ArizonaButterfly

Both Cotton and Luke have managed to hurt themselves: Cotton has another “peeled” toenail and Luke has a cut on his right back leg. I have no idea how either one of them hurt themselves. They’re both doing fine, just walking a bit tenderly. I just wish they could tell me what was wrong at times so I wouldn’t have to play detective. Luke hopped on 3 legs for the better part of a day, and yet allowed me to touch the injured leg, rubbing it and the like before I finally saw the small cut and was able to put some canine antibiotic cream on it. Cotton’s toenail was a bit more obvious, although it isn’t nearly as bad as it was the last time he did it. If I knew how he was doing it I would do what I could to stop it. The best guess is he’s catching it on something, which could be a stump, a tree, a block, the fence, and so on.

Speaking of fences, I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ll be able to get mine started very soon. The plan is to block the view into the neighbor’s yard since her “friend” obviously doesn’t like the dogs. I was outside (but hid from his view) yesterday and he came strolling towards my fence (and dogs) with a very thick branch/log. When I moved into his view he turned towards the back of her yard, but I have a nagging feeling that if I hadn’t been out there that it would have mysteriously appeared in my yard like the others have. I’m also thinking of planting some Honeysuckle at the front of the fence on that side of the yard. It’s supposed to be a screening shrub, which would be nice and more importantly, it smells good and attracts butterflies.