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Likes: To be with Mom & Dad & to be pet! Attention over food anytime!!
Pet-Peeves: Bossy chihuahuas & the kid who teases me at the front door!!!
Favorite Toy: Any Ball & my human brother Larry!
Favorite Food: Innova Dog Food & a Chewy every night at 7:00 pm
Favorite Walk: At the park, or anywhere with Mom! Loves to go to PetSmart
Best Tricks: Sit, down, stay, come, & charm everyone with my smile!! Patrol the yard nightly. Obedience-Beginners & Advanced
Arrival Story: Originally was our son's dog. He bought him with birthday money his mammaw gave him. He gave Justus up to us when he was 6 months old. We feel fortunate that we have such a great dog! I will never have another breed of dog. BOXERS RULE!!!!!
Bio: I was born on July 5, 2003 on a hot summer day in Texas. My breeder is from Colleyville, Texas. My breeder named me Chief because I have a white arrow head on the back of my neck. Since I've grown up it looks more like a duck head in flight. My fur mom & dad are champions, but I'm just a champion in my family's eyes!! Larry found me through a trainer he called to get information about Boxers. She referred him to my vet Colleyville Animal Clinic, who referred him to the breeder. That was my lucky day!! I hope the rest of my litter got such great homes! Because I am one Lucky Dog!
Forums Motto:
Well pups I tell ya I don't think this dang thing is EVER going to go away!!! I have one last lesion that is migrating to the inside of my lip!!! It seems to be just as big as it was 2 weeks ago, but it has slid down my muzzle to my lip....CRAZY huh!!!!!!!!
I am still on my meds....I finish off my prednisone this week. I will be on the other meds until January 2010!!!! CRAZY huh!!!!!
I am still eating that AWFUL stuff they call dog food.....Mom says it looks like KIX cereal - I say Just Let Mikey Eat It!!!!! LOL!!!!!
Sssshhhhh, don't tell anypup, but Mom gave me a couple of bites of scrambled eggs this morning and 2 small bites of toast.....that's just between you and me though pup!!!! LOL!!!
Anywoof, all my other lesions are gone and my muzzle is not swollen TODAY!!!! Cross your paws for me pups that I am on the down swing with this muzzle rot!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I tell ya pups this has been the worst thing that has ever happened to me!!! See my muzzle? Well it hasn't looked that good for quite some time now!!! The muzzle area under my nose has been swollen and had open lesions off and on since I first moved to Tyler....and it has gotten better, then worse, then better, then worse, then better & then worse again. This time the vet took a sample from my tender muzzle area and sent it to some special scientists to test it and figure out what the heck is wrong with my sore muzzle!!! Well the results came back in pieces, first word was NO CANCER!!! Then they said NO PARASITES!!! Then they said NO AUTO-IMMUNE DEFICIENCY!!! Then they said it's FOOD ALLERGY - so eat this awful food that Mom says looks like Kix cereal which Mom never liked to eat either!!! LOL!!! Then my vet Dr Lancaster talked to Dr Crow in Dallas (Dr Crow is a specialist in veterinarian dermatology) and Dr Crow told Dr Lancaster that I have:
Reactive Histiocytosis - which is a non-cancerous dysregulatory process of the immune system. Not sure how that connects to auto-immune deficiency, but the vet says I don't have that. Weird that Leishmaniasis was mentioned in one of the write ups Mom read. But this has been omitted from his diagnosis..however, the next threat is Cushings Disease which is caused from taking the prednisone type drugs to manage the RH. So there are 2 kinds of this condition there is the Cutaneous Form (of the skin) and there is the Systemic Form (effects other organs). Mom still has to confirm with Dr Lancaster which type I have. FYI this is a condition that is quite common in the Bernese Mountain Dogs, Rottweilers, Golden and Labrador Retrievers and Irish Wolfhounds who all normally have the systemic kind.
But the good news is that I am not going to continue with the prednisone type med....I will be taking 500mg of Tetracycline & 500mg of Niacinamide (which helps to ward off low levels of niacin = Vitamin B3). So I will be taking both of these 3 times a day for 2 months. Then both twice a day for 2 months. Then both once a day for 2 months. So maybe by January these meds will have run this bad boy off my muzzle and out of my system!!!!
So pups wish me luck, pray for me to get my muzzle well!!!
Well I met my new vet last Friday. Her name is Sharon Phillips at the Tyler Veterinary Center. And I tell ya pups, she is one smart vet!!!! And she LOVES me!!!!!
I had to go see her cause I have rubbed my muzzle raw just under my nose and it started bleeding profusely!!! Mom thinks I got it from following Sugar's (bratty chihuahua) example of going in the doggie door by nosing in the corner. Duh, I don't have to do that, but Sugar does. Because she has a pointed nose, she goes in with the rough part of her nose. But because I have a mushed face that means I hit my muzzle fist cause is sticks out farther than my nose.
So Dr. Phillips gave me an antibiotic and some liquid bandage. And I tell ya pups - that liquid bandage is just the ticket for getting this spot well!!!! Mom puts it on two or three times a day!!! Mom is keeping this in my pet emergency kit!!!! Great add!!!!
Tip: Get the liquid bandage that does not have antiseptic, the antiseptic will STING the open wound. Be sure not to adhere your fingers to your pet!!!. This stuff works kinda like super glue!!!!
Oh Mom & I watched that new Chi movie "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" - cute if ya like Chihuahuas!!! But it woulda been a lot better if it had Boxers in it!!!! Then it would have been "Beverly Hills Boxers" = much more catchier!!!! {:+)
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