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10/10/2024

Our best friends to the rescue again... Is there anything that dogs can't help us with?

With their astounding sense of smell and ability to find what humans can’t see, dogs are quickly becoming some of conservationists’ best friends.

09/10/2024

Please share this as widely as possible.
Thank you, D.xx 🙏🙏🙏

The general wolf hunting season in Montana has been open for less than a month, and already 26 wolves have been hunted down, including 1 wolf from a region bordering Yellowstone.

Wolves in this region should not continue to suffer under the harmful hunting policies of the Northern Rockies states.

It’s time to ! It’s time to !

Take action for wolves today at RelistWolves.Org.

09/10/2024

So very true... And how very sad. 😔😔😔

09/10/2024

Please share... This poor dog was hit by a car and just left to die. She has small puppies, and the charity that's trying to help her is now so deeply in debt that it cannot raise enough money for her rescue and medical treatment.
Thank you so much. D.xx 🙏🙏🙏

https://www.facebook.com/NegrisPlace/posts/pfbid02K5XaA2KE2J3R6tgHrDxNU865C3n4cEbrA1nqdRyNt3QodVDRD6TEyvbt3n8XRbC7l?comment_id=1255880442434342¬if_id=1728394064818979¬if_t=comment_mention&ref=notif

08/10/2024

A kind and touching gesture by these players... I hope the public compassion that they have shown influences the actions of their fans and followers.
I salute these kind-hearted men.
We definitely need more compassion in our world.
D.xx 💜🙏💜

08/10/2024

With so much pain in the world... I thought I'd share some laughs...

I can smell this from here. So much dogs in one room.

05/10/2024

Such a touching story. Animals are so full of love. 💜

Stray dog becomes a local hero after his pawsome act in a robbery attempt (link in the comments)

05/10/2024

Hello all, my dearest friends,

I hope you are well.

Once again, please forgive me for not making an appearance here on this page for the past Heavens knows how long... Well, since Angel's passing.

And once again - I am here with a broken heart to report yet another loss for us here at HHH...

This time it's our adorable little naughty 'cartoon dog', my little 'poster pup', our one and only little Zappy Doodle.

Zappy died last month, on the 12th. I couldn't face writing about it, so - please forgive me that I didn't update this page when it happened... Each time it seems to get harder, and each time I seem to get weaker... In fact, I seem to have become a complete 'woos' and can't seem to face anything anymore.

Zappy had been ill for a while. He seemed to have got a bad cough, and had been struggling to breathe at night. I had taken him to the vet, Sherry and I were afraid it might have been lungworm - Zappy liked to eat leaves on the verges every time we went for walks, and lungworm has been on the rise here in London.

But his lungs were clear. The vet prescribed an anti-inflammatory to help him breathe more easily. She said, if the cough doesn't go after a week or so, to bring him back.

Well, a week went by and the cough seemed to improve - but Zappy's breathing got much worse.

I took him back to the vet, but everything seemed fine. Only that Zappy was sleeping a lot. In fact, he'd done nothing but sleep... I'd have to shake him up to feed him. He no longer played, no longer interacted with us... Sherry noted he seemed to have "..lost all his naughtiness..."

In our hearts, we both knew he really wasn't well...

Within one month of developing that cough, Zappy could barely breathe.

He still wanted to go on walks, but walked very slowly, I started taking him out on his own, so he could take his time. The last time it was with Pixie and her buggy. He even sat in it with her for a while, which he'd never done before, as he loved his walks (he was our incorrigible escapeologist extraordinaire after all!)

And then, on the last day he became so desperate for a breath he had his mouth wide open... He was exhausted, and desperate for sleep he kept nodding but stayed sitting up with his head up trying to breathe...

I took him to the emergency vet, and he was put on oxygen straight away. And he was taken in for an X-ray to see what had happened.

The vet on duty told me that though his lungs seemed clear, the X-ray showed the walls of his heart very extremely thickened. The clinic's ultrasound scanner wasn't working, so she couldn't be 100% certain, but she said she was almost completely sure that Zappy had suffered heart failure and that is why he was struggling to breathe so desperately.

I knew it was time for us to let him go. I couldn't bear to see him suffering like that, so desperate for a breath that he wouldn't even shut his mouth, or lie down...

Like the rest of our beloved babes - Zappy died in my arms. The oxygen had given him respite, and he had fallen asleep... I held him tight, kissed him and told him I'll love him forever, and little Zappy Doodle slipped away.

Good bye my adorable baby boy. We will meet again one day.

With love,
Dana 💔💔💔🌈💔💔💔

30/05/2024

It is with a broken heart that I write this...

