What a find

On Friday, I went to Target and found something wonderful…

These little beauties made me so happy.  Especially when I put them on.  Not on me, and don’t get excited it’s not what you might think.  I am definitely past that stage in my life.  They are for my sweet little dog, Charlotte.  Do you see the grippies on the bottom of the socks, they are little paw prints. Too cute! )

You want to see how they look…

You can’t see them very well…why didn’t you say so…

Aren’t they just the sweetest things.  She is so cute when she is walking around in them. 

I will explain briefly why she needs them.  She has been through so much in her short life.  My Charltotte is 6 years old.  Two years ago, she ruptured a disk in her back and had surgery to remove it.  We didn’t think she would ever use her back legs again…but she is a fighter and after several months we started seeing her moving them in a walking motion.  I will post about this some other time, but she recovered well enough to be able to go on our walks and to get around the house pretty well.  She can’t go up stairs, but she is able to go down stairs. 

Then about three months ago, we started noticing a problem with her jaw, again I won’t go into the long gory details, but her immune system was attacking her body.  We had to put her on steriods, and let me just say, the side effects of steroids are almost worse than her condition.  One of the side effects is muscle waste, so her poor muscles in the back were shrinking.  She found it difficult to walk again, so when she walks she doesn’t pick up her right leg enough to completely clear the ground, so it scrapes the top of her foot and she has two little sores that bleed everytime she walks any distance.  So we have started putting socks or booties on her.

The reason I was so excited about these little babies, is that they have the grips on the bottom, which really helps her when she is walking on our wood floors.  Otherwise she would slip and slide and fall on her bum. 

So I am very happy today, because I found socks that are not only very functional but cute to boot.

P.S. The Vet shaved the hair above her tail due to hot spots, that got a little out of hand because sterioids suppress your immune system.  But, the hair will grow back.