Thursday

Mom went back to the vet's clinic again today with Trooper. his bum is a lot better and healing but he has an abcess on his leg and still had another of those horrible dead bernie flies in one infected mass. We don't really know what you all call these flies in other parts of the world because they don't have them in England where Mom comes from. He has to take more antibiotics and have special spray on his leg. He cannot be vaccinated yet because his immune system is still low and he is still anaemic. Look at his beautiful face.

We all think he is in love with Sam he likes blondes!

Then they kissed

Here is a picture of the magnificent me because you all haven't seen me for a while.

Now the problem of the fat GUGA just look at this slob.

He is constantly stealing food during meal times and is very clever about it. He waits for eveyone to be distracted and then goes for it. If the human watching us goes to answer a telephone then he grabs his opportunity. Mom is going to put him on a diet starting tomorrow. He will not be pleased. Below

are two sleeping street dogs. Mom took a picture of them because they looked so comfortable despite being abandoned in the street.

Tomorrow Mom is guest blogger on www.grouchypuppy.com and we are hoping to get some donations because we are now one month behind with the mortgage and another payment due tomorrow. Three misses and we are out on the streets. So, please think of us we need to survive here until Mom and Dad come up with an idea to generate income.  So they can pay for our costs like they did for the first nine years after they started. They used to go out onto the streets and help others with food and vaccinations etc but now just us are a burden to them. They actually did have the mortgage money then along came Trooper, Sam, Panda and Little One ill as well. That just about did away with it. When dogs are ill what can you do? We need doctors just like humans do. Panda very nearly died.

It is difficult. The accountant has been working on the paperwork for our non profit status and soon he will want some money too! It doesn't matter if it is only one dollar or pound every little helps. We have two castrations to do and both have growths to be removed at the same time pushing up the cost. 

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Who is Scratching the Car?

Last week before Sam got ill mom and dad found out the answer to a mystery here. For a long time dad has been noticing scratches on the car roof. He assumed that Monkeys were responsible for this and was angry about it. I knew the truth and tried to tell him but he just did not understand. Then he thought perhaps it was parrots or even rats. Last week the culprit was caught in the act.

It was bad enough scratching the bonnet but she went one step further.

and then

Look who is scratching the car roof!

So we now have a little blonde monkey here. Mom has to take some of her poop to the vet on Monday to see if they can find out what is wrong with her and do some more tests.  

Panda's Back Today

Panda is responding to treatment. Her red cell cout has gone up and she has just started eating again.Sam and Little One had to be tested too because both of them are showing symtoms of tick disease. The tick seaon is nearly over here. Now mom and dad have another R$500 to pay the vet for Panda and the tests on the other two. They have no money in the bank and hardly any donations. The chip in is giving problems again because it does not accept a decimal point only a comma and there are no instructions when people try. This does not help either. We wonder if many people tried and just gave up although money can be paid direct to paypal as well. Well as mom says 'When it rains it pours'. That is some English expression apparentl. meaning they are all upset, worried and nervous because they have absolutely hit the abyss. Mom's miracle has not occured up to date. She doesn't look quite so hopeful anymore. We just want to see her relax some time and forget all of these problems for a while.  

Panda is ill

Panda has been a bit quiet for a few days we all thought it was because she did not like Trooper, but it was worse than that. She has Ehrlichiosis, which is a form of tick disease. The same disease that killed Riquinho a while back. She is staying at the vets clinic tonight and taking the first injections and is on a drip. She has a low platelet count and anemia. She is quite an old dog so we hope she makes it through. We don't exactly know her age she came here in 2005 pregnant starving and beaten. She arrived in one of our neighbours gardens and wanted to stay in their garage. Unfortunatley it was one of the neighbours who hate dogs.  Mom watched the situation because she was coming into our garden too, so we all barked. Mom asked the neighbor to give her water and she would provide food until a solution could be found. This was too much of a problem for them and on top of the beating she had received prior to being thrown on the streets the neighbour laid into her with a broom. Mom had to take her in.

Anyway she got better from her mal nutrition and has been here ever since. She is a very nervous dog hates bright lights, thunder, loud noises, cameras with flash, and most men. She has been beaten with a belt buckle at some time in her life and the print of the buckle is scarred into her in several places , which probably explains why she is so nervous. She did not have much luck in life until she came here. Due to financial cut backs it has become difficult to treat all the dogs for fleas and ticks. We were being treated with Topline but the fleas became resistent to it. To treat all the dogs here every month with something like Programme or Frontline would cost in the region of R$850 which is around $600 per month. Too much for us now.  
         

