Posted in Health & Wellness

Guffy's prognosis isn't great, but it could be worse. She's doing better thanks to the steroid that she's on, but she's still very weak from the cluster seizures on Sunday night. At least she's regained some of her sight, and her hearing appears to be better as well. I guess the tumour/brain swelling was putting pressure on the connections that … read more

Posted in Health & Wellness

Guffy went back to the regular vet this morning, and she has brain swelling compressing her optic nerve. Basically this means that she's almost completely blind, which must be frightening to have happen so suddenly. I've had some hands on experience working with sight impaired/blind dogs, but my parents' haven't since when our beagle, Doby, lost … read more

Posted in Adoptions

Lucky came to my family in a rather roundabout way. My brother's first girlfriend's family had rescued him on the side of a country road as a puppy, but five years later the parents were facing a possible divorce, so Derek's girlfriend convinced her mother to ask me to try to place Lucky. I was less than optimistic given that a five year old … read more

Posted in General

Akane and Miki finally got to meet my mother's horse, Traveller, today when I took them to my parents' house for an afternoon out. Surprisingly enough Akane didn't even blink an eye when she met Lucky for the first time, but, well, he's 12 and arthritic and not much of a threat anyway. She was initially crabby with Guffy, but they settled into … read more