Pugs......

I was looking through some of my short videos here when Moxy's and Champy's babies were born on a very hot day .....July 8 2010. I cannot believe that I could fit them each in the palm of my hand at that time. I will try to share some of those first videos here, if I can.

I was thinking about each of them and how different thay all are.....Galileo, who, is the biggest, was a touch and go puppy at first, as he was laying in his birth sack next to his brother in another birth sack.....when they were first born, so he was oxygen deprived at first......I caught Gali just in the nick of time.....and he made it......his brother, was already dead in his sack, which was very sad. I did not know at the time, that puppies come out in their own individual little sacks....and if not ripped open, they can drown in the fluids....Moxy was a young 1.5 year old mother at the time, and had no idea.....but after we assisted her with the other 4, she began to get the hang of things very quickly......

I cannot believe I named one of them Bertha, at the time, who is now Winnie......Sage and Shakespeare were adopted out to friends here. I always missed Sage and tried to get her back...no can do.....so I got Winnie, the female one instead here.....

Winnie is the boss...she was the first to open her eyes.....Gali has the best wiggle walk of all and is a sweetheart...Einstein is the cutest and knows it, and he is very manipulative.....lol...look at me attributing each with human qualities....

I will have to upload short videos to photobucket, first, I think....

 

My Einstein being cute, as usual.....

I am still working on getting the videos here....

 

http://vid112.photobucket.com/albums/n171/Heidipainting/004_zpsggh8lb54.mp4

 

This is Jesse. We got him when he was 9 weeks old. He's 11 years old now.

 

http://vid112.photobucket.com/albums/n171/Heidipainting/007_zpsfgcxulp9.mp4

 

Hi, Jesse!

 

Must jog these beasts now.....

I will try to get some a little later videos of them later and share here as well. I was videoing them every day back then......for quite a few months...progression.....lol
I hope the links work here.....

 

I'm bringing "my song" over here to play for Moxy....lol

Moxy is an amazing pug....awesome mother......still she mothers the siblings......She is always happy and good natured and always has a smile and a friendly hello.....She has been a good friend to me and continues to be so.....to Moxy Moo moo.....



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44tYUs20mTE

 

We thought we were going to lose Champy again last night. He collapses after just a few steps, and sat up all night long without sleeping. It was a sad scene here.....after his vet's appointment early today, he is not ready to die...Thank god......but he is getting pneumonia again, so we had to buy a dehumidifer for him and he got a shot and will be on more medications for 2 weeks......That is going to be fun......they are big pills.....which will be cut in many pieces and put in liverwurst, if he eats. He is not interested in food today at all.
He is looking so lost, forlorn and old. I am feeling like that woman with her old husky i see out in the world...who is on his last legs......I feel Champy might not make it another year .......and just hoping he makes it through this one.

 

With the humidifier, Champy is finally laying down and sleeping...YAY
It is set up here where I am now, but will be moved upstairs when Champy goes up there for the night.....

 

Champy's pneoumonia seems to be improving.....and this is only the 3rd day of medication....and reading about this, the literature, says it takes 4 to 5 days to turn the corner. He is still coughing profusely.....but that comes and goes....sometimes, he is not coughing.......He is eating again. The vet gave me a trick to put butter around the pill and put it at the back of his mouth, so that is what I am doing without any trouble. YAY!
Champy is always the most impossile dog to give any pills to, but the butter works wonders, so no liverwurst is needed.

Champy's anal gland at his behind is very impacted, though, and sticks way out......He has always had this problem, but now it is bleeding and leaking other stuff...i walk around here feeling sick...so he has another appointment tonight to see what can be done, as he is not going to the bathroom. They said lancing one other time, but this dog cannot be put under. I am wondering if they can give him a local like a dentist does. We will find out.....tonight.

 

Champy's impacted anus, turns out to be a growth now, that has gotten much bigger. Now, why did they not diagnose this as a growth before......?
Malignant or benign....is the question...but Champy is too old to be put under for any removal operation.......so we live with it and hope for the best. It is bleeding alot right now....and I still do not understand why it is bleeding. They did put their fingers up his anus to se about the stool and said it was soft, so he did go to the bathroom when he got home....but I don't understand why this growth is bleeding so much now, and it's too late to call.

