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Vet visit x 4

Having 15 dogs, I’m sure it’s no surprise to you that we often find ourselves at the vet’s office. This week we had four pups who needed to head to the vet for various reasons…Echo, Melody, Tater and Peanut.

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15Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 1 comment | Continued
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Joining the Pack – Peanut

At the end of 2006, Team Greyhound Racing was closing their kennel in Mobile. I often helped transport hounds from their  Birmingham racing kennel to the SC/NC area, so I offered to help out in any way I could with the Mobile closing. Heather took me up on my offer and I drove the 8 [...]

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8Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 1 comment | Continued
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Speuters for Primo and Tater- done!

Well,  today was Tater’s spay and Primo’s neuter. This is actually the fourth appointment we’ve had for Primo’s snip job…the first time, we completely forgot about the appointment. The second time, his blood didn’t clot in the pre-surgery blood testing so we had to run more blood panels and have them sent to Upstate Vet [...]

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8Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Hey Lady…You missed the turn!!

Since Fishdog Kennels/Team Greyhound Racing left Birmingham Race Course in December of 2008, I thought our days of running down to the track to pick up adoption dogs were pretty much over. Last Saturday, we had one more run. Six Fishdoggies that had been sent to race at Gulf Greyhound were hauled back to Birmingham [...]

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6Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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No Answers for Bodhi

We finally heard back from the vet with test results from Cornell. Unfortunately, they can only tell us what he didn’t die from. It wasn’t Canine Influenza. It wasn’t poison. It wasn’t a trauma or injury. It wasn’t a tick disease. The only thing we know for sure is that his white blood cell count [...]

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5Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 2 comments | Continued