Buddy's Enemies.

Everybody loves Buddy and when he's outside on his walks total strangers always come up to him and admire him but even he has his enemies, but only 2 of them: the grey cat and the black dog. The grey cat has tormented him forever and even bit a chunk out of his tail and now every time it comes around(which is always; it likes to hang around our front porch and backyard and has even snuck into our house and eaten his food!) he goes ape-shit. It all started when he startled it once under a bush and it jumped out and bit his tail. They've been enemies ever since. As for the black dog it must be an Alpha male thing; they're both males and have never gotten along. Buddy doesn't ever bark at any other dogs that walk by or that he passes by but this particulr dog he always does, and with such feistiness, too, and the other dog barks at him with just as much anger; those two really hate eachother and always go at eachother every time they see eachother, it's the strangest thing. Other than that he gets along with all other dogs. In fact, Sammy the Pitbull up the corner is even his friend and that dog hates and barks at everybody but not at Buddy; his owner was even puzzled at that and told me so.

He made a new enemy yesterday too and wasn't even aware of it. Buddy is a brave little thing and takes on dogs many times his size. The other day he took on a Rottweiller and I had to scoop him up and carry him away, I don't think he realizes how small he really is and thinks he's much bigger than he actually is. One time he even took on a Doberman and the other dog started shaking and cowereing. It was just a big baby, a gentle giant. It was scared of the little Dachshund! yesterday though on a walk I saw this big dog running loose coming towards us and it didn't look friendly so I picked up Buddy and held him under my arm where he'd be in a safer spot and I picked up a big stick off the sidewalk to defend us and the dog came up to us, barking loudly but not in a friendly way and it advanced towards us, circling us and lunging towards us so I'd step back and then as it would come towards us I'd lunge towards it , making myself loud and big, swinging the stick at it in an aggressive way to scare it off and it would retreat and this kept up for awhile until I was able to back us up unto my property and get into our house. I think I was more shaken up than Buddy was though as I know it has it's eye on him for a snack but he seemed oblivious as he thinks he can take on these bigger dogs that want to eat him but I would never let that happen. He's my best friend and I would defend him with my own life if I had to. Right now there's a chipmunk loose in the house and Buddy's trying to catch it, poor little thing. I leave the back door open hoping it can find it's way back out  so we'll have to see who is faster...

My back is also worse and now it also stings too and feels like an open wound. It's on the left side on the spine and I have no idea what it is but it hurts so much all I can do is lay on my side with my knees bent up to my chest and that's the only position it doesn't hurt and the worst it when I change positions like standing up, walking, getting up or down from laying ,standing or sitting, and there's no way I can bend and sometimes it even feels like I can feel something ripping and tearing. Maybe it's just a pulled muscle or ligament or something but I've had those before and it's never hurt like this. My God, this is really painful! All I want to do is stay in bed in all day and sleep. My cousin also went to the Rolling Stones concert yesterday; I would love to have, it's on my Bucket List but the tickets are wayyy too expensive, and one of my other cousins in Europe and his wife are spending the weekend in France(in Cannes!), and my friend J from Ottawa is in Las Vegas and my friend F (from grade 6) and his wife are in the Philippines visiting her family. It sure is a busy time for travel! My cousin who needs a kidney transplant has lost lots of weight too; he used to be a really big guy and now he's under 200 pounds you wouldn't even recognize him but he actually looks good! Early in my sickness when I'd lost 60 pounds over a few months (I've since gained back in fluid retention) I actually looked older and sick that thin and looked better,younger, and healthier fatter!