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Wolfin' It Up

Spring '13

Well we made it thru the winter. Guess shedding season is about to start :(

Boo got sick last fall, vet said it was intestinal cancer, suggested putting her down. She had lost weight, about 20 pounds, and refused to eat, and getting sick all the time etc… The more I thought about it, the more I felt the vet just blew us off due to her age. So off to vet #2, which bet his bottom dollar she contracted hook worms somewhere (did have her in the kennel the month before) and her whole intestinal tract was inflamed. Plus the blood work didn’t support cancer, her stats were better than mine, even with her being sick. Apparently these worms do not show up in the standard test. So he gave her some pills that would kill anything that wasn’t supposed to be in there, and some for the inflammation. Over the winter we ate small frequent meals of whatever she had a notion for, and she slowly started putting some weight back on. Other milestones along the way were the ability to jump up in the truck for rides, jump up on the bed etc.. So now she’s back to her old plump self, running around like a 3 year old nut case, and yelling at me for not moving fast enough for whatever she wants. So we’re pretty much back to normal, except now we no longer want anything at all to do with dog food, we’ll hold out for the good stuff that comes off the grill, or the stove, or that big cold white box with the goodies. I’ve created a four pawed food critic ….

Still Kickin'

We're still around, getting older, but still going. Delilah's doing great, starting to get a little hard of hearing (other then selective), but is working great with hand signals. Vet cracked me up last month, she walked in the room and said "wow, look at what we got here, a 1999 model" 2 more years, I can get classic tags for her :)

Thanks for all the gifts and birthday wishes, maybe someday we'll figure out how to use this thing, and put a little more content up. Posted some recent pics of the Boo, within the last 8 months anyway. She's been staying in the indoor ice box (air conditioning) since mid spring, and only ventures outside when there's something that interests her. She's not a fan of the heat, especially since she hasn't dropped her coat from last winter yet ... I am so looking forward to that ... It's soon time, all the little sprites of hair popping out, have started showing up here in the last week, Soon as the undercoat lets loose, it'll be "stress test" the vaccume time.

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Still around

Sorry for the lack of activity, just still in kind of a funk. Boo's still being her nutty self, and as happy as ever.

We'll try and update some things on here as time permits.