Lorrin and Ellee and Tulla and Friends

Today was Lorrin's 14th birthday! Yeah and we all got to go ice skating, to a hotel for the night to swim, and out to lunch. When Ellee visited the girls at the hotel the manager tried to stop her. Amazing in the world today that some people can not get it that SERVICE DOGS are NOT PETS! Oh well....the girls were great FUN! There was Miss Sariah--Ellee met her last summer living on the houseboat (where she learned to water ski!) and she skated very well today--did a DIP. Miss Erin is a new friend and she did EXCELLENT on the ice as this was her first time skating and she even worked on spins!!! I call her Spinner. There was Miss Kalamity who worked very hard on skating and was ALSO BRAVE enough to try my spinaach-artichoke dip. And of course there was the B-Day girl herself, the lovely Miss Lorrin--the great skater with spins, jumps and spirals etc. All the girls were very nice to Ellee and had no problem with her sitting next to them as they ate. THEY ARE GREAT AND I HOPE THAT THEY WILL VOTE FOR RIGHTS FOR THE SERVICE DOG OWNERS WHEN THEY BECOME THE ADULTS RUNNING OUR WORLD==AND THAT WILL BE SOON!!! ELLEE SAYS THANKS FOR ALL THE FUN TODAY---AND FOR ALL THE LOVE!!!

TULLA UPDATE--SHE IS DOING MUCH BETTER. WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET, BUT SHE IS EATING LOTS OF RED MEAT AND DUCK BASED DOG FOOD FOR EXTRA PROTEIN TO MAKE THOSE NEEDED RED BLOOD CELLS! SHE GETS HER BALL OUT AND TRIES TO PLAY SOME BUTG WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP HER QUIET---NEXT WEEK SHE GETS BLOOD CHECKED AGAIN--I WILL UPDATE AGAIN! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WISHES FOR HER RECOVERY!!!

Our TDAA Agility Show

Our club, Clermont Cpunty Dog Training Club, where Marcie is an agility coach, held a Teacup Dog Agility show this weekend. Marcie did the organization and I did the food, Steve and Jake and Emmett ran the obstacles, and we had a judge named Margaret. She is from northern Ohio, has several dogs in her life, and is fantastic and a really nice friend. I made Vegan Potato soup--i had never cooked vegan before and it was pretty good. I made lots of other foods, like a taco bar, but especially desserts! AND There was also LOTS OF DOG GONE FUN!!!!We watched dogs buzz (our Kodi of course!)--on his first run He thought about it a few other times but settled for running the course instead and actually added just a touch of zip to his running that gave him a first over everyone in one event. A FIRST over EVERYONE which was a first for him! Boo had pulled a muscle in her front leg last week and did not get to go to the show in Columbus so she would have had to get 5 qualifiying scores (NO errors and in time) out of 6 runs, which is possible, but we usually figure about half, and she did 3 of the six, so we need 2 more to get the special TACH award. SO we now figure we will either go to the comp in Gahanna or Cincinnati next month. I had hoped Marcie and Boo would win at home, because everyone signs the TACH bar, and they serve a cake with the runner and dogs names on it, and then I was going to take the judge and some people who have known Marcie through all the agility all out to dinner. Becky is one of them, she helped Marcie teach agility classes and is ALWAYS SUPER NICE!!
Even though Boo didn't win there we will TACH at one of the shows on Thanksgiving weekend so it will all work out GO BOO!!









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Tulla Joy and Auto Immune Hemolytic Anemia

On Thursday Tulla was rough housing with the other dfogs and slipped--no big deal as dogs do play--BUT on Friday seemed to be pretty sore and stiff like she had hutt her back..Took her to the vet who did lab work and checked her over pretty good...no serious back injusry but a liver value off and a change in her red blood cell values...She has Auto Immune Hemolytic Anemia... her red blood cells dropped from 53 to 22 in a coupkle weeks...she was exhausted as she was not getting oxygen to her body...and by Monday they were down to 17...she was given an immune suppressant so her bodies white blood cells could stop killing her red ones, then steriods to build her back up--plus fluidss IV and other meds...The moratility ratei s very high and even if she survives--WHICH SHE WILL--she may be on meds for the rest of her life--it is VERY touch and GO right now. THIS IS A DISEASE POODLES ARE PREDISPOSED FOR GETTING ---SO ALL POODLE OWNERS SHOULD BE AWARE! I WILL UPDATE YOU ALL ON THE DISEASE AND TULLA'S PROGRESS LATER--BUT THANK YOU TO MY BOSS WHO WILL ALLOW ME TO BRING HER TO WORK TO HELP KEEP HER SAFE AND COMFORTABLE AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS.