Zombie sighten witten in blue

 While on pawtrol yesterday I waz minden my own buzinezz juzt looken fur Zombiez ob any kind, (Hoomen, Rattoon, Gofer or Kat)....I tole Mom and sissy tu stay where dey were cuz I sawed sompen stwange and didn'tz wantz dem tu follow me until I checked it outz. I continued up our woad and stopped at da neighbur's fence and dere it waz. I didn't knowz what it waz at furst until I looked in my Zombie manuel.

 Yep dere it waz...I wentz tu da page in my Zombie manuel dat showed all da stupid Zombie atire, costums, uniformz etc and founded out dat dis waz a Zombie war dance helmet. Wow wee! I looked awound and didz not see any Zombiez so all waz clear.

I waz very alert, standen tall andz wentz in fur a clozer look. Sure enough I verified it wiffs my Zombie manuel! I looked awound againz maken sure all waz clear and it waz so I called Mom and sissy Pickie tu me and showed dem what I had founded left behind by a stupid Zombie....now it's mine! A Zombie trophey! 

Mom said I culd hang it up andz display it in da livenroom, she waz cool wiffs dat, (she's like dis all da time...cool Mom)....Sissy took a sniff ob da Zombie helment, Mom looked at it weally close tu make sure dere waz no germz on it, she smelled it tu andz said we'd habe tu washez it, I said otay and away we wentz back tu our houze.

Da End!

Frisbee Bradley....da....WuNdEr WeStIe ober and outz!

My special fwiend Bonnie da Westie's story

My special fwiend Bonnie da Westie's story

I fort yoo mite be intrested in readin my story. So here it is. My life haz been up and down like a rollercoaster but me muvva's always bin dere for me and always will be. I loves me mum.

Muvva was lukin for a doggy to keep her old collie Midge company and in prepurashon for wen Midge went over the Rainbow Bridge, as Midge was then 15 yrs old. So when she saw a litter of West Highland puppies for sale nearby she made an appointment to go and see dem.

It was a typical mucky farm but da kitchen woz warm and da lady seemed qwite frendly. She brort 2 puppies out for mum to see. Me an me sisfur who was half da size of me. I wanted to get out of dere pronto so me rushed ova to ware mum woz sitting an grabbed her bag and dragged it under da table. Mum fort dat woz cute, I woz just lookin for a bus ticket or sumfin in da bag to get away.

Anyway, mum decided to choose me, and paid da lady who gave mum a hand ritten pedigree wot looked very amachurish to mum but she didnt mind she juz wanted me as a pet. Da lady told mum I'd got upset tum and explodin bum as she was puttin me in da car.

Wot muvva didnt realise at dat time woz it woz a puppy farm. Da woman had lots of diffrunt doggies in barns round da farm. She glimpsed sum as she woz leavin da farm and wen we got home she reported da place to da RSPCA but dey neva did nuffin, and da woman still selling pups to dis day. A few munfs later wen me woz well enuff to go out on da lead mum met a lady wif a Westie and it turned out it woz me sisfur from my litter. She and me woz da only 2 dat survived from our litter, all da ovvers died of Giardia. Evduntly sisfur Westie, Holly she called, well her mum was gonna take her back an dats wen she found out all our siblings had died. So she changed her mind and took her home agen. I not sure if she still alive now, dat woz 6yrs ago. I hope she is.

Back to me story, mum took me strayt home to meet sisfur Midge who had stayed at home. That nite me wasn't very well. I woz in lot of pain and had exploding bum most of da night. So in da mornin mum took me to vets for a checkup.

Dey fort I had Parvo Virus, and took several samples of me poo and blood and evfurryfing and mum brort me home agen. Vet said we had to wait for results. Mum had to call vet out in da night as me got wurse and I woz given more tablits and mum told to keep me warm and take me back to vet in morning.

Dis went on for couple of weeks. Backwards and furwards to vet. Woznt Parvo but vet woznt sure wot it woz. Me woz getting sicker an sicker and fading fast and mum was in a rite state. I almost died several times it was a terruble time.

