Mariah

Well, Mariah went to have her foot checked for the millionth time since her surgery and they decided they wanted to KEEP her overnight! I do not handle that well. She is a dog and I cannot tell her why I abandoned her there! I asked to see her foot which ticked Staci off...big surprise. She brought her out and guess what...I don't think it looks much better than before I spent the now $700 for them to fix it....of course that will go up some more with a night at the vets' office and another wrap!

Poor Mariah!

Nikita's Wish

Side note: Picture is of Cherry...the lovebird I was convinced I should adopt and tame. So far, I have made little progress!


So our little group has kicked butt for almost a year now. 11 months to be exact! We have adopted out 81 animals so far. 42 rats,27 dogs, 10 guinea pigs,5 rabbits,3 cats,2 ferrets and 2 birds!





Quite impressive since we really just have two primary foster homes! We have 3 other homes that have fostered 1 or 2 dogs for us but for the most part it has been just two homes.





We currently have 4 dogs, 2 cats and 1 rat....but we have 2 Greyhounds coming from Kansas this month as well as 5 rats that are being brought to us this week. I have to say I am very impressed with what our TINY group has done!

Dylan

My boy Dylan was diagnosed with acute kidney failure in May of 2006. Now, 2.5 years later we are experiencing our first major set back. Please pray my boy bounces back as well this time!



Dyl roaching on his couch....






















Relaxing with his head on his brudder's butt!



















His bag of fluids!

After he had a dose of fluids.....

Halloween Fun and Animal Updates!

Hannah goes Trick or Treating on Grandma's street!

















Class party!

The Class!

Now that we have showed the fun stuff. Mariah does have malignant melanoma. The vet removed one toe and the tumor. She got all of it and the bone is not affected yet. Her lymph nodes are still good but this kind of cancer is supposed to be a fast spreading one.

Dylan is loosing weight and starting to whine a lot. We are planning to start subq fluids with him again today. It should help him. He has had a few set backs along the way and this one is a bit different and probably a little worse but we have some other things we can do to prolong his life still but......

Barbie (Katelyn's semi feral cat) has a hot spot on her neck and of course treating her had been difficult!

I feel a little like I have been run over by a truck....a few of them actually! My dad's health is getting worse....he is sure that he is dying...and I guess, really, he is, and though I guess nobody is ever "ready" to loose their parents I just don't think it should be his time to go yet! Madison is only 6....she is too young to lose her Grandpa! I am losing two of my dogs and I REALLY need a job or they may repo my dogs before they die! UGH! Poor me! LOL. I know, I have a LOT to be thankful for and I am but....I guess I just want to whine!

Carving Pumpkins or not........

Punk's pumpkin.




















Kayla's finished pumpkin!

Madison as Hannah Montana!

Katelyn's finished pumpkin!















Katelyn's work in progress.......















Kayla prepares her materpiece!














Madison starts the blueprints....












Madison was very excited to carve her pumpkin...the older two appear to have outgrown this practice and have decided to use a sharpie on their pumpkins. :o(

Golden Birthday!

The punk!
There were presents!
And cake....

The outside scene.
Badmitten game!
The food.
Spraying of the hair!
More spraying of the hair.

We officially had the 13th birthday party for Kayla and Katelyn~of course, born on Friday the 13th of 1995!

Dave Doak for Sheriff

Just wanted to say, if you live in Portage County~vote for Dave Doak for sheriff! He is a great guy and Madison is his biggest fan!

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