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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 8:51 am
What fun to see all your baby pictures and hear about their little antics, and the not so little ones.LOL Charlie has been getting lots of baths lately. Doing the Bichon blitz on wet ground is not condusive to those paws staying white one bit.LOL
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Grgranny06
Member
05-18-2005
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 9:00 am
I love the pictures & reading about the different breeds. We do puppies a lot & try to give them a good start for their "forever homes". There is nothing like having a pup nuzzle in your arms & go to sleep or getting those little kisses!
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 4:50 pm
Wow Saxy, your babies have really grown!! They're so pretty! Love hearing everyones stories and seeing the pictures! Kellie is doing pretty well. She's still off-balanced at times, although she forgets she is and makes me nervous she's going to fall in our fish pond! She hates the wet grass, esp. the spot right off the deck which has more bare spots (maybe because she likes to pee there whenever we try to get grass to grow! LOL) so she tries going down the side of the deck and one bad waver could send her into the pond! I've been going out and making sure she goes the right way down, although yesterday, she scared the heck out of me by tearing off the end of the deck behind the pond. New neighbors moved in a while back and they have a very rambunctious cat that looks somewhat like a Himalayan although I'm not sure that's what it is. Anyway, there's been LOTS of cat fights with the next-door cats and I've found him in our yard quite often, although when Kellie saw it.. she shot off like a bullet! I was afraid she was going to break a leg or something! That cat went flying over the pond and over the back fence! Now I have chairs sort of blocking the back so she doesn't do that again. She's acting pretty much like herself except she's getting worse about her feedings. Some days she wants to eat a couple of hours earlier than usual so I give her a small amount and then give her more later. Well yesterday, she ate at her regular time, had some dog treats when she was barking at our dinner time and then last night about midnight she starts barking like it's time to eat again! OY! I'm sure it's age since we noticed quite some time ago she barked at what seemed like nothing at times or barked at things she never did before or MISSED barking at something she DOES normally bark at! Sometimes she just gets grumpy and snaps at the cat when she walks by and that makes me nervous. She has that bark like when she's guarding a treat and I don't want her mistaking the cat for one! She does act awfully guilty when she does that though.. LOL We still have the stairs blocked to the basement which I think will be a permanent thing from now on. I have caught her going down there a couple of times when someone forgot to put the board back. What is it with dogs and kitty poop?!! Uggh! Nasty! LOL
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 5:35 pm
Watching, I'm glad that Kellie is doing better. Today I got a sporn double coupler thingy. I just tried it out and it sure was interesting. The dogs tripped over each other a couple times and when one tried to poop, the other wanted to walk and vice versa. They peed at the same time tho.. LOL. I think it'll just take them some getting used to. One thing though, the little clip thingy that is supposed to keep each side a certain length, it doesn't work so well with rambunctious puppies. But it's not that big of a deal.
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Grgranny06
Member
05-18-2005
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 5:44 pm
Watching, went back & read you story on Kellie, your heart must be breaking to see her like this. I am sure she feels your love for her, its very hard to see them grow old. Our thoughts & prayers are with you family & Kellie. ((hugs))
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 11:37 am
Granny, Saxy Our DD is coming home from college this evening and Kellie is going to be SO HAPPY to see her. It's funny how she's gotten in later years. Now she acts like Steph is the only one who loves her or pays attention to her, but it's probably just because she isn't here all the time anymore. I remember them telling me when I went away for a few days back in 2000 she layed by the back door and whimpered for the first day. I guess she's just used to me always being here to get too excited. LOL
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 4:15 pm
Well, our Buddy sure had a rough day. He spent almost his entire day on the couch. He moved only once. He looked so darn cute I just had to snap some pictures. Such a rough life this one leads....

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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 4:27 pm
OMG!!!! HOW CUUUUUUUTE!!!!! Those are SOOO precious, silly! Especially the second one, where he's curled up on the arm.. what a cutie.. I just wanna hug him!