Evenchully vet discovered it woz Giardia. Now dats a little microscopic critter wot lives between da lining of da stomach and da stomach walls, hidden under da mucus stuff. And it don't hatch out regularly so iz difficult to diagonose or so vet told mum. All I know woz I almost got me wings.

Evenchully wif lots of meds and visits to da vets and lots of love from muvva, me got better, but me woz never da same after. Sensitive tum mainly.

I also suffered from regular urinary tract infecshons and in 2012 I had bladder stones. So had to have dem treated. I've neva bin able to hold meself ova nite, and always had to haf puppy pads put down so me cud get up and pee at least once ushually more evfurry nite. Mum didnt mind cuz she loved me. So was no bovva to put a few pads down by side of bed.

December 2012 weren't a good year. I woznt too bad just da usual wee infecshons, exploding bums and Westie wind. But me poor sisfur Midge woz goin downhill fast. She was 17 yrs old, almost blind, senile and occasionally incontinet, and not too good on her legs, she kept falling ova. Den one day, 2 weeks afore chrismuss her front paw curled unda and she cudn't walk properly. We woz all in da lounge I woz wotchin TV and Midge went and sat infront of mum wif her head on mum's knee. She woz telling mum she'd had enuff and woz reddy to go over da Bridge. See we can all talk to each ovva here, and muvva knows wot we want. Next day vet lady came and I had to stay in da lounge wif da kittehs while dey saw to Midge. Dey was very gentle and kind and mum held Midge da whole time. She went over da Bridge so peaceful, it woz bootiful. No fur cud wish for a nicer passing. Mum got Midge's ashes back a few days before Chrismuss eve and we lighted a candle next to her casket over da Chrismuss, as we duz evfurry year since. I did miss me sisfur and I still do. But I got me furbro Mojo now and me so glad me haz got him cuz us blind dogs needs a companion to help us.

Me an Midge
In 2013 I had upset explodin bum agen, dis time due to an infecshon in me gums, and got vewy thin, as well as me urinary problums. So was ill for a long time wiv dat, and wen me was almost better I came into season and had a phantom pregnancy. It woz one fing afta anuvver.

It took all me mums savings to pay da vet and she made some hooge sacrifices to make sure me got da treatment me needed.

During me phantom pregancy I even had milk. I dunt do fings by halves pals. But while me had all dat going on I also got infecshon in me uterus so vet said as soon as me woz well enuff me had to go in and be spayed. I hadn't bin before cuz of me weak bladder and vet fort it wud make dat wurse, but now dere was no choice.

So I was spayed. Dats ware me famuss nickers originayted.

Me sexy nickkurs - dey acshully vet vest for afta operashons etc

I got better from all dat but woz a long slow recovery as yoo can imagine.

Anyways, fings were goin along ok and we moved house in July 2014. Mum woz worried I wudn't be well enough but me woz.

A couple of munfs after moovin I was poorly agen wif anuvva unrinary tract infecshon and da vet found I had crystals in me bladder agen, but no stones dis time. So I went bak on da speshul diet to dissolve dem and dey went away.

Mum noticed around dis time me was barkin a bit more and couldn't jump up on da sofa or bed by meself. And I was also easily startled. I also started drinking a lot, and I meanz a lot, and coz I woz drinkin a lot I was also peeing a lot too. Every half hour, day and nite. Even haffin accidents in da house which I neva dun before.

So mum took me for a Cushings test but it woz clear. I woz given antibiotics and told it wud clear up. It didn't. Den me sight got worse and I woz bumpin into fings, although me eyes still looked normal, dark brown and healthy. So mum took me back agen to vet and was referred to da vets eye expert at Bude, Cornwall. It was a long way from our new house but mum didnt want to change me vets at this point, and fort it best to stay wif same one til me health woz sorted out.

