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I've been trying to incorporate T-touch into handling my animals after seeing the demonstration at AHS about a month/month and a half ago. I had used it to some degree when Perdita and I were seeing Janice Patton regularly, but I'd just fallen out of the habit since I wasn't being reminded to do so. Last night Perdy really got a full body T-touch… read more

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Guffy is definitely not feeling as spunky as she did before her cluster seizures, but she's also not as nearly one foot in the grave as my siblings would have had me believe. She's simply acting like a nearly 12 year old dog now when before we had a nearly 12 year old dog who behaved like she was six or seven. Is she dying? Well, technically, al… read more

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One of the most difficult things in the annual vet visits for my pets is the request to bring in a fresh fecal sample. When you have five dogs and three cats, you have to SEE the poop come from the source to be sure which animal it's from. It's relatively easy for me to get fecal samples from the dogs, provided I remember the little sample contai… read more

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Miki ended up tagging along for Akane's vet visit, mainly because I couldn't get her out from underneath my bed until I put a leash on him. Unfortunately, Miki decided to wig out a little once we got to the vet clinic, which didn't help Akane's state of mind at all. Amazingly, she didn't snap at the clinic cat who dared to saunter by as we checke… read more

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Once again I have hit one of my least favourite times of the year, Akane's annuals. My feisty little dog is a total pill at the vet's office because we have to maneuver past other clients' pets and the clinic cats to get to the exam room. Then I have to remind the nice techs that Akane snapped at one of them several years ago during a blood draw … read more