From Lucky's Mum

Hi, At 8 pm Sunday evening my dear friend Dieter (aka "the german") and I had to rush Lucky to Angell Memorial to be euthanized as she quickly began to deteriorate. We had hoped to have a home euthanasia but her condition was not stable enough for the time needed to do such. She was surrounded by Dieter, Lindsey and myself. She looked at Dieter lovingly until the very end... as she had always done. I was her mom...he was her best friend. We had an amazing three months and a particularly great weekend in which we were blessed to have the chance to get what I am sure will be some amazing photographic memorials to the great love we both shared with her. I am forever grateful to Mark Ostow for this. He did not need to take time out of his schedule like he did and I will never be able to thank him enough. Dieter's 10 month old daughter Anouk, who will not remember her on her own, fed her salmon by hand hours before we knew it was time. We were able to videotape it and are thankful for that. I want to thank everyone who showed patience with me and compassion during the last several months. Lucky was a better person than most of the humans I have ever known and she was my teacher for the last 10 years. While I have lost pets in the past nothing was ever like this. She was beyond special. I am now trying to figure out who I am after ten years of defining myself as Lucky's mom and companion. I hope that everyone who reads this has the opportunity to experience the bond with an animal like that which I have experienced with Lucky. For those of you that have supported her through the dog treats... an endowment is being created in her name at Angell inorder to help other pets facing cardiac cancers and their owners, who due to financial difficulties would otherwise euthanize... this fund will allow them the gift of time... the ability to afford procedures like Lucky had undergone in order to help secure more quality time. Lucky did not suffer. She was happy and loved and wagged (or "fwapped" as some of you know it by) her tail until the moment she looked at us and told us that she was ready to move on to whatever her next chapter was to be. I hope that we shall meet again. If we do not perhaps she will bless one of you. Keep an eye out for chocolate and gold flecked eyes and a soul so gentle your heart melts when you are within it's radar.

Thank you all.

Long Journey

So, it's been a great time but I have had a couple bad news trips to Angell lately. Dr. Marshall ran some x-rays today and it looks like the nasty has spread to my lungs. I am having some difficulty breathing and I am really tired. I am planning on spending a weekend with my favorite humans and even having a professional modeling shoot on Saturday with this great guy Mark Ostow that my mum knows from her job. Then on Monday I might take an extended nap because I am pretty tired. I know my mum will miss me... I will miss her too but we will see eachother again sometime in the future. She is a good human. Everybody take care of yourselves.

My mum is a slacker!!!!

So, I finally got my mum to get off her lazy human butt and update my diary!!!

Okay, with all fairness to her she has been dealing with a crazy landlord and crazy downstairs neighbors, looking for a new apartment, the holidays, work, contractors, police, and a slew of other things but she needs to put me first...me me me!!!!

I know she does, I am the most important person...err canine, in her life and I know this but sometimes I want a bit more attention. Today she came home and took me for a quick pee in the backyard and dog gone it I wanted a full play time...I wanted ball!!! Yesterday I went for a walk through the Arboretum with "The Germans" and my mum and at the top of Peter's Hill Dieter and my mum played "Dog Soccer" with me. We use a huge tennis ball cause I can't fit a soccer ball in my dainty lady like mouth (unlike some dogs I know. ..ahem...no need to name dogs...Baloo knows who he is. OOPS!!!)

So, my health has been ok... I had arough acupuncture appt before Christmas and a rough EKG...they found a clot on my tumour and my mum has been paranoid ever since. We are going heavy on the nutrition end though and my mum has been giving me massages. Hopefully she can find us an apartment in the first floor of a building. The three flights kill my knees and hips. I am no spring chicken... I am a winter pooch!!!


My mum took some new pics of me being cute and sleepy. She is going to post them to Dogster after updating this post.

To all of you who order the Lucky Monkey Treats...Thanks so so much! Your support is appreciated. Please email me at missluckster@gmail.com to set up a weekly or biweekly order. Don't let your pooch run out!!!! (or your kitty...the salmon ones are popular with the feline bunch!)