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 6:13 am
Soooooooooo cute, Silly! Yes, life is rough for a beloved pet, isn't it? LOL I've told my kids I want to come back as a cat "in my next life" - but the kind of cat who is loved and spoiled like ours. LOL 
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Llwynn
Member
07-19-2003
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 8:10 am
I am looking for a little "doggie" advice from any of you who may be experienced with bringing new pets into your home with long-time existing babies(the four-legged variety.) A very dear friend just passed away and has a 2-year-old pug(male) named Bizkit. He is a sweet, sweet dog and seems to be generally passive. I have agreed to give Bizkit a home. However, I have a somewhat neurotic 11-year-old Dalmation named Keisha. Keish has never really done too well with other dogs unless in a controlled situation. She has some separation anxiety and tends to "stalk" strange dogs, following them around almost constantly and sniffing at them. I do, however, believe that with time and patience we can all learn to live together. What I am wondering is if anyone has good ideas about how to introduce them and how to make the adjustment period easier on all of us. I know to introduce them on neutral territory, and I know I will need to just be patient, but has anyone who has been through a similar experience have any words of wisdom? Any advice would be most appreciated! Thanks.
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Tigerfan
Member
11-06-2003
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 8:57 am
Llwynn, we recently adopted/rescued a new puppy, Mystic,(he's 2) and introduced him to our 8 yr. old puppy, Midori. She's only a little neurotic, but incredibly attached to her momma (Cindori). We felt it was important to cater to her a bit - letting her lay in Cindori's lap or next to her while she petted Mystic - filling her bowl first, giving her treats first, attaching her leash first - so as not to make her feel threatened or slighted by the intruder. :o) We also felt it very important to let them feel each other out by going to another room for short periods of time at first but keeping them in sight - letting them sniff and establish a pecking order. We did intervene in a couple extreme circumstances, but only to stop the behavior (Mystic chewing Midori's ears), not to reprimand, because we can't force the dynamic - they have to do that themselves. The only thing we particularly enforced in a big way was that he has to stay completely away from her food dish - by feeding her in another room or by one of us standing near it when she's eating. I hope this helps you, and good luck with your new addition!
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 9:48 am
Llwynn, I think that is so nice of you to take Bizkit into your home. I really don't have any advice for you, however, I'd say that you should be present with both dogs as much as possible for the next few weeks and show each that you love and care of them equally so that Keisha doesn't get "jealous" over your added attention to Bizkit. Good luck and please let us know how it's going for you. Others here will also have some good advice just as Tigerfan did. On a personal note, I came here to let you all know that Momma Mia had to have emergency surgery last night. I still haven't met her but the Rescue lady did email me last night to give me this update. Momma Mia got Eclampsia (lack of calcium) from being a small momma with 9 puppies to nurse. As a result, she got very sick and the Vet discovered that she also had a condition called Pyometra and had to have emergency surgery to have her infected uterus removed. As I understand it, the pus infected uterus did not burst and if it had, Momma Mia would eventually die due to organ failure (kidneys, lungs, heart). However, I've been told that although Momma Mia was very close to death, they are hoping she has a good outcome for life. I did ask how the puppies were doing and they are being hand-fed and will not be reunited with Momma Mia because the Vet does not want her to continue nursing the 9 puppies due to the Eclampsia condition.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 9:57 am
Poor Momma Mia! Glad she made it through, Coco. It's a good sign though that the shelter lady bothered to send you an email about it. That must mean you are definitely in the running.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 10:01 am
9 is alot. Glad she made it thru ok Coco.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 4:44 pm
Definitely glad she will make it through it AND it does seem like the shelter lady IS thinking about you! I remember when my DD was doing an internship at a vet and they had a cat come in who had labored about two days and they did an emergency c-section on her. They needed almost all of the staff in there to get the kittens breathing since she had 13!!!! They spayed her when she was on the table and told me the kittens would have to be bottle fed since she would stop producing milk because of the spay. I always worried about those kittens in that they had to give them back to the stupid owner who had let this poor cat get pregnant 3 or 4 times in every heat and it was a fairly young cat. I sooooooo wanted to take some of those babies home and take care of them, but I couldn't butt in because I only knew about it (and saw them) because I was picking my DD up from her internship.
