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Covering Events from 8 a.m. TUE - 8 a.m. WED - Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - Covering Events from 8 a.m. TUE - 8 a.m. WED

     Juana reports ...     Transcription Summary and posting by Bill

You may click on the following Straydog Audio Report
and/or read the Transcription Summary with Photos, which follows,
covering events from 8 a.m. Tuesday (4/17/12) through 8 a.m. Wednesday (4/18/12)

 

Wednesday Morning Audio Report, April 18, 2012 (15 min, 23 sec)
Juana and Bill talk about what happened Tuesday at Straydog.

 

TRANSCRIPTION SUMMARY WITH PHOTOS:

Juana:

1. Yesterday was a very busy day (as usual) and a difficult day, because we have a few older fellas (including Bobby and Scottie) who have been at Straydog for 15 or more years who are approaching the time when we will have to make the decision as to whether to help them cross the Rainbow Bridge. This can become very depressing as we get closer to making that final decision. We observe and evaluate these older doggies every day: Are they eating? Are they happy? Do they want to continue? Or is it that time?

 

2. Bobby's life has been getting more and more difficult with each passing day.

Juana crawls under Bobby's shelter to try to coax him out with a cookie so we can take him to
Hospital Two in order to be able to more easily feed him and give him his meds.

Lacie carries Bobby to an inside kennel in Hospital Two.

For years Bobby hated coming inside either hospital for anything, but he's accepting his nice big bed now in H2.
He ate a good though special meal including a fried wet dog food patty and some chicken. And he didn't seem
bothered by all the other residents of Hospital Two. We have to carry him down the big ramp from the H2 back
door to Park Two and then back up the ramp after his potty break, and he seems to be enjoying his new indoor life.
So, it does not seem like the end yet for Bobby. We're taking it day by day--one day at a time.

With Bobby inside the hospital it's much easier to give him his medicines.

Lacie gives Bobby an injection containing his meds because he just won't take them any other way.

 

3. Scottie and Lisa-Lisa seem also to be slowing down more and more. But it's not time yet. Sometimes they seem to be approaching the end, and then they make comebacks and they seem okay for a while. Even though these two can't be tricked into taking their meds in food or meatballs, we can crush their meds and mix them with water and get them to take the meds using an oral syringe. They don't refuse this or try to bite you as Bobby did before we started giving Bobby his meds by injection.

Scottie sits on his bed in Hospital Two. He's becoming somewhat senile, but he's still eating
okay. He can get up by himself and he goes down and back up the Park Two ramp. He gets
lost sometimes when he re-enters H2, and we have to lead him to his kennel.

Though Lisa has lost a lot of weight, she often has sparkles in her eyes and wags her tail. And she's still eating okay.

 

(4) Champ we thought was nearing the end, but now that he goes into H2 for the afternoon and evening and comes back out to his original kennel from early morning till about noon, he seems to be doing okay for such an old fellow with the problem he's having urinating sometimes due to the tumor having been removed from his penis. Champ also experiences pain due to his torn Achilles Tendon, but for now he's hanging in there.

Champ sits with Lacie, enjoying the special attention she's giving him.

 

(5) Belle is feeling better now that we are treating her mastitis by putting warm cloths on her breasts and actually milking her and saving the milk to bottle feed to her pups. After treating her for a while, her milk started coming out easier and she went and lay down and started feeding her puppies again so it gave her relief. All the babies are fat and happy and are opening their eyes, and they are very, very cute.

Mother Belle takes a break from feeding her children by hiding outside under her shelter building.

But later she goes back to her main job now, which is to feed the little ones.

 

(6) Anthony continues to hang in there strong. Once we get him on his feet, he goes to the park by himself, spends a few minutes sniffing around and pottying, and then on his own he walks back to H1, goes inside, walks straight to his kennel and waits for his treat. He's one of our strongest dogs ever, and he just does not want to give up. He still eats very well, though he's very skinny now in his old age.

Anthony is at the park gate ready to go back to his Hospital One kennel.

Anthony trots right along toward H1.

Anthony is about to turn and go up the ramp to the H1 deck.

Through the open H1 door he goes and turns toward his kennel.

Once on his soft bed Anthony turns waiting for his treat.

 

(7) Noble has an eye ulcer and two ear infections. We made a second trip to the vet yesterday, and Dr. Terry confirmed he does have an eye ulcer, and the poor fellow has infections in both ears. They put BNT in his ears and sent him home with eye drops to hopefully cure the ulcer. The only good thing with this is that Noble is a very good patient and will take his eye drops and ear meds without putting up a fuss.

 

Dr. Terry and Vet Tech Abby treat Noble's eye ulcer.

Noble is not a happy camper as he squints his right eye due to an eye ulcer,
and the poor fella also has infections in both ears.

Vet Tech Abby treats Noble's ears.

 

(8) Terry-dog went to the clinic early this morning for an ear infection. Terry was treated with BNT and both she and Noble are to go back to the clinic for a follow-up in 10 days or two weeks from now.

Little Poppy and Terry-dog are in crates on their way to Morton Clinic.

 

(9) Poppy has a bad cough and is limping. The cough is due to a cold, and the limp is due to arthritis as she's an older dog. The doctor sent meds for Poppy's cold but no Rimadyl because of her age, not wanting to hurt her liver. The doctor did prescribe Dasuquin, which is a mild pain reliever along with supplements for joint care. Though expensive a lot of our dogs take Dasuquin, and it does a good job.

Vet Tech Sabra begins to examine Poppy.

Dr. Terry listens to Poppy's lungs.

Poppy lies on the x-ray table to get a picture of her gimpy leg, which the doctor diagnoses as arthritis.

 

(10) Morton Clinic Account: $12,800 at 4/18/12.

 

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