One of our blog readers asked for an update on blind-and-deaf Duchess, better known as Granny, our resident breadaholic. I asked Cindy to take a photo of me with Granny today, except I hadn't allowed for the fact that she (Granny, not Cindy) might be in the middle of an afternoon nap in the sun. As you can see, she continued her nap in my arms.
Granny is doing just fine. Two weeks ago she had her regular dental cleaning, and her pre-anesthetic bloodwork looked great. Despite her 14+ years, her teeth were in fabulous shape and none needed to be pulled.
You can sleep really well when you're deaf, and when you're blind and deaf, you can sleep really, really well, but she did manage to finally come awake … sort of:
I think Granny sprang to life in this second photo only because she thought she smelled a dog cookie in Cindy's pockets. If she had smelled bread, I wouldn't have been able to hold onto her.
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Unfortunately, the news on our other little old girl, Lady, is very different and quite sad. We had to euthanize Lady a couple of weeks ago. Our vet, Brenda Culver, came out to the ranch on a Saturday afternoon to let her go. Ironically, we had managed to stay on top of Lady's heart condition and Cushing's, but she developed doggie Alzheimer's in the meantime. She started getting everything backwards, and her wiring was shorting out, in effect. Lady seemed "lost" — she began wandering in circles constantly — and we realized she no longer was able to enjoy life. She died peacefully and with dignity, surrounded by people who had loved her in her final months of life.
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