On Friday June 2, 2011, we had a birthday for Boomer for his first birthday with McWang family.
It was Calum's idea actually. When Calum and I went to Happy Husky Bakery, a very nice dog store, to pick up Boomer's food, Calum was amazed by doggie beers and a very cute cake for dogs in the store. He suggested that we give Boomer a birthday party and invited Boomer's best friends.
Boomer's birthday was June 1, 2010. We adopted him last year when he was 6 weeks old from Wright-Way Rescue in Niles, IL.
After we moved into our house last year in June, we or I immediately started looking for a dog for us. I never had a dog as pet before and thought it might be a good idea for us/Calum to have a dog for our new house. I had my eye set on Australian Shepherd/Burmese Mountain Dog mix. My boss Greg and his family has one like that and Ned (the dog's name) is the best dog I have ever seen. Ned would come into the office with Greg and sat either in Greg's office or in the meeting with Greg without even making a sound. Once he was locked out from a meeting, he just sat outside the meeting room waiting for his Dad. Besides, Ned is BIG and I always want to have a big dog.
Our Prince Boomer has not been very well recently though you cannot tell from his undiminished energy and demeanor. He had an ear infection three weeks ago; then hookworms; then a recurring ear infection. We have been in and out the hospital in the past 2 months. Although we don’t know exactly where and how he got these problems, we have a good guess that might be either from the dog park or when he roamed around with his buddy Mickey in whatever unknown objects on the golf course and a ravine near our house.
So after the weeks of treatment and recurring ear infection, I asked the vet to give him a cone; aka e-Collar; aka cone of shame. Oh, by the way, we just learned that the e-collar’s the full name is Elizabethan collar today.
