Dogonit!!

My dog, Pillow, is driving me crazy!! We put the dogs outside after Vince fixed the fence in the backyard and T-Bone escaped again before I even came home from the hospital. I've already decided that if PAWS calls and tells me they have him, I'm going to tell them to keep him. I'm not paying another $100 to get him out. Anyway, this isn't about T-Bone, it's about Pillow. She cried so much the first couple of days she was outside after T-Bone ran away, but there was no way I was letting her back into the house, not with the baby. She has torn the screen off the screen door and sticks her head through it, trying to get inside I guess. The crying and the torn screen really got on my nerves, but that wasn't the last of it. A few days ago when it was really windy, one of our garbage cans was knocked over by the wind and Pillow got into it. There was garbage all over the back yard and we live next to an alley where people cut through a lot. It is SO embarrassing to have garbage just sitting in your yard. I didn't want to wait for Vince to get around to picking it up because who knows how long that would take, so I just did it myself. I did smack her butt a few times when she came over to me, I was just so mad. Now on Wednesday, she got into the garbage again and this time I know she knocked them over herself, but now it's both garbage cans so it's double the garbage. Plus the fact that Thursday is garbage day and all our garbage was laying around in the yard. I don't have the desire to pick it up this time, but that was the last straw. I was planning on calling TAPS and asking if they could take her, but then I looked on their website and it says they ask for a donation if you surrender your animal to them and I really have no extra money to do that so she won't be going to TAPS. I ended up just putting her on freecycle and someone did write me saying they wanted her. Now I'm just waiting to see if he will respond back to the email I just sent him. I'm hoping he still wants her!!

But yesterday, I get a letter in the mail from PAWS here in Peoria about T-Bone. It said that since I have reclaimed T-Bone twice from them, yes he has escaped from us more than once, I will have to have him neutered. Good luck with that, since he is gone again. Then it says, if I don't do this by April 10, I will get a misdemeanor charge. Are you kidding me ?!?! I would get a misdemeanor put on my record for not neutering my dog?! This is yet another reason why I hate this stupid city, ugh I just want to get out of here!!!! So anyway, I'm planning on calling them and telling them, T-bone once again ran away. I have a feeling that they would come by the house to see if I was telling the truth and Pillow doesn't have up to date tags. They would make me get her rabies shots and new tags and the money just isn't there. That's another reason I'm trying to get rid of her. I don't want to spend anymore money on dogs. Once we can get rid of Pillow, I don't plan on getting another dog for a number of years, maybe never. I'm just getting sick and tired of all that comes with being a dog owner in the city of Peoria. If you've read my other blogs, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Logan is doing great! I'm still supplementing him with formula because he just isn't getting enough from me. I went to WIC two days ago and asked about a breast pump and they told me my OB had to write a prescription for one and send it to some place near Chicago. I really need a pump because I want to get Logan off the formula, so I just need to find the time to go to my OB and get this taken care of. After two weeks, Logan is now back to his birth weight, yeah!! And he is peeing after almost every feeding now too. I'm so happy that things are going better with him. When I put him to my shoulder to burp him, he can actually hold his head up now for an extended period of time and when I put him on his tummy, he can almost roll onto his side, and he's only two weeks old!! I don't want him growing up too fast. Vince says he gets the strength from him and that's why he is so strong. LOL, I think that's funny, but it's probably true. I'm a weakling. I think that's all I have for now.