June 23 2009

Today is the day mom decided to get back to my page. So many things happened to keep her mind busy, away of thinking I wasn't there anymore. We have bad and good news for you. Our kitty Minù after a long illness died on january 6th, then in the middle of may our new cat Tigro , the grey one, disappeared. Mom was in Egypt and when she came back we couldn't find him anymore. In April , Duncan had a new brother Bull, he is a Pitt , now is 5 months and gets very well with Duncan not with Willie that always tries to bite him.
Trudy our kitty is sick too, but until now mom manage to feed her with a syringe . But now the big new : mom didn't want Joy to have puppies because she doesn't want to give them away and was going to neutarized after her first period because the vet said to let her have one. Well we made mistake with dates and mom was in Manchester the day we supposed they met , so in May 15 she give us Brixel and Danny. They are beautiful now they start running and playing so up to now we're five. Dad says we're too many but mom can't give them away. Meggie is very good with them . To tell the thruth we didn't know Joy was pregnant , we saw she was a little bigger but we were sure that we separeted both of them in time. Then may 14th she was so nervous and barking, and when I went to see her in my bedroom she was on the bed with already one puppy out. I didin't know what to do , and I waited too long so he died. The second one I called my friend that told me to help her and I saved him, the third one she did all by herself, they are both male and beautiful.
In the week end I'll put their pictures on my page so you can see them too.
Buffie

Last night

Last night I took Buffie to the Hospital . It all started wednesday night I gave Buffie and Meggie young- cow to eat ( maybe is too fat for them but they like it) and Buffie was wondering around all night, the next morning she did't want anythyng to eat (usually before I go to work she wants a Hot dog). When I came home she was lying next to my bed and didn't come to dinner. Yesterday morning she woke up and came to have her hotdog and was moving as before, so I said to myself all has passed. When I came home yestarday afternoon she didn't move anymore and she couldn't stand on her legs. She tried to eat some pieces of meat and drank some water , then I took her to the clinic. After ecography and x ray they said she has a very bad pulmonary edema and put her under oxygen mask . They told me she is in a very bad condition and risking her life that she might not pass the night. I really can't believe it, two days ago she was jumping happly at my arrival and now her life is like a light of a small candle. I spent the night awake worried for a call from the hospital a night that never passed, now is morning I didn't have any call and at 10.00 a.m. I go to see her . I keep crying and askin myself if I didn't care enough for her if I didn't see a sign that could have told me the situation before if if if ......
Please have Buffie in your thoughts and cross your paws for her.
Buffie's mom

August 10 2008

It's a beautiful sunny sunday morning, finally we're back home from vacation and from mom's work. We lived for a while near Milano with no internet connection , but it's very near mom's work and it's easier for her , doesn't have to drive for 2 hours and in summer is very hot. I had some problem of breathing and I couldn't go out at all because of the hot and because of the streets very hot too. Then mom went to Egypt on vacation cruising on the Nile and we stayed here with Jessica. This morning we opened all the mails and I saw tears coming down her face. In only one month so many bad news Lucky Lucy - Remo - Sparky and then we stopped reading. Every time a dog dies is like a part of our family dies. We know Lucy and Remo were sick but there is always a hope that something better can happen.
We are fine , mom gave Meggie a aircut because her hair was too long but we can't take a picture of her she doesn't want. Daddy says she lookes awfull .
I think we're going to have a little kitten next week. This morning called a lady that has 6 little kitten looking for a home, and I heard mom say that she will go tomorrow to see him or her. Mom says that is better now because since daddy is not here but in south of Italy, we're going to tell him that we found him in the street. Mom is a real liar . Last june while she was driving home with her car she saw a dog in the street. She send dad home to get his car ,that is bigger, while she staied with the dog. He was a Golden Retreiver and very very good. She took him home give food and went out to see if someone knew him, then she went to the vet. His microchip wasn't registered in Italy so the solution by the law here was to send him to the kennel. Mom didin't want, she let her phone number to everybody and took him home. To tell you the truth he was very good. We were planning to keep him when the owner called the vet and we had to take him to his house.
His name was Otto and he was 12 years old but to us he looked like a young dog always playing. I will put Otto's picture on my page.
Buffie

I've got my stroller....................

