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C&H ~ wow, you're my hero!!! Your chowbabies are so lucky to have you!!! I can't imagine what it is like to face so much adversity in the name of your sweet bundles of fur!!!

Good on ya Grrl!!!

How long are you staying in China?

Bear2smom

Eeeewwwww...ticks falling off the ceiling...sounds like plakes on a snane!!! Wudda nightmare!

Emu oil??? I have recently come across those products. Whats the diff?

Interesting...

Bear #1 had something I thought was hot spots that the vet said was a result of diet. Too much meat in the diet...as a base for the food I gave him, and the leftovers he got (thought only mine). Still, it was too much meat and he advised changing the diet to something with less or no meat. I forget ...

ticks have been moving norther and norther every year. Seven years ago, when I first returned to Vermont, they were about 40 miles south of here. Now, they're here. I found one on Bear too...it was on his leg and he had gotten most of it...but I got the rest of it out. I used sulfonamide before I kn...

Salandra ~ This isn't normal aloofness behavior, but running away type of behavior, and difficult to control. Bama ~ Thanks! I will try to find one of those collars. I don't mind that he doesn't want just anyone approaching him...but he is controlling the situation not me. He's not in the least aggr...

Bama! awesome advice!!! ditto ~ a book!!! or you can just stick around here and help us yumons!! Maybe you can help with fear of other humans besides chow alpha female (meaning moi but of course!) ... Bear seems afraid of any human who approaches him or comes towards him...tries to run and hide... H...

Funny you should say that SnG ~ all my friends do a double take when I say "he came like that, that's his NAME" and I'll be dammed if I'm gonna change it...so he's just Bear 2. Interestingly, when I say HIS name, there is nothing about it that I associate with Bear 1. It doesn't even sound...

Yes...isn't he a beauty!!! He's got a bit of charcoal on his back, but he definitely BLACK!!! There's nothing blue about this guy, though I realize that is a figure of speech...if he's in the shadow, its difficult to distinguish his facial features...but sweet face too! And probably the reason you a...

I've posted some pics of Bear in his new home in the Picture Gallery forum...I still don't know how to get them directly on this site, so there is a link...

He is so photogenic and such a ham!

A.

And Bear IS bringing wonderful smiles to my face... we had such a good day together today! T knows already, but we spent a few hours in the car doing my saturday chores, recycling and shopping and such...then home, lunch, the house chores, and then I took him for a lonnnng walk up to the beaver pond...

T - Know that I am crying right now as I write this... I know. I know. You have my address, you can send stuff there. Especially meds, which I guess we didn't get to discuss in the emotion of the moment...should, definitely, and will. I will send pics to you directly, and post them when I can figure...

Well, this is going to be a tough road to hoe... mainly because of the connection between T and Bear...and her family. Bear needs time to adjust without dog thoughts that he is going home with Mommy when she comes to visit this weekend as she wants to do with her daughter... he so obviously misses h...

Hey T ~ You got it! I keep yu posted. Thanks Auddymay...I am a firm believer too that no problem is unfixable, it just needs to be understood, and already, I can see that this sweet thing IS just using his first line of defense, and can unlearn that with a little encouragement and alternatives. I wi...

...and sad for poor T whose heart, and those of the rest of her 'yumon fambly...are utterly devastated, I could tell. What a brave and courageous decision to make in the face of it. Bear is lying down behind me, snorting and panting...he's starting to calm down now after the almost two hour ride nor...

I certainly don't want to get into the middle of anything I or this sweetie might regret...but I'm in Vermont...where are you?

Can we have pics?

Bearsmom

I keep wishing I didn't have heart strings....:( I'm wondering too...I have lots of room but the landlord has said they are selling. Its a PURRFEK place for chows to roam and run AND has room for a couple more building...CHEAP for Vermont...has its own water...pastures, pond and though not off the g...

BOTH my chow mixes were BIG sissies about storms...while Rosie was alive, the mom and MUCH smaller, about 40-50 pounds, she used to climb up onto the bed with me and get as close as she could and WHINE!!! Naturally, this happened in the middle of the night when I was trying to sleep...it didn't have...

I'm so sorry! There is no good way to lose a friend...especially a furry friend! ..this seems especially raw. I lost my Bear in January because he was found to have the big C...I don't know what is better...KNOWing you are going to have to face life with him, or having him go unexpectedly...none of ...

Well I can't come and me no have chow again YET...but I'm so glad to see this happening...I haven't been here that long and was imagining when/if I got one I was looking at, that it would be fun to reunite with the dog that came into the rescue place with him... ...just so all you suthurners know......

Ditto what y'all said...wadda beaut! *s*

Bearsmom

I lived in Alaska for 12/15 years and I KNOW 3-dog nights!!! wow do I! THEN I understood! Think Sam McGee and instead of hell fires, 3, 4, hell, a whole team of dogs to keep you warm!!! There were nights when no matter what kind of building you lived in, three feet from the wall was -30! the further...

My first reaction after I stopped laughing! was that he was showing you who was the Big Dog around there...so, yeah, maybe he was saying, oh yeah? watch this...watch what I can do to you! !! The funny thing is that its almost clown like behavior, benign - FUNNY! I wouldn't want him doing it to a chi...

ohhhhhhh...you are such a sweet mama to do this for her...and WHAT a beauty! Everyone is right ~ her sweetness DOES shine through! She really reminds me of my chow mix, Rosie in her attitude and facial expression...my heart goes out to you both...I am so glad you found one another! Good luck with ev...

I'm glad it worked out! Yahooo! Yes...we expect pics!

Bearsmom