Angel, our beautiful Siberian Huskey cross, with the striking eyes, one blue and one brown, our little Peanut (she thought she was tiny, even though she was pretty large!), died on the 19th of this month.

I called her my Ankhsennut (Ankh-sen-nut), living spirit of the Goddess Nut - the Egyptian Goddess of the Night Sky); my little Star Child; Princess of the Night (she loved standing outside in the garden at night time staring at the sky above...

I couldn't write about her 'till now... It has just been too traumatic. And I guess I'm just all over the place all the time...

She had almost lost the use of her hind legs, but at ~14 years of age, for a Huskey she was doing really well. The last time I took her out for a walk, about a week before she died, she just didn't want to come home.

She kept falling down if we turned a corner sharply, so I had to make sure we took a wide berth and turned very slowly to give her time, but by the end of the walk she really was falling, so I had to keep helping her up, and in the end I had to be really stern and tell her we had to go home because if she fell over and wasn't able to get up, then there was no way I could carry her home as she was too big!

She was such a sweetie she agreed, pouting the rest of the way, she walked home with me, but then fell down at the doorstep. I did manage to help her up and she walked herself in, but fell down in the kitchen door on her way out to the garden and her Mum, my sis Sherry had to lift her up. Sherry is incredibly strong - like a female Hercules!

After that it was only Sherry who managed to take her out, with a supporting belt round her waist to hold her up, and just up to the top of the road and back.

A week later Angel went to sleep and woke up in Heaven.

Run free my Angel... We will miss you to the end of our days, and then we will be together again in the Hereafter.

For now, here on this Earth plane... RIP Angel.

Dana ###x 💔💔💔💔

11/02/2024

Hello all,

Hope you and all your furry babies are well.

I have been meaning to write this for a while, but things have been so very busy here, that I simply haven’t had the energy left at the end of the day to write a post.

Pixie, our little ‘Pom Pom’ , ‘Pommet’ or Pixie Pom’) has been quite unwell for the past few weeks...

We had seen droplets of blood all over the place, but couldn't figure out exactly which one of the dogs was injured. Around that time, Angel had hurt herself poking her face into thorny bushes and trying to push through a gap in a fence while trying to snoop around a fox's den and had really badly injured her cheek, so we kept thinking it was Angel...

And then one day when little Pixie got up to go for a wee suddenly blood gushed out of her and we realised to our horror that it was her.

Following that, she started smelling of fish, so it became obvious that she had developed a very bad UTI (urinary track infection).

I took her to the vet as soon as I could and got a couple of prescriptions for her for antibiotics.

After that episode, though her UTI seemed to have cleared, her water intake rocketed, and I suspected that the infection had compromised her kidneys.

Further visits to the vet with blood tests done subsequently have proved thankfully, that her kidney function is fine, so I am hugely relieved,
The UTI however had a very bad effect on her bladder control and since she had that she's become very incontinent so we've started her on some incontinency medication the vet recommended. It hasn't worked yet, but it takes some time to build up in the system and start taking effect.

However, two of the vets suspect that she may have Cushing's disease, so today I am taking another urine sample to the clinic to get that tested. The last sample I dropped off, for some reason sat in the clinic fridge and became too old for testing (why they didn't send it off, I can't imagine). Hopefully, this time the sample will get sent off promptly and we'll know what is going on with little Pixie Pom.

The second vet I spoke to explained that her raised water consumption may be because of the Cushing's, so hopefully once we know the results from the urine test, she can start some treatment.

Other than that the poor little thing fell over a couple of times trying to get out of the back door, unfortunately, there’s a very difficult step you have to climb over to get out of the back door into the garden, and she hurt herself, so she has been really struggling to move. The vet gave me some Loxicom (strong painkiller) to give her along with the normal painkiller that she's been on for osteoarthritis, and I'm hoping it'll start working soon.

10/02/2024

It's the Chinese Lunar New Year today as I discovered from the Google Doodle...

So to all of us feeling a little worn down, and missing all the festivities of the Christmas period, here's to you...

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!

Lots of love and good wishes to you,
Dana ### 🎆🎇🎑

10/02/2024

Hello everyone,

I logged into the HHH Twitter (or X now rather... Such a daft. name... "Twitter" and the cute logo were nice) and I saw this post. I am sharing it here... Please do share and let's all try and make our world a little kinder.

Thank you all and bless you!
Dana ### 🙏🙏🙏

Here is the link...

01/01/2024

Love and blessings to you all, from all of us here at HHH (two-legged and four-legged alike!)
Dana xx 💙❤️🩵🧡🩷💛💚💜🩶🩶🤎