Our featured photo is from Snowmaggedon, the winter of 2010/2011, I think.
Ruby, the tender Arizona dog was in for her first big winter. The snow didn’t deter her at all. Plowed snow or deep snow, it soon became her favorite thing and she became an expert at making doggy snow angels. in fact, she loves the snow so much, I think there has to be a little Great Pyrenees in that family tree.
Ruby moves slower now. She will be 15 in May. In April 2017 we became alarmed at weight loss, and discovered she had lost 30 pounds due to a tumor in her belly, on the spleen.
She doesn’t like me to post pictures of her now. But I do and I will post some, some day.
We didn’t want to subject her to extreme physical treatments. We wanted to not expose her to demanding physical treatments, rather just celebrate and enjoy her. The vet suggested Chinese herbal medicine, as a palliative, because we wanted her to reach her 13th birthday in May.
Yunnan Baiyao has proven a HUGE success. She’s getting frail, more and more so by the day. But she keeps on keeping on and we will support her the best we can.
She’s our Beauty Dog, and she runs the household with an iron paw.
Deep Thoughts (or Not) 