Nox came home today, and so far she she is very sweet and cute ( Read more... )

Today we met a puppy who will potentially be our new puppy. She is a very cute, all black, blue heeler mix.

More to come, stay tuned.

He is gone now. We already miss him dearly. We will love him always.

So we do not forget, this is a list of all the stupid and silly nicknames we've used for Darwin over the years. He pretty much responded to all of them.

( Darwin's nicknames )

Three weeks after the saga where we almost lost him, it looks like his time might be up. The vet has basically suggested that we could keep him going - that he is such a good dog that he'd do anything we asked of him; he would go through and try whatever we wished to try - but to what end? He IS going to get worse, it is only a matter of how ( Read more... )

Darwin is still alive and stable for now. We must quickly leave for Albuquerque. More exposition to come.

The doctor in Durango called us about an hour after we got to sleep last night, at 11:30pm. She said they'd found some kind of plaque around Darwin's pericardium and that she'd scraped it off. She said that that, combined with fluid in the belly was a strong sign of cancer, and it would probably be late-stage, and have developed significantly ( Read more... )

Darwin is in Durango now, and will likely have surgery in the morning. They still don't know what is wrong, exactly. They do know that there was a build-up of non-infected fluid in his abdomen. They think that by opening him up, they can deduce and then fix whatever is wrong. I really hope it's something easy to fix. I know he is in capable ( Read more... )

He was listless and lethargic all morning, so the vet wanted to see him again. Today, his new bloodwork showed a really elevated whitecell count, and other indicators of badness. It's possible that he ate something toxic, but she doesn't know if that's it so far. She's keeping him there for a little bit to give him fluid and stuff. Trying to ( Read more... )

I hope Darwin is okay. Last night, the scariest thing happened since he got loose in the National Monument in Oregon ( Read more... )