Champy has always been a pug of growths, and he has lived with another one that looks like a huge hang tag. He is 12.5 years now....and to have 14 years with a pug is the high norm, so whatever longer we have with him will be a gift, and he could surprise me yet again, like he did last year when he first collapsed. He almost died then, so with diligent giving him medicine every day for his trachea...and stopping any vigorous exercise with him........and treating him like royalty.....our time with him is already a gift.

It did hurt to hear about the possible cancer.

 

Pugs are silly, silly creatures. Here are my mom's pugs, Alien & Boo..

 

Alien and Boo are very cute, Rainy. I did not know you were akin to pugs, too, by assocation to your mom. Is that your new baby girl, as well? She is adorable and looks like you, already.

Champy has been bleeding all night. I am so glad I cleaned that room, as he would sit or lay anywhere there was not a blanket or pad I kept trying to put under him.
Called vet today, and she said the tumor is so big now, it is breaking the skin, and they aggavated by digging around back there. Wonderful. What I am supposed to do about this now?
It should stop bleeding soon, they say...In the meantime....what?
and now Winnie's side of her face is covered in blood over and over, as she has a scab there she keeps working off with her paw scratching, so scab is almost off, and she keeps bleeding. I cannot get her to stop.
I am not built for this kind of stuff.....blood, pus,vomit, etc....but I still have to do the best I can for these animals here.....
Stan is teary all of the time worried about Champy.....They have bonded alot the past year, with Stan carrying him alot and stuff now.....I told him to stop crying....Champy is still here, and to be normal, as Champy will pick up on the sadness here.....

I have no idea where Winnie's cut and scab came from in the first place. Pugs do horse around and can get rough with each other, at times, is my guess.

Another good tip from the vet came today, though....a teaspoon of olive oil on Champ's food, to keep him going to the bathroom easily.....

 

Humans are one thing...They will stop picking at a scab if you tell them to stop...You can cover wounds with bandages, etc....animals are a different story.....They never keep anything you put on them like a diaper pad, wrappings and they have a way of making things worse by scratching at scabs and things for hours....I am aggravated today, yes.....I feel hopeless and helpless in the face of this stuff......

 

Cats are ok with wounds....they just lick them clean and rest....dogs...forget about it!

 

with 9 milion things to do here in the next 2 weeks, I am not doing them, as I am having to sit on top of animals lately ...I turned my back before for 30 minutes and come back to find Winnie's face full of blood. WTH!
Ok I am running away from home now.....see you......I leave these dogs to the gods......lol

 

My mom was always way ahead of most people's thinkings, and she was always right.... and she always said that cancer has a contagion in it.....well, all I can do is think of that now.....with this tumor that Champy has that could be cancer, and we do not know for sure....and it is busting through the skin and leaking all over....what are the other animals and people possibly being exposed to here? I feel sick today...and I know that is mental with me today.....but I am grossed out and disgusted......I cannot get any straight answers anywhere......so what happens if this tumor that seems to be growing rapidly now just explodes right out of his body?
Risk putting him under for surgery, and possibly never waking up again for him? They cannot do anything about it now, anyway, with his pneumonia.

 

Vet just called....They can fit Winnie in at 3:15......It is their fault anyway for shaving her face there to look at the cut she had....and making it bald.....and the scab is huge!....mostly off now....but tightly hanging on one side......she is trying to work the whole thing off......and it is raw underneath.....they will have to look, and take care of it now.....but a collar is not going to work on her.......I know that already. I swear my life is just one vet appointment after another here.

 

Well, they cut Winnie's scab off, cleaned it out, gave her a shot so it would not itch anymore today, so she would leave it alone....sent her home with pills for 9 days for any infection that may incur, and want to see her next week again.....I don't understand how a small cut, turned into this big mess of a tennis ball diameter sized huge sore......in one week, though. They checked it and said it looked like a bite mark originally...I did not realize the pugs were biting each other that hard here in play....but she looks better now, and her sore seems to be drying out now......Hope she leaves it alone and lets it heal now......

The sad part there was the staff giving condolensces for Champy like a projection of something bad already ahead.....Do they know something I don't?
If this tumor gets bigger, it could keep him from going to the bathroom, and they said something about the quality of life then....but if it were to go there, wouldn't I maybe risk surgery? I don't know. I hope the tumor does not grow anymore. It does seem to be hindering him for bathroom use now....another day of not doing anything but peeing.....here, though, for him....

I'm tired of this now....and need to not think so much about everything......as it is just pushing me and my mood into the ground....Maybe tomorrow I can bounce back.....I hope.