Thanks again everyone!!!!

Lucky Monkey Butt

So Busy So Busy

My mum has been tooooo busy to update... I keep sending her paw-lepathy and she keeps complaining of these headaches. She is so stressed she can't see straight enough to know that the headache is my knock knock knocking on her skull to update my dogster diary!!!!

So, I am doing well....
the tumour hasn't grown and no new fluid around my heart...
the ekg yesterday showed that I have a very low resting heartbeat.... the doc thinks maybe it is from all if the herbs and supplements I am on. But it isn't a bad thing. She said that most dogs are in stress at the vet and their heart rate is higher but I am just a mellow fwappy wappy happy kinda girl and no worries... I like Dr Marshall and the vet tech assistant. Plus the front desk guy that looks like Adrien Brody... I like Angell. It's a nice play. Only good things have happened there for me so why stress right? I am obviously in good hands!

Dr. Postmans car died so she had to cancel her appt. this week but hopefully we can squeeze one in closer to the end of the week. I love my acupuncture!!

I guess I need to get you all up to date....

Thanksgiving was very good... we went to my handsome Dieter's house and ate lots of organic Turkey and veggies, rice and cranberries. Parker (should I call him Porker after that night?) ate and ate and ate. His eyes were bulging he ate so much. We were both very happy and slept very late the next day.

On Tuesday the 29th I snuck into a cab and headed out to Vintage restaurant inorder to be there to celebrate Dieter's 40th birthday. The valet let me into Dieter's car and I sat there waiting for my prince to come see me and give me hugs and kisses. He did eventually but ofcourse I had to go home with mom.

Oh, I forgot- the best part of Thanksgiving was getting to spend the whole time with Dieter... I stayed over until Monday morning. He cooked for me and gave me my vitamins....I know he wasn't as diligent as my mom but that's okay.... It's hard work making my breakfast and dinner and all the supplements.

What else? Oh, we have a website in development for Lucky Monkey Dog Bakery and ... oh and we have a cute flier that we can send out for everyoen to forward to their friends! Email me at missluckster@gmail.com for a copy. We are taking Christmas delivery orders now so get emailing me!!!

Oh and on Parker news... the poor boy had a rough weekend ... he first ripped up his little pads on his front paws and then he got picked up rather meanly by his neck by another dog and shook like a rag dog. His little neck is all scratched up and bruised and swollen but he seems ok. My mum is giving him arnica for it.

Okay...enough for now... my reception is failing... she must need to get back to work.

Turkey Day is Tomorrow!!!

SO everyone at Lucky Monkey Dog Bakery is doing well.... we made a special Holiday Medley box that Bread & Butter is selling.... my faves are the turkey cranberry sweet potato... with way more sweet potato and cranberry than last time and the new pumpkin bones! My really great homeopathic vet Dr. Postman gave my mum a martha stewart (shoosh, mum likes martha) dog treat kit that has these great cookie cutters in it ... so our doggie biscuit shape selection has expanded.... chews, bites, bones and paws!!! woo hoo. They aren't selling as good as mum would like, problem is that she doesn't have time to solicit places to sell them for her. Her job is busy and then she is so busy cooking me dinner and making the LM treats! If anyone knows of places that would be willing to sell these all organic treats for me and my mum...please let us know! Email me at missluckster@gmail.com and I will promise to pass along all messages to my mum.

Now, tomorrow is Thanksgiving... I am very excited. Lindsey and mum and Dieter and Jella and little furry Nookie head Anouk and Parker and Dieter's friend Michael and I are all eating at Dieter's. We will be eating a 100% natural bird ..well, cause I can't eat the preservative/antibiotic kind anymore...not healthy! mum and Lindsey are making Parker and I sugar free cranberry sauce, roasted squash, sweet potatos, pumpkin, and apple blueberry crumble with organic oatmeal and oh yeah... we get Turkey!!!! But not the skin... we can't digest the skin. AND even more exciting is that aside from all the leftovers from that bird that we will get.... Jen and Chad and Old Man Jackson are giving my mum the leftovers from their bird too!!! YUM! Boy, am I gonna be sick of Turkey in a couple of weeks!!!

