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Likes: Tennis Ball
Pet-Peeves: Patience--she wants her treats Now, she wants her food Now, she wants you to pet her Now! She doesn't wait for 'nuthin'!
Favorite Toy: Of course, the tennis ball.
Favorite Food: Solid Gold Cinna-Bones
Favorite Walk: Everywhere.
Best Tricks: She, like her best friend Iggy, can do the down-stay trick with the treats on her paws where she won't eat them without the command. However, she is impetious and sometimes won't perform. Her standby trick is 'Speak' and 'Shake'.
Arrival Story: We had our Iggs for several months and felt he was very lonely at home while we were away at work all day. My husband suggested we get another dog for him as company. However, we had been through the trials of puppyhood with Iggs and I didn't want to go through that again until my husband showed me these adorable puppy pictures of a litter of five pups at a Siberian Husky resuce in Harvard, IL. We called them and went through the interview process and made plans to bring Iggy out to meet the pups. The day before we were to meet the pups, the rescue called and told us about a Siberian Husky that was being returned to the shelter because her owner was allergic. She was 9 months old and the same age as Iggy. She was crate trained and house trained but that was about it. She had come from a kill shelter in Witchita, KS where she had been picked up after being a stray and had been hit by a car. They were going to put her down because they thought her front leg was broken, until the Free Spirit Siberian Husky Rescue found out about her and set up a relay to go get her. Upon getting her to IL, they found her front leg to be only dislocated. After surgery and about a month of healing, she'd been adopted by the owner who was now returning her.
When Iggy met Lucy it was so called 'love at first sight' and they ran around the fenced inclouser at the rescue, that Januaray, playing tag for hours. We did have Iggy meet one of the puppies but he was actually afraid of it and ran behind his daddy, whinning and shaking.
Needless to say, Lucy was brought to our house that night and they've become fast friends and insperable. She took a lot of work to get her warmed up to us, though. But now, almost 10 months later, she freely gives us kisses and sleeps in the bed every night with us.
Bio: Just today, we have a little more info from the couple who actually picked Lucy up from the Kansas kill shelter. They saved her for us and even took pictures. Please see this link:
http://www.12muddypaws.com/15.html
When we got Lucy, it was debated whether she has any Shepard in her. If she does, it's almost unnoticable. We often wonder about how she came to be a stray in Whichita, KS and what she was doing there. Last month, her rescue held a Husky Howl event at a local Forest Preserve. We were given the opportunity to get her in harness to pull a sled. Much to our amazment she pulled the sled, with little coaxing, about 50 feet. Was she bred to be a sled dog and somehow escaped? Hmmm....
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My husband and I put Lucy down yesterday afternoon. Lucy had been going through chemo for Lymphoma since September 2008. She had gone into remission after the first treatment. In January, the 16 week protocal was completed and we stopped treatment. About three weeks ago the cancer came back and we started a rescue treatment of CCNU.
Over the weekend she began refusing food, throwing up and doing diarehha. We even tried penut butter, sardines, gizzards, rice... and she wouldn't eat. She became very lethargic. Yesterday morning I took her in first thing and Dr Chris said she was in liver failure. Her tummy was becoming bloated because of fluid retention, her eyes and gums were yellowing. Dr Chris said that we could do treatment for her but there's no gaurentee it would work. And, her lymphnods never went back down so there really wasn't that much hope for quality of life. He also said if we did the treatment to repair the liver, we probably wouldn't be able to do the CCNU treatment for the Lymphoma anymore because it would wipe her out again so there'd be nothing left to do. Dave and I had made the agreement, with Lucy and the vet, that if she were to start suffereing, it would be time.
The last few days were hard. Lucy spent most of the time in her crate or just lying around. Dave did get her out in the garage Sunday night on the tie out and she chased her favorit toy. But by this morning, she had no desire to do even that. Though she did sleep in bed with us that one final night. Neither of us thought the news would be so bad on Monday. She didn't even say goodbye to the boys. I knew she was bad but didn't realize how bad it had got.
My heart just aches. We'll miss her a lot.
I cant say enough at how wonderful the Lake Geneva Vet Staff was. They even offered to do it outside since Lucy and I were waiting for Dave for 3 hours while he finished a job. We sat outside and enjoyed the beautiful June morning. We ended up opting for inside. Dr Chris always put up with all our phone calls and our countless questions. I'm glad we did what we did for Lucy. She was our wonderful little girl and we'll miss her always.
Ok so I haven't been giving dogster enough attention these days because ahhh we have no time. But these love tags are so fun.
I tagged
Takoda~ Takoda's mom and dad rescued me from Wichita, KS and brought me all the way to their home so a transport from Free Spirit Siberian Rescue could pick me up. When I was at the rescue, I fell in love with Iggy and my mom and dad adopted me. If it weren't for Takoda's mom and dad I'd have made an all to soon exit from this life! We are forever in her debt.
Riley~ Riley and company are just a great group of people who love us four legged babies. And to couple w/what Riley's mom said, mom feels like she didn't do enough for Gypsy and wished she could've done more. She wishes she could just quit her full time job and work on rescue forever because there's just so much help that's needed.
Kennitt~ Kennitt's mom has always offered wonderful advice on Siberian Husky's and it's such a treat when she used to jump into the forums. It's great to have her on Dogster and to always know she's just an email away!
Ok. So..we're not going on vacation. Bummer, I know. But daddy is very practical and just said that we have to wait and pay some bills off before going anywhere...even if it is for just a few days. And they probably did the right thing anyway because, in case you didn't read on Iggy's page, on Thursday night when Mommy and Daddy got home from work, he was limping on his right leg...that WAS his good leg. Well, it was time for his rabies shot and stuff anyway so Mommy took him to the vet Saturday morning. I was so irrated that I didn't get to go too and whinned and whinned and whinned. But dady kept me company and gave me lots of treats..YUM! I sat by the door waiting for them to come back and I was so happy when they came home.
Iggy was excited to see me too but he and mommy were sad because the vet said that he did tear his other cruciate ligamet so they have to do surgery..again. So it's schedualed for not this Tuesday but next. Mom and dad are also talking about getting him an ortho-bed to sleep on and possibly getting some kind of xpen because Iggy just hates the crate so much. So, it's probably a very good thing that they decided not to go on vacation because these surgeries aren't cheep.
In other news, a new big black thing ended up on the deck today. Mommy and Daddy got it off this truck and I don't know what it is, really, but Iggy was really scared of it at first and thought it would attack him. He's so weird. I thought it smelled yummy and a little greasy too. They put some meat on it for dinner and it got really hot. I don't think it's new though because it doesn't have that new smell.
Nothing really else exciting except that last weekend we went for a really long walk in a forest preserve. That was fun. And the Husky Howeler is coming up soon in October so I hope Iggy's feeling better for that and we can all go together. I know that we were supposed to go to an engine show today but we didn't because Iggy had to rest. I'm going to have to keep a keen eye on him while he's healing again. I get so bored when I can't play w/him either but hopefully this will be the last of the surgeries.
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