Another busy day for mother, and another day of short walks and only brief petting sessions for me and Bea. Downy came back in.... again. Having trouble getting his yellow marking liquid out.... again. I hope that mother is as patient with me if I ever have problems like this. So it turns out that when Downy struggled getting his stitches out yesterday he messed up the new girl parts and now some of the yellow marking liquid was leaking into his legs! Mother handled everything though, after consulting with Dr. Quinn surgery woman, poor Downy had to have another red tube inserted into his parts until everything has healed again. I can tell you one thing for sure, I'm glad I started out as a girl because apparently getting turned into one isn't so easy.

Speaking of procedures gone wrong, we had another one of my favorite visitors come in today. Her name is Mojave and she's a Golden Retriever. In fact, she's “one of the sweetest Golden Retrievers in the world” as mother would say. Mojave was rescued at about one year of age by Mrs. Angel. When Mrs. Angel first saw Mojave she had hardly any fur due to skin and ear infections, was very thin and had injured her back right leg so badly she'd had a procedure to have 7 pins put in it.
 

Mrs. Angel worked hard to nurse Mojave back to health and succeeded in making her a truly beautiful dog, but her back leg still troubled her. “She limps on it more now and it looks as if one of the pins is starting to poke out. We were told that all the pins were removed, but who knows.” Mrs. Angel reported. Mother agreed to sniff around the crooked leg and put Mojave on the humming table to get the black and white pictures. After seeing the pictures, mother looked more confused than when she started. “It sure looks like a mess” she said “we'll have to talk to the surgeon about it, and see what can be done.” Mother and Mrs. Angel exchanged the lets-hope-for-the-best looks, and Mojave happily bounced out the door with her mom. Humans tend to feel so bad for the rescued dogs, for what might have happened in their past and the burdens they now carry, but seeing Mojave and other rescued pets like her, I can tell you they are so happy to find love in their new homes that the problems of the past are truly forgotten. I just wish there we more sweet ladies like Mrs. Angel around to rescue all the Mojave's of the world.