Thanks to Dr. Scot and his team at Lake Geneva Animal Hospital, our friend Jeep is well on the road to recovery. She came home tonight and is finally sleeping. She was a bit out of it from her pain medication. She tends to whimper when I leave her side so guess who will be spending the night on the floor in my sleeping bag beside the big fluff? Come on, who wouldn’t want to snuggle up with all that fluff?
Here are pictures of her surgery that went SO well!! Thank you everyone for your thoughts, prayers and concern for Mrs. Fuzzypants – well she isn’t so fuzzy on one side of her pants now, but the magic fluff will grow back. BTW Dottie Com has been very worried about her sister. Good girl, Dot!
Dot seemed sad not to have her friend Jeep to play with her today – so was I! Dottie kept looking out the window awaiting Jeep’s return. Dot does have a great snuggly side about her.
Jeep did very well during surgery thanks to her talented vet team.
Dottie really wants to help her friend, but we can’t allow her to get too close to Jeep who is sore. Poor Dottie, but what a good friend she is to keep watch.
Dottie and I are SO happy to have Jeep back home and doing well!!!! Now we just have to pass the weeks and let our girl heal. Good girl, Jeep!
Tomorrow Jeep will have a special type of surgery to repair the damage. A cut will be made into her tibia (shin) bone to separate it into two pieces then a screw will be placed in between to allow the knee to move in alignment. A bone plate will then be attached to the screw to stop it from moving. Then Jeep ‘s leg will be stitched up and she can come home. In 6-8 weeks her bone will grow around the metal pieces to give her a strong knee once more.
Jeep hopes you enjoyed your snow day as much as she did! It is quite hard trying to get her to come back inside and warm up her frosty paws. Maybe we should look into boots for her. 
Jeep and I had a terrific time visiting classrooms on Halloween! We saw some incredible costumes and many happy kids.
We have all seen Jeep’s picture on our staff yearbook page, so we know she is definitely part of the team. However, today for the very first time, our friend Jeep got to wear her staff ID badge! She proudly wore it to two schools today and we were impressed by how many of her kid friends noticed. A number of the students agreed, “Of course, Jeep is a teacher!” Now, if only we could get her on the payroll then she could buy her own bacon double cheeseburgers.
Jeep certainly missed her kid friends over the summer. She spent the morning at Hooper and Thompson Schools. She watched over the new seventh graders at Palombi as they figured out where to sit in a new cafeteria. This afternoon – after she has had a nap and a couple of bowls of water – she will head over to Martin to see her friends there. She is one busy pup!
We have all seen how much Jeep sleeps during the day at school. (We don’t call her Sleepy Jeepie for nothing!) Apparently, Jeep isn’t the only hard to wake up Pyrenees out there. Check out this video of a pyr who works on a farm watching over goats – well, he is supposed to be watching them. Looks to me that he is asleep on the job.
Jeep the Dog 