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Celebrate with your pets

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Heads up!  April 18th is National Pet Owner’s Day!  My credo is “Any reason for a party”, so I’m looking forward to it.

How will you celebrate?  I suggest the following:

Take your dog for a long walk.

Play Frisbee at the park with your dog.

Rub your dog’s belly.

Play tug with your dog.

Schedule a long-overdue vet appointment – it’s flea and heartworm season, after all.

Spay or neuter your dog.

Make your own dog treats (recipe below).

Ingredients:

  • 1 lb. chicken liver
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons molasses
  • 1 1/2 cups cornmeal
  • 1/2 cup dried milk

Instructions:

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour onto a baking tray and bake at 400 until the sides start to come away from the pan or a knife comes out clean.

Let it cool, cut into pieces and store in fridge!

Find more cool recipes at homemadedogtreats.net

However you choose to celebrate, we here at doggies.com hope you have fun!

Until next time,

Good day, and good dog!

Health

My Maggie Dog’s Pathology Report

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Just got back the vet’s report on my Maggie’s tumor.  It was, as the vet describes it, “partly bad news and partly good news.”  The bad news is that the tumor was definitely malignant.  The good news is that it appeared to be totally encapsulated and confined to the thyroid.  Even though it looks good now, there is still the possibility that the tumor metastasized before we got it out, so we will need to keep an eye on her, but for now, it looks like she is in the clear.  Thanks so much for all of your good wishes!

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Update on my Maggie Dog’s Surgery

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We just heard from the vet that he removed half of Maggie’s thyroid, as well as a good-sized tumor.  He says they are almost always cancerous, but we will have to wait for the pathology report (5 – 7 days).  I did a little research, and it doesn’t look all that great.  I’ll follow-up with you after we hear back from the lab.  Going to pick her up now.

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Lava, Dog Rescued From Baghdad

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I just finished listening to the audiobook “From Baghdad, With Love”, the story of Lava, a dog rescued by Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman of the U.S. Marines.  In spite of rules which forbid bringing home dogs from a war zone, Col. Kopelman found a way to get this puppy home with the help of reporters, the Helen Woodward Animal Center, some Iraqi nationals, and the Iams pet food company. 

This is truly a good story – not only because it has a good outcome for the dog, but also because it shows how awful the war in Iraq truly is.  Kopelman pulls no punches when telling how the money is mis-spent, how the war strategy is flawed, and how the Iraqi citizens suffer under the invasion.

Here is a link to the book on Amazon, if you’re interested.  I highly recommend it!  (BTW, in looking at Amazon, I see there is a 2nd book by Kopelman, called “From Baghdad to America:  Life Lessons from a Dog Named Lava”.  I’ll have to put that one on my list, too!)

Until next time,

Good day, and good dog!

Health

Prayers for my dog Maggie

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I have a favor to ask of you.  I found a lump under my 8-year old Golden Retriever’s chin last weekend.  The vet took a biopsy yesterday and said it looks suspicious, so she is having surgery tomorrow (4/9/09) to have it removed.  I am so worried she has lymphoma.  We’ve already lost one dog to that, and I’m not sure I can bear to lose another.

Please keep her in your thoughts.

Until next time,

Good day, and good dog!