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Bucketeers
11 July 2016
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I think I would have some Benadryl on hand for Mr. Gator😯
What is he thinking? Bee stings or spaghetti?
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18 October 2009
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Here is the late entry from the pug and the pug mutt.
Tri-pug Maggie survived a 4.5 year mast cell cancer battle only to be lost to oral melanoma.
1999 to 2010
Maggie's Story Amputation and Chemo
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Bucketeers
22 February 2013
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OH MY GOODNESS!!!! Who knew such LITTLE dogs could SLURP SO LOUDLY! 🙂 🙂 🙂 We all know they are the epitome of cuteness, just never knew those riny mouths were masters at slurping! 🙂
And to see Pug Mutt sit so patiently and wait her turn without jumping over and trying to grab Pug's spaghetti is something that would never happen with Myrtle!
And The Pug with his tongue sticking out waiting to slurp more spaghetti down....PRICELESS!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thanks for the fun!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Love to your crew...including Dad 🙂
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
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11 July 2016
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OMC now I understand the Watermelon 🍉eyes 👀
!! Clare will surely be awarding Trophies to Elly & Obie🏆!
TOO cute!
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31 December 2016
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Well we tried....but with no success😫 Sessy seems to want to eat the spaghetti, and tries really hard......unfortunately being a senior dog with no teeth meant that nothing went down her throat......and everything went on the floor🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶😏
Gayle - mom of beautiful greyhound Sessy. Sessy diagnosed with osteosarcoma on 12/26/16, left back leg amputated on 1/2/17. Feline siblings Mooshe, Tinkerdude, Odie and Bean
OMMMMMDDDDDDD: The PUG and PUG MUTT are dining divas! Such patience and concentration. Such woogly eyes (there must be extra points for that!). And STAYING on the mat! That is much like platform divers doing a handstand before diving in the water. I think trophies are on their way:) And, the winning skill? That tongue is PRICELESS!!!! PRICELESS!!!! I am thinking PUG and PUG MUTT will continue to be strong contenders in any future competitions. Well done there, well done!
AND Sessy! There is no reason it has to be REAL food! I would think simply concentrating and looking up with woogly eyes would mean you are a step ahead of us all! You would be competing WITHOUT the food which is a much more advanced level!
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14 February 2016
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The Benadryl comment is timely. Gator has been scratching a lot since he came. Turns out he has chronic skin allergies, probably always has. He just started on a doggy Benadryl and is doing great!
Otis - 106 pound lab/Dane mix, lost his right front leg to osteosarcoma on Febuary 9, 2016. Four rounds of carboplatin completed in April, 2016. Lung mets August 25, 2016. Said goodbye too soon on September 4, 2016. Lost his adopted sister, Tess, suddenly on October 9, 2016. likely due to hemangiosarcoma.
Wherever they are, they are together.
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Bucketeers
11 July 2016
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otisandtess said
The Benadryl comment is timely. Gator has been scratching a lot since he came. Turns out he has chronic skin allergies, probably always has. He just started on a doggy Benadryl and is doing great!
Sorry about the itching might be all the bees he has been eating too! 😉
Bendadryl saves the Gator dual purpose drug! 🎉
I would be less concerned with the bee stings now! Bonus!
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15 December 2015
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Oh my goodness, seriously, it's a medal-winning frenzy, world records smashed right left and centre. The spaghetti eating landscape has been completely redrawn with late entries from the pug/wolf-pug-mutts and elegant veteran, Sessy.
Such grace and poise from Obie and Elly, consummate teamwork, focus, a perfect marriage of style and skill. And Obie, such a characterful performer, with his trademark pink tongue, and Elly, that girl has Superstar shining from her eyes!
🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖
But Lady Sessy, you have won the hearts and admiration of us all! What a champion. Your efforts are truly superb, an inspiration to your many, many admirers across the globe. Lady Sessy, you are hereby awarded the Imaginary Spaghetti Eating Contest (Veteran class) SUPER CHAMPION GOLDEN TROPHY!
Ruby, Staffy, born June 2022, became a Tripawd, November 2023, adopted January 2024.
Also Angel Tripawd Meg (aka The Megastar), who died in April 2023, aged 14, after seven glorious years on three, and Angel Staffies Elsie Pie and Bille. In the pawprints of giants...
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22 February 2013
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YAAAAAAAAAY FOR SESSY!!!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 BRAVO!!!! 🙂 🙂
WELL DONE SWEET SESSY!!! A beautiful Golxen Award for a Beautiful Golden Girl! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Elsie Pie and Meg, you sure do know how to pick a winner! 🙂 🙂
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
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21 May 2016
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WHOOOHOO !!!
Paws up for the puggies ☝🏼🐾🐾
Me and Mickey would love to invite you for dinner 🍽 and have some spaguetti Bolognese 🍜🍜🍜🍜
And, of course, get all other participants and their friends coming and, as we're at it, let's get a barbecue going as well 🍗🍖🍖🍗 and have a ball of a time 🎊🎉💥🍖🍗😎
Who said life is not good on three ????
Woof woof ahrumph umph wooooof 🐮
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
