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    Not another knee!

    Malka blew out her other knee Monday evening. This makes knee number four for us. :banghead: She had been doing so well too! We already had her in to see our vet and she's now on a combination of pain and anti-inflammatory meds for the next while. Once this initial swelling goes down we'll...
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    Going bald?

    Coulson has developed a bald spot on his side. He's never had a thick coat and it's always been thinner towards his stomach, but now he's just losing his hair in one particular spot. And it keeps growing. The skin looks healthy and normal, he's just losing his hair. It looks like he was shaved...
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    Turmeric Paste

    I thought some people on here used Turmeric paste and was looking for some more info on it. We would like to put Malka on it to hopefully help with some of the stiffness she is experiencing since she tore her CCL last February. She's recovered very well from her injury, but I've been mildly...
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    Snow!

    It started snowing last night and hasn't stopped since. We have a couple of inches and the Newfies are very happy! Malka came outside with us while we were shoveling and had a grand time!
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    Thinning shears

    I received a nice pair of thinning shears for Christmas. I am super excited and have already tested them out. :) But I have one really big question that I can't find an answer to anywhere: how do you not leave cut marks?!! Every video that I've watched and everything I've read simply says, "Be...
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    Boarding panic!

    For the first time we are going to have to board our three Newfies. Rachel and I are in full panic mode. :shocker: One of us has always been home with them. It is probably going to be 4 days over the New Year. The behaviorist we used with Coulson does a limited amount of boarding so we are...
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    Happy Birthday, Malka!

    Today is Malka's 6th birthday! I can't believe she is already 6 years old!! Where did the time go? She is a wonderful newf, truly displaying the classic Newfie temperament: calm, gentle, eager to please, (but not without that touch of Newfie stubbornness.:lol: ) Her love for children is only...
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    Jorah

    We lost Jorah a week ago. She let us know it was time. Our beautiful baby girl was just past her fifth birthday and it was almost four months exactly since we'd lost Thea. Rachel summed Jorah up so well below: A house with only three Newfies is far quieter than I thought it would be. No...
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    Jorah update

    Rachel and I are going to give the chemo a try with Jorah. Fortunately, we'll be able to do it completely through our vet office! Our vet has already ordered the meds, (I think he knew what our decision was going to be before we did. ;) ) We are going to take this one day at time and see how she...
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    Oncologist visit... help!

    Has anyone here visited a dog oncologist before? I posted in a different thread about Jorah, but it is looking more and more likely that she has a very rare form of lymphoma. Our vet referred us to the oncologist and we have an appointment set up for tomorrow. (It's about 3 hours away.) Does...
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    This can't be happening again...

    Jorah, (just turned 5), may have a very rare form of lymphoma. We do not have a concrete diagnoses yet, but that is where our vet is really leaning at this point. (He is not the type of vet who would ever throw something like that out unless he really was convinced.) During our last appointment...
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    Happy Gotcha Day CK!

    Yesterday was C.K.'s first gotcha day! (He got a peanut butter doughnut for his special day. :)) This last year has flown by. He is doing so well and has made such strives over the last couple of months in particular. We can clean his ears now, brush him for a reasonable amount of time with only...
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    Happy 5th Birthday Jorah!

    Yesterday was Jorah's 5th birthday. (It was really busy day and I haven't been able to post until now.) As per Newfie birthday tradition she got her very own doughnut, a pb&j one this year, and spent the rest of the day hogging the air condition vent as it's been in the 90's here. I can't...
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    Thea the harp dog

    There was a very special aspect of Thea that I wanted to share. She was my sister's harp dog. Below is something Rachel wrote a little bit ago that I thought I would share. "In over fifteen years of playing the harp, I never had a "harp dog." I would enviously read stories of other harpists...
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    Remembering Thea: June 17, 2011-May 27, 2016

    How do you capture in words a Newfy you’ve lost? I guess you can’t, but I’m going to try. A few snapshots anyway. The first word that comes to mind when describing Thea is sweet. She was the sweetest thing in the world and loved “her” people unconditionally. While reserved with adults, she...
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