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<DIV> This will probably be long so I hope I don't bore anyone,
I am going to call my Maggie , ( Maggie Wags )on the droll as there is
already a Maggie on the drool. Actually that is her registered name . I
took my Maggie wags to the vets today for her allergy shot and also blood work,
checking her thyroid, any ways she has been limping on and off for over a year
now and the vet just thought she had growing pains, but I noticed that she
favors her right leg all the time and comes up the stairs one foot at a time,
she never uses her left leg, which is bowed out pretty bad, the vet pushed
and pulled on her leg and said he felt a clicking in the shoulder, to make
a long story shorter she has a defect in the shoulder joint , there is a hooked
boney piece that is suppose to be attached to the bone in her leg, her's is free
floating, he said there is a surgical procedure to correct it but he
honestly thinks because her leg is so deformed ( birth defect ) that it
would only make the arthritis accelerate. he told me to give her two baby
aspirin twice a day and try to keep her weight down, he said short walks a
couple times a day to keep the muscles strong . my poor Maggie, she is
only 20 months old and every thing is wrong with her, she is the one who gets
Colitis, she has problems with her anal sacks, severe allergies and now this . I
feel so sorry for her. and she is the best natured Basset I have ever had, just
a sweetheart ! now on to chapter two !</DIV>
<DIV>when I was at the vets today there was a man and his daughter who were
there with eight Newfounland puppies, absolutely beautiful. they had all eight
puppies in a large crate, here is where I have a problem, the man and daughter
came in a pickup truck , no cap on the back but a hard lid, well, when I
took Maggie and Annie out to the car so i could go back in and pay my bill,
I saw this black grated carrier one like you would use to carry
a wheel chair or I suppose maybe bikes, It was a metal grated
platform hooked to his rear bumper, I have seen
these many times and some people will carry coolers or stuff
like that on the grated platform . ( YOU ALL KNOW WHERE I AM GOING WITH
THIS ) yep< they loaded the crate of 8 newfies on the
back of the truck, set it on the grated platform , put
bungy cords on the crate and drove away . am I crazy ????
I couldn't believe what I was seeing , do any of you think this is NORMAL
to transport your puppies in a crate on the back of a pick up truck, what
about them being poisoned from the fumes ( carbon monoxide ) coming
out of the tail pipe ? and when I said something to the vet about it, he
said " oh they just live down the road a mile or two " excuse me,
but around the corner isn't close enough for me, </DIV>
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