I'll be thinking good thoughts her way. Sarah the Sheltie had to see the vet for a fractured tooth last week and ended up having some pretty major dental work done before it was all over. Very expensive, but she's OK and feeling fine. Wishing Penny as very speedy recovery also!

sorry the pic is fuzzy, she was moving fast! She keeps very busy eating (but still no yogurt; vickie's family must not be the only non-yogurt-eating critters!), playing, & sleeping. & growing: She likes to sit in my lap while I'm at the computer, & she's already so long that I have to sit on one edge so her back end can rest on the other side of the chair!

I am so glad I didn't get this email from her before Austin got better. I would have had a nervous breakdown! This little guy has it alot worse than Autin. Austin is coming home tomorrow. We thought he would come home today but his back was still tender in one spot and the doctor wanted to keep an eye on it for one more day. They had to re-do his IV last night and now it's in his arm with a board taped to it so it's stiff. He can't bend his little arm and he is mad about it! I can't wait for tomorrow when he is home!

Oh poor guy!... On the subject of eating things, my granddaughter's orange tabby cat, Gary... he ate an entire package of 25 new hair ties. In the X-ray's his intestines looked like a braided rope. We forked out the 1200 for surgery and he recovered great. Then 2 years later he somehow got up under our daughter's sewing machine, pulled out and ate an entire bobbin of black thread so back for more surgery. They had to take his entire intestines out and lay them out on the table, 12 feet of intestines they said. They had to make small incisions every few inches, snip and pull the thread out. When they got up close to his stomach the last bit wouldn't come out. They looked in his mouth and it was wrapped around the base of his tongue. That surgery took a while to get over. He must of learned his lesson as that was the last of his eating things he shouldn't, that we know of anyway. But... this spring he somehow contacted a fungus infection in his lungs and didn't make it... after a couple more thousand dollars in trying to save him....