At the DogWash

One day when poor old Rusty Buckets is but a distant memory I will look back at this and remember fondly what an awesome dog he was. I am positive I will not remember the reason why he needed this bath. He smells like something dead all the time. I am being completely honest! It's foul and it's wrong, but we love him and so we decided he needed a little attention in the hygiene department and here we go....

He was such a good sport. That could have only meant that even he was tired of the stink he was emitting. He let the kids soak and scrub him. He let Travis trim his nails (wow) and he let me brush his coat for an hour. About the only thing he didn't let us do was brush his teeth. I have since decided that must be where the noxious odor is coming from because now he smells like dead roses.

2009 Christmas Card ~ Take 1

Russell Maynard.  I was trying to get a picture of the kids for this years Christmas card.  As you can see Russ proved to be an easier subject...

Jeeps came over to see what was going on and she is certainly not fast enough to out run me, so I got a couple of her too.  None of the kids though, imagine that....

Russell Maynard

Poor Russell Maynard. I just had to write about this because while it was one of the more disgusting things I have ever encountered it was also pretty funny.

Russell had this giant tumor looking thing on his back for some time, a year? Maybe more. At any rate, it didn't seem to bother him and bassets get those knobby lumpy bumps the older they get, so I didn't think much of it...Until the morning it literally exploded gunk all over the kitchen cabinets. Eww. Gross. Poor guy. As it turns out the fatty tumor was actually the worlds largest, most expensive zit. A sebaceous cyst to be exact. After a disgusting trip to the vet where they were able to flush it out and bandage him up I snapped these pictures of him looking completely humiliated...Poor guy, he's sooo embarrassed.