A week in review

I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial day. The weather was perfect and all of us here had some much needed time off. I apologize for the blog not being updated. There has been so much not so good stuff going on here behind the scenes that it has been difficult to find the time. In addition we have been trying some new technological things with the blog (which of course is not working) So please be patient. Besides the tech problems in trying to improve the blog, we came back this week to more disturbing news regarding our extended dog family, as well as employee shake-ups and drama. Within the next few months some employees will be going, some will be staying, and some are undecided about their futures. Not to worry on that front. Our core group remains unchanged and the care your dog receives will be the same Canines Unleashed standard as always. I will see to that myself. As far as the dogs go, we lost another family member with the death of Kobi the 8 yr old Great Dane of Jolee and Mark. Kobi has been a Canines Unleashed family member since 2003. She had a difficult life first living with Wobblers Disease and toward the end Bone Cancer but through it all managed to have a good life too thanks to Jolee and Mark. We all loved Kobi and will miss her terribly. It seems that now that we are in our 8th year, we are having to say good bye way too often to some of our best friends and the frequency to which it has been happening in the past few months have taken a toll on each one of us. Although we know it is inevitable we have not had an easy spring here as far as deaths are concerned and are hoping for a summer drought in that respect. We also found out that Dozer (5 year Old great Dane) who has been sick on and off for weeks and even close to death a few times had another near brush with death over the weekend. He was rushed to the emergency clinic once again. This time he bloated. Great Danes are the number one breed for bloat. There is usually only a small window of opportunity when this happens to get to a doctor in time and undergo surgery to untwist the stomach before the oxygen supply is totally gone and the dog dies. And even if they get to the surgeon in time an overwhelming amount of dogs don't make it through surgery. Thanks to quick thinking and action by Dozer's mom Joni, he underwent emergency surgery and is once again on the mend. This time we hope for good. Although it was major major surgery, we expect him to be back here bouncing around in a few weeks. Okay Dozer, we'll settle for "walking around" at this point. Just get strong and well and come back to us buddy cause we all miss you. To end the week on a good note, today alone we had 4 new dogs and 3 birthdays. We welcome Rosie and Duffy (Westies) , Moose (brindle pit mix) and Kuma (black Lab). Happy Birthday to Tyson R(7 yrs old), Lucie P (3 yrs old) and Shadow P (4 yrs old) I will try to post a couple of pictures from this week tomorrow. Thanks again for your patience during this trying week. Why do the shortest work weeks seem to last the longest ?