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Saturday, July 18
Stitches removed 

This morning the veterinary removed the stitches and I finally got opportunity to live a normal basenji life again! Unfortunately the weighing machine showed no loss of weight during the 11 days (oops!) Cami took me first to the dog park called Rajasaari and then she drove to a place where we went one round of agility and finally I got opportunity to play with Ciara.
 
After this operation my owner has been changed from Cami to Mika's mum Sirpa (owner of Simba). I'll stay with them in Espoo Finland to the rest of my life. This means that I am officially retired.
 
I don't know what will happen to my diary. Maybe I'll send an add that seeking of an assistant to maintain my stories in Nala's Diary.
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Thursday, July 16
Finnish Basenji Club Summer Days 2009 

I was the official mascot ( = symbol of good luck importing) of Summer Days organized by Finnish Basenji Club. My main duty was to keep the young basenjis in the right side of the fence: only one slipped to my side, so I helped to catch him. Cami was timekeeper as well as basenji agility activity organizer and got a bottle of sparkling rose wine as a gratuity from Kirsi Villberg. Thanks!
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Sunday, July 12
Surgical removal of anal glands 

I had a surgical removal of anal glands on Wednesday, due to the chronical (5,5 years!) problems with them. The veterinarian found out a chronic bacteria infection, where antibiotics did not help, so this procedure had no options. The veterinary made excellent work, but the nurses tried to kill me by giving an extra portion of anesthesia, due to the reason that I highly protested when waking up after the surgery. Thanks to nurses wrong action, Cami had to give me 24 hours first aid against mode of poisoning. If I would have been in more athletic condition (that is less fat), my heart would had stopped like it has happened with many basenjis and sighthounds.
 
Now I have to wear romper pants and have soup diet for 11 days until the stitches are removed on Saturday. I haven't been the easiest patient, but now finally Ciara had to take responsibility and act like a mature dog. The visitors has immediately noticed Ciara's mature behavior, but not my loss of weight (I believe that the weightloss is about 1 kg, because I'm feeling very hungry)! 
 
 
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Sunday, July 5
Lure coursing in Estonia 

We had a pleasant weekend in Estonia. On Saturday, after Ciara's try on lure coursing, we enjoyed the great sand beach of Laulasmaa SPA in the sunny weather. Then on Sunday it was turn for the great Veteran Lure Coursing Winner -09 competition, where I run with my old pal Flash (Faraoland Thunderflash to Ribessita). As expected Flash won the EST VM-09 title: congratulations my friend! But I surprised everybody by trying to run the whole track until I lost my balance and collapsed to the grass in the middle of the track. I got 15 points (earlier I have always got zero points by interrupting in the start), so this was a great end to my running carrier. Both me and Flash are now retired from all running competitions. Thanks and bye!
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