I was so happy I had my camera at the ready for this little exchange. Quimby was hanging out in our neighbors driveway and the little foster puppy came over to take him for a walk. Needless to say, they didn’t get very far!

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UPDATE:
Watch the Backyard Dog music video.

This has not been a good few weeks for Quimby and I.

I was outside with him, and he was doing his usual freak out thing, like he always does. I was actually filming him, when out of nowhere he is limping. Then there was blood lots of it. Long story short, I took him to the vet, as the large pad on his front right paw was sliced almost completely in half, and there was no way it was going to heal without stitches.

He was all drugged up for the first week, but once the meds were running low, I came home and found he had got out of his collar and his boot. Of course he had licked his paw clean, which meant licking out the dissolving stitches. That meant another trip to the vet, and another round of surgery. They had me bring him in a few days later to check the wound and re-wrap it. Totally could have wrapped it myself, but they charged $36 for it, despite the fact that my special lady friend had to help them!

I’ve been checking his wound nightly to make sure it’s not bleeding, but last night there was blood. Upon removal of the bandage, the smell was overpowering. Just really, really bad. So he will be going back, I hope it’s nothing.

I’ve written an 80′s hair band parody song called “Backyard Dog” that I will be offering in order to help raise some money to help cover the cost of the bills, which are over $1000 at this time. If you want to help out, you can donate below. Also be sure to watch the hilarious video for backyard dog.

Quimby has gotten big, and he loves to tear down bamboo.

This is Samson (the 3rd one we’ve seen, but hey it’s an awesome name). Samson is Quimby’s brother!!! It had been nearly a year since they had seen each other, but after a few minutes they seemed to remember. I took a bazillion photos of them playing, they are so similar and so different at the same time. It was a truly awesome experience, his owners are really nice and have a great home for him. He has a huge lawn to play in, and gets to get outside a lot! Much more to come this week, but here’s a general vibe of what happaned:

You can tell that Quimby was bigger. He probably had close to 20lbs on his brother, but interestingly enough Samson dislpayed more dominant behavior. Apparently Samson’s comfort zone is at home, wheras Quimby seems to find comfort everywhere, with everyone. I will post more similarities / differences tomorrow.

Updates:
Quimby’s nose splitting was no big deal according to the vet. Awesome.
He is getting super fast, and good at commands.
He lets you hold him all day long.
He is getting along with the cats better, although every time I pick up Lily, as soon as I put her down, if Quimby is in the room, she runs over to him and slaps him around. Literally, no claws, just smacks him all up. It’s like clockwork. I’ll have to film it for next week.

Have and Halloween suggestions for Quimby’s costume?

Tomorrow, the Poganddog of the month will be announced!!!