Recent content by lauren

I have a friend who lives in the Stroudsburg PA area. Last night their adopted (18 months ago) violently attacked her chihauhua and killed her. Her dog was ripped to shreds in front of her elderly mom who is on oxygen and her her 5 year old son. She wants the dog out of her house as her son...

I have a good friend/client with a 7 year old lab, Scout. Scout had surgery last week to remove a tumor on his paw and lymph node which came back as malignant melanoma. They are going to try the melanoma vaccine. They don't want to start chemo right away because he is still recovering from...

A friend of mine is considering getting a lab puppy. It's a 10 week old black lab and the owner let her meet her at a function to get to know her. Another friend at the function had her 3 year old black lab with her. When they first met the puppy growled, hair went up and was very agitated...

I have a friend with a lab that was just dx'd with a UTI and crystals in the urine. The vet put her on Royal Canin Urinary SO 14. The vet seemed to want to keep her on this indefinitely and my friend has some concerns about the nutritional value of this food. She reached out to me because she...

Any you could spare today to send Guinness' way would be much appreciated. GAD got him to the hospital this morning for his surgery. Now it's the waiting to hear he is fine. GAD's a wreck and I am too. When I was growing up I lost a lab undergoing surgery (some sort of weird combo between...

Hard to believe it was 2 years ago I brought the butter licking ferret dog home. As a special thank you to me she was zooming through the house and her tail hit my ice tea landing all over my mac. I finally managed to get it booted up but the r and c keys have died. Put a macbook pro on the...

I saw a post today from a dear friend of mine on facebook. Her family went on vacation down the shore so they are about 2 hours from home. She got a call from whoever is watching her dog that he had a 105 fever and was collapsing. He's a young shih tzu. She drove home and then got him to the...

Happy Birthday to the butter licking ferret dog!

Last week our youngest daughter had a friend over and they were playing outside most of the time. The next morning I woke up let the dogs and and decided to check email before waking the kids up. I glanced out the front window and see the black and white wonder dog dashing by. I run out onto...

Both GAD and I have written before about Guinness' quirkiness. He's afraid of a lot of thngs and will bark and lunge - bikes, motorcycles, joggers, etc. He has a new quirk that has recently developed and it's fear of birds. It's just large birds except he did snap at a hummingbird last...

I'm a dog walker/occasional pet sitter. I normally work for a woman whose been in business for about 5 years and assigns me where I go which is all good. One of my daughters friends asked me if I could watch their 2 dogs over the weekend. I've met the dogs before a chihuahua and a...

I can't believe it's been a year since big brave Grimace, now Guinness came here. He is a total love and a momma's boy. He and Annie are such wonderful playmates and as much as he tries to teach her 'dog rules' she is a lady who definitely walks to the beat of a different drum. He certainly...

I'm watching one of my best friend's 12.5 year old Chocolate lab. His rear legs have now been a problem for a while and they have tried a few different things for him and most recently they put him on Rimadyl. That was about 2 weeks ago. He's exhibiting some odd behavior. Generally when it's...

I cannot believe it's been a year. To the wonderful people at NN that followed my journey out to OH to retrieve the 'butter licking ferret dog', I couldn't have made it without you. She has filled our home with a lot of chaos and a lot of love...

He's 29 again today. Happy Birthday honey.