Maggie – aka FrankenPug
Around 6 months ago Maggie developed a tiny bump on the side of her torso. Dr. Clark, our wonderful vet, didn’t seem terribly alarmed. To be honest, even in the best of times baby girl tends to be a little lumpy. This is where it gets a little freaky, as Tex became obsessed with Maggie’s bump. He wouldn’t leave it alone – all of his attention was directed at that one little lump – he relentlessly licked, sniffed or scratched the damn thing. It was exhausting, even poor Maggie was sick of his constant attention. In desperation Tom and I started spraying Maggie with a “bitter apple" concoction, with the hope that Tex would finally leave her alone. Tex just developed a taste for Granny Smith apples.
Around 6 months ago Maggie developed a tiny bump on the side of her torso. Dr. Clark, our wonderful vet, didn’t seem terribly alarmed. To be honest, even in the best of times baby girl tends to be a little lumpy. This is where it gets a little freaky, as Tex became obsessed with Maggie’s bump. He wouldn’t leave it alone – all of his attention was directed at that one little lump – he relentlessly licked, sniffed or scratched the damn thing. It was exhausting, even poor Maggie was sick of his constant attention. In desperation Tom and I started spraying Maggie with a “bitter apple" concoction, with the hope that Tex would finally leave her alone. Tex just developed a taste for Granny Smith apples.
Around a month ago we saw a news segment on 60 Minutes, about doctors who are using dogs to sniff out cancer. It made us pause and think – was it possible that Tex was trying to tell us something? Just to be on the safe side, we asked our vet to do a biopsy. Imagine our surprise when Maggie was diagnosed with a stage one mast cell tumour. The good news – Dr. Clark assures us that we caught it early and Maggie is expected to make a full recovery. The bad news - every time Tex sniffs at Tom, he freaks out!
Tex / aka The Dali Pug
A few months ago Tex hurt his back – we aren’t sure what happened – he could have jumped off the couch and landed funny – or maybe it was all of that damn scratching at Maggie’s lump. Over the past few weeks he has been slowly losing strength in his back legs – the poor guy is walking around like a little old man. We are in the process of seeing a canine neurologist, who is trying to determine what is causing this problem. The good news is that Tex isn’t in pain and all of his internal organs are very healthy. Worse case scenario - he may have to undergo back surgery -but we will know more next week.
Thanks to all of you have called and emailed Tex and Mags over the past few weeks. We really appreciate the love and support, and the dogs send good Pug karma your way.
6 comments:
Poor Maggie and Tex. Their little eyes look so soulful! Animals have a wonderful 6th sense and it's amazing what they know before us...way to go Tex!
Lucky Tex and Maggie have each other. Amazing.
Lucky too that they have you and Tom - the amazing pug parents! Hope both are feeling better very, very soon. Sending lots of love from Maggy and me.
I have heard about dog sniffing cancer too Go Tex! poor Maggie I hope they are alright by now
Thanks for the pictures of Tyler. He looks so so good. Glad Maggie is doing OK sure hoping Tex just has a pulled back or something. Sophie limps when she jumps off of things, and it gets better after a while. love m
Thanks for the pictures of Tyler. He looks so so good. Glad Maggie is doing OK sure hoping Tex just has a pulled back or something. Sophie limps when she jumps off of things, and it gets better after a while. love m
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