Furbabies- Post your pics!

Kokopelli wrote

on Apr 7, 2009 10:00 AM

Oh yes, anyone else pet stories? I love to hear how crazy your beasts are. Or I'd feel so lonely, as it seems that only my pets are just that!

Lois, the one with the envelope is fun!

CrystalCubeBead. wrote

on Apr 7, 2009 3:54 PM

When we make coffee, cat comes and watches.  Sometimes a little dust/powder gets spilled, and he rubs his cheeks in it.  He has also been seen rubbing his face where spilled coffee has dried, and hasn't been wiped off yet.  A caffeine addict yet!

That idiot doesn't like chocolate - if there is any left in the empty ice cream bowl, [entirely by accident,] he may just do one sniff and walk off in disgust!  Otherwise he will lick the bowl.  [I know cats should not have chocolate.]

He also nibbles a little catnip now and then.

Stan B.

Littlebird wrote

on Apr 7, 2009 4:20 PM

Stan, I often buy the whole beans and grind them myself for my coffee. One of my cats would follow me into the kitchen each morning and sit there sleepy-eyed watching me while I made the coffee. One day a coffee bean fell on the floor and he gobbled it up. Ever since then, I have to throw him a bean in the morning so he can have his coffee too.

Pam I am wrote

on Apr 14, 2009 3:56 AM

Hi everyone, I love looking at your beautiful friends!  They are all so precious

I have a couple of photos, not one of everybody yet, but I figured if I will post some more later...I have two dogs and three cats but there are a couple of other special friends I would love to show you that I haven't got photos of online. 

Here's Molly lying down and Onyx standing up:

Molly, a portrait:

Onyx, who refuses to "sit" for his portrait, and most other times too:

JoJo, last summer, having been interrupted from his nap:

I'll get some more up here later, this is it for now. 

Onyx loves to run.  He's five years old and is a shepherd and greyhound mix and he can run about as fast as any dog I've ever seen.  He likes, for plain fun, to run over the top of the 700' hill behind the house...and come back later, at his leisure...the animal control officer does not like this and I'm not crazy about it either. He's a very, very loving and sweet dog. 

Molly is five years old and a lab mix of some kind.  She's a sweetheart too.  I do have a request, if you would send Molly some prayers and love bubbles it would be nice as she is having an injection of immiticide today for heartworm and I am worried about her.  I don't know how she got heartworm, the vet says there are a lot of cases of it this last year.  After her injection today she's going to have to stay very, very quiet for two months, no walks, no running, no chasing coyotes or Onyx...and I don't know how she will do with that because she loves to go for walks and play.  If she gets too active she could have a thromboembolism or a clot, of dying heartworms, plug an artery and cause a heart attack or stroke. 

The good thing about her heartworm is that she has no symptoms, so maybe we caught it early enough that there is little damage to her heart.  I'll know later today after they do x-rays at the vet's office. 

JoJo is about two years old and full of mischief.  I have two other cats but no good photos of them at the moment.

Thanks,

Pam

Kokopelli wrote

on Apr 14, 2009 4:26 AM

Pam, such cuties! Very beautiful dogs and cat! If my hairy cat is interrupted from her nap, she opens half an eye and gives you a killer look, as if saying: DON'T disturb me!

Littlebird wrote

on Apr 14, 2009 6:43 AM

Pam, I'm so sorry about Molly! Hopefully, she'll do well with the heartworm treatment. I'm sure it will be hard keeping her quiet for two months! Why that long? 

I'll definitely be sending her some loving prayers for a speedy recovery!

LoisB@23 wrote

on Apr 14, 2009 7:29 AM

 Oh Pam! We'll be keeping Molly in our prayers too. It's SO hard on us as pet parents to have to deal with these kinds of things. I hope the X-rays show that she wasn't heavily infected... good luck with keeping her quiet too...

Keep us updated, k?

Lois

Pam I am wrote

on Apr 14, 2009 8:14 AM

Robin, and Lois, thank you   The prayers are really appreciated.

