Kofu and Bella

Camping really brings out the best in us 😉☺️😌

It’s this mashed potato’s 8th birthdayyyy!!!
Our lives wouldn’t have been the same without you 😊😊😊

We moved 3 weeks ago!! 🎉🥳
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The original “plans” were in motion for several months, then we had health issues, work and personal life events, etc… 💀!! Eventually everything worked out and here we are! ☺️
Finally settling in, still some boxes and little things everywhere but we’re ~90% there.
It’s nice having a bigger space to walk around in circles - literally playing hide-and-seek 😂, no more carpets, better lighting, less of the afternoon heat 🥵, more memories to be made, and camping trips to plan!!
🥰❤️❤️❤️🥰

Happy sunshine girl ☀️ .
Some things that we’ve noticed since her medication aside from the increased energy levels.
- Her eyes are super focused like she’s looking at you before it was looking but kinda glazed/dazed eyes
- She no longer has crazy long bleps now they’re just tiny if any.
- she’s sleeping more on her back and prefers hard surfaces, before it was on soft things like the dogbed or couch
- her yeast infection cleared up and it’s squeaky clean b4 that area was always dark and oozing and despite her prescribed topical solutions, it persisted
- her body doesn’t have a heavy odor, it’s been 3weeks post bath and she still smells clean
- her fur doesn’t mat as easily as before, prev it would mat after a week post bath
- her fur is growing back and it’s coming in pretty thick and healthy
- her tail fur is also growing in thick, b4 it was stringy and you could see her named tail
- her coat is still a bit rough but softer than before

Flashback to our camping trip in Grand Canyon - East Rim. Clear skies, eternal dirt to roll around and eat, and gusty winds for days.
Ps. Peep the last pic. Looked like a teep*e? 🤔

☀️ sunshine boy and girl ❤️❤️❤️
Updates below!
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TLDR; Bella is healthy again.
We haven’t been very active on IG 😖
It’s been a wild couple of months with Kofu and Bella and multiple issues with their health, mostly Bella.
Kofu had a weird thing where he was screaming when he moved and was overall restless and wouldn’t lay down. Took X-rays and nothing showed up. Muscle relaxant, painkillers and rest and he’s back to 100% himself. We figured he played too hard one day and pulled a muscle really bad.
As you know, Bella was overweight and we changed her diet and got her down to 80lbs from 116 but her energy was still low and she was having issues here and there like chronic UTI, yeast infection that didn’t go away after antibiotics, lethargic for everything except eating, a growing mass on her head, constant diarrhea despite nothing in her diet changing.
We ran multiple tests, X-rays, etc on her issues.
Had the mass removed and it was benign.
The tests came back with a lot of things too high (creatine, potassium) and low (urine, glucose, thyroid), so ordered more tests to rule out Addisons and Thyroid FT4. If those 2 tests came back positive, then she would be on meds for the rest of her life.
Her X-rays also showed her small intestines with lots of inflammation and gas and the vet said it could either be food related, IBD, or lymphoma with a year to live. So our vet suggested we switch her diet once more and monitor. If her diarrhea continued, we would schedule an ultrasound to determine if it was IBD, and go from there.
We switched out both of their diets back to 100% raw (we were substituting with half kibble and half raw), even though Kofu didn’t have any issues eating Origen Fit and Trim, we saw benefits of feeding raw when they were puppies, but as they got older and bigger unfortunately our pockets stayed the same and we couldn’t afford it.
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I’d like some more food please. 👁👄👁

The trip where Kofu was basically not part of our family 😂😂😂

So you gonna come or not? 👀

Best friends in everything 😄😄

Look 👏🏼 at 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 view 👏🏼
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This hike to the top was right behind our camp site.

Love those early mornings when you catch the perfect sunrise 🌅 with a hot cup of ☕️&🍵

100% Kofu and Bella approved.
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Typically while camping, Kofu doesn’t ask to sit in the truck, he sits outside and comes in when we are about to go to bed. This time around, he’s been ready to climb in and passing out. We’d say he’s super comfortable and plus they get a whole 9ft of space to themselves 🤣🙌🏼🙌🏼

Current mood: enjoying life 😋 and that new hatch window, it’s like it was made for us 😂🤣😂🤣

It’s twenty twenty(two) 🎉 . Lol not much has changed, still enjoying that hoomoms are working from home and we get to see their faces on the daily 🥰🤪
Cheers to better health, more adventures/camping, and lots of yummy foods 😊😊

Most favorite ball - can even fall asleep to 😂

It’s Kofu’s gotcha day!! 😍🥰

We love staying at dog friendly hotels 🎉😊🥳

Should we get a boat next?? 👀👀👀
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(Surprisingly they both did well, Bella got on/off no problem and Kofu kept staring at the water and wanting to jump in 😂)

Itsssss maaaaaa birthday!!!!! Happy 6th 😱
Got a pre-birthday bath, noms, loveeee and lots of schmoozin around 😉🥰🎉
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(Life’s been hectic and we’ve been off social media - hopefully back on now that we’regetring back into our groove~ hope everyone’s doing well!)

Enjoyed a nice Sunday picnic at the regional park

Lol - they say food is a great motivator 😂
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Bella drags on walks but as soon as she knows you have food, she’ll haul butt to get it. It’s ironic because she does really well Offleash while camping/exploring, or gets bursts of energy and catch up to us when she sees squirrels and bunnies. Maybe leash-walking just isn’t her cup of tea 😂

Whenever Bella is done, she makes her way and sits inside the truck 😂 meanwhile Kofu happily sits outside and watches our surroundings.

How’s this for 👅
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Sunday funday 🤪😆

Before and after - excited to go somewhere and then pooped after 😂🤣

to the best p*e with a view 🌲⛰😉😂😅 .

to schmoozing in the forest 😴

Morning walkies with 2 dirty bears 😂