I'm happy happy happy , finally my stroller arrived. Mom saw on dogster some of our friends with a stroller so she started looking around for a stroller for me. She asked all the places in USA how much was the cost of shipping to Italy but no one answered. So we looked on ebay and last week my stroller arrived. What can I say? my life really changed, I love to go around seated in my stroller looking at all the dogs from my seat, it 's easier for all of us. Sometimes mom lets me down to meet some dogs and to do my busyness but when we go around now it is great . To tell you the thruth even Meggie wants to get in , but I don't want her inside so I push her in the back and mom carries her. This morning she said that maybe she should have bought a double stroller. We'll see because the stroller costs 24$ but the shipping expenses $84 . I should really thanks Dogster and our friends there that let us know about the stroller.
Looking at my last diary I saw that a year is already passed. I've got older and my trachea is getting worse, most of the time mom carries me,before my stroller arrived) even when go dowstears in the garden. She doesn't let me go up and down by myself so when I finish my things in the garden, I bark and she comes down to get me up. During this years some of our friends are gone to the bridge. Even if we don't know them personally we miss them as if you loose a close friend. Sometimes while we are at the computer I see mom crying so I know that something bad has happen. Usually we are seated in her lap while she writes and we listen to the stories she reads.
We didn't have much snow this winter, it was very cold but most of the time sunny. We've got a new coat for our birthday but I've got my stroller too.
Bye from Buffie

sunday march 25th

It's the last sunday of march and we have raining and finally some snow (not too much). Mom arrived home yesterday night and maybe she'll be for us for some days. I have a great new to tell you: We were looking for a guinea pig and we found not one but three. They're not as beauty as Pinkie their hair is short and very young. We got them in internet. and advice of a girl that had them since a lady took them to her store. They lived together since then, almost 1 1/2 month so we didin't have the courage to choose one and took home all the three of them. The two male 2 months are white with grey and black spots, the female is white with brown spot. We took the to the vet to have a look and to see when we have to operated the two male. They're too young so for at least 10 days they can stay together but maybe from tomorrow mom will separate the female, we don't want a nea birth, and they'll stay so until we get the male fixed. Mom found in internet a site : cavyspirit.com , she love it and learned a lot of things about guinea pig. Give a look if you have a time . Meggie has already kissed one , (I don't know if she wanted to kiss him or to bite him, I love to saty and look at them when they're out in their cage. Yes, said out because they're so afraid and stay hidden in their home. I hope when they'll get use to our family they'll be more friendly.
bye
buffie

Sunday march 18th

We're back. Mom was away for work in Rome so I didn't have time to write. February wasn't really a good month for us. The last week my friend Pinkie started to feel sick , she wasn't playing as before, didn't eat so we took her to the vet and he said that she was going to die because of renal failure. Mom wanted to try anyway to give her vitamins and other stuff by mouth. She lasted only one week more and on march 1st Pinkie died. I miss her because I liked to stay and look at her in her cage and she kissed me with her nose. She used to call with her funny noise to tell mom that she wanted to get out of her cage. Now mom is looking in internet to get a new one from a place called "lacollinadei conigli" where they rescued bunnies and rats. I hope we get a new one as good as Pinkie. This week I will not be around again because mom on her free time from works , works for the italian soccer supporters and they are going to have a meeting next friday and saturday. She will be near Venice and we can't go because she'll be very busy.When everything will be over she said that will be home from work to stay with us all day. Meggie is fine her small cyst is nothing bad , her hair is growing again but she is very nervous and gets scare of everything. We don't know why maybe she should give her some pills to calme her down.
buffie