The protocol is to give one injection of imiticide three months after beginning heartworm treatment with Heartgard or similar and then another two injections one month after the first injection.  This is to begin reducing the load of worms fairly slowly with the first injection and then get them good with the second.  In Molly's case, she has had Revolution ongoing, so I don't know how she got this in the first place, but they wanted me to give it for three months anyway then come back for the injections.  So I've known about this for awhile, but I've been putting it out of my mind and trying not to get myself or her full of anxiety over it.  The imiticide kills the worms and as they die they slowly dissolve, I guess it takes awhile for dogs to completely eliminate them from their system, and if she gets too active, or excited and her heart rate goes up too high she could dislodge dissolving matter which could cause a clot somewhere in her bloodstream, she could have a heart attack or stroke. 

She was overjoyed at going to the vet's this morning, she loves them...but she was a little less happy about being left there without me.  And I haven't heard from them yet about what her tests show.  I'll pick her up between 5 and 6 tonight.  Onyx keeps going to the window to see if she's coming in...

So I'm going to have to sit with her when she's outside, on leash or crated, for weeks.  I think I should have a project I can carry around with me and work on when I do that...the coyote project is one idea...

Pam

LoisB@23 wrote

on Apr 14, 2009 8:18 AM

 Ahhh... yeah, sounds like a portable project is in order. I hope the vews from the vet is all good, and that Onyx doesn't get too anxious!

Lois

Pam I am wrote

on Apr 14, 2009 6:22 PM

Hi everyone, Molly's tests came back normal urinalysis and cbc, x-rays show no heart or major blood vessel enlargement, so it looks like we really did catch this early.  Her injection site is painful though and she is fairly unhappy tonight.  She's lying on the couch and finally going off to sleep.  But I'm very, very relieved that she is going to be okay and has no heart damage visible on those x-rays. 

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers...

Pam

Littlebird wrote

on Apr 14, 2009 8:12 PM

Awesome news Pam!!  Give her a big hug from her auntie Robin. LOL

Kokopelli wrote

on Apr 15, 2009 1:28 AM

Oh, this is good news, Pam! So I hope she'll be ok with her injections and other treatment. 

I'm thinking about a portable project for you and a setup to carry it around. The coyote project would be a good one as it lasts long time. But you have to make sure that you wouldn't turn over all the delica tubes and got one big bead soup. Hm, how about a beadwoven bracelet or necklace with one or two colors? Someone posted a collapsable beadmat which can be pulled close with a strap, so all the materials are in the middle like they are in a kind of bag. Cat, was that you? Or Robin?

LoisB@23 wrote

on Apr 15, 2009 6:12 AM

 Hooray for Molly! I'm glad to hear that she looks clean! Poor thing, I'm sure it was NO fun to go through. Good luck keeping her quiet after she's feeling better!

Lois

Pam I am wrote

on Apr 15, 2009 2:36 PM

She seems pretty good today too.  Last night she was quite unhappy, her injection site was sore I'm sure, but it doesn't seem to be bothering her much today.  I think she likes the attention too.  Who says dogs don't remember what they did ten minutes ago...I think Molly does.  I doted on her last night, and today she thinks she's the Queen of Sheba and I'm her slave...  I fixed up the back porch for her and Onyx so they can go out there and not get off of it.  It's right off the kitchen so I can be very nearby and she can have a little bit of freedom.  The weather is getting better and it's in the upper 60's here so I've kept the kitchen door open... But I guess the arrangements didn't suit her highness because she wouldn't lie on her cushions until I went to get a nice fleece blanket for her.  Then she looked at me and smiled and lay down.

Robin, I've given her a kiss from her Auntie Robin.

Lois, you're right...once she really feels better I am going to have a tough time with her.  She's a very opinionated girl!   

Pam

cbreul wrote

on Apr 16, 2009 5:08 AM

 Pam,

I am glad to hear that Molly is doing better and that you all caught this very early on. I can't imagine the thought of losing one of our dogs. Lots of hugs and prayers for her and you. (don't forget to take care of you as well!)

Courtney