Saturday, July 28, 2012

The Well-Traveled Dog

Our dog Pepper has cancer covering a large portion of the roof of her mouth, so we don't know how much time we have left with her.  She seems to be doing great right now, but I am a little fearful each week if she will take a turn for the worse.  I am posting pics of her/our travels abroad while we were stationed in Heidelberg, Germany. This is the third post in this series.  Pepper likes to be the Alpha dog whenever another lady dog is around.  She is very protective of her house if another female dog comes in.  (she's so sweet and calm you would never know this about her, but she's got some Doberman in her).  A neighbor's German shepherd stopped by and got her on top of the head and around the neck.  I checked her neck out afterwards, and she seemed fine.  A couple of hours later, Pepper kept putting her head in our laps, and suddenly I noticed she had a small hole on top of her head.  Poor girl probably had some kind of headache, but it was particularly interesting how she kept trying to show us.  Thankfully Scott had some suture kits left over from Iraq and proceeded to sew her up.  Ironically, she is often not very trusting of Scott, but the whole time he was fixing her, she kept her head so still in his lap and completely knew he was helping her.  You can see no one had to hold her down.  I just thought this was a cute pic of our nephew "helping" :)
this was the first time she had ever been in snow--Kandersteg, Switzerland.  It was also the first place I ever snow skiied :) She went crazy running through this winter wonderland. 

Neuschwanstein Castle
 
We walked up to the doors of Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, and Scott was "carrying me away."  Pepper was barking and playing along

Cochem Castle


Pepper actually got to go inside the Cochem castle.  This cute little town is along the Mosel river in Germany.  You can see the castle overlooking, and then Pepper is relaxing inside the dining room during our guided tour.  The last one is the vineyards that were just up the hill from the little village we lived in outside of Heidelberg. I miss those walks!  Tune in again later for some more!
Nussloch Vineyards





1 comment:

Mer said...

I'm so so sorry about Pepper:( It is so hard Rachelle! Will pray for you and Scott.