Not much time to post. There are several electric company trucks at the end of the road replacing some power lines; electricity could disappear from The Outpost at any moment. I swear there is a conspiracy to keep me from blogging. Must be those Freemasons.
Thank you all for leaving the kind words about Breezy. She had surgery this morning and it went well. I called a few minutes ago and she was resting on a heating pad and being fawned over by the surgical staff. We get to pick her up tomorrow. I feel pretty strongly that we did the right thing. We talked about putting her down, but when her only symptom of the cancer was this bum leg...it was hard to justify anything more than amputation. I've heard dissenting opinions that amputation is too big an ordeal to ask of a dog, but I've seen too many examples of 3-leggers that have done just fine. I think if Breezy can enjoy even one more month of barking at the snowmobiles that race down the river behind our house, she'll agree it was worth it.
Had an interesting lunch yesterday with some old high school friends. Two of the three are rabid Wellstone supports who still can't bring themselves to scrape the green Wellstone! bumper sticker off the back of their cars. I really wanted to ask them their views on the Dem. canidates, but we had a 2 1/2 year old with us and I didn't want him to pick up any foul language.
Late soccer game tonight. Hopefully Kevin will bring some pictures of his two new puppies. (You guys have a punishment fetish or what?)
Posted by Cathy at February 6, 2004 01:44 PMI think that you made the right decision with Breezy. I have also seen a number of perfectly function 3 legged dogs. Did seen to bother them in the least. We even have a cocker missing a leg compete in field trials.
Posted by: DaveP at February 6, 2004 02:55 PM