The Wrong Dog Blog

I had intended to use my vacation to catch up on my blogging, but I also used my vacation to get gallbladder surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy—yes, I did have to look up how to spell that! ^_^). Such fun. In fact, it’s a lot better than I thought it would be, but I don’t have the energy for blogging at length.

In fact, the worst trouble I’ve had with the actual surgical site is that I had not accounted sufficiently for woofy bounciness. On my return from the hospital, Joh was ready for Sunny, and after one near miss to my belly-button incision, he was fended off until he calmed down. It seems, however, I forgot one little custom we have.

I sit on the bed, with my legs spread wide so I can get close to Sunny. He accepts some hugging and rubbing, but eventually lies down to get his tummy rubbed. After a bit of that, he gets very excited and wags back and forth in the upside-down position, better known as part of the Snow Spaniel Tango.

All well and good except that part of the Tango when it takes place on the bed is to push off my stomach with his hind feet! I of course knew this intellectually but it only came home to me as I was trying to catch his feet with my hands, and he hates having his feet touched, so it just makes him kick more.

All these years I’ve been a woofy trampoline but it took surgery to make me notice!