Final Post

I know it's been a long time since I posted. I wanted to make this the final one.

On Thursday, July 21st, I had to let my boy Lucas go. The couple weeks prior he was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and had fluid in his lungs. He was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. After just over 2 weeks we finally got him stabilized. Five days later he didn't want to get up to walk. He's always had issues with his rear, with arthritis and whatever neurological issues he had with his right side. X-rays showed severe arthritis in his left hip and two fused discs in his lower back. He was a strong boy. Never showed no pain, but his body showed it to me. I couldn't let him suffer so I lost my heart that day. We adopted him November 6, 2004 from rescue.  I will be lost without him for awhile. My life revolved around him for almost 10 years. May he rest in peace and I pray I will see him again.

Hearts and Hips

Lucas has been struggling with his arthritis, and his back end in general. I decided to talk to my vet about Adequan injections since I have a few friends who have used it on their pups and have good results. He had his third injection today. I think I might have noticed improvement this morning as he was doing things he hasn't done in awhile. I've read that it could take up to the first months treatment to really see improvement. He gets 2 shots a week for 4 weeks, then once a month. Hoping for good results for my boy.

He also had his six month cardio workup done about 10 days ago. He shows stable which is great.

Last year both my dogs were in a DCM study at the University of Florida. About 7 months ago Holly had a gene test done which at that point, they didn't do further tests. This past week I received an email from the UF stating that they sent a holter monitor to my vet for Holly. We had it put on her yesterday, and boy was she relieved to get it off today. She was stressed yesterday it zonked her out for the night. Hopefully we will received good news after they review it. Here's Holly sportin' her UF colors with the vest they sent to cover the holter.

Here's my two little piggies, Pugsley and Gomez (he has his head way down deep in the bowl). I've cut their food down as Pugsley has just blown up since I have them on this prescription diet. Don't know where else to look for the right food. They're on Royal Canin SO Oldfactory. It's for cats that are prone to crystals and it has no chicken or chicken meal in it (Pugsley gets the runs from chicken). I tried before to switch them back to their previous food but crystals came back in the urine. So of course now I'll need to keep them on special food.

Here's little Miss Wednesday looking all cute. She has many names in this house. The most current one is fleabag. Going on 3 weeks now and we still find a couple on her just about every day. They all get their flea meds next week again, and we'll set off a bomb again. I've been using Borax on my carpet (which is only in the bedroom). The rest of the house is tile. I've let her out into the population (as my husband puts it) only a few times. I just don't want them to spread any more then they already have. In 24 years we've never had to deal with fleas like this. Little bastards.

Hope everyone has a great weekend! Can't believe it's already February next week!

Happy New Year - Welcome 2016

The holiday have come and gone and I hope everyone had a beautiful, safe one!

Lucas and Holly in some costumes that the rescue bought them. The elf one was so funny.

Our new addition, Wednesday. She is about 9 weeks old now. Just a little thing full of so much energy. Bouncing, running, biting...repeat a hundred times. I didn't want a kitten, but long story short, she's here forever. She hasn't met the boys (Pugsley and Gomez) yet. Need to get her tested for disease in about 2 weeks. She has no problems with the dogs. Holly just loves her and wants to play with her. Unfortunately for Holly, one swat of her paw might break or kill the little one, so I have to watch her. She's only 2 1/2 pounds. Lucas isn't too fond of her as she has a tendency to go near his face, which is a big no-no with him. He's snapped at her several times but never got her. The other night she was bouncing around the bedroom and she was getting too close to Lucas so I put my hand down to block and push her away. Well she did jump towards his face and he went to snap and bit my hand good. I've never felt that pain before. I'm finally able to close my fingers. I've never left them unsupervised, and I never will. Accidents happen and she is like lightning. She loves playing with toys. Especially a purple mouse that was given to Pugsley and Gomez by The Quilting Doberman. Here's some pics of our new girl.