Month: August 2010

What is a Cane Corso?

So, can anyone tell me what a Cane Corso is???  For some idiotic reason, my Aunt Gina told my Mom I look like a Cane Corso when my ears are turned back…look at this silly picture my Mom took of me tonight!  Can you tell I’m a tad perturbed??  Mom tells me that Fortis may have some idea about this Cane Corso thing???

Do I really look like a Cane Corso??

Me & Mom went for a great walk tonight…squirrel hunting!   Yeehaw!  I love squirrel hunting!  Look!  I see one now!

I see a squirrel now! Maybe if I just stare at it & not move, it will come down!

And here’s a video of my silly Mom trying to keep up with my Tripawd trot!  Can you hear me laughing under my breath?! 😉  A runner, she is NOT!  Me, I’m a very agile Tripawd(for short spans that is – still can’t handle long walks – boo hoo!) But I do enjoy my walks, even though they are short!  And then after tonight’s walk, I got a massage!  Works like a charm on my remaining back leg that sometimes gets sore from too much hoppin’.

And here’s me taking a break before we head back to the car…there’s my ‘real’ ears!  Much better I say! 😉

Taking a break before we head back home...

And Mom thought she’d try to take a picture of us with her holding the camera…I got in a good kiss for her just as she hit the button…I love my Mom and she loves me…

A kiss for my Mom....

That’s quite the sun in the background………we had a nice walk….now it’s time for a little rest for this Tripawd…

Maggie

Going back in time…

Not sure WHY I’m going back in time, since these times weren’t the best of times for Mags but I found these two photo’s and thought I would add to her blog for the ‘history’ of her life and times as a Tripawd.

This first photo is obviously before amputation.  She had just had her biopsy of her VERY swollen knee the day prior to this photo.  See the swelling on the inside of her knee…that is from the biopsy.  You can also see her muscle is atrophied up on her butt.  It was a VERY long week from the time of the biopsy to the time of amputation.  The day could NOT come soon enough to be rid of that swollen, VERY painful leg.  I guess this photo just reminds me that I DID make the right decision for SURE! By the time her leg got this swollen, she was having a hard time in the yard on grass to get her foot placed correctly and not step on the top of it.  A sad, sad situation…

And this photo was taken in November (surgery was October 20, 2009).  The photo is dated 2007!  My camera acts up on the date printed on it…so now I have it shut off!!!  This was Maggie’s very FIRST walk after her amputation and recouperating from being so sick after surgery for 2 weeks with a low grade fever and not wanting to eat.  This again, proves to me that Maggie’s life now is soooooooo much better!  She’s a happy girl – even if she can’t do all the things she used to…she can, to a degree now AND without that painful leg!

Maggie’s treatments for her soft tissue cancer are as follows:   each meal she gets Transfer Factors, mushrooms, Omega 3 oil, Vertex supplement  for her muscles and Glycoflex III for her joints.  She gets Sempervivum Tectorum LM3, Lapis Albus LM3 and Carc-P 200C+1 homeopathic remedies per her homeopathic vet, Dr. Charles Loops in NC.  These remedies are rotated daily(twice a day) with two of them and then on the 5th day, she gets the Carc-P remedy.  Each time I run out of a remedy, Dr. Loops sends another but increases the strength of it. ( www.charlesloopsdvm.com/ ).

I love my girl and I’m soooooooooo happy she’s still here with me!  She’s been having pretty good times all in all…this was a picture I took of her last week…so I’d say she looks pretty content now 🙂  Sometimes she over does it and she has to have an occasional NSAID but all in all I’m very happy with how things have turned out for her.  Yes, I’d LOVE it if she could do her walks like she used to be able to, for instance, BUT we do what we can do.  We play agility(downscaled for her safety) and rally obedience  or walk  for shorter times and we just love that she’s still here with us and we get to spoil her even MORE than she was already!

So from the first picture of her leg to this last picture of her taking a break after playing for a bit in the water, I’d say she’s a picture of health – well, minus a leg I guess! 😉

Tracy, the very proud Mom of Maggie the STILL AgileCowDog on 3 legs  🙂

Great Afternoon At Camp!

What a great time I had yesterday!  Time for more of my adventurous stories to tell you all!

Me, Mom, Papa and little sister, Haley, drove into my Mom’s dad’s camp to visit with her brother and family that came up from CT.  AND they brought along their new dog, Trooper, a Parson Terrier, that I hadn’t met yet.  My Mom thought things would go OK in that department as I’m pretty used to small white dogs as my Auntie Gina’s dogs are Jack Russell’s and I pretty much ignore them.  Well, apparently, Trooper hasn’t been all that socialized to other dogs and when he saw me and Haley(of course we were barking our fool heads off – we’re good at that!) and he was screaming his lungs off as if we were gonna kill him!!!  Hahaha!  I, on the other hand, thought it was pretty darn funny!  After all, I LOVE to be a Bully ya’ know!  And remember the last time I saw a little white dog it was biting my butt!!!  NOT this time!  I was scaring the crap out Trooper!!  Oh what fun…UNTIL Mom put me in  Jeep Jail cause I was just being, well, too much of a bully!  Oh well…it was fun while it lasted!  I got to chase him twice!!!  Yeehaw!  The second time, he came blasting out of the camp and he didn’t realize I was loose – YES, a Tripawd CAN run!!!  And run fast indeed 🙂

That was just part of the excitement!  Although I think that was the icing on the cake for me for the afternoon!

