Friday, October 1, 2010

Things just keep trudging along

I am home and happy to be with my little family again. I live a pretty blessed life most times. I love my husband and I am spoiled. For the most part I love where we live although I'm getting tired of co-op living. and while I don't love my job anymore, it pays the bills.
Poor poor Clyde. As I said earlier in a post, I tried walking him with the halti. it worked but every once in awhile he would fight it. Somehow he scratched his muzzle. I didn't think too much about it. We rubbed some lotion on it to help it heal and I thought we were good to go. But his immune system is weak I think because the sore has not healed. And he scratches it sometimes. Now, there is a large patch of raw skin on one side of his poor sweet muzzle. I am putting calamine lotion on it now in the hopes that it clears up. But I think this is just a sign of how weak his system is. And last night Jim lied there listening to him cough. We know there is cancer in his lungs. You can see it clearly in the x-rays. But the old boy isn't ready to leave yet.
I had to delete some people from my facebook page. I hate doing this. It seems silly and childish but I can't stand by and watch all the postings about dogs in danger in places like LA. We have lots of dogs in danger right here in BC. Up north there are literally hundreds waiting for some place to go. And even here, there are young healthy dogs piling up at our local animal controls and if the numbers keep going up there are going to be dogs euthanized right under our noses.
If I had foster homes, I could easily pull 2 or 3 really nice dogs from the shelters.