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Ok, as everyone knows by now I freak out when one of my fur-babies has a limp.  Today when Sugar Bear got up he had a slight limp so we walked around for just a little while to see if he has just been sleeping on it wrong.  It gets a little better so I go take a shower, and when I get out he is still limping and does not want to get up.  So it is off to the vets, our normal vet was not in so we had to see the stand in which was ok we have seen him before.  He moved it, pulled it and in general just checks it out.  Thinking that he must have hurt it playing with Dixie he gave us some Meacham which is for pain and inflammation.  He tells that if it is not better in two days he wants to x-ray it.  So we go home and he takes a long nap. While he it sleeping I called his breeder, I wanted to ask about some shows. While we are talking I tell me about Sugar Bears foot that he has a limp and it is sore in the wrist area.  He wants to know if they did an x-ray, and tell me to take him back and get one ASAP.  He even tells me it needs to be done at least by in the morning.  He is worried that that type limp is a sign of cancer in the leg. I just had to ask what we would do if it was cancer and the story was not pretty. So as soon as I hang up I find a vet that can do an x-ray NOW!  We were there within 10 min and the x-ray was done within 20 min.  Everything was OK, he just hurt it playing there, was no sign of the big C.  I am so happy, my big boy is ok. That was one long prayer going on in my head.  Now I need to go buy some hair dye for the ton of extra gray hairs I got today.

Lisa 

Sugar Bear and Dixie gave me 4 books for Christmas. Guess they must have their own amazon account   I just started "Bones would rain from the sky" last night.  I am going to love this book.  Is anyone up for a BPO book of the month club? 

Lisa 

As you will see from the photos we love the gifts.  It was so very sweet.  As soon as I give them the bell cookie, they both ran out the dog door onto the patio to eat them, this is were they like to go with a special treat.  Then it was back in to see if I had more of the yummy cookies.  They had a great time with the paper, and the toys.  Dixie gets the red and great toy because Sugar Bear got one in red and white from Santa last year and he hides it from Dixie because he loves it.  Now she has one of her very own.  And they both love the snowman rope, they pulled on it for a while then Sugar Bear had to shake and kill it, then they pulled on it some more.  They are now sounds asleep with full tummies from the great cookie treats.  Thank you so very much we had a ball.

Lisa

PS.  Don't you just love the fact that they went to play in the lake and mud just before they got the gifts.  Sorry for the dirty babies in the photos.  That is why we had to open in their room. 

cricket36580 and I are working on helping out this big boy who needs a home.  He was put in the drop box at the Summersdale, Al. shelter.  He is around 7-8 years with some broken teeth and skin issues.  I have e-mail Fl. pry rescue.  I hope to be able to go see him on Saturday or if not then the first of next week.  If anyone in the area knows of someone that may be able to offer him a forever home let me know. 

Lisa

Ok, guys we have another call to action.  This is a cross post from Leo on a Great Pyreness board that I am on.  Please read the post and be ready to send tons of e-mail, faxes, and letter in our effort to make sure the killer does not get away free.

Date: Sat Dec 3, 2005  8:40 am
Subject: Please pray for Ranger 

Hello Everyone,

We have had a horrible incident. The last Id written to you, Id lost
Vince, my Weim, due to age. Today is far more hideous. I lost another
dog a few weeks ago. She'd escaped as she is wont to do. Some older
members may recall the story of Abby running under the house and my
foolishly rtying to get Ranger, the Pyr, to help her. In any event,
Abby ran away on Halloween evening. She was gone a few hours and came
back. The next day she started vomitting and shortly afterwards went
into seizures. It was determined that shed been poisoned or
accidentally gotten into anti-freeze. Day before yesterday the smallest
dog, Agnus went out as usual and came back in having gotten some
chicken or turkey (she was carrying it) My ex wife (I no longer live at
the house) took it away and went to bed. Around 3:00 AM Agnus whined to
go out. Nina let her and as she did Ranger bolted out with her. Long
story short, we lost Agnus yesterday. Its obviously the same thing and
the vets are certain at this point that both she and Ranger were
poisoned either with some chemical or anti-freeze. Our assumption is
that whoever did this soaked meet or something in antifreeze and left
it out.

Ranger responded well to ethyl alcohol and after sobering up he seemed
lucid and aware yesterday morning. This morning the vet tells me that
he's deteriorated. The blood levels have gone up and he went into
seizures last night. It doesnt look at all good and Ill be calling at
around 11 to find out the results of new blood work. Please, please
pray for him. He is too beautiful a dog to lose this way.

Thanks

leo
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Hello again,

Ranger was put down about 20 minutes ago. He was surrounded by me, his boy (as
we refer to my step son) and Ginger. He wasnt too lucid as theyd given him
sedatives to control sizures. Im pretty sure he knew it was me. He passed
hearing what a love he was and how wonderful a dog he'd always been. We have the
authorities looking into who ever did this and there is some level of surety
that we have a good clear suspect. the trouble is that even if they find
poisoned food on or near his property, adjacent to ours, that he can always say
"I didnt put it there. Worse still is that most of the evidence has been
ingested. In any event, if anyone knows of any resources available when theres
good clear indicators of the culprit, Id like to know them. Thanks so much for
all of your advise over the years regarding my beautiful boy. I look at having
had him as being a gateway to a larger understanding of the breed. That in turn
brought me to rescue Alli. Shes with me as is Roxie my Jack Russell/Beagle. They
are at least some solice from this nightmare.

Goodbye Ranger, We love you
---------------------------------------------------------------------Hi all,

I cant express how much your words have meant. Its hard to read some of them,
Judith,
Tea and a lot the older members were my introduction to what to expect when I
got
Ranger as a near puppy. If you remember, he found me. Standing in the middle of
the
road as a dumb little puppy. He was so gentle but just wouldnt get out of that
road. later
on I decided that there is a dog network out there and they sit on the sides of
road saying
"okay...here he comes...okay go." They no I'll stop..they know that in my house
theyll be
treated as the wonderful children that they are. Often times Id look at the
silly grin that
Ranger had and think "he's telling the world about how easy i was." Im having a
really hard
time with this and I guess its the fact that really it's been five dogs in 4
months. Vince, my
heart dog, had to be put down when he was 14/15 years old. That was difficult
but
beautiful in its own way as he was a rescue and I know that the 11 years that I
had him he
was my best friend and I his. When it was time, we both knew it and said goodbye
as only
best friends can. Two months before his passing, my groomer asked me to take a
Lhaso
Apso mix that she'd gotten. The pretty little babies daddy had committed suicide
in front
of her and Aunty Steff felt that I was one of the few that could love her enough
to make
the difference. She entered my heart almost immediately and was with me
constantly until
the later part of September. One night after we'd finished rehearsal ahe
accidentally
pressed too hard on her trachia and it collpsed. She died on the way to vets.
Abby was the
first to be poisoned. We had gotten a note (well my ex wife got it. I was away
from the
house about two months before as we are divorcing) saying that "your neighbors
are
concerned about the barking of your dogs, day and night. This is an official
notification
before we take further action." Id not thought much of it as we all know that
Pyrs bark a
little more than other dogs but not anything that was ever happening at night as
all of my
dogs sleep inside the house at night. When Abby got out and ingested whatever
killed her
on Halloween night I thought that maybe the note was something more but more
likely it
was a coincidence. When Ranger and Agnus got sick I thought that it had to be
intentional.
In talking with the police today they pretty much said that they as often as not
didnt find a
corralation to "anonymous" letter like that one was. Im still checking to see if
my ex can
find the letter. In any event it turns out that there is a person not far from
our house
(property adjacent to the neighbors) that had been sighted, fined and forced to
confine his
Rottweiler. His dog was out again not long before Halloween and had been trying
to get to
the neighbors cat and small dog. They neighbors mom told her son to get the bb
gun and
shoot the dog and hed leave the cat alone. I dont agree but some folks go that
route. In
anyevent that lead to the man that owned the Rotti and they having words. The
night that
Ranger and Agnus were poisoned their cat died of the same poisoning. Our
thoughts are
that it may be the Rottis owner my be responsible.

