The Good Life

I have stopped feeling sorry for my pup, having seen that she does not seem to mind the fact that she only has three good legs. Azuki's hind right thigh bone may be dying of a a slow death, and her leg muscle might be atrophying by the minute as we speak, but her spirit hasn't changed. She is still a bundle of joy and energy. Azuki is one pup that never forgets to stop and smell the flowers (because she likes to eat them).

In fact, Azuki has mastered the art of running and jumping on only one hind leg--and is back to fully enjoying her walks, sniffing dog pee, eating grass (and then puking them out) , and laying around small patches of grass.

Using only three legs, however, does seem to tire her out more easily. So these days she spends more time snoozing in the evenings. We took the below pictures in one evening, in sequence:

She starts off with sleeping on our comfy, furry rug (bought just for her!)...



Then her pa gets on the rug with her and massages her legs while she continues to snooze (he does this every night, hoping to restore some blood ciculation in her legs---what a great pa!)



Azuki then decides that enough is enough, leave-me-alone-already-I-need-my-uninterrupted -beauty-sleep-damn-it-don't-you-know-that-it's-hard-work-being-this-cute?!?

She proceeds to sleep in her doggie bed by our computer.



Then we look over, and saw that, funnily, our pup is sleeping ON HER BACK, with all four paws up in the air, twisting into difficult yoga-like positions. How this is comfortable we do not know:


Upon closer examination (another ingenious work of Matt), we discover that the pup is not only sleeping soundly depsite annoying humans flashing camera light in her face, but that her one lower tooth is sticking out prominently (Azuki has a clinically severe underbite and a little fang on the bottom of her mouth that doesn't fit into her jaw....so it always sticks out even when her mouth is closed):



If your mouth is not formed in a "o" shape right now with an audible "awwww......" coming out of it, induced by the above cuteness overload, you are some kind of dead inside. Seriously, can you believe we were able to handle this much cuteness without spontaneous combustion?


Azuki goes under the knife on Monday, 9/25. Let's hope everything goes well for our little rock star!