Bad Day in Bend

So to bring everyone up to speed.  Life out in the desert hasn’t been to bad.  We all miss Aaron and his sense of humor, I can even admit to missing Jerry and Rachael.  We got word a few days ago that Aaron was going to run the Tustumina 100 dog sled race and the night of the race we were glued to the computer waiting for the updates of his position.  Rachael ran the 200 mile portion of the same race and from the looks of her positioning during the race, they were using it as a training run.   We were amazed at how well Aaron was doing when he checked in at the mandatory 4 hour break check point.  He was in 2nd place over all and only 16 mins behind the leader.  We all went to bed with hopes of seeing Aaron in the 1st position by race end, but that never happened.  He ended up finishing 9th overall, and after talking to him we found out that he (the dogs) missed a turn and he ended up getting lost in a fog for about 2 hours. That’s when the troubles started for him, he also mentioned his headlamp dying on him, as well as his team got turned around some how and he ended up running back thru the check point he just left.  Overall everyone in the house is really happy with his run, we still wished we saw him winning the race.

So today is some what of a down day for us.  We have had a sick puppy and have slowly been nursing him back to health.  A week has gone by and we thought we got him over the hump, but he still was not eating or drinking on his own, so we thought it best for the Vet to take a look at him.  Come to find out he ate a rock and it was blocking his intestines up, so we either had to fork out about $2000 to remove said rock through surgery or put him down based on the information presented to us, we had to make a tough decision.  We put him down.  Dave explained to us that typically if you have a dog that eats rocks he will continue to do said behavior until it does him in. So to say the least my spirits are down.  I did not sign up for this, but it is life.