well there, thats all out. im a little better having described the situation
and the recent
history. im still numb, i cant believe that within 4 or five months Ive lost 5
of my babies. I
realize how very fragile they are. Age, a simple thing like a week trachia and
box that a
little dog is looking into pressing against it, a silly spitz running out on
halloween and
finding poisoned meat, two others making the same discovery. Before you get too
harsh
on Nina (my ex) for letting them out at all. She didnt, they ran out the same
way that Abby
had. The lesson here is that we cant protect them perfectly but we have to be on
gaurd.
they are our charges and our responsibility to protect. I only wish id been able
to take
Ranger and Abby when we split. Agnus was Ninas dog. When we split she wanted to
keep
one of the pyrs so that she had a big dog. Alli is terrified of thunderstorms
and so wild
during them that Nina was unable to keep her from damaging the house. Hence I
took Alli
with me. i guess Im a little consoled in knowing that I may well have saved her
life. The
best news is that when I lost Charli, the Lhaso Apso, I immediately got Roxie.
She is a love
and both she and Alli know Im hurting and are being ever so gentle with Daddy. I
can only
hope that all of us learn from this and Ranger, Abby and Agnus' death are a way
for us to
think about how responsible we are for such easily hurt angels.

Thanks for reading all of it if you did. Thanks for being here and most of all
for all the help
Ive gotten here over the years. Maybe Ill post some pictures of Alli and Roxie,
youll see
what loves are trying to heal me.

Leo
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Dixie Darlin -

First Prize - Blue Ribbon - Puppy

Puppy Best of Breed  - Green Ribbon

Reserve Winner - Purpple and White Ribbon

Ok, guys I am so out of it tonight, after the long day I did not even know that Dixie should have moved up into the group puppy today, since she won the Best of Breed puppy.  Guess you live and learn.  I e-mail the breeder (Kim) and she told me this is not given out a lot.  So I guess I will have to learn a lot more about how the ring works.  Anyway it is off to sleep for us, and then back to the show on Sunday.


Lisa

This is a cross post from on of my Pyr boards. Let's see how many faxes we can get into those offices.

Lisa

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Please help!!!!  This happened about 40 miles from here...Please crosspost
far and wide!
>
> Thanks Dana
>
> --------------------------------
>       I need the power of lots of people writing and calling to make sure
justice gets done!
> And I need it fast! Please help me get this campaign off the ground before
it is too late!
>
> In my neighborhood here in peaceful Asheville, NC an man named Eric Davis
broke into my
> colleague's son's house, with the intent of stealing. Instead, he tortured
and cut a beautiful
> Great Pyrenees named Kenya, the family dog. Actually, Kenya belonged to
his little girl
> who is 4 years old. Obviously she doesn't understand what happened at all,
all she knows
> is her best friend isn't around anymore. Kenya's owner is distraught, as
I'm sure we all can
> imagine, especially since he arrived on the scene of the murder within
minutes of it
> occurring and now he replays it in his mind, and he blames himself for not
being a few
> minutes earlier.
> Here's what I need from you all. I know I have written a ton of letters
and emails every time
> one of you has asked. Now I am asking the same. I would like to get a
letter campaign
> going ASAP to the judge and DA who will be prosecuting this sicko. I would
like to put
> pressure on them to throw the book at this guy. He is out on bail
(200.00). I need you to
> work fast though, because his court date is 11/23, next Wednesday.
> My vision is that a flurry of letters and faxes and phone calls come in
from all over the
> country, and that if they know the country is watching this case, they
will act more strictly
> with this murderer.
>
> The judges name and adress is:
>
> Honorable Rebecca Knight
> Buncombe County Courthouse
> 60 Court Plaza
> Asheville, NC 28801-3583
> her phone is:828) 232-2760 her fax is 828 232 2648
> They would NOT give me an email for her!
>
> The DA is :
> Honorable Ronald Moore, DA
> District Attourney's Office
> Prosecutorial District #28
> PO Box 7158
> Asheville, NC 28802
> phone: (828) 232-2500 fax 828 232 2283 (he was very nice when I called so
please be
> polite! i know you guys always are
>
> You can read the full article at
> http://www.topix.net/city/hot-springs-nc
>
> or
>
>
http://citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051105/NEWS01/51104035
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