Today we lost UGO

My feline brother "UGO" today went to the bridge. He was too sick and we couldn't help him anymore. We found feline ADS on november 2005. Ugo was a very big Cat and when sick he became very skinny. We first operated him on december 2nd 2005 . He recovered well, started again to eat . Everything went fine until june 2006. Again operated and again things went good. Each time, the vet said we were very lucky because usually cats sick like him die very quickly. At the end of 2006 again, we give him cortison and arrived 'til january, We had to operate him twice, to take of his teeth clean his mandibula, he seemed fine started to eat for a while then from last friday he stopped. His mouth was growing in a very strange way. Mom bought every kind of food to make him eat. He tryed just a little but after a lick he was over. Since he became sick he liked to stay with mom, in her lap always with her. These last days he staied next to her looking with his big grey eyes, like asking something. He got very skin even if he was still moving well. Today mom came home from work and we all went to the doctor with a small hope but he said no, we were making him suffering too much so we had to let him go.We took him back with us and now he is in ou garden.He choose us as his family we loved him so much, he was so good, we'll miss him
buffie

february 11th

It has been a very busy month. In January we took Ugo twice to the veterinary to operate his mouth. Then two weeks ago we went to clean our teeth and mom found on Meggie's back a cyst. Yesterday she was operated to get the cyst analyzed. She was good and mom staied with her all the time. I hope things will be fine for her.
buffie

Christmas day

Christmas day has passed, it's almost night here, I've just come home from my night walk, very short because is awfully cold and I don't like to stay out too much.We had a little problem this morning when Duncan arrived. He always moves and runs and he's not afraid of cats, he wants to play with them but they don't know him and are afraid. So you know what they do when they're afraid no? they scratch. Trudy one of our cats scratched him on his nose and made him bleed a lot. Mom got scared, Duncan became very nervous bleeding all around the house. Finally mom closed herlself and Duncan in the bath and fixed the bleeding. But all day we were nervous about the cats coming near him. He's so young and doesn't understand that they're afraid . They hide behind walls and when Duncan is passing their paws go on his face. Mom's day was : Duncan stay here, Meggie don't bark, Trudy Minu Ugo please don't scratch Duncan. And what about me? I don't know but today I stay all by myself in mom's bed. I didn't want to stay with the others.Nino went skiing with Gabriele and being so busy was good for mom so her mind didn't went to Gaetano or to Gigio. Then she said let's go and write our day on my diary and saw that ,even on christmas day there're so many friends here on dogster. This place is really something special because even in a busy day like this, you can find friends on line to talk. Thanks to all our friends and thanks to dogster that made this possible.
love buffie

december 8

Today Mom is home from work (it's holiday here) so she's going to write what happened after my visit to the oncologist. I told you that for my trachea he said he was better to operate me. (mom is so worried about my trachea that at the moment said : great , an operation an everything goes OK. ) That day she was a little ?????? agitated, so back home after some thoughts she wrote to the doctor to have better explained. He sent us an e-mail with the 2 possibilities : 1st one : cut my chest and saw on my trachea some rings to keep it open. this one is the most done, has 5% of mortality and the post operation is very long and painfull. The 2nd one is to put a stent (each sten costs Euro 1200,00) in the trachea, one or more , it looks easier you have first to check the bronchuses but they're at the beginning, he said it's the future. So mom talked with my doctors but they don't agree. First my trachea is bad but no so bad and with the operation we're not really sure. If I were older with very bad problems it will be OK to try, for me it's up to mom to decide but they said is better to wait. In the meanwhile I must stay on a diet to try to get slimmer. Mom has decided that for christmas we'll have a month in a Beauty Farm for dogs with swimming pools plays and stuff for dogs to stay well. I think she wants me to swim I liked , meggie doesn't but she can do whatever she wants she's skinnie.
It's too rainy today to go out, I think we stay home making our christmas tree
love buffie