it great to hear she doing very well

I missed this thread the first time around, so nice to hear what you've been doing for this dog, it's really warmed my heart

You'll get so much love back in return, good for you!

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Some days you're the dog: some days you're the lampost

When I feel blue, I start breathing again

A few pics of Marty. She had another mild heart attack on Sunday, this was when walking her for only half a mile. She recovers amazingly quickly but it does look as though we'll have to be very careful with her.

This pic was taken the day we found her. She wasn't able to stand and could barely lift her head.


These were taken yesterday. You can see the effect on her tongue of Distemper, she still manages to eat heartitly though.

aww she is so lovely well done for saving her life xx

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"If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes."
L David Mech

We have doomed the Wolf not for what it is, but for what we have deliberately and mistakenly perceived it to be..the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer..which is, in reality no more than a reflexed images of ourself." -Farley Mowat

What a great person you are for taking on a dog that others would have walked away from.
You sound really attached to it and im sure whatever you do will be in the interests of the dog.

I was wondering if maybe instead of a kennel you could put a shed out there and then it could have a heater if your worried.

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She's such a sweet looking dog, and look how much she's come on - you must be relieved and proud.

Sorry to hear that she keeps suffering heart attacks, has the vet given you any idea of whether her heart will ever strengthen?

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Some days you're the dog: some days you're the lampost

When I feel blue, I start breathing again

The house I'm in is rented but I'm moving into a house I've bought in a couple of months, I'll be sectioning off a big part of the garden in the new place and building a warmer, more suitable kennel for her then. For the moment I've made sure she's warm enough.

Unfortunately the vet says her heart will always be weak and there's nothing we can do to improve things. This means we can't over exert or over excite her, which is terrible because we won't be able to exercise her or take her out. This worries me because she won't have much of a life confined to the garden, so I'm now thinking of getting another dog to keep her company. There's a rescue centre here, run by fantastic people who never turn an animal away, and they always have dogs that no one wants.

Bless you, she's lucky now to have found such a caring person and home.
All the best Sh xx

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