Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

We came home tonight around 6:45 and Billy went out right away, pee and poop. A little while later we had picked up take-out and Billy started pacing around. I thought maybe he was just excited about the food but his bathroom issues are a little unpredictable since his recent brush with apparent near-death (i.e. refusing to eat for several days, acting depressed and miserable, seemingly losing control of his bladder, acting like none of his legs worked... a lot of the usual Billy drama). He healed himself from this, which we are very glad for of course.

However, often if we're not sure he has to go out we'll just take him rather than take a chance that he'll go in the apartment, or worse, in the hall of the building. Often we carry him outside because so far he hasn't peed ON US but he has peed walking himself outside.

OK, that's the background. Anyway, so since he was fussing and we weren't sure what he wanted I decided to take him out. On my way to get my shoes on and grab his leash I slipped and almost fell on my ass but didn't realize right away what happened. Then I looked and saw that I had stepped in a gross pile of near-diarrhea poop Billy left near the door. Luckily I had socks on and luckily I didn't fall down in it, or it would have been worse than the time I slipped and fell IN a giant puddle of Billy's pee at about 5:30 in the morning after trying to hop over it to get to cleaning supplies.

Oh, Billy, you're such a special joy. Here you are in a more innocent moment.

Rob took a bunch of photos of Billy on this walk too, though they predate the super crazy ones where he's attacking the camera here.

Anyway, here's the walk mapped out with photos (the little cameras each mark a photo and where it was taken - if you click on it you'll be able to see the photo and even get a link to a gallery of all the photos at a larger size).

By the way, robreed wrote the script that lets us do this cool mapping of photos. Good job, robreed! (Also to get a less crowded map, click on "View Larger Map" below.)

View Larger Map

More to follow in a gallery. Also have pictures from another walk to post, complete with map, etc.

First, Billy looking like an insane monster:

And, Billy looking exhausted after too much chasing of the camera!

First of all, I grabbed a ton of photos and threw them up here. You can browse through. Also there are a couple of tiny movies that are funny, of Billy dragging me around and eating grass I think, in Brighton back around 2002 I think.

And here are a few more gems I thought everyone would enjoy!

Now that it's the official day, Happy Birthday pup!

Here he is conquering the Rocky Mountains in Colorado a few years ago.

I promise to give you extra treats tonight!

I think she's a day early but check out the old school pictures of Billy the dog in Heather's happy birthday post for him.

I'll try to find a few gems of my own. Happy Birthday Billy! You're awesome, I'm glad you're my puppy!

Remember this?

Well I just caught Emily the kitty having a little taste of some fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies!

Was her reaction to try to hide or even look guilty? No, this time, she just casually went back to licking the cookie she had dragged off the cooling rack.

Bad kitty!

So, this sweet angel:

bit me in the face Saturday morning! Nice, right? Don't worry, he wasn't trying to bite me really, just snapping at me and I got a little nick on my cheek.

But I was pretty pissed! Do you think he was sorry after? For about 8 seconds. Then back to his grumpy self.

He had fallen on his ass going up the stairs because he's old and crotchety and his back legs don't work so hot sometimes, so I was helping him up and apparently that earned me a bite. I presume he doesn't enjoy the undignified process of falling ass-backwards down the stairs and then being picked up like a baby.

Fun times as always on Anderson Street.

Wow, a helpful person calling themselves "Dog Knower" left me some great advice on this post. I really can't wait to follow it! Tonight it's all-off-leash all the time for Billy the dog! Children (and adults) and small (and large) animals (and all unsupervised cars with open doors) beware!

Maybe Heather the vet, Billy's first mom, would like to comment.

But when they lay on your hand while you're typing, they make things difficult.

Goodnight my little Emily!