By then though it will be time for christmas...maybe mom will make me a special Duck... yum. Probably not though.

Oh, and Dieter's birthday is next week. My mum and I are conspiring on a special gift for him...yay!!! He is going to be the big 21... okay he is really gonna be 40...but I like em older as everyone already knows... oh, I guess youdon't know that much about me yet. I like my men older and wiser... and German. woof!

And finally a bark out to Suzie in California whose Chinese Crested Sam just passed away. He was almost 15... funny looking little guy. Won the World's Ugliest Dog Contest three years in a row. Even Parker is more handsome but it sounds like Sam had a heart of gold beneath those mangly teeth and crypt keeper eyes. We are thinking of you Suzie during this difficult time.

Thanks everyone and have a Happy Turkey Day!!!! (oh and don't forget to go shopping on Black Friday and get your poochies and kitties special gifts!!!!!)

My house has turned into a bakery!!!

My mum baked oodles of Peanut Butter, Cinnamon Honey Peanut Butter and Grrr-Lick (garlic if you aren't too clever) treats over the weekend and worked on packaging them on Sunday. Lindsey, my other mom, sorta aunt... I don't know what to call her, she made my mum stop and go see a movie at some point which was nice cause I needed a nap. My mum tends to focus too much on me these days. I just want to nap and she wants to pet me and curl up and whisper how much she loves me in my big brown ears. Don't get me wrong! I love my mum and I appreciate the attention but I also need my rest.

I am on some new supplements....
vitamin c powder from Trader Joes, quercetin, and an herbal seaweed supplement from Avena out of Rockport. It's very green, the Avena stuff. My mum started to sneeze as soon as she opened the bag .... she mixed a whole teaspoon in my food on Sunday and with all the other supplements it was just a bit much and made my tummy a little topsy turvey... I laid down in the sun and chewed on some grass and felt better. I hope she plans on splitting the green stuff between my two meals rather than dumping it all in one. It's a little strong all at one time.

Tomorrow My mum has to be home allll day for an electrician who is coming to our house..and I have acupuncture and hopefully she can get the plumber to look at the heater because the radiators are smelling bad and giving me a headache whenever they turn them on. They need to start coming on though cause the floor is a bit chilly on my partially shaved belly.

YAWWWWN. Time to get back on the couch and nap. Gotta pass time...mum will be home in 6 hours and I have nothing else to do until then. Maybe we can go play at the dog park tonight when she gets home!!!

Burned herbs are stinky but...warm, ooh

Today my new homepathic vet came by for some acupuncture... she put them in differant places than the doctor last week and this time I felt sleepy instead of CRAZY. Last week I wanted to run around and I was being a bit bratty- going into my step brother's crate and stealing his toys and his "bully stick". I felt high as a kite last week...very charged...but today ...well, I just woke up from a long nap and sent my mum pawlepathy to inform you all as to what I am up to. Oh, and Dr. Needles...she used this metal thing on me that radiated heat up my little arms and legs and up and down my spine. I will ask my mum to add a link to an internet page about it at the bottom of this entry. So, after the very relaxing smelly herb metal stick and the needles which made me sleepy...now I am a bit bored. At this moment I am chewing on my massive greenie treat and staring at Parker as he eyes me jealously from his crate. HA HA HA... wag wag wag.

All is good. My mum will be home soon and hopefully she picked me up some squash from the city hall farmers market for my breakfast tomorrow. Dr. Acupuncture says I need to eat some good orange veggies. But she also said green ones and the green ones I spit out. yuck. Maybe my mum needs to cut them smaller cause I didn't want them at all.

