[Dailydrool] clueless

[Dale Rutz]

Ok, so I've been a basset mom for a year and a half now.  WHEN will I ever get 
good at this??  Even passable?? Someone please tell me there's a chance... cause 
... well .... let me tell you what happened.

My Snoopy has been a PILL.  For several days.  CHEWING madly at his feet and 
legs and everywhere.  Snarking at his brother Cyrus, sister LuLu, anyone and 
everyone on our walks .... even ME.  Now he doesn't bite, you never feel any 
teeth but he's just been NASTY.  So, yesterday I had enough.  I decided heck ... 
he doesn't bite ... I'm going over every inch of him and try to find out if he's 
injured or has a bad gut or what could possibly be causing my sweet smooshy boy 
to be so rude all the time.  So, I started with the belly.  Nothing.  The legs, 
the feet.  Nothing.  The body.  Nothing.  Could it be his eyes I wondered?   I 
heard they get grumpy about sore eyes so I moved to his head and I went to move 
his ear and I realized it was crunchy.  And when I touched the crunchy part he 
started scratching with the hind leg uncontrollably.  I checked the other ear 
and it was crunchy too.  Snoopy has EXTREMELY long ears and he does need his 
ears fluffed regularly but geez ... come on ... I wash his ears out and bathe 
him weekly (on Fridays) and I usually fluff those ears once or twice in between 
but somehow I didn't this week and he must have gotten them wet in the morning 
grass and then dragged them through some dirt in the garden and added in some 
pumpkin from a meal and it just all crusted up on the outside of his ears and 
itched him like crazy and he couldn't get relief.  Long story short I got a dog 
towel and wet it with warm water and rubbed the furry part of his ear and he 
just purrrrrrrr'ed.  It took several ear massages on both sides to get all the 
crud out.  I then got a clean dog towl and fluffed them dry.

No more cranky Snoopy.  In fact he went and found Cyrus and lay down back to 
back and snuggled him as soon as I got done.  And then he was adorable last 
night on his walk and everyone wanted to pet him.

I think I might just be hopeless.

More later from the clueless momPerson with Snoopy (she might never learn) and 
Cyrus (she does try) and LuLu (Snoopy is incredibly high maintenance, it was 
just a little ear crud, geez)
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