When we got Larry, he was seriously underweight, like 6lbs underweight on a dog that maxes out at 25lbs. One of the supposed reasons his original owners surrendered him was that they claimed he refused to eat anything but steak. We had a very hard time believing this. Larry ate …
When it comes to Junebug’s neck, the prevailing theory is “if it’s not bothering her…”. But that theory kind of falls apart when it appears her neck is oozing a sticky (and possibly brown) substance. Already with June’s neck, we have the bi-lateral impacted saliva glands. We then also have …
With Junebug’s newly remembered ability to jump fences, we have necessarily changed our dog park routine. One of the things I’ve done is to encourage the dogs to play on the Beagle Eating HillTM, a hill safely in the middle of the dog park which is covered in blackberry brambles, …
I am already out of the running for the Pet Parent of the Year award this year. We realized earlier this week that we were starving the dogs (especially Larry). Over the summer, Larry go to the point where he was not eating all of his food (so Junebug was …
Over the last week, our lives have gone a little crazy. I have talked about it more on my financial blog than here, but C and I are in the process of adopting. Last Tuesday night, a Little Girl (LG) was placed in our home. She is 9.5 years old …
On Saturday, Junebug had an unhappy tummy again. We called the vet. We took her in and got blood work for the suspected pancreatitis. Good news- her liver, kidney AND pancreas values were all good. She does NOT have pancreatitis. Blood work did indicate a possible infection. X-Rays showed maybe …
Howie has never been a consistent eater. We know this. And yet, since his diagnosis of kidney failure, we are extra aware of his good days and bad days. In addition to his other health issues, he appears to have a neck or back injury that occasionally causes him to …
Yesterday I showed you pictures of Queen Zoey in her palanquin. Zoey lives with her staff (my friends M and B), M’s parents, and her court jester (a little black and white “super Papillon” named Nigel). She is absolutely one of my favorite dogs ever. If someone were to tell …
We THINK (and I emphasize think) we may have solved one of June’s medical mysteries. Not her swollen saliva glands. I hope those get to remain a mystery for her entire life, because that means we’ll never have to do surgery on them. No, I’m talking about her random tummy …
Last week, Howie went in for his every three month urine test, to make sure we still don’t have any crystals forming and to keep an eye on his inability to concentrate urine. We realized that it has been a year since his last full checkup. He got rabies and …