So we attended da appointment at Bude, it took an hour to get dere from home. Da eye vet examined me and told mum he suspected I'd got SARDS and explained wot it is and how it affects me. Dere's a page all about it on me blog so just click da tab to find out.

Da eye vet sed he wud refer me to a opthalmic specialist and an appointment woz made. The opthalmic specialist Mr Jim Carter, had his clinic at Newton Abbot, which woz even furva away from home. Da eye vet sed I needed an ERG wich wud be very very expensive.

Mum woz distrort. She had no money for an expensive specialist, and she had nuffin to sell to raise money eitha. She cried a lot dat nite. She tried not to let me see or hear, but I did. It didn't upset me cos of me illness it upset me cus I fink I got da best mum in da werld and she wood moov mountains to help all us fur babies, and has always helped evfurryone else she cud one way or annova.

A Twitter fwend suggested she start up a youcaring page to ask for help wif my vet bills. Mum sed she cudn't do dat cus it like begging and she too proud to beg. But Twitter fwend sed as we had dun so much for ovvers and raised so much money for charity in da past people wud want to help us. So mum made a youcaring page and asked peepul to help explaining wot for and why we needed it.

We woz amazed by peepuls generosity and kindness, and mum woz cryin agen den, cuz she cudn't believe how wondfurful evfurryone woz to us. So now she had no worries about takin me to da specialist Mr Carter.

So anyways, mum and a lovely Twitter fwend took me up to see Mr Carter and dey had to leave me dere for a few hours to haf speshul tests and be sedated and all dat stuff. I fink dey went off and had lunch at some beach cafe and enjoyed demselves pffftt.

Wen mum came to collect me, she woz told me definittly had SARDS and dere was no cure for it. I'd had to have an electroretinogram fingie wich is electrodes on me eyeballs to record da level of reaction to lights and stuff.

Mr Carter sed me readin flatlined wich meant dere was very little sight left in me eyes. He also sed he wanted mum to arrange for me to haf anovva Cushings test as a lot of dogs wif SARDS also haf Cushings. Mum paid da bill and a follow up appointment woz made for February.

In da meantime, me sight got wurse. By the time I went for me Cushings test I woz totally blind. Mum had scoured internet in hope of finding something to help, and found Dr Plechner in America who said he could cure SARDS dogs, but it was too late for me, my sight was alreddy gone.

I had me Cushings test and it woz positive. So now me had SARDS and Cushings. Not a good prognosis. Most dogs wif Cushings only live 6 to 12 mths after diagnosis wif no treatment, and wif treatment up to 3 or 4yrs from diagnosis. But the treatment is expensive. Regular ACTH tests to measure da amount of cortisol in bloodstream, as Cushings makes yoo produce too much, and da medication is rilly expensive.

I was started on a very low dose of medication, 30mg as too high a dose can kill a dog. Then 14 days after I had to have anovva ACTH test and my levels woz still too high, but vet said another test in 4 weeks to double check before increasing the dose.

Ov corse as da dose goes up so duz da cost. And da ACTH tests int cheap either. Almost £100 a time.

I had me checkup wiv Mr Carter at a local vets ware he holds a 2 wkly clinic for just checkups, no treatments, and he did a few tests and sed me woz now 100% totally blind, and wants to see me in 6mths for anuvva checkup, to see if da retinal cells dat are no longer in use are causing any problems, as eviduntly as dey break down and dissolve into me body dey can cause an infecshon inside me eyes. So he wants to keep an eye on dat every so often.

So dats ware me is at da moment. Vets tryin to get me on rite dose to control da symptoms of me Cushings, wivout killing me or makin me ill.

Once dat all sorted out, muvva is gonna register me at a local vets, ware Mr Carter holds a 2 weekly clinic just for checkups (can't do nuffin dere as he not got specialist equipment dere). Da vets is recommended and is only 15mins away from home, so shud dere be an emergency wif me due to da meds or Cushings, mum can get me dere quickly rava dan drive for an hour to get me to da Devon vets.

