Lylee Girl – Our Best Girl Ever!

Retrieving sticks from the water is one of Lylee’s favourite games.

We finally have had some decent rains here in this part of California – we thought it was never going to rain this winter and then it poured down this March. Yay!!

Here’s a video of Lylee in action:

Our fabulous Girl continues to love life!

Lylee girl enjoying a day at the beach.

The warm and sunny weather continues here in Northern CA; we should be receiving our rainy season rain but alas the sun shines and the temperatures stay perfect. Unless we get significant rainfall we are heading for a drought this summer.

This makes for great beach weather. Lylee, Monkeybutt Happy and I decided to take a few hours and go to our favourite place. So, Lylee and I were kicking back on the sand and were peacefully watching the sunset while MB Happy takes to cruising the beach – there was no one else around so it was safe for him to explore.

Then I notice him stop about 20 meters from us and sniff the air and then he suddenly runs back to us with his little ears back and his tail tucked in. Huh? This little dude is usually zooming around totally carefree. Lylee then gets up and goes over to where MB Happy had stopped. I then decide to check out this place too and as we got closer MB Happy’s reason for a fearful response was clear…. a harbour seal was sunning itself on the beach!

Lylee sez “there is seal looking at me but I thinks it’s friendly but if not I still can runs faster than it”

Lylee was the epitome of cool while MB Happy started to bark and so got leashed and gagged. We kept our distance as we didn’t want to disturb our sea going friend.

MB Happy stays on his Mama’s lap just in case the big, scary seal comes over to try and eat him.

Here the seal decides to go back to the top of the beach for a nap.

Sunset

Here is Ms Lylee Girl aka HRH TWP Lylee (Her Royal Highness Tripawd Warrior Princess Lylee) riding in her seriously cool chariot. The trail we walk on is a little over a mile and she gets to walk half and ride half. Whenever she wants a rest she just gets in and when she wants out -well, out she gets. (The pink round thingy just above her is her special TWP bike horn)

It’s been amusing to see how she has come to appreciate her chariot. Early on she wasn’t too sure of it – it feels a bit wobbly as it’s on wheels and, yep – it moves! Well now shes like, let me in, I need a rest. She is quite regal about being in it – observing the world as it goes by

The trail we walk was converted from a former railroad to a multi-use trail and is very cool as it goes along vineyards, apple orchards and pasts lovely estates. It’s a well used trail by many; runners, walkers, many furkids and cyclists.

We have had very positive comments from people about her new mode of wheels except one. Yep – there is always those folks.  A single older guy walks by and comments on what a strange stroller and then when he has passed us says “ugly”. Huh?! Well, my husband, Ron and I look at each other saying did he really say that?! So hubby calls after him, “She had cancer and only has three legs, she’s fighting osteosarcoma”  The guy turns around with an embarrassed smile and we just stare at him. He got it!

If we see him again I’ll introduce him to Lylee – we like to educate people to the max you know

Meeting up with the rest of the gang!

Grammie walks half way down and turns around; because the trail system goes for many miles it intersects roads, so I get dropped off at one end of a trail section and then her Dad & Grammie drive up the other end and walk down to meet us halfway and then we all walk back together. Until we got Lylee’s chariot she couldn’t do the whole trail section and had to do the halfway walk with Grammie – now she gets to do the whole walk!

Her Highness stretches her legs

Heading home – I love the look on Lylee’s face “That’s my Dad pushing me”.

Next post – our next beach walk

Hugs & Royal Wags

Joanne & HRH TWP Lylee

Lylee Sez “Why couldn’t I have a pink & purple one”

Success!! Lylee can now travel to where no Tripawd has been (I think) before, or at least she can do the trails the whole distance and in style

So, I did the usual searching on Craigslist and Ebay but nothing suitable was coming up. I found the excellent Solvit trailer/stroller on Amazon at just under $260 – this would have been great but the price tag was stretching it. So after changing the search parameters on Craigslist I lucked out on finding a Yakima bike trailer/jogger, now this model was built for human kiddies but had a weight limit of 100 lbs.

I felt certain I could reinforce the floor adequately and the internal dimensions are actually larger than the Solvit. They were originally asking $155, so, of course, I offered them $125 and we compromised on $130 ~ for me. (apparently the lady selling it had turned down an offer of $135 a few days before and then lost the sale).

The other great thing about this trailer is the front wheel is a large diameter so it can handle more easily the dirt roads we walk on. It has a great design for super stability too. The trailer itself has had light useage with a few wear spots but the jogger attachment was still ‘new in box’.