I got to go chipmunk hunting!  Here’s a picture of me about ready to leap into action!  I like to stalk them and stare at them…and then if they run, I chase them!  Hmmm…can ya’ tell I love a good game of chase! 🙂

Then here’s a not so great video as it’s blurry a bit..but Mom wanted to show my agileness down the steep bank to the Spring hole!  I LOVE to jump into that cold spring!  And then wander around and back up the steep bank!  See Tripawds CAN do anything a Quadpawd can!

And here’s another video of me trying to dislodge an old dead tree trunk!  I think I can!  I think I can!!!  Tripawd Power!

My Mom kept telling me I was gonna be tired last night after my sheenanigan’s…and yeah, I was…but Mom gave me a massage and I was all better after a bit of rest.  Ya’ can’t keep a good Tripawd down for long!

Well, that’s all my adventures for now!  Today, it’s ‘rest day’ for me to recover from yesterday…..so I’ll be snoozin’ in the yard and eatin’ bon bons until another great adventure heads my way!

That’s all from this neck of the woods, ’til next time, keep on hoppin’!

Maggie

Wanna Join My “Bad Dog’s Club”?

Hey all!

It was one gorgeous weekend here in Northern Maine!  Got in lots of laying in the sun, playing with my Mom, walking, riding in the Jeep, eating ice cream and uh…one little b-a-d thingie I’ll tell you about in a bit!

Today, our adventure was to start off with a ride to the next town South and get some ICE CREAM!  Wahoo!  Much to my dismay, this is our FIRST soft serve ice cream of the summer.  I’ve had ice cream at home but soft serve ice cream is THE BEST!  Me and ‘sis ate ours up very quickly!  For some darn reason, Mom wouldn’t share her ice cream with us!  I almost got some licks in but I was  GOOD dog and held back my tongue!

From there, we drove onto a dirt road that goes back to home – rather than going on the ‘paved’ road – we wanted to hit the ‘dirt’ and go for a walk, too, on one of my old stomping grounds roads I haven’t been on since being a Tripawd.  Get a load of me in this photo!  I put my seat belt on for the rocky ride on the woods road!  Ha-ha!  Well, to tell you the truth, I did that by accident – see the seat-belt around my neck?  I can be a tad UN-agile in the Jeep at times and I plopped myself down and that seat-belt got me!

Before Mom let me out of the Jeep, she could see by the look in my eyes, I was gonna be devilish….ya’ know the look…eyes are much brighter and mischievous looking…  So, off we go, on our walk…me loose of course, cause no one wants to keep up with my Tripawd trot when I’m tied and thankfully, they feel badly for me and don’t let the leash go tight to ‘drag me down’…so therefore, I get to be loose!  Yeehaw!  And today, oh, I was feelin’ my oats!  After a bit, I smell something….sniff, sniff, sniff…off the road I go into the ‘bushes’….in the meantime, Mom is yelling at me(and I’m not listening – called selective hearing ya’ know)!  It’s VERY close to bear baiting season and we think there was the start of a hunter’s bear bait in there…the trees were taped off like something down there and my sniffer was going and if I hadn’t finally listened to my Papa to get my keister out of there, I may have found out!So, back onto dirt road and walking along….then my Mom starts running to me…little did I know, she really wanted to grab a hold of my harness before I saw the pickup that was coming at at us!  Now, have no fear everyone, this is a very old dirt road and people that drive on it are driving very slowly, sight seeing like us…but when I saw sight of that truck…yeehaw!  the bad dog in me came out!  Or Guard Dog, whatever you want to call it!  Just before my Mom could get a hold of me, I took off in a Tripawd Blast toward the pick-up!  Again, my ‘selective hearing’ button was turned on and I didn’t hear a THING my Mom said to me!!  I got to the truck and got to show off my guard dog barking capabilities…I’m so mean, ya’ know!  And what do you know, there was a dog in it too!  Oh! Oh! Oh! Over to that window I go to go see and BARK at that dog!  Oh crap…here comes Papa to get a hold of me…dag nabbit…now I’ve been caught and NOW I’m leashed 🙁  Two strikes and I was out of being loose!  Don’t I get another hit before being called out?  Isn’t it supposed to be 3 strikes??

Oh well – I did a good job in scaring that pick-up and dog away!  After Papa chatted with him(he knew him)…they drove off…THERE!  Did my job…gone!  Off my road, I tell ya’!

Here’s a telltale  picture of a very hot me after my run towards that pickup….  Hot? Naw, I’m not hot OR tired!

So, later in the evening, I turned into a “Good Dog” again to make up for my bad moments earlier.  Here’s me and Mom playing agility!  Look at me go!  Running so fast!!!!  I’m a Good Dog, yes I am!!!  (well, sometimes I am 😉

So, if you wanna join my “Bad Dog’s Club”, drop me an email and I’ll send ya’ an application!

‘Til next time, keep on a hoppin’!

Maggie