Me is so dependant on me pals to help muvva cover da cost of me vets bills. If eva da fund runs out, dat wud mean no more meds or treatment or checkups for me, and mum wud haf to fink about sending me over da Rainbow Bridge, and me not reddy to go dere yet pals.

That is me story.

Lukin on da bright side, I fink fings happen for a reason, and if me can help wif advice or informashon for any furs dat find demselves wif SARDS or Cushings den I will. And da idea of dis blog is for mum to put fings here so people can find dem like ware to get halo coats, or anyfing dat will make life easier.

We mite not haf as long as most furs but we must make each day count, and live it like its our last, and help and love all furs ware eva dey be.

I love you my fwends

Bonnie
xoxoxoxo

Bonnie da Westie's update as of 3/6/15fh

Update

03/06/2015

by H Case It's a luffley day agen here in Cornwall, da sun iz shinin an da burds iz singin.

We iz off to Devon lunchtime to collect me meds and say farewell to Sally da Vet and all at Penbode Pets, as me will be registerin wif da new vet nearer home dis munf. Gonna be sad day.

I haz been ok on me 30mg dose of Vetoryl so as yoo know bein kept on dat now til next test. Although me iz gettin mum up 2 or 3 times a night to go out for a wee. But muvva an vet not sure if dats da Cushings makin me do it or cuz me always had weak bladder. Its da only fing dats still da same as before so itz hard to tell.  Will juz haf to wait and see.

As most of yoo know itz Crufts Dog Show dis week and it on Channel 4 and 4OD all week. Crufts haf dere own live streamin youTube channel ware yoo can wotch evfurryfing as it happens. We juz bin wotching da agility.

Here's da link
<center><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYxr4rHEKA>WATCH CRUFTS LIVE</a></center>

We likes to wotch da Flyball competishon more dan da breed competishons cuz it more fun. I can't see it dis year cus me blind, but I still enjoy listenin to ovver doggies haffin fun and join in wif da barkin. BOL

Mum likes to wotch Crufts evfurry night it on TV but it neva advertised propply, not like football or anyfin else. Not sure why, but it's always bin da same. And so it hit an miss if we sees it. I spose da televishon producers dunt fink enuff peepul is intrested in it. Pfffttt Shame on dem!

Before we goes out lunchtime, we iz goin in da garden wif mum, cuz she gotta plant a cherry tree wot bin in a pot for 3yrs, dat gonna be fun! An she got a Magnolia tree to plant too, dats bin in pot just as long, but not so big as cherry tree. We just gonna sit on da grass and listen to da cursin and huffin and puffin goin on Bahahahaha

Well pals dats all for now, me will rite anovva update fingie when we get back from da vets tday.

Haf a soopa Friday and keep safe!

