Sick Puppies

And so I have been absent from here for nearly a month - Christy and I recently added 2 new members of the family: Jules and Vincent - 2 lab/pit puppies (brothers) we adopted from the Mesa Animal Shelter.

It's been one of the most trying but rewarding experiences of my life. They were sick when we got them with Upper Respiratory Infections and it went downhill from there. Vincent quit eating or drinking at one point and we were injecting fluids subcutaneously and force feeding him until he lurched back from the near dead. Now they are both infested with Coccidia and Giardia (intestinal parasites)and are on a new barrage of drugs.

That being said - they are wonderful, wickedly fun and full of life and on their way to health. Love has been the one constant drug we have given them and it seems to be working...they had me up at 5:30 for a trip outside and then breakfast followed by 2 hours of barking and fighting and now they lay in a happy exhausted heap snoring obliviously and farting contentedly. Life is good for them.