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Month: August 2009
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Now here's a boy you may not recognize unless you've been reading the blog for a long time. This is Jasper, a German Short-haired Pointer who came to us in 2002 with a crippled front leg. Fast forward to 2006, when Jasper was adopted by Laurie B. from Bozeman, Montana. Laurie had two young Vizsla…
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Last Thursday I took blind Helen over to our vet clinic in Helena to start her chemotherapy. We had waited an additional week for one more lab report to come back — an immunohistochemistry. Because Helen had lost a leg last year to fibrosarcoma, and the initial pathology on one of the growths our vets…
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Well, it could have been worse. Our internal medicine specialist in Helena, Dr. Britt Culver, last Monday put a scope down Gabe's throat to see what was causing his breathing problem, and quickly found the answer: A tumor in his nasopharynx region, where the nasal passages enter the throat. Essentially his nose is blocked at…
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I'm going to take a blog break for the remainder of this week and will resume posting for Monday the 17th. Hope you have a wonderful week!
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On Friday I drove to Helena to pick up blind Teddy at our vet clinic, Montana Veterinary Specialists. After nearly three weeks in the hospital, he was finally ready to come home. I took the photo above of Teddy on the cot in our living room Saturday morning. He's been sleeping a lot, and that…
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Yesterday we hosted wildlife expert Jack Hanna, his wife Suzi, and their film crew who were here to do a story on our animals for their TV show 'Into The Wild.' The local paper, the Missoulian, sent a reporter and photographer out to the ranch to interview the Hannas about their visit with us and…
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As I mentioned in yesterday's post, Alayne and I have been hounded (literally and figuratively) for years by dogs insisting on sharing our meals with us. We have — yes, it is true — aided and abetted this culinary extortion. Each of the dogs has his or her own unique way of pressuring us to…
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One of the things I find powerless to resist in life is this face, staring at me intently while I try and enjoy a meal. It doesn't matter that he has already been fed. No, sir. He looks up at me from the floor with his adorable bug-eyes, beseeching me for a morsel from my…
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I was in the Widget's House yard this morning scooping poop when the phone rang at 8:30 a.m. I pulled the phone off my belt and saw it said "MT Vet Specialists." I wasn't expecting an update on Teddy until late today, so I thought, uh oh, something happened. I answered, and on the other…
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An animal rescue group in Pacific Grove, California, contacted us a week ago today about a senior blind dog they had seen in the Monterey County animal control shelter. Carie B. from the Animal Friends Rescue Project emailed me to say the dog had been picked up as a stray and that the shelter planned…
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