Time for a little update on things. Mike is doing well. Getting stronger and feeling better everyday. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.

Our new little dog, Josie is fitting right in with the family. You can see how affectionate she is in the picture giving Mike such a hug. We are still dealing with the diapers issues, and we have found that keeping her in a pet crate is not the best. She ate through the soft sided one we had for Gracie, so we bought a plastic crate with a metal wire front gate. I put her in and went out for a couple of hours, when I got home she was running free in the house. Mike said I probably did not have the latch in proper. So the next day I had Mike put her in the crate to be sure the latch was in proper. When we got home a few hours later, she greeted us happily at the front door. She had escaped the crate again. I'm thinking we should rename her Houdini. Later that day we noticed she was favoring her one front paw. For the next 3 days she would not walk on it at all. So it was back to the vet. $90.00 later he basically said, 'Give her 2 aspirins, and call me in the morning. The good news is that nothing is broken, puntured, or infected. So we have given up on the crating thing and just let her run the house when we are not home. So far that is working OK as long as me make sure she is 'pottied' before we leave. We are still giving her 'something to manage the pain', and she is starting to put weight on it again. But she is such a drama queen, when we are walking and she gets tired, she will sit down and hold it up and look at us with the most pitiful eyes.