Heaven Help Me!

I saw this message yesterday…in bumper sticker form. I was amused & immediately thought of how fitting this is for my husband! Our dog absolutely thinks the world of him!

Could they come out with a cat version?

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Despite my earlier posts on my status as a “cat-lover”, learning that our dog is seriously ill has enkindled a great love for her within me, and a desire to appreciate her for as long as she lives.

Snoop has been diagnosed with pancreatitis and has been hospitilized for the past four days.

She started to seem sick early last week. So, I called the vet and they recommended I give her some medicine & she’d be fine. When she didn’t respond to the medicine as well as expected, I began to worry about her. The next morning we woke up and she looked like hell. Fortunately, Nick was home, so I didn’t have to deal with all the details of feeding the children and getting them ready to go out (which I knew would slow me down immensely), so I could just rush out and take our sick puppy to the doctor.

We believe the pancreatitis was triggered by Snoop eating something she usually doesn’t get – that her body couldn’t process. The vet said his initial impression was that she had been poisoned. The only thing we gave her that she doesn’t usually get was an organic, all-natural “dental chew” bone that I bought from REI. Although one can not know the cause of pancreatitis for certain, the bone is the only thing in her diet that’s changed.

I should have remembered that organic natural stuff is not regulated as well as non-organic. And unfortunately, with organic being akin to big business, it does not necessarily guarantee that it’s safer.

Well, bone or no bone, our dog is on an IV at the hospital, getting antibiotics and anti-nausea medicine daily until she recovers enough to come home.

You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone (Or there is the threat of it being gone).

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