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Life on the Farm

I'm going to be okay!!!

Momperson been a little worried about me. The vetman kept coming up with all these terrible things that might be wrong with me. First it was congestive heart failure, then she thought I had something called brucellosis or Lepro. Finally momperson got the majic call with all the results!~ I don't got none of that stuff! Just lots of bills for my House of Puddles momperson. I do have a thyroid problem though. They said it was low. I thought that just mean basset. The vet say it was my thyroid that caused a lot of my problems. Cause it low, I not healing or fighting infections as fast. I also still have the epididimytis. I have to take medicine for that and pain medicines for the pain. I won't have to worry about that no more after February 7th. Momperson say the going to FIX it! I not sure what she means, but I might not want to know!

Momperson been real busy here on the farm the past couple of days. She getting ready cause she say them goats going to have babies any day now I got to go down with Stephanie today to see them, Dinny go too. Dinny and me sniff all around the field. Then Dinny find a big bone that Huzzy had. It was real big! He got it and toted it all the way back home. When we get home I tried to get Dinny to share with me, but he get mad. He tried to EAT me! He never done that before. I think he going crazy! He can have his old bone, it was dirty anyway and momperson said couldn't neither one of us have it. I stick my tongue out at Dinny when she not looking.

It's been a whirl wind week!

things are changing fast around here. I gots brother now! His name is Dinwiddie, but mom person calls him Dinny. He's a long haired basset. Momperson found him advertised for FREE on Craigslist. She couldn't let no bad persons get him so she went and brought him home. His old momperson died and he was lonely. He's a senior like me, but he don't got the worms in his heart. He plays with my little sister Penny. That keeps her out of my hair!

My momperson and I have been working on getting me some Get Well cards. We set up a blog site for all about my heartworms and are trying to get 10,000 get well cards for me! I have 30 Get Well card so far and $149.00 for my rescue the House of Puddles! Maybe I will reach my goal of 10,000 cards with dollars for seniors. I sure hope I can! I have been planning to go to the BROOD wabble in May so I can give the money to my other mom!

I'm going to the vetsiptal in a couple of hours. They are going to do an ultrasound on me to see why my heart and spleen is enlarged today. There are lots of doggies saying prayers and slinging drool for me to get a good report. Momperson says I just have to, she's so worried though that it's given her a bad tension headache that just won't go away!

Momperson promised we would write another update in my diary as soon as we get back home and let everyone know how it turned out!

More later today!

Hateful old Heartworms!

I sure hope you doggies are on medicines to keep you from getting them old nasty heartworms. Before I come to my new family, I lived with a family in Kentucky. They didn't take good care of me, so now I got the heartworms. They also kicked me when I barks. My new mom found out today from my stomach picture that I gots a broken rib that's trying to heal. Momperson say da old mean people what had me before do it when da kicked me. She mad and wants to kicks dem!

Dem old heartworms is making me sick. Da making my hearts swell up and da blood tubes is swelling too. I gots fluid on my lungs. Mom person been giving me medicines to get rid of it, and da vetsperson say it helping, but da fluid dat still in dare is getting congested. I not sure what dat means, but da vet say dats why it look like I breathing in my bellys instead of my chests.

I gots to stay real quiet now, cause da old worms are dying and da trying to get out of my heart. Some times day wants to come out all at da same times. It's making me have a bad heart murmur. All dis making me real sleeping and I sleeps a lot. Some days I have good days and den momperson say I gets to frisky cause I feels better and den it makes me sick again. So I can't be friskies yet I gots to act like an old dog.

Momperson going to makes me a scrapbook with doggie pictures just for mes! She say it's for her very first little man foster. I not no little man though, I weighs 65 pounds, dat not little. She gonna try to gets me lots of Get well cards too. She say she wants to collect 1000 cards for me. She going to raise monies to buy me a heat bed too. I like to lay on the floor in front of da heater, so she wants me to have a bed with heat in it.