Not defunct, we promise...

So the last year has been pretty busy and as a result, we haven't been great about keeping up the blog. But never you fear, Mochi and Obiee are just as cute and buttheaded as ever. We'll try to post more often, and so I won't do a year's recap in one post. But I thought I'd start by bringing up the most significant change in the last six months.

Diet. As you might recall, Obiee has a sensitive stomach already, and in March he seemed to get sick every weekend - light vomiting with chills. So after two consecutive weekends of this, we took him to the vet. He did have a slight kidney infection, but the vet also recommended that we look for a food with probiotics to help him digest and absorb nutrients better. (You might also recall that he'll a poo eater, which is fairly common but also a sign that he's not getting the nutrients he needs).

So of course this all happened right before we were leaving for Japan. So we had a 10-day diet transition instead of two weeks, and Obiee had to take medicine while we were gone. :( But he was doing better by the time we left, and both boys seemed pretty happy and healthy when we returned. (They weren't as chubby as when we returned from Italy.)

We win!

You've probably heard about the health benefits of probiotics (live cultures in yogurt, for example) for humans. But apparently they're good for dogs too. And we're believers. After about six weeks of the new diet, their coats (especially Mochi's) were looking and feeling better, and they both seem to have more energy (which Obiee didn't really need more of). They also slimmed down a bit, and we started walking them more regularly. So they're pretty happy, healthy boys. And Obiee's carsickness doesn't seem quite so bad now. Yay probiotics!