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Likes: Car rides, walks, playing with other dogs, children, humans, playing with toys, chasing and attacking vaccuums/brooms/hairdryers/anythin g that moves, tennis balls.
Pet-Peeves: Not being able to play with someone, staying clean, mom & dad petting another dog.
Favorite Toy: Woobie! It's a t-shirt that he carries around and sleeps with.
Favorite Food: Dog food and anything mom & dad don't catch him eating off of the floor.
Favorite Walk: Across the street to Petsmart where he can meet other dogs, bark at hampsters and get a treat.
Best Tricks: Sit, stay, come, give kisses and only if you have a treat, shake and pees on command.
Arrival Story: My husband called me in January 2005 and begged to see if there was a Westie male available at a local pet store. There was, so we went to see him and the rest is history... He had been there longer than any other dog, so obviously he was just waiting for us.
Bio: Benny loves to cuddle and sit in your lap. He doesn't care whose lap, any lap will do. He loves playing with other dogs, especially big ones! He also loves children and is very good with little ones and ones that are timid around dogs. He insists that vaccuuming is a game and loves to chase and bite at the vaccuum. He does the same to dusters, brooms, hair dryers and electric toothbrushes. He also loves the taste of toothpaste and will eat it if he can get a hold of it! He's a big fan of dogs on TV, especially the Dog Whisperer. It's his favorite show.
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Mom took me to the vet on Monday and we got good news! There is no longer any disease in my eyes! My left eye's retina came back very well, and the right eye healed some, but there was definately damage to it and the nerves. The disease rarely re-occurres, so.......my vet doesn't have to see me again and I never have to go back on prednisone (knock on wood)! Woo hoo!
The prednisone made me gain a bit of weight...ok more than a bit, so now I'm on a diet. It's called the Pumpkin Diet and basically my regular kibble is reduced by 1/3 and replaced with 2/3 canned pureed pumpkin. And you know what? I LOVE IT! Yummy, filling and good for me! What a perfect trifecta!
Well, my mom and dad took me off of prednisone a few weeks ago and man, what a difference! I feel like my old self again! I'm playing fetch non-stop and wrestling with Riley. I'm even back to running, which I hadn't done in months! Mom and Dad were so excited until...
Apparantely I felt SO GOOD this week that I just couldn't contain my energy and had to find an outlet. The outlets were: dad's favorite hat, the windowsill and a cardboard box - all chewed. :) Hey, I was feeling frisky! What's a dog to do...play with his toys? LOL!
Happy Spring to all my pals. If you find yourself near a box, take a bite out of it, just for me. :)
Well folks, it's been a crazy month...or several months, really. Back in September, the end of September, I got an eye infection that wouldn't go away. The vet tried for several weeks and then sent me to a doggie opthamologist. The opthamologist tried a couple of things and then finally my eye got better by November!
Things were fine until the week before Christmas when Mom and Dad noticed that my other eye (the left eye) was infected. They took me back to the opthamolgist and now my right eye had no sight! Since that isn't normal, off to the neurologist we went. That was the Saturday before Christmas. That neurologist did a spinal tap and diagnosed me with GME. If you've never heard of GME (which most haven't), it's an awful autoimmune infection. They don't know how dogs get it and the infected dog usually dies very quickly after diagnosis. They doctor perscribed corticosteroids (prednisone) to help stop the autoimmune response. Unfortunately that is bad for my live and makes me have accidents in the house.
After being sad for a week, Mom and Dad decided to enjoy me while I was healthy, because I was acting just fine. After two weeks of the prednisone, I needed to go back to the neurologist, but they were too far away and wouldn't accomodate us on Saturdays, so we switched neurologists. By this time, my sight was back in my right eye. The new neurologist couldn't understand why I had been diagnosed with GME when, according to him, it can't be diagnosed from a spinal tap. He said that an MRI would show if there were lesions on my brain, and therefore GME.
Well, I got my MRI on Friday and got the results back yesterday - I do NOT have GME!!! The new neurologist says that I have optic neuritis, which is an autoimmune disease that attacks the optic nerve. It's treatable and curable and the doctor has had a lot of luck with saving dogs' eyes, so I might not even lose my sight!
Let this be a lesson to all that second opinions are important!!!
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