Bixby!

    Slightly ot, what does (HFG) mean?

  31. 31.

    Betty

    June 17, 2019 at 9:41 am

    Hope you and your family all stay well for a good long time to come.

  32. 32.

    Miss Bianca

    June 17, 2019 at 11:01 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Brown Bear is what my Luna’s breeders were going to call her when they were debating whether or not to keep her (she was the last pup left in the litter when I visited). She was technically a ‘red’ Siberian Husky, but her fur was chocolate brown when she was a puppy. And always baby-fine soft, even when she was grown.

    I miss her so much. : (

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