Official Poop Sleuth I had intended to call this post 'It's Been A Crappy Week', but on second thoughts I decided that sounded rather negative, because it hasn't really been a crappy week in a negative sense, it's been a crappy week in a poop kind of way. Anyone who regularly reads my blog will ... [ Read More ]
Hip Dysplasia In Dogs; Delaying The Inevitable
Hip Dysplasia In Dogs... Is a condition affecting the hip joints causing discomfort and instability that can affect certain dogs at any age. Some breeds of dog, like German Shepherds, Labradors, rottweilers, St. Bernards and Old English Sheep dogs are more prone to the disease than other dog ... [ Read More ]
Never Thought I’d Be Able To Remove Stitches From A Cat
I Never Thought I'd Be Able To Remove Stitches From A Cat But I had to, so I did... Eventually, We Managed To Get Ugg Spayed After missing her first appointment to be spayed due to a major difference in opinion (I wanted to get her in the cage, but she was having none of it and you ... [ Read More ]
Ringworm
Just when I thought we'd won the battle against ringworm in one of our dogs without the others becoming infected, it appears that we haven't. A few months back we rescued a dog that had been dumped and had been living rough for weeks. We were only meant to foster her, but she was so sweet that we ... [ Read More ]
Two Months With Flossie…
Flossie is as you may have already read in my previous post The Story Of The Dumped Dog That Has Found Her Forever Home, a stray that we were originally only fostering for two weeks until she recovered from being spayed, but she was so sweet we decided to keep her. How Flossie Has Settled ... [ Read More ]
The Two Yorkies That Cannot Overeat
As some of you may already know, we have four dogs, two of them are Yorkshire Terriers or Yorkies as they are otherwise known. All dog owner will have stories to tell, some of them silly and some of them not so silly. Our recent story ended up with a trip to the vets, costing us money - I am ... [ Read More ]
It Wasn’t Her Time Just Yet!
In the post When The Time Comes, I wrote about our old dog, Beanie, whose health was not good. Her heart was failing, she wasn't eating and to be honest things weren't looking good for her. Well, two weeks later I am pleased to report that the heart medication she is taking seems to be working. She ... [ Read More ]
When The Time Comes….
Two years ago I had to make a gut wrenching phone call to our vet to make arrangements to have our old dog put down. Zippy was 19 years old and had had a good life, but that did not to make it any easier to make that call. She was the first dog me and my husband had owned together and we had ... [ Read More ]