DAWG BLAWG!

I don't normally blog about dogs, babies, teddy bears etc... but I'll make an exception in this one case.

Several years ago we found this dog on the side of the road.

Actually we weren't sure if it was a dog or a black rat.

It was a little too big for a rat and a little too small for a dog.

Anyway we picked it up and saw that it was a dachshund puppy about 6 weeks old. I took it home and put it in a basket with a heating pad and fed it coffee creamer with an
eye dropper. The dog could actually fit in my shirt pocket.

There was a South Park episode on that night entitled starvin marvin where Cartman accidentally adopts an emaciated Ethiopian child. So we started calling the dog Marvin because he was scrawny, emaciated and black. (man that sounds awful)

Anyway, once the dog started thriving he was a typical puppy and one of our other dogs got sick of being pestered by him and bit his jugular vein. I've never seen so much blood.

We rushed him to the emergency vet where they gave him blood and sewed him back up. We sent the offending aggressive dog to live with an Aunt.

This dog has 9 lives. He has fallen 15 feet off of a second story staircase and only suffered a broken tail. He has had back surgery to remove broken cartilage and he has one floppy ear due to a run in with another dog.

But Marvin does have personality. If you give him a bowl of food he flings out all the offending pieces he doesn't like and only keeps the tasty bits. He can run backwards as fast as he can run forwards.

The dog does not need oxygen. We have found him up curled asleep under piles of blankets and in plastic bags that would smother any other creature.

Marvin cannot be awakened by sound. He is not deaf but when he is asleep you can blast a car horn into his ear and he won't budge. You have to shake him awake.

If Marvin decides to find a clothes basket or other out of the way hiding place there is no way to find him until he decides to wake up 22 hours later.

Marvin turned 8 years old today so I thought it would be a good time to write about him