Canine Cancer

Thirteen Sleepovers and 7,000 Tiny Goodbyes When you walk along Branford’s Stoney Creek Trolley trail, you come upon an old railroad trestle that carries you over changing, murky-green tidal waters. The towering, rust-red structure, built to support the trains that once thundered along Connecticut’s coast, has swapped its sturdy rails for a narrow footpath of faded…

Tuesday 11 August 8.30 am. 32 degrees C. Another COVID19 car park exchange at the vets…. 16.30 pm. Still 32 degrees C. Patient returned to car park wobbly with two fewer but extremely clean teeth Job done. Results awaited…. Friday 14 August Post op check. Fergus doing well. Teeth healing…

“The test came back from the lab. It’s positive for Lymphoma.” Right before my girlfriend and I moved into our new apartment, our dog Charlotte went into surgery. She had to have a polyp removed that was causing her to have blood in her stool. The surgery went well, and we had the polyp sent off to a lab to test…

Miraculous New Ways To Fight This Deadly epidemic — By Katy Cable, TWR A 5-Minute Read That May Save Your Dog’s Life Each morning I begin my day by swirling a heaping tablespoon coconut oil in my cappuccino. The next hour plus is spent answering emails and checking my social media threads. Each day my heart breaks and my…

“It’s cancer.” My vet said to me over the phone, and everything else muddled deep into the distance. My head was swirling, I was alone and couldn’t feel my fingers. My breath, halted in the exact place I left it before the phone call. The wooshing sounds of underwater submergence…