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09/15/18: Daphne will meet Lori Law to get Maggie, a 2yo female Airedale from Holtville, AL on 09/16/18 and foster her till Oct. 1.
She’s a saint!
09/15/18: Lori Law will pick up an Airedale, Maggie, in Holtville, AL for ARG and meet Daphne Dean who can foster till Oct. 1. Maggie was on Craigslist for $200. We may be paying $250. Lori will advance the money and doesn’t want to be reimbursed!
09/09/18: I called and left voice mail for Edward Bott.
09/12/18: I’ve not received a response, but with Florence bearing down on the Carolina coast, he may not be able to respond.09/11/19: Daphne Dean will adopt Lacey. JMC sent contract for $184 ($400 reduced to $250 bc of Lacey’s age, then less $66 for mileage for Daphne’s round trip to pick up Lacey & Zeus and for taking Zeus to meet his new adoptive parents scheduled for Friday, Sept. 14, 2018).
Previously in Aug & early Sept., Tempest is getting better on Novox for pain. Joyce says he prances around the yard like he’s a youngster.
09/11/18 Tempest got his first HW treatment shot today. He’ll go back in early Nov. for 2nd and 3rd. JMC paid $254 by CC.
On August 25, 2018 at 3:17 PM Jackie Cash
Hi, Joyce. I absolutely understand forgetting to email. I was going to email you and send your receipts to Barbara Yager the day I got this and got distracted and forgot about it. Remembered it today when I was going back looking for emails I’m supposed to be following up on. Hey, it gets worse, friend!
I’m so glad that you love that boy; otherwise, you probably would’ve kicked him out of the house by now. I can’t believe he pees in the house. Your description of him pulling the cat off your chest was so funny. I read it to my husband when I got it and we both laughed about it. Lucky cat! And he can count to 4? And you know that because…? I’m glad you got the Novox and he is responding well to it and able to get up off the floor.
It’s good news that your vet doesn’t think the tumor is a mast cell. That’s encouraging. I would not be anxious to have him anesthetized for the procedure at his age and with HW. As for the HW, I am surprised that Dr. Cooler wants to use the full HW protocol for him, again, based on his age. The fact that he’s symptomatic is discouraging. Will you ask for a quote from him so we can know what we’re facing and see if they will offer a rescue discount? I can certainly send our 501(c)3 info.
How wonderful that he’s so fond of you. It just shows how resilient these wonderful dogs are. After spending his entire life with his owner and then only being with you for a month, he knows he is loved and is home. Thank you so much, Joyce, for taking such good care of him. We’d love another photo!
I’ll be in touch soon.
Jackie Cash | 901-438-5782
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On August 21, 2018 at 2:58 PM Joyce ChandlerGood afternoon!
For at least three weeks I’ve been reminding myself to sit down and email you. If I wait till I get home it’s not gonna happen, so before I leave work today, here we go…….Tempest is a delight, a great dog and I love him. He is very smart, knows several commands, I am convinced he can count to at least 4 and smiles a lot. A lot. He has really bad table manners and his housetraining is a sometimes thing. Thankfully for me, his arthritic hips won’t let him hike his leg, so he pees near furniture instead of on furniture. I will learn his routine in the near future and I expect those accidents to happen less frequently. He is eating well and adjusting to being in a kennel (big enough for him to stand up and turn around in) during the day. The first week he was with me he had a spell of not being able to get up. The first vet appointment I could get for him several days before this happened was still over a week away. I called my vet and said “look, either you can work us in to your schedule today or I can take him to another vet, but he will not go another night without some Novox.” I was using a sheet as a sling to get him up and take him outside and he was panting and had his ears back and just looked uncomfortable. So, they finally saw it my way and we got Novox started about a week before we had his appointment for evaluation of his heartworm situation. It made a huge difference in his quality of life with the first dose and he hasn’t slowed down since.
My guy here, Dr. Jim Cooler in Walterboro, SC, is kind of old school, but progressive enough to try new things if they seem reasonable. Tempests first HW treatment will be September 11. I will drop him off and he will spend the day there and I’ll pick him up about 4-4:30. I will call you when we are checking out so you can give them the credit card information. That treatment will be followed about a month later with 2 injections of immiticide, 24 hours apart. He is already on doxycycline and Heartguard. He coughs occasionally, which is concerning, and is probably evidence of the heartworms taking up residence in the right side of his heart. I expect they have done permanent damage to his heart and the vessels surrounding it, but we’ll deal with that when it becomes an issue.
Dr. Cooler is convinced that tumor on his back leg is not a mast cell cancer. He has never seen one stay the same size like that one has for reportedly two years, and it seems to be an encapsulated thing that you can actually get your fingers all the way around, not adhered to the leg like most mast cell tumors are. A mast cell tumor would have lots of blood supply and also wouldn’t feel as smooth as this thing does. So, he suggests watching it carefully for growth and leaving it alone for now.
He is growing pretty fond of me, I think. He loves to be loved on and frequently lays his big ole head in my lap for attention. I think he’s gotten jealous of the cats in my lap. This past weekend I had a cat on my chest and she was purring and talking to me and I was petting her. Tempest noticed this happening and came over to the recliner and watched for a minute. He frequently sniffs their butt while they’re in my lap, so I wasn’t concerned about his presence. He reached over, took a mouthful of hair in his mouth and literally pulled the cat off my chest. It was obvious he didn’t intend to hurt the cat, he just wanted it off my chest. The cat, of course was very offended, but Tempest seemed quite please with himself. He doesn’t offer to chase the cats, he accepts the teeny terrorists with no problem, but he’s not sure what he thinks about my bird. I see him thinking.
Attached are the two bills we’ve incurred so far. In hindsight, it occurs to me that if I’d called you and you had given them the 501c3 information there could have been a discount applied. I apologize, I didn’t think about that at the time.
Thanks to all of you, for entrusting me with another truly awesome Airedale, again.
JoyceZeus had a cough so Daphne took him to the vet. The vet – a holistic vet that doesn’t work for the clinic but comes in a couple of days a week – would not see Zeus because Daphne suspected he might have kennel cough having come from the kennel in Headland the week before, and she didn’t want to risk him infecting her Mastiff puppy!!!! Prescribed Doxycycline and that was it; no exam!
JMC paid $40.77 via CC.
08/29/18: On 08/11/18 Eva Brandenburg with Sullivan County Animal Shelter said she would do our home visit for the Robinsons. I emailed Sue & Eva to introduce them.
08/28/18: Daphne will pick up Lacey & Zeus either 08/29 or 08/30 and both will come to her home. She wants to groom Lacey because she’s so matted and the vet could only offer to shave her down. Daphne has secured space at her vet’s for Lacey if need be. She’s not sure she will keep Zeus over Lacey, bc she knows he’ll be easier to place. She’s terrific.
08/28/18: Daphne will pick up Lacey & Zeus either 08/29 or 08/30 and both will come to her home. She wants to groom Lacey because she’s so matted and the vet could only offer to shave her down. Daphne has secured space at her vet’s for Lacey if need be. She’s not sure she will keep Zeus over Lacey, bc she knows he’ll be easier to place. She’s terrific.
08/28/18: Daphne will pick up Lacey & Zeus either 08/29 or 08/30 and both will come to her home. She wants to groom Lacey because she’s so matted and the vet could only offer to shave her down. Daphne has secured space at her vet’s for Lacey if need be. She’s not sure she will keep Zeus over Lacey, bc she knows he’ll be easier to place. She’s terrific.
