I Love My Job

I Love My Job

I really do...some days are better than others, but overall, I really enjoy what I do. I love all the animals and getting to help the doctors make them better, or bring them into this world or just giving them a good clean bill of health is really fulfilling for me. Sometime I actually get to bring my job home!! Sometimes...

Here is a picture of me with a 6 hour old boxer puppy. Her mother was in distress and unable to deliver her babies. We had to do an emergency c-section to try and save the babies. Unfortunately only a couple of the pups made it, but this little beauty is one of them!! I got to bring her home and feed her and nurse her while mom recuperated from her surgery that day.

The cast of characters at our clinic is precious. We have two clinic cats. They are Camille, our elderly lady of elegance and beauty and Lizzie, the younger more, "spirited" feline. Camille spends her day lounging around in the sun on her special bench. She is a wonderful quite cat who will sneak outside if she gets half a second to do so...

Now, Lizzie is beautiful and she knows it...

Sometimes the doctors bring in their pets. On this day the greyhounds came in. Farah and McCall. I ADORE these dogs. They are the best ever...I just absolutely love them. They are very well trained and sooooo sweet!!!

Of course we have a few animals that need a really good home and Ivy is a good example of one. She is a wonderful cat that was brought to us as an emergency. She was hit by one car then by a second. The third car pulled over and the driver picked her up and rushed her to us. She was very badly injured, but we were able to save her!!! She has a badly broken leg and we may have to remove it, but she will be just fine. AND, she will make some lucky human a wonderful loving pet. She has the will of a fighter and the heart of an angel to survive what she endured, and she is determined to find that perfect home!!!

How can you be surrounded by such wonderful animals every day and not love it!!! Hope every one has a great week, and stay warm!

Now that the new year has started...

Well, now that the new year has started, the members of the Dahl household are recuperating from the holidays. (The cats stay so busy you know...) Here Jessie and Maverick are taking a very sweet brotherly nap. Poor Maverick has no idea that Jessie's leg is lopped over his chest. Cat feet going everywhere!!

This next picture is Jessie in one of his "finer" moments. He just woke up from his nap. Poor thing has very bad teeth, he has only a handful left. I had just given him his daily dose of antibiotic. He really HATES his antibiotic. But, mommy must take care of him!


To prepare for our February trip to Ski Beech, North Carolina, Tim bought Wii Ski to practice. Well, Maverick just had to help daddy play. Here Maverick is having a ball trying to "trip" Tim up on the downhill slope.


Finally exhaustion takes over and everyone has to take time for a nap. Maija is watching over the household while daddy and Jessie saw the logs. Maverick is there too, but he didn't quite make it into the picture!


Hope everyone has a good week. We here at the Dahl household will be catching up on some needed cat naps!!

Starting the New Year Off Right...

This New Years Eve we went to Rome to celebrate with our friends and their kids. We had a really good time. It has kinda of become a tradition to go spend the night with Scot and DeAnn and have Eduardo's Pizza, which they have flown in from Chicago. Tim and Scot split the spinach stuffed pizza (YUCK) and Dee and I split the sausage stuffed pizza. YUMMY!

Then we usually play a game, this years choice was FACT or CRAP. Very interesting to say the least. It's a really good game for those of us full of useless information, which would be yours truly. I can store some really strange facts in my head...Scot however, just wants to win, win, win, and has on occasion challenged me, not his best decision sometimes!

The kids were also excited about the new year, they had a yummy cheese pizza all to themselves and tons of chocolate milk! Leah just loves to be around all of us and and here she is with Tim. She is such a loving, delightful child! Look at that smile...I don't have any pictures of the boys, they were in the living room playing the Wii and having a ball.

We had pizza, a good bottle of wine, champagne at midnight and then bed. I hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve and wish everyone a very Happy 2009!

Christmas Pictures

Here are a few pictcures from Christmas Day...We had a very nice Christmas this year.

A family photo, Mom, me and Brian my brother. Tim and Granny. Oh, and let's not forget Kaite Lee the dog!!
Granny and Tim.

Tim had to do all the cooking this year. It was part of his Christmas gift to me. I had to do nothing, and it was wonderful. Since I had to work, I figured, ok let the man cook!

Then it was time to open gifts...

Even Maverick got into the action, with his wrapping paper skirt...funny cat. We had a nice holiday and are getting ready for the New Year. Hope every one has a great 2009!!

MEWOEY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, now that Christmas is over, it's time to clean up. Tim and I have been busy taking Christmas decorations down today and we are about 90% done. Now all we have to do is look forward to New Years Eve and a new 2009. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and I will post some new pictures as the week progresses. Quite frankly, I'm just to lazy to complete a whole blogger page right now! Hope everyone has a great week and Happy New Year!