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and it has far outstayed its welcome! 2009 is the year that the economy (and my husband's business) went in the tank. After years of minimal vet bills, we paid a small fortune this year. And despite all the dollars spent, we still lost our beloved Flyer. Rescue Golden Sunny turned Cujo one time too many and had to be put down. Good friends had ( Read more... )

Until last Sunday, Flyer was a happy, healthy, silly Flat-Coat. Then she had the first of a series of Grand Mal seizures. Her condition declined rapidly over the week. We were hoping an infection of some sort was the cause, but the lab results came back today. There was no infection to treat. We let her go to the Bridge this afternoon ( Read more... )

No more seizures, thankfully. Unfortunately, she's still blind, very wobbly, and doesn't respond to voices. She's very confused. I'm not sure how much is due to the phenobarb and how much is brain damage from the suspected tumor or the seizures. If it's the phenobarb, she'll get mostly back to her normal self even if her vision stays gone. If it's ( Read more... )

It's not good. She had 2 more seizures during the night. We were at the vet's when he opened ( Read more... )

She had a Grand Mal seizure this morning. Just flopped over and started twitching and jerking while foaming at the mouth. After it finally stopped, it took about 5 more minutes before her rear legs would work. Then she walked in circles for about half an hour.  Her motor function then returned to normal, but I'm pretty sure she now has some visual ( Read more... )

Last month, I had Flyer's portrait done while we were at the Reliant Series of Dog Shows. At 10 1/2 she still looks pretty good!


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For the first time, Penny seemed interested in flyball tonight at practice. In the past, she just wanted to go home - wouldn't take treats, wouldn't play with toys or tug, nothing, even though she was a food and toy obsessed brat at home ( Read more... )

This weekend is the biggest dog show of the year in Texas, the Reliant Series of Dog Shows. Four days of Conformation, Rally, Obedience, and Agility plus 3 days of Flyball, all in air-conditioned comfort. There are about 4000 dogs competing each day between the various sports and over 300 vendor booths filling a 700,000 square foot facility ( Read more... )

We just got BBC America today, and I just saw an ad for Torchwood:COE. How deceptive - Captain John is all through the ad!