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Mr. Chip – Living with Cushing’s

Mr. Chip – Living with Cushing’s

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I never update my blog anymore. I think that's what blogs are for, neglecting. Anyways, realized that I hadn't updated ANY of this and at some time in my future, I'll want to remember all of this and perhaps it will be helpful to others who get a diagnosis of Cushing's Disease, or hyperadrenocorticism, in their dog.  We went through a lot with our beautiful basset hound, Mr. Chip to figure this out and if we can spare anyone else all the trouble, we'd love to. After Chip kept getting urinary … [Read more...]

Chip has a bad infection

Chip has a bad infection

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So, I've been reluctant to share all of this as I feel like a chunk of my life for the last year has been filled with sad dog sickness stories.  But, I need to document what is going on with Chip and people will ask, so here goes. Chip is quite sick. He's been on medication for a couple of weeks and is not getting better and instead is getting worse.  Here's a timeline of his illness, tests, and medications that I've put together to keep track of what has happened with Chip. I spelled the … [Read more...]

April 2017 PupDate – Tilda

April 2017 PupDate – Tilda

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My husband & I adopted Tilda from New Hope Pet Rescue. Part of our Adoption contract calls for us to share monthly Pupdates with them.  I thought I'd share the notes from my training notebook here and perhaps these things would be helpful to others as well as supplying the Pupdate to the rescue organization.  This is the chronicle of Tilda's first month in our home.  I apologize as you are seeing a lot of my stream of consciousness from our training notebook, so this is long winded, but I … [Read more...]

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