Bonnie
xoxoxoxo

Neighburhood Zombie HQ Zombies destwoyed

Otay it's Monday Marchie 2nds, 2015. Frisbee Bradley is goen in wiffouts backups tu hunt downs da Zombies. I slowly *heart beaten* quept closur and closur tu whut I finks is da neighburhood Zombie HQ. I quept, non shontley awound so da Zombies wuldn'ts notice me was dere...Dis was my target...da yellow builden..I quept closur and closur now on my belly, *hits Gofer on head twying tu bite me* qualing and qualing on my belly I gots closur. I was almost tu da window, *heart beaten strong, paws swetty*....I was finally dere ands I culd hear voices, sounded more likes gwouls ands slobberen but I culd hear dem...Didn'ts sounds like a lot's but I hads tu make sure dey were Zombies....wiffs my Zombie Smasher in hand I cwalled up tu da window ons da side ob da builden.....I was on my two legs now sticken very close tu da builden, *sucked up tu builden*.....I culdn'ts see in da window cuz I is shortter dan a Zombie or Gweat Dane....I needed sompen tu stands on, *looks awound* den I sawed it....it waz a wound ob wood dat was abouts 2 feets tall..*purfect I sayed*....I ever so quietly wolled da wound ob wood closur tu me maken sure I was not detected..*stupped paw fingur*...wiffs my heart pounden and da adrellanen runnen, *wipes brows*...I kept on wollen da wound ob wood untils I gots it wight under da window...I was at a purfect height ands culdn't be detectad by whateber was in da builden....I got ever so quietly ups on da wound ob wood and got ups on top ob it, *wobbling a littlie bit*...I looked in and confurmend my suspesiens...dere were Zombies in da builden...*heart pounden*....I still hads a gwip on my Zombie Smasher den wealized Mom had sents me outs wiffs one ob her Hoomen Fart Bombs she made, *rolling eyes at Mom's envention*....I kept on looken *spying now wiffs opera glasses* and tu my surprise dere was a Genwal Zombie wiffs twu surgents...dey were looken ats a map ob my neighburhood....Slobberen and maken all kinds of nasty noises I culd makes out dat dey were plannen on attacken my good neighbur's houze dat dey tooks ober da yellow builden frum...*mad as hell* I had tu du sompen and wight now....I looked awound ands saw dat dere was a big vent on tops ob da woof...*light bulb went offs*  I wuld quietly quall up on da woof and drops down one of my Hooman Fart Bombs I had...it wuld suffocates dem and dey wuld die...dat way it wuld not hurts da builden so da neighbur wuldn'ts suffer a loss....I qualled down frum da wound piece of wood and sticken close tu da builden..*hear pounding, paws sweaten* I quept awound tu da back ob da builden where dere was no window....I stood dere, my body sucked up tu da builden wonderen how I was going tu gets on tops ob da woof when I wemembered! Da last fing Mom tole me before I lefts fur pawtrol was not tu forgets my galashias wiffs da suckshion cups on dem, (she hads dem special mades just fur dis cituation).....I quickly tooks dem outs of my field pack, (dat's on my back), put dem on and was weady tu scale da wall tu da woof.  I scalled da wall very quietly, (stupid Zombies didn'ts eben heared me)....I finally gots tu da woof, *sigh ob welief* and gots my Hooman Fart Bomb outs of my back pack...I had free wiffs me, (Mom's are gweat!) ands decided tu use twu. I ever so quietly opened up da vent top, popped da pins and dropped dem down da vent den spit on da Zombies. BANG, POW, STINK....I had tu wear my gass mask (gots dat frum my back pack tu!) cuz da smell was horrific...I waited dere fur da time allowed fur a Hooman Fart Bomb to weact, (10 seconds) ands it was all ober! Da Zombie General and his stupid Seargents were dead and gone...discenturgated...(dat's what my Mom's Hooman Fart Bombs Du!)..da bombs smoke big time wiffs such stinkey smoke dat da Zombies dies wifin 10 seconds and dey discenturgate intu fin air! I cwalled down da builden, opened da door fur ventalation, burned da maps ands wents tu my houze where I tole my Mom abouts my pawtrol and destructions ob da Zombies, (I tole sissy Pickie tu), ands Mom saluted me and sayed tu me, "Job well done Goobie..Da neighburhood is a safer place." and den da best of all she gabed me twu Cookies...

Zombie Mobiles spotted

Zombie Boat spotted Febuwary 22nd, 2015

Zombie Mobile spotted Febuwary 25fh, 2015

And dis is a Zombie ATV Mom sayed. I drove da Zombie off's dat waz widing dis ATV, chased him den BAMB on da head den no more Zombie...Febuwary 28fh, 2015

Man my bwain is tired....so many fings goen on awound my neighburhood but I knows it's a safer plaze now...


Yur Zombie hunter fwiend Frisbee Bradley....da...WuNdEr WeStIe....over and out...*Salutes*

Prowdly serven da Zombie Squad now

Guess whut my fwiends!!!! I am a membur ob da #ZombieSquad 


Yep dat's wight I will be pwotecting da hoomens and ober furry fwiends frum da Zombies. 

