June 16, 2005
P.S. Your Dog is Deaf
Poor Ping. She's pretty much deaf now. It comes and goes, occasionally she'll respond if you yell her name (while standing three inches away from where she is face-down in her fluffy bed) but she's been pretty consistently unresponsive for a while now. I guess at 9 years old there are definitely worse things that could be wrong with her.
Its impossible enough to get either Ping or Lucy to come when called right now since the plums are ripe and falling off the tree. I have to pull half-eaten fruit out of Ping's mouth and carry her inside, or she'd stay out there all night like it's a Las Vegas buffet. Lucy likes to get a good fat juicy one and shark it around before going in for the kill. Pugs may not be very much like their canine hunting cousins in the African savannah, but they can sure give a defenseless piece of over-ripe fruit the what-for.
Posted by jenna at June 16, 2005 10:27 PM