Dogs that climb trees

This is Trooper, who could well be a short haired German Pointer, contemplating climbing a tree. We still think his head is a funny shape for a Pointer but anyone with Pointer expertise please feel free to comment. Snout seems a little short (unlike mine) and cheeks a little too wide. The body fits the bill perfectly. 

Here he suddenly had an idea! Why don't I climb that tree after all I see the monkeys here doing it. Then

he did something that none of us has ever done before he climbed the tree just like a monkey.

he was having a really good time and we all wanted to do it too.


The disaster occured he fell out of the big mango tree and hit the rock below. He hurt his leg with a cut and it then swelled up. Fortunately his leg wasn't too bad and did not need a vet. We all decided after that to give tree climbing a miss as a new hobby. Now Dad has decided to cut down the big tree because for a long time he has been worried that if we have a big storm then it will fall on the house and crush it. He will leave it short and able to shoot again. So troopers tree climbing days are numbered.

Well onto Mom she had some type of what she thought was food poisoning all over the weekend and spent a long time in the bathroom. I heard strange noises. I got worried. She stayed in bed all day and me, Jessie and Pebbles stayed there with her. Today Dad is ill with the same symptoms, so it may be a virus. Whatever it was Mom was very ill and could not even eat. Then this morning Mom was a lot better. She has started to eat again and to worry again. Trooper needs a new kennel. He is chewing and digging his way out. The kennel door is wood and old too so it is very weak.The kennel is too small for three dogs. Dad wants to make a big kennel like Tasha's for the three dogs there, so they can run around and then take Sol from the chicken house and put her in the old kennel, which is larger than the chicken house.Still no proper funding appeared here, but Mom still believes it will. What with medical expenses coming up for a few dogs and routine stuff she has worked it out that we need a fortune and will have to pray very hard for help. 

Mom ill all weekend

Mom's been ill all weekend with food poisoning. Will be back soon.

Sam's Haircut

We all got a big shock today. Mom and Dad left the house with Sam. She looked normal at this point we just thought they were taking her to the vet or something becuase she did have cancer a few months ago. We all assumed it was some type of check up. She was gone for about two hours. We heard the car come up the road and I went on top of mom's table again. Just to get a bett view out of the window.  Whoops I scratched it again. She doesn't do much dusting, so it will be a while before she notices. This is what I saw.

We all thought another new dog had arrived. they don't normally come in wearing such awful human perfume. She did not smell like a dog at all. The old man that comes here sometimes asked mom and dad if it was staying and where they should put her because all the kennels and house are full. he then said 'Do you know that dog looks like the same type of dog as that one with Panda and Trooper. Dad said 'It is the very same type'. He laughed and told the old man it was Sam. Panda never recognized her either. She verified it for quite a while with a long smelling session. Anyway we were all pretty disgusted with her new coiffure and perfume. She soon got back to her normal lizzard chasing antics though.

Mom did not really want to cut her hair, but it was beginning to be a problem grooming her. She had not had a haircut since she arrived. Truth is Mom did not want to spend the money on a hair cut and Sam would be very difficult for mom to do it. She would probably end up without an ear or tail! Oh no! mom's coming to check my spelling and now she will know about the table thing. I had better hide quickly.   

Looking Good

Trooper is looking better and his  butt is getting better. He has a growth on his neck and still needs to be neutered. Freddy is in exactly the same position except that his cyst is on his butt. He rubs his butt against the wall and ends up bleeding, so Dr Bruno will have to see them both very soon. Trooper is still taking antibiotics for the holes in his butt, which are slowly closing up. Tomorrow Sam is going for a haircut, so we will post the before and after pictures. Emmy is taking medication now for Giardia too. It has been an expensive month vet and medication wise here. This month Gracie, Trooper, and me all needed treatment. There are quite a few more of us needing attention with cysts, plaque on our teeth.

Trooper and Sam are getting on well, but Panda is not so keen on him. She is an older dog going blind in one eye and wants peace, so we will have to think about what to do for her. Dad wanted to build a new kennel because poor old Sol has been living in the chicken house since Nicki came. She does not complain but it would be good if she had a proper kennel too. Mom dreams of doing everything properly but it is dificult with so many of us. We have the most important thing which is love. So we don't complain-- well not much. We are the lucky ones. Here is Sam again. Just because she is so cute.

Mom entered Sam into a competition for photos of dogs with their tongue out.