Wish me luck!

We leave on our excursion early tomorrow morning.

I reeeeeaaallly hope everything goes well.

I guess you should wish Baloo luck rather than me.

Speedy

This is Speedy, a 19 year old Galapagos Tortoise. He is a whopping 500 pounds!

I have gotten to know speedy over the last few months at the zoo. He was a little sick when I met him in early February.  Sadly, over time his sickness has caused him renal failure. The zoo vet had to euthanize him yesterday, because he was so swollen from excess fluids that he could hardly function.

See how swollen he is? Poor guy. At least now he is better off in animal heaven.

Today I went to the zoo to see the necropsy. There were 5 vets there to help, since 500 pounds is a huge amount... of anything! I actually got to participate in the necropsy, since they are sending Speedy up to me at the BYUH museum anyway this afternoon. Anyway, I won't go into details or show any pictures to spare you, but it was pretty cool (Yes, I did take pictures!). Dissecting and reconstructing the skeleton of a gigantic Galapagos Tortoise isn't your every day stuff!

Fatty's coming to CA

Seth and I are accompanying Baloo to CA this Friday!

I'm sad my little Aussie dog will be leaving us, but our apartment doesn't allow dogs and my grandma can't take care of him forever down in Honolulu.

So we have been working hard this last month to save up money and get everything taken care of to get Baloo ready to fly home!
And I can tell you, it is such a pain! Not only the $$, but all of the requirements you have to follow in order for him to be approved to fly, like crate arrangements and sizes, weight requirements, documentation and licensing , health certificate and keeping up with current vaccinations.

But I am happy to say that after all of that hard work, he is ready to go! I'm not anticipating the actual trip to the airport to drop him off because you know how excited and crazy he gets...

He will be staying with my parents and their 3 wiener dogs. He has a nice setup over there and my little sister Jordie will play with him a bunch, so I'm not worried.

..But I'm going to miss my fatty bulldog SOOOOOOOO much. :( He's my little baby!

Baby Jae

My good friend Mikensi just had her gorgeous baby:


Born on 07.07.09 @ Intermountain Medical Center, Murray
9:13pm
6 pounds 15 ounces
19.5 inches long

CONGRATULATIONS!!

I can't wait to meet him!

Do dogs dream?

My Dad sent me this video this morning.


Poor guy! I wonder what he was dreaming about!