Oh no, it's raining. I hope my mum brought her big blue umbrella to work today! I hope it doesn't thunder. I don't like thunder. My ears aren't as perfect as they once were so thunder sounds scary...distant but internal. I don't like it. Not at all. I will jump in the clawfoot tub and hide there if it thunders tonight. My mum can find me though because my nose peeks out from behind the cool blue and brown retro shower curtain she bought in Providence over the summer. Yawwwwwn. I think I will nap more until she comes home. I am bored. Parker is boring to watch.


http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/archives2003/dec /12zhengcai.html

Hemangiosarcoma is stinky

So, my mum brought me home a week ago with a diagnosis of cardiac hemangiosarcoma... basically I have a tumor in the right atrium of my heart. The docs say it doesn't respond well to surgery or chemo so my mom, being kinda new agey in a indie rock kinda way decided that she doesn't like the docs estimate of a couple weeks at best... so, homeopathy here we are! Yesterday I had a consult with this great homeopathic vet named Leah Postman. Parker, the annoying "brother" of mine pee'd on her and then my mum put him in the bedroom with his toy. The vet said she thought Parker has OCD. woof woof woof. I thought that was funny. So, Dr. Postman told my mom that it's time to stop feeding me Merricks Senior Kibble and now cook for me! Awesome!!!! She made me chicken livers with barley, yam, apple, egg, organic flax seed, and plain kefir.... all organic...and oh my gosh- it was awesome!!! I kept begging for more and then I took a huge long nap while my mum went back to making the boxes for our treats.

Oh yeah, my mum is baking treats for dogs and cats to help raise money for my medical care. If you want some email us. They are really good.... all the animals at her office (well, the animals at the homes of the people at her office) have become hooked...there are grrr-lick bites and paws, wheat free salmon flax seed bites, peanut butter paws and bites, cinnamon honey peanut butter paws and bites, and veggie beef chews. All organic of course !!!

well, the paw-lepathy is fading cause my mum is hungry and needs to come home from work. I will release my hold of her...besides the sooner she comes home, the sooner I get my new yummy home cooked meals!!!!

Good Wishes

Everyone that reads this tonight please send good energy Lucky Dawg's way. She is at the Vet hospital having a hard time with a possible dire prognosis. Think great thoughts and perhaps we will have a brighter outcome.

We thank you

Lucky's family

Paw-lepathy

I am laying here on my momma's sage coloured couch- belly exposed to the two box fans as the oscillating fan tickles the hairs on my knees. Because I have no opposable thumbs I find hooking up my mommas iMac and typing difficult... so I am using my Jedi poochie power to send her this message through paw-lepathy. Hopefully she gets it in time to type it before she leaves work. Sometimes there is a delay in the send/ receive process of paw-lepathy. Really it all depends on how many greenies I have had. The more greenies the better the signal.
I try explaining that to my mom but she doesn't listen too well. I tried feeding her a greenie last week as atest... I hoped that perhaps this would help her be more in tune with her dog-ness... but she looked at me like I was losing my woofing mind. That is fine. I am up to the challenge of her convuluted human mind.
I like Bunnies.... my mom used to watch a show called Buffy and one of the characters, a former demon named Anya, hated bunnies... they scared her. I guess the first problem is that my mom watched any show with characters that were ex demons. What is that about?!!! My mom is a bit weird and difficult at times. I need to send her back to obedience school. (Do you think I should be paw-lepathy-ing things through her that are about her?! ) She doesn't let me on the bed anymore because my new "brother" sleeps on the bed and isn't good with sharing. I don't get to play with most of my toys anymore either cause of my brother. Sometimes I think he is a pain in my woofy little bottom. Sometimes he is okay though. I like antagonizing him and since he ate one of my momma's $200 red italian leather shoes... he is crated during the day! So, I get to have full run of the house while he just looks at me. He He He! Unfortunetly the house isn't like a bit doggie play land... it's a bit boring actually. I spend most of my time on the couch, belly to the fans, staring at Parker. He is like a TV but whenever I step on the remote he doesn't change channels or start doing anything differant. It's frustrating. I wish we had cable and then I could turn him into my human firend Dieter.
I like Dieter.... he is my german prince. He rescues me like in a "fairy tail". I am his woof-arella, his fur-punzel, his "poodle". He sure is swell. Swoon.

Yaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwn. Time for a cat... er poochy dap.