Snowpocalypse2015!

Difficult

I wonder if it's because he's feeling better or worse, but he's been... naughty. Difficult. We've had to have some talks on our walks. Lots of grubbing, but also being rather difficult (and dragging me across ice, which is not nice)

He broke a dish over the weekend because he was counter surfing. He's not listening, and has been trying to get on the table while I'm eating. Sigh. He's gotten away with a lot, but it's time to reel him in a bit, I think.

He'll love the snowstorm coming up. Leo angels! Although he's going to have to wear his boots, which he hates.

Mr. Pig Ear

Leo's got us well trained - he takes all of us on walks and winds up with a pig ear. Sometimes it's a short walk, sometimes it's a long one, but most times he gets one.  Even the dog walker indulges him. Something about border collies bending their herd to their will...

From November. Leo with Pig Ear.

Not as bad as I thought

So he's doing ok. The energy level was low, but he's being really good and seems really happy. It's nice, because I'm at home a lot at the moment (I may not be, going forward) and we can just hang out while I'm writing/working/making graphs/doing stats/reading or whatever it is that I do all day (this).

Dazed

I am, after this weekend. (Good times, though! Upstate with my friends, which was super fun).

For our hero, this round of chemo might be a little too much.

L was walking him in her neighborhood and ran in to a friend.  The friend asked "why does Leo look so dazed?"

Next round

So after the steak incident, Leo was fine and we resumed treatment. He's been great - dragging me to the pet store for pig ears, going out for walks, generally being good at home.

Bad Daddy

This is what I get for trying to be nice.

For NYE, since boozing it up was out of the question because of 1) antibiotics and 2) being old, I decided instead for some quality food.  Of course this is going to get shared with Leo, and he thoroughly enjoyed it :

Here's the steak. Don't let the color fool you, it's almost raw

So cute! Look, he's going to grab a piece...

Or maybe the whole thing

Good thing it wasn't cut up, or else it would be gone. He gave it back to me.

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Waiting for the cut up version.

He ate this down to nothing save for a shard of the bone that was left. Delicious!

Fast forward to the 6AM next morning and someone with black fur and big brown eyes desperately needed to go out. And then at 9. And 1. And 5. It was not good.

Poor Leo had a bit of the bad belly from his NYE celebration, and it was my fault. Of course, it didn't slow him down - he still wanted to eat and grub and do everything else, just, well, sometimes ya gotta go!