Your pictures look just fine on my end. I am not sure what you are seeing, but everything looks relatively normal. Of the ones you posted, I also have Gebruder Grimm, Ice Cream/Memoire, Ivory Grand, and Old Port. I like to look at Exciting because I am curious about it. I used to have Tequila Sunrise at my other house, but I found it to be a real blackspot magnet. Thanks, as always, for posting.

i am sorry to hear that your dog has ARVC. it sounds like you and i are both going through the same things right now. as i type this in tears my dog bentley sits in the cardiac ICU in columbus, oh. just as leon passes out bentley has also done this 10-15 times in the last two weeks. unfortunately for dogs with ARVC...it is progressive and will ultimately lead to congestive heart failure and death if the animals doesnt die from sudden death first. i have been told that if good control of the arrhythmias is achieved, many dogs can lead relatively normal lives...although significantly shortened lives. they have special diets for dogs with heart disease (royal canin early cardiac EC 22 dog food). these foods are lower in sodium and have several "heart healthy" nutrients and minerals. they also have healthy low sodium treats available. lower sodium helps prevent fluid buildup in the lungs from congestive heart failure which will occur at some point. as far as exercising....it is true that a higher heart rate as with exercising will increase the chance of sudden death due to arrhythmias. however...what kind of life is it if your pet cannot play and enjoy himself....needless to say i would avoid the 5 mile jogs but in my soul searching lately i have decided that if my dog dies suddenly...i want him to die doing something he loves. i know how difficult this is as you and i are living the same nightmare. i cannot control the tears i feel for myself and my dog while typing this..as he is my best friend and i cannot imagine life without him. unfortunately, like you, i am now forced to think of life without him becaue i may not have much time left with him. i hope this message helps you if even a little bit. please reply to me asap if you have any tips that may have helped leons heart function and health as my heart is breaking in west virginia.

The Best and Worse Charities! Interesting Information (Not mentioned in this list but a couple of years ago, the head of the Canadian cancer society was making $650,000. Also, does the Heart & Stroke Foundation and the Cancer Society really need to send a glossy magazine full of pictures to every household? How much of the donated dollars was spent on those magazines which, after a few minutes of being read, go into the recycle bin?) Some interesting stats in this message. The Terry Fox organization Contributes $0.83 for every dollar raised to cancer research. The Canadian Cancer Society $0.22 for every dollar raised. Admin costs for the Terry Fox Run is low because much of the admin costs are taken by many volunteers. $0.17 is used for run promotion and supplies. Every person organizing managing takes all expense other than the run donor sheets and some signage to cover signage that is not recyclable Do you know that the CEO of Shriners�the Imperial Potentate, makes $0.00 per year. How about that for a salary? There are 22 hospitals helping kids in Canada , the USA and in Mexico . His salary is matched by the Provincial Potentates income which is also $0.00 per year. So the next time you see a Shriner in a "Mall" selling whatever, give generously. Ever wonder where that donation money goes? Keep these facts in mind when "donating". As you open your pockets for yet another natural disaster, keep the following facts in mind; we have listed them from the highest (worse paid offender) to the lowest(least paid offender). The worst offender was yet again for the 11th year in a row is, UNICEF - CEO, receives $1,200,000 per year, (plus use of a Rolls Royce for his exclusive use where ever he goes, and an expense account that is rumored to be well over $150,000.) Only pennies from the actual donations goes to the UNICEF cause (less than $0.14 per dollar of income). The second worst offender this year is Marsha J. Evans, President and CEO of the AmericanRedCross... for her salary for the year ending in 2009 was $651,957 plus expenses. Enjoys 6 weeks - fully paid holidays including all related expenses during the holiday trip for her and her husband and kids including 100% fully paid health & dental plan for her and her family, for life. This means out of every dollar they bring in, about $0.39 goes to related charity causes. The third worst offender was again for the 7th time was, Brian Gallagher, President of the United Way receives a $375,000 base salary (U. S.funds),plus so many numerous expense benefits it's hard to keep track as to what it is all worth, including a fully paid lifetime membership for 2 golf courses (1 in Canada , and 1 in the U. S. A. ), 2 luxury vehicles, a yacht club membership, 3 major company gold credit cards for his personal expenses...and so on. This equates to about $0.51 per dollar of income goes to charity causes. Fourth worst offender who was also again in the fourth spot, for every year since this information has been made available from the start 1998is amazingly yet again, World Vision President ( Canada ) receives $300,000 base salary,(plus supplied - a home valued in the $700,000 - $800,000 dollar value range, completely furnished, completely paid all housing expenses, including taxes,water/sewer,telephone/fax, HD/high speed cable, weekly maid service and pool/yard maintenance, fully paid private schooling for his children, upscale automobile and an $55,000 personal expense account for clothing/food,with a $125,000 business expense account). Get this, because it is a "religious based" charity, it pays, little to no taxes, can receive government assistance and does not have to declare where the money goes. Only about $0.52 of earned income per dollar is available for charity causes. Of the sixty some odd "charities" we looked at, the lowest paid President/C.EO/Commissioner) was heading up a charity group in Canada . We found, believe it or not, it was... Ready for this... I think you might be surprised... It is none other than... The Salvation Army's Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 Billion dollar organization. Which means about $0.93 per dollar earned,is readily available and goes back out to local charity causes... truly amazing��and well done "Sally Anne". No further comment is necessary..."Think Twice" before you give to your Charity of choice as to which one really does the best for the most or the least for the most, for that matter. Remember charity starts at home. Let's look after the people of this country. 99% of people probably won't forward this.I just did! It is better to be informed than not!!!

Don't feel bad. I can out-stupid that. My house has the wired smoke alarms with the battery backup, but I didn't know that. I have high ceilings and it's hard to reach the smoke detectors so I had dh check them for batteries. He couldn't find them and so we decided we didn't have any. One day, my smoke alarms started going off in some weird manner where they were going off periodically around the house. It wasn't a beep. We never got that. We got actual alarms. I gathered the pets and my one child who was home and called the non-911 number for the fire department. Except, this is a rather large area and I called a fire department that isn't mine. The gentleman I spoke to recommended I call 911 and have them send a truck over to check it out. I called and tried to make it clear I didn't have a fire, I got a ladder truck with lights and sirens. It turned left instead of right when it came into the neighborhood so it had to circle around this whole section of the neighborhood. So the neighbors were all alerted. The elementary school bus came by right after the truck got here so those kids and their parents all saw. My dd was on the bus and she was scared our house was on fire. The firefighters got in here. We found out that we did indeed have batteries and one had gone out. No beeping, but apparently the alarm is the second backup. The fire fighters left and I walked outside to several neighbors. I had to admit the fire truck was called because of a dead battery. On the bright side, these are all newer houses and now everyone knows we have battery backup and we know the fire station across the street isn't ours.