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Date Posted: 21:21:51 01/12/07 Fri
Author: Claudia
Author Host/IP: CPE-65-27-112-157.new.res.rr.com / 65.27.112.157
Subject: Sharing my new boy, too

In mid-November my sweet Lucy Annabel started having trouble breathing. You could see her sides just heaving. Almost immediately she had begun coughing up blood. I had an appointment for her to see the vet on a Wednesday. My husband thought she had pneumonia but after seven years of fostering Boxers for rescue, I knew better. I knew there was a mass in there. She was eating like a champ and didn't have a runny nose or anything. And no temperature. The vet took the xray and sadly, my suspicions were correct. There was a huge mass next to her heart and tons more all over her lungs. My sweet girl was full of cancer. I wanted to wait until my husband could be there, so we escorted her to the bridge the next day. A few years ago Jacke painted a portrait of Lucy for me and it brings me great comfort every time I look at it. I miss her desperately.

I did not expect to fall in love again but knew I'd want another dog eventually. Because a lot of people dump their dogs before Christmas, there was no shortage of dogs coming in over the past few weeks. In December I met a sweet boy named Reed who was being fostered by another volunteer. I thought he might be the boy for me so I transferred him to my home. I fostered him first to make sure he would do well with my daughter. I renamed him Gideon and adopted him on New Year's Day. He was left in a crate by the side of the road near an animal shelter. He weighed just 40 lbs. One foreleg had been broken (and never treated) and several teeth were broken right at the gumline. We can't repair the leg (it had already healed crookedly) but we had four teeth pulled (which probably ended a lot of pain for the poor guy). So, he won't be an Agility dog like my Lucy but I'm hoping to have him certified as a therapy dog.

I'll post some final photos of Lucy in my next post along with some photos of my new furry son!

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