Another Update and Thank you

First, I want to send out many thanks again to everyone who has sent thoughts and prayers our way. It really makes a difference :) It is comforting to know that similar situations have happened to some of you, and I hope all of your cases turned out ok! Some of the stories left in the comments were very heartwarming and uplifting.
And I wouldn't have received as many thoughts/stories/wishes without Life With Dogs !!! They gave Pooches For Peace the Gold Hyrant Award and sent over their readers to wish Shadow well. If anyone reading this hasn't checked out this humor-filled and fun blog, do it now! LOL OOOOOOHhhhh, look at it's shinyness:



THANKS SO MUCH !! And sorry to hear that Sola went through a re-spay :(

To those of you who said your dogs had a re-spay or that part of the ovary wasn't taken out, did they just go back in and basically search until they found the tissue, or...how did that situation go?

And now for another update on Shadow..

She seems to be doing better so far although the bizarre false pregnancy behavior is still there. She also is whining a lot when we let her out of her cage- I think it's just a mix of her hormones/energy built up because she can't do anything/ confusion going on, because she only does it when we first let her out of her cage. We have strict orders from the vet to keep her in her cage as much as possible, so I'm sure she's bored. She goes back next Saturday to get her staples out so they should be able to tell us if everything looks like it's healing ok. She's been eating good...that is, if she doesn't have her e collar (cone head collar) on... She's not a fan of the collar at all. Here are a few pics of her with the flamingo before I was instructed to keep it from her. Part of me wonders if she's also whining because she can't find it.

Are youuu my baby weird pink thing?

Yes, I think you are.



I didn't get any picture of her "coddling" it, but she kept putting it up against her belly and under her chin and cuddling it between her leg and chin. It was so cute and sad at the same time.

(And yes, I stole Spud's blue collar from him for now.. hehehe)

Oh...and Kado wanted to say hi. Don't mind that drop of water between his eyes...he had just come up for air from the toilet...

Thinking of Shadow...

Hey All. Shadow got spayed last Friday and all seemed well at first. Then we noticed a bulge/swelling around the incision and got a little worried. Then she started treating her pink flamingo stuffie like a puppy and her nipples started getting bigger....
So we took her to the vet today and they did X-Rays. It looks as though her internal stiches have come loose and her intestines are coming through the body cavity wall so they're pretty much sitting on the inside of her skin. Also, she's going through ANOTHER false pregnancy and starting to produce milk which means there may be a minute amount of ovary tissue that they missed, or the false pregnancy hormones starting being produced before the spay. She's staying overnight at the vet tonight and will have surgery tomorrow. I feel like I'm going to be sick, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers(if you do that sort of thing :) )