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Have just read your story. Absolutely brilliant. !!! I've got tears of laughter running down my face. Poor girl, what a cruel mummy you are, and all because she like to wear her bloomers low. There's an age of children that wear their trousers around their ankles, why shouldn't Meg. 
Oooh, you stirrer! Meg saw that. And now she says if I ever try trimming her bloomers again, she's going to jump on a train to St Andrews and go and live with you and Mistletoe... Brace yourselves, that's all I can say!
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...
Well, day 4 of NO Tramidol. She's still not eating normal meal size, but is eating. !! Just wish she was eating bigger meals. Keep telling myself " slowly, slowly".
We've had poo's, but got a solid one today, no need for the watering can. (Can't think of any conversation you would bring that up in, except this site lol. )
Have an appointment this week with a Chinese Herbalist. Have already ordered Artimesinsin, waiting for it's arrival. Lets see what this lady can advise us on.
I think it's time now to leave this forum/topic and start a new one, as we start the next chapter of our journey. Thanks go to all that have given advice, help and support.
Fiona, Jim and Mistletoe
Glad to hear the very lovely Mistletoe is doing SO well.
On peanut butter - I have tried many, many varieties from very, very, organic, minimal ingredient to very commercial PB. And have definitely found with some that the PB gets licked and pill left behind. I think the trick to the Jif Natural is that it binds enough to allow me to basically shape the PB in a spoon into a ball around the pill. It is not goopy at all - especially coming straight out of refrigeration. And I offer up that ball of PB and he takes it - I sort of deliberately place it back on his tongue a bit rather than having him take it off the spoon with tip of tongue...
It does have sugar in it and palm oil - I think palm oil is what binds it so well:
PEANUT BUTTER SPREAD (PEANUTS, SUGAR, PALM OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, MOLASSES), HONEY
No Xylitol which is what you need to be very beware of.
Lisa, Minneapolis
On October 27, 2016, nearly 6 months after amputation, and 18 months since his cancer likely started, we lost Pofi to a recurrence of Soft Tissue Sarcoma in his spine quite suddenly. His canine sister also succumbed to cancer on March 1, 2019 - we lavished her with our love in the interim, but life was never quite the same without her only real canine friend. Cliff kitty had to leave us, too, suddenly, in August 2019. Lucia kitty grieved all these losses, but helped us welcome two new Lurchers into our home and our lives, Shae and Barley.
Looks like we have a UK pawty in the making!!
LOOOOOOOVE the photos of MISTLETOE!!!! Such a big cuddly teddy bear! Look at that face! Want to smooooch it!! Clare, nice of you to post!
Hugs!
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!
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!
ADORABLE pictures what a sweetie pie ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lots of hugs and cuddles to your fluffy 🐾❤️🐶
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 :-)
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