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 9:28 pm
Momma Mia actually had 11 puppies! Two didn't make it. As you all know, Momma Mia is a mix of dachshund and chihuahua, and she's got the short doxie legs with about 3/4 the body length of a doxie...and she looks more doxie than chi. So..yeah, she's pretty small to be having 11 puppies. As I am told, she was found in a grocery store parking lot, several weeks into her pregnancy. She didn't have tags or ID and so the rescue people think she was either a runaway or possibly abandoned there in the parking lot. Just so you guys know, I wasn't the only one who received an email from the rescue lady. However, I'm told that I'm the only one who wrote back to ask questions about Momma Mia and her pups, so hopefully the rescue lady will remember me when I drop off my application this coming Saturday. They are taking applications for Momma Mia and her pups. If I get her that would be nice, but I'm not allowing my heart to get too wrapped up in the idea....yet. And Watching, I would have kitty-napped all 13!
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Tmagicsaq
Member
03-26-2004
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 10:39 pm
Hi, I don't post very often but I do come in to look at all the pictures and love the stories you all write. I have problem with my female 8 month 7lb Shih Tzu. Molly has a liver problem, it seems that her cells are bursting at a very abnormal rate. They do a blood test to get a count of the chemical released into the blood when cells burst. The normal count is 10-25 hers was 600! Two weeks later it had gone down to 325, not the best but better. Now it has gone back up to 1200!!!!! I have been trying to have her "fixed" but they do not want to strss the liver anymore, so until the numbers go down they will not do the op. The vets are at a loss, she is normal in behavior, and they did a test and her liver seems to be functioning normal they are trying meds now, Have any of you ever heard of this or have any ideas what is happening? I have never had a dog in heat before, I have always had them fixed before it happened, now I think she is in heat. How long does it last? There is a bloddy discharge, the area looks very swollen, is this normal? She is acting fine. I know this may sound funny that I don't know but I am so worried about her that I thought of asking here as it seems you will understand that she is my baby, I don't want to do the wrong thing where her health is concerned.
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Llwynn
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, October 14, 2005 - 6:42 am
Thanks so much Tigerfan, I appreciate all the advice I can get right now! I saw the pictures you posted of your "kids" and they are gorgeous! Thank you for giving me a little more confidence that this is all going to work itself out somehow!
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Tigerfan
Member
11-06-2003
| Friday, October 14, 2005 - 6:58 am
Llwynn - You're quite welcome! Thank you so much for noticing our babies, we love them sooo much, we couldn't be happier with the way things turned out! What you've done is a wonderful thing, and I think things will work out for you...I'm a big believer in karma 
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, October 14, 2005 - 9:09 am
For those interested, here is a picture of Momma Mia's puppies at a little over 5 weeks old. Too cute, huh!

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Tigerfan
Member
11-06-2003
| Friday, October 14, 2005 - 9:15 am
OMG! They are adorable!!! I LOVE puppies!! Thank you for sharing them with us! 
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Friday, October 14, 2005 - 10:26 am
Tmagics: I've never had a dog in heat, but from what friends have said, the area does get a little swollen and they do bleed as well. From what I hear as well, each dog is different in heat. Some you can tell they're bleeding, some you can't. OMG, Coco!! Those puppies are ADORABLE!! (You should have posted yesterday! They would have been LOVELY in my update!! lol)
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Tmagicsaq
Member
03-26-2004
| Friday, October 14, 2005 - 1:07 pm
thanks saxywildcat. I guess because of her liver, I am a little on edge.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Friday, October 14, 2005 - 1:47 pm
Tmagicsaq: that is completely understandable. I would be on edge too. I went absolutely batty when my puppies got dewormed the first time. I saw something weird in their poo.. Well, that was good. Meant we were getting rid of the worms.. but i was worried sick til I talked to a vet friend of mine.. LOL As parents of furbabies, it is our duty to be dutifully worried at the right time
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Friday, October 14, 2005 - 2:21 pm
Tmagic - I'd be on edge, too! It does sound like she's having a normal heat. I never had a dog in heat but I remember when I was a kid my friend's dog was always in heat and having puppies. I also remember my brother telling me about when his dog went in heat before he had her spayed. I know my friend's dog would spot and they got her those little panties and I was living home and never noticed my brother's dog. I think it depends on how much they bleed and how much they clean themselves. Dogs aren't like cats where they howl and you can't miss they're in heat! Yikes! Never heard anything like it when my first Siamese went into heat. I couldn't wait to get her fixed! LOL Let us know how you're pup is doing with the liver problem. Coco - Those pups are just adorable!
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