Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

I'm going down again. Don't worry, I shouldn't get too depressed this time. I know exactly what's causing it. The moment I realised I was feeling down again was when, for some reason, I wanted a hug from the dog. She's been a bit funny lately due to her phantom pregnancy but she's supposed to be over it now yet she still doesn't seem herself. She seems to respect me less. It annoys me. She doesn't play anymore and she's getting a little defiant.
Anyway, she doesn't want to hug us so much these days. She has to be in a good mood to hug me when I ask or I have to bribe her with a treat. Other times if I want a hug from the dog mum has to ask and we both hug her. I hear that the standard greeting for the siberian husky is to jump up and lick the stranger's face. With that in mind she should be happy to jump up. Ah well, like I said, she's been funny lately. She's been off her food. She didn't poop for 3 days (just after mum's operation when I was taking her out for the long morning and night time walks) but as soon as mum took her out in the morning she pooped. I've noticed that some dogs just do it anywhere and everywhere. One minute they're running along, then the stop, squat, do that funny squatting walk a little and carry on as if nothing happened (also more often than not the owners just leave the steaming pile of **** where it is. Children play in that park. Dog poo, any animal poo, is dangerous to children and no one cares, much like the broken glass everywhere. No one cares. Why the hell not?). Anyway, another dog will do all that. Yuki will sniff for a good spot, walk around a bit, start to squat but suddenly change her mind and keep walking. There can't be another dog or human nearby because that puts her off, almost as if she's ashamed and the moment she's done the deed she tries to run away and I have to coax her back for her reward biscuit before I can even try to clear it up. She's a very strange dog. Sometimes once she's pooped she'll want to go straight home. I don't mind this so much because I want to wash my hands as soon as possible (we use plastic bags but I'm paranoid about germs, especially regarding animal poo) but even so, she shouldn't cut the walk too short.
Sometimes I find a hair hanging out of her mouth and once or twice she's pooped out a hair (which is hilarious to watch but is quite disgusting when you have to intervene. I'm not going into details). We hoover the floor regularly but I have long hair that seems to shed a lot and It's no surprise that she might pick up a strand or two. With this in mind I'm wondering if she might have a hairball and that's why she's been funny with eating and pooping. When she last shed she tried to eat the hair we plucked off of her. Maybe I'm making a fuss over nothing. I think huskies are supposed to eat less than other dogs their size. I'm just worried about her. She just doesn't seem as happy as before. Also the fur at the tip of her muzzle is a rusty red, I'm sure it wasn't like that before, I'm sure it was grey before. I wonder if that's okay. I just don't know. Well, her environment did change didn't it, maybe this is from her change of environment from her old home to our home. She seems to lick her mouth a lot more and rubs it with her paws. We've looked at her teeth, gums and even tried to see the undersides of her lips but we haven't found anything obviously wrong. She's just started blowing her coat. I had a little pluck at her back legs and got little clumps of fur so she's just about to shed her whole summer coat and grow in a thicker winter coat. She makes little groaning noises a lot more too and she's burped a little more lately. I can't help wondering if that's normal. Should dogs burp? I'm told that rabbits shouldn't but I'm not sure about dogs. She gives me evil eyes more too. I'm not sure if they're actually evil or not but they look evil.
I found her breeder, or at least the breeder of some of her family members. I was actually looking up Shiba Inu breeders out of curiosity but decided to look for huskies to see how easy it was to find Yuki's breeder. I found pictures of her father her maternal grandmother and great grandmother and they all look like her. They're all that lovely kind of tinted grey. Her paperwork says that she's a sable ***** but I'm not sure if the others are classified as sable. They're very pretty though. Her father is listed as "CH Kefeus Tigalda Tsilga At Asgard" (And I've no idea how I'd go about pronouncing al that) he looks very handsome. Her mother is "Azgard Pumpkin". I couldn't find a picture of her but she's listed as a red and white husky and Yuki's sister Sasha is listed as red and white so I guess Pumpkin looks like her (Sasha looks black to me but apparently she's red tinted). Her grandmother is "CH Azgard Savanna Sky", she looks quite sleek. Her great grandmother is "CH Zoox Zalamazu of Azgard" and that's as far as I can find for her relatives. Some of the others are mentioned but these are the only ones I could find pictures of. I think it's cute that they all share the same kinds of markings. I've just looked up some of her other relatives from different breeders and they're all lovely. The ones that I can see pictures of mostly have similar markings to Yuki, it's quite nice to see where she came from, especially since she kind of appeared to us out of nowhere it's nice to find her roots. Since I had that funny feeling mentioned in my last blog I started to wonder if the world was real and if it wasn't how would I know. The fact that we have a dog still amazes me. I wondered if she were some alien being or a figment of my imagination but no, I have photographic evidence that she didn't just pop up one day. It's quite late and I've gone completely off track. Ah well.
I made a pumpkin pie a while ago, I forgot to mention it before. First pie I ever made. Actually it was more like a pumpkin tart but I preferred to call it a pie. I'm quite proud. Also I made my first Christmas card last night. I'm very proud. I'm making Christmas cards this year, it's quite fun. I strained my arm a little because I was cutting out intricate shapes with my craft knife and had to use a bit more pressure than usual because it was on card and not paper like I'm used to. All in all it came out quite well though.
Hmmmm. I've rambled on too long. None of this is really worth posting. Should I post it or not? I only started this entry because I didn't feel like going to bed and I wanted to actually do something with the time until I did go to bed. You know, my blogs seem to have more quantity than quality. Is that bad? Does that reflect badly on me as a person? Does it annoy people who try to read it all? Does it annoy those who post higher quality, more intellectual, more inspirational, more enjoyable blogs? Am I just taking up space that would be better used by someone else? Should I just stop this whole thing? I like my blog though. It's like a last portal to the outside world. I get pretty stupid when I'm tired. Don't even get me started on the time I waste leaving comments on other blogs. I don't do it often. Although I try to be clever or insightful or supportive it never sounds right. It never looks right. It just looks like I'm wasting the reader's time. Like I shouldn't have said anything at all. Mostly I write it. Agonise over whether or not to post it and say just post it already before you lose your nerve. Post it and don't look back because I dread the response. What can I say that no one else has? How does my opinion matter anyway? I don't really have a right to comment. ARGH! Socialising in any way shape or form is just too complicated.

Maybe I over think things too much.