My pawtrol area now is in my neighburhood. I've sighted and destwoyed twu Zombies alweady. Da wurld is a safer place wiffs FRISBEE BRADLEY da WuNdEr WeStIe on Zombie pawtrol!!!

Here's my Oaf:



 

My special fwiend Bonnie da Westie update 2/26/15

Bonnie is so precious tu me...I luvs hur very much...

 

Updates

02/26/2015

by H Case Hello my fwends.

We left Mojo wif hoouncle yesday mornin cuz weavva woz dredful and it wudn't haf bin much fun for him walkin round town in da wet wif his little legs. Besides he loves hoouncle and we herd he spent all day on his lap haffin cuddles *rolls eyes*

Woz a terruble journey to da vets (and back) yesterday cuz ov da wevva. Woz fick fog all across Bodmin Moor an muvva cud hardly see infront of us, and dere was still mad fings racing past us as if it a summers day. Dey mental. But mum woz careful cos she had preshuss cargo - Me bol

I haz had my ACTH stiumulashon test yesturday and me wee test. Vet sed me wee test woz best eva as I iz now concentraytin me wee. I always concentraytes wen me wee so dunno wot she meant by dat. But it woz good news evduntly cuz it means me not drinkin so much.

Will get da results of me ACTH test either end ov dis week or Munday. But vet finks me will need a 10mg increase in me Vetoryl as it not controllin da symptoms ov me Cushings propply. Although me haz lost 10gm ov wayte on me diet.

I wasn't very good wen mum collected me from da vet. She woznt sure if it woz cus me got all stressed out cuz she left me alone dere, as me gets so scared now wen she not wif me, unless me at home wif Mojo. Or wevva it woz a reaction to da test.

Mum stayed da evenin wif hoouncle, as he'd dun her some dinner, and we got ours as well. I not too keen on stayin dere as me not sure ware evfurryfing iz and me bumps into fings. But mum had taken me halo coat so woznt too bad. She had to lift me up and down da back door step tho into da garden, cuz ovverwise me falls down and lands on me chin. *embarrassed ears*.

So we not get home til gone 9pm last nite, and by den muvva woz really tired and so woz we.

When muvva hears da results of dis latest test, and da vet does put me dose up, we gotta go all da way back agen to collect da tablets. But it won't be so bad cuz it'll just be a flyin visit and me not got to be left.  We will haf to go back agen 14 days afta startin da increased dose tho for anuvva ACTH test and anuvva one 4 weeks afta dat one.

I iz hoping that will sort it all out and I will be on da rite dose to control me symptoms. Each time we goes it's £184 wif me wee test as well, and me fund money is dwindling quickly. Once me dose is regulated and werkin properly I will only need a test evfurry 3mths and den evfurry 6mths.

Mum got bit upset last nite cuz she duz sumtimes. I herd her in da baffroom snifflin, she go in dere so me not know so she finks. I wish she wudn't getz upset cuz she knows me got lots of fwends dat luff us and dey be helpin us but she still gets upset da daft old bat.

She ok dis mornin agen. *rolls eyes* I spose it cuz she loves me so much, and dat makes me feel better knowin she duz and dat I got so many fwends dat love me as much too. I a very lucky little dog da vet sez, to haf so many fwends dat helpin me.

I loves yoo all vewy much my fwends. If it woznt for yoo, and I knows I keepz sayin dis, but if woznt for yoo I wud be over da Bridge by now. Yoo is keeping me alive and I can neva neva eva fank yoo all enuff or tell you how much dat means to muvva and me. Yoo iz all vewy speshul fwends and I so blessed and so lucky.

Gawd muvva's got leaky eyes agen now. *hands muvva a tissue*.

Well dats me update my pals. Da next one will be wen we hears da results.

Fankoo all so much for being here wif us fru diss orruble ordeal. I loves yoo so much.

with lots and lots of love

Bonnie, Mojo & muvva

xoxoxoxo