I haven't posted much lately. As you may know we had put Gilly to sleep a few weeks ago. I still hear her around the house. Sometimes it's the click clack of her nails on the hardwood floor. Sometimes it sounds like she's knocked something over or was in some other kind of mischief. As I called her to me, I realized she was gone of course. We are ( Read more... )

I first laid eyes on Gilly on the Internet. My service dog, Klipper, had died several months earlier. We hadn't actually decided we would have another dog. I knew I wouldn't want another service dog. It's a lot of work having a service dog much more than having a regular pet dog. I felt that I was constantly on a publicity tour with Klipper and my ( Read more... )

It's been quite a week for us. My morning attendant, Stacy has been suffering from some serious pain. She had it before and we thought it had been taken care of, but she ended up in the hospital last week. So we've been struggling without her. She returned home a couple days ago, but she just called and it looks like we'll have to go another week ( Read more... )

We took Gilly to the veterinarian in Marin County again yesterday. She needed two of her large canines filed down because her jaw never straightened out. The canines keep scratching the interior of her mouth. She also needed a root canal on one of the other teeth. So the root canal went well. She got her teeth cleaned, but the teeth didn't get ( Read more... )

She was supposed to be home today, but she started bleeding. There is a blood clotting deficiency that runs in Doberman's. We did test for the problem before the operation but evidently that test sometimes isn't comprehensive. She will be in the hospital at least one more day. They're giving her a blood transfusion with extra clotting factor to ( Read more... )