I'm glad you came back too Tracy because we love talking about Maggie. While her earthly journey is over, the legacy she left behind for Tripawds everywhere will continue forever. Your participation and generous sharing of how you helped her become the ultimate role model of a fit, healthy and happy Tripawd is something we will always be grateful for, she's just helped more dogs than you or we could ever imagine. You have both changed the world for Tripawds all over the planet.

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Awe, thank you soooooooooooo much you guys.  You are the BEST medicine for me.  I am glad to be able to help other tripawd owners in their quest to keep their dogs as fit as possible on three legs.  It was a goal of mine with Maggie after she was amputated and I got that "kick in the butt" from the rehab vet you had on live chat once...her name escapes me at the moment...

Sally, another goal of Maggie's blog was to try to give information that might be helpful to others fighting kidney disease... I am sorry you are having to deal with this terrible disease...the BEST thing you can do is try to keep the phosphorus levels down by diet(and not Science Diet crap to put it bluntly).  Our dogs need QUALITY protein but moderate levels for kidney disease.  Another diet was just posted on a facebook page I'm on re: CRF.  I wished I could of tried this one on Maggie.  But here it is and maybe you can try it and let me know if your senior dog likes it:

From the kitchen of Leah (former CRF Dog Admin)

(This recipe makes a BIG batch of food to last a whole week or more depending on the size of your dog.  Jake was a 68 pound chocolate Lab who ate this diet into his end stages of CRF.)

5-6 Sweet Potatoes

3 cups Cous Cous

1/2 package of frozen Green Beans

1 small Squash

9 Egg Whites

3 Eggs with Yolks

2 pounds raw ground Dark Turkey/Chicken Meat

1 pound raw ground Lamb or Beef (85% lean)

1 can of raw Green Tripe (or frozen chub if you have a source)

Crushed eggshell at 1/2-3/4 tsp per every 2 cups or 1lb of food (to balance Ca:Phos in homemade food) - can add to whole recipe or as served.

**Feel free to change up the meat sources.  You can also add some organ meat such a liver or kidney.

Boil Sweet Potatoes in a pan on stove.  When soft to the touch, remove skins from the sweet potatoes and add potatoes to a blender with some water to puree.  Put these in a very large container (big enough to hold the whole batch of food).  In a separate pan, boil the green beans and squash.  Put those in the blender and puree with some water.  Add this mixture to the big container and stir.  Cook the eggs in a saute pan and add to the big bowl mixture and stir.  Steam the cous cous and add to the big container as well.  Add the raw meat and tripe to the mixture.

**Add 6 tsp. baked powdered eggshell to the container and stir well.

We also added aluminum hydroxide gel powder binder with each meal to control the phosphorus content.  Jake was fed a scoop of this food three times a day and thrived!

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I found a picture of Maggie on my camera last night and I loaded it on my facebook page but I don't know how to load it here   But here is the link:

https://www.fac.....38;theater

It just KILLED me finding this on my camera...that face...I miss Maggie soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.  I know Maggie had a fantastic life...heck, others would of given up on her in 2009 when she was diagnosed with cancer.  But I didn't...she had much more life to go!  I am thankful that she lived to be 13 years and 8 months...but as others have said, it's never enough time....

Love you Maggie, love you VERY much....

Tracy

doggiemomma9 said
Hi Tracy,

For some reason, I just never get to the forums, but decided to poke around today and saw this thread.  Just wanted to say we've been thinking about you and Maggie.  ESPECIALLY now.  I keep telling Brett "don't pull up all the throw rugs" because I recall your comments on how it made you feel.

Maggie was such a great girl.  I recall her first rally run at Wag-It as a tripawd.  Not a dry eye in the house.  Who knew shortly after that, we'd be hopping along after Maggie's footsteps.

You were just a HUGE help to us when we got our diagnosis, and I really cannot thank you enough.

 

This emptiness now...it sucks - in plain English.  Sending warm memories of Maggie and belly rubs to Haley.  You are all in our thoughts.

 

Nancy

xoxo

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Oh Nancy...thanks for checking in on my thread about Maggie when you are having to deal with this, yourself, with the loss of Butchey

Yeah, I would highly suggest not changing anything that was Butchey's right now....let the 'rawness' wear off a bit.  It's been three weeks since Maggie's been gone and it's still pretty raw.  I had thought I would pass Maggie's Ruffwear onto another tripawd in need...but I just CAN'T do it..........can't...  instead it's hanging from a door...with all her white hair on it...she sure could shed...but I can't remove her hair from it either...

And YES this effing sucks bad!!!!!!!!!!!  Many, many MANY hugs to you and Brett.  One of the moments I remember very clearly with Butchey - and I hope I'm remembering that it was him and not Lola - was in a rally run at Wag It, you left him in a sit/stay, then called him to heel but he STAYED and stayed so well where you left him and you did a back dance to him...THAT I will remember so clearly.  What a great memory

You stated on facebook how you couldn't believe how much of a 'following' Butchey had...I didn't want to say it on facebook, among the four legger's...but I can't believe how much of a following that Maggie has had too....I think our Tripawds sure tug at people's heartstrings even more than 4 leggers, given the fact of what they've been thru...   I, too, am in total awe at the amount of people that have sent me condolences about Maggie.  Tripawds TRULY ARE INSPIRATIONS IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD!

Tracy