MilliesMom

I've hit 17! BTW: I don't know how "Blackdog" got on my list of pets, but s/he isn't mine!

I've got 12! The rest of mine go out today. It's been many years since our greyhound, Millie died, but I come back here every year for the Card Exchange. Love receiving all those cards! May you and your loved ones have a happy and healthy holiday season and beyond to 2024!

I can't find this year's list!

I'm in, too.

I know the deadline was quite awhile ago, but I've been ill. It is too late? I've never missed one of these.

I'm in, too.

Hoping someone's got good advice because we're at a loss, our vet is closed for another week (a team member had Covid-19), and our back-up vet couldn't see him today. Fozzy Bear is a 3-year-old white Poodle/Terrier mix who weighs about 17 lbs. He's a very sensitive, very food-picky dog. He tends toward stomach upset, and for months the vet had him on a dose of Meprazole 10mg. an hour before breakfast. He hasn't required it for a couple of months. He also has a history of allergies (mostly scratching) that caused infections in his floppy ears. For the last 2-3 days, he's had on-and-off vomiting. Today he vomited the pill wrapped in a little cheese. Yesterday and today, he had watery diarrhea. He is not acting sick at all (VERY interested in the cats' food), and an hour after he vomited, he ate chicken, white rice, and broth. He kept it down and ate voraciously. A couple of hours later, i gave him baby sweet potatoes for the diarrhea. (I don't have pumpkin.) In the past, he's tried everything including ProPlan Sensitive Dry and wet. The vet had us switch to Dr. Harvey's Canine Health (the red label). Hubby mixes it in with ground turkey one week and ground beef the next. He's been rejecting it for days, so I've added salmon or cooked turkey thighs to get him to eat it. Worked for awhile, but that was that (we're left with a large, expensive bag of Dr. Harvey's), and we just gave him a can of Alpo, which he loved...before the belching and vomiting started So here we are... He usually takes Daily Multi Plus from Pet Health and Nutrition Center, Vitamin C, Omega-3 Pet, and pet colostrum. Any suggestions? Thanks.

What a beautiful pup! So sorry for your loss.

So terribly sorry. Our greyhound, too, was okay, and then started screaming and couldn't walk. They couldn't find out what was going on, but as she was almost 15 and never would be the same, we had to put her to sleep.

So sorry for your loss.

Sorry for everyone's losses.

Thank you, all. It will be a week tomorrow. We're donating what meds and supplements we can to rescues or other dogs with the same type of cancer as he. I just can't throw out the rest yet. Too painful.

So sorry for your loss.

We thought we'd never love again after the loss of our greyhound, Millie, but Grandpuppy Max (who started his life with our son) healed our hearts. He was a 25 lb. Maltipoo who smiled! Our beloved Grandpuppy was a 26 1/2-month survivor of anal gland adenocarcinoma when it finally took his life. A diabetic for years who was just adjusting to his recent blindness from cataracts, he had only a single surgery and no radiation or chemo. He also had a heart murmur and arthritis. He was on cannabis (the real thing), as well as Chinese anti-cancer herbs, a special diet, and veterinary supplementation. The vet who came to the house to put him to sleep said it was amazing he lasted so long with such an aggressive cancer because some dogs die after only a couple of months. He touched so many of his angelic veterinary caregivers who said they loved him as if he were their own. When he said goodbye to his onco techs, they had tears in their eyes. One said he'd let them do any procedure on him without complaint. He took the time in veterinary waiting rooms to visit with other pet parents in hopes of scoring a belly rub. Max was in remission for over a year, but when his feline companion, Oscar, died at 17, he grieved so much that his cancer grew 30% within two weeks. They were like the proverbial Garfield and Odie. From that time, it was a real struggle. (Oscar, the miracle cat, passed away on 2/26/18, less than six months ago. He was FIV+, had a heart murmur, one working kidney since birth, asthma, osteoarthritis, and a lesion on an optic nerve that kept his pupil open. He wore a contact lense or a week last year! Oscar was featured in an article in Integrative Veterinary Journal in 2015.) Max was among the cancer dogs featured in November of '17 on FOX10 News in Phoenix, Arizona. While we all will miss his warmth and good humor, we hope that his vets learned from his experiences--including experimental procedures--to save other lives. Grandpuppy was one exceptional pup, who despite cancer and diabetes, was within weeks of reaching 12, the average lifespan of Maltipoos. He left us better people than when he found us.

Have you tried hyperbaric chamber therapy for your pup? An hour's worth of oxygen at high pressure may be very helpful in helping to kill that infection. Our Maltipoo, Max, has anal sac adenocarcinoma, and in his protocol is twice monthly hyperbaric chamber therapy at the integrative oncologist's. (He also gets ozone/UV therapy and acupuncture from her.) Here's some info on hyperbaric chamber therapy from her website: http://integrativeveterinaryoncology.com/specialized-equipment.html