We have already had a few trips with it and Lylee can complete the whole walk now! The only problem is that all the new terrain we are crossing has all new scents and smells and Lylee’s like “er, excuse me, this set of wheels is fab and all that, but I do really want to check all the latest ‘pee-mail’ we are passing”. So out she hops and it’s amazing just how she must check it all out even with her bod saying, “need rest, need rest”. So were working on the ratio of chariot time and mail-reading time. Really, for us it’s just what ever this Tripawd Warrior Princess wants to make her one very content and happy Princess

I’ll get more footage of our jaunts – we are just so happy she is back to her usual longer excursions, that it’s gonna be documented to the max

Hug, wags and wishes for endless sniffing of all the latest “news”

Joanne and TWP Lylee

xoxo

Lylee enjoying a January sunset

Our girl is doing great! She has started her Metronomic Protocol therapy. No side effects seen by us, but she does have to have her CBC done in the next week or so to check her white cell count, etc. plus the oncologist likes to do chest x rays every three months so they will do those too (fingers and paws crossed). We are still researching this low dose chemo – there have been some human peer reviewed studies that have mixed results.

Her appetite has been so good that two separate people have commented on her “healthy” looks i.e. her expanding waistline. Her diet has been mostly grain free and extra yummy (Honest Kitchen Embark; Orijen dry food; Evo canned plus some fresh raw and then too many human fud treats from Grammie ) So we have reduced the quantity in her meals and are working on the “Grammie treats”.

She still has all her supplements that I listed earlier on in her blog here: http://lyleegirl.tripawds.com/2011/07/06/lylees-new-diet-yum/

We, understandably, had to get really inventive with how to get her to take so many of these pills. Initially she was eating them in her regular meal but then she decided this wasn’t her idea of how her food should be messed with, so we then started the hog dog, cheese, canned food, pastrami route to help them down. Alas she didn’t like that idea either. What to do? Well with almost 15 pills a day we invented…. Slime Balls!

Basically it’s cream cheese mushed together with the pills and then we gently open her mouth and pop them in and say “swallow!” and she does with a gulp. The good part is she is always rewarded with chicken, beef or some really delicious treat. This is her Natural Therapy Protocol. Anything to keep “That Which Shall Not Be Named” in permanent shutdown!

Group photo attempt with wiggly pups Aunt Cindi got hidden behind Jack’s hat but she really is there!

We all had a fab time and the weather was purrfect (I love my monkeycat sistars)!

Me with Uncle Jack and Shelby with her Mom, Cindi

Tani and Obie share their Mom, Karen

Travis Ray and fosterkid Austin hanging out with their Mom & Dad (Note the Tripawd Warrior Princess Angel Abby t-shirt!)

Travis Ray is one handsome dude (even with a tennis ball in his mouth)

Foster furkid Austin was their too. What a sweet boy! My Mom wanted to take him home but, well, we wouldn’t want my Dad to leave home……

The famous water bowl kindly brought by Shelby’s Mom & Dad

Aunt Cindi had treats for everyone

Lapdawg Shelby loves her Dad (she still has her beautiful tail she’s just hiding it)

It was a great day and I really look forward to the next pawty! Woo Hoo!!

Yay!! Our Girl is celebrating her 12th birthday today, well we take this date to be her bithday as it was 11 years ago today that we adopted her from the shelter and they estimated her to about 1 year old. She was full grown and so it’s hard to know their age unless they were puppies or if they had an owner who surrendered them to the shelter comfims their age. Lylee was a stray found on the side of the road ~ and I am very happy they didn’t keep her so she could become my Furever Girl!!

So Lylee’s birthday wish was to still beat her Daddy at tug o’ war! Well here is a video to prove it! Happy Birthday Sweetest Baby Girl! We love you with all our hearts!

So in honour of her six month ampuversary like only a  Tripawd Warrior Princess does ~ she is now graced with pink, yes, PINK jeweled tiara-like necklace (collar is so beneath her).

Long reign Tripawd Warrior Princess Lylee Girl!!! TGP furever!

Her 12 years young “Birthday” (she was a shelter rescue 11 years ago so she could be older) is this month too!

Do I have to model my necklace?!

(And, no, her mother will not let her wear it to the beach!)

Love, huggs & wags

Joanne & Lylee Girl

xoxo

PS We went to her oncologist last week and she will be staring the Metronomic Protocol next week . All her tests looked great and she is feeling very well in herself

Joanne & Lylee Girl

xoxo

and the kelp tasted great ~ thank you.

And, oh yeah, the sunset wasn’t bad either.

Thank you to my Mum, my Dad, Grammie, Jessica @ whole fuds who gives me yummy samples, Tripawds family ~ thank you for always being there for us (‘specially for my Mum , my Guernsey family xo, my New York family xo, Aunt Leslie who gives kisses and huggs, Uncle Raphael who luvs me too, Aunt Ann & Oola , All my Mum’s friends that send me special healing energy & chanting, that squirt MB bro – kinda, and everyone else who loves furkids ‘specially Tripawds xo