Straydog UPDATE posted THURSDAY 9/4/03 at ~7:00 p.m. CT

Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4 2003

Angel's diagnosis came back: the tumor was cancerous but is unlikely to spread

     Here's the report from the pathologist (which I include for those who have a medical or veterinary background):

 

MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION: The sample submitted is a section of an unencapsulated subcutaneous neoplasm from the ventral chest composed of plump spindle and polygonal cells arranged in palisades, partial whorls and wavy bundles. The nuclei are enlarged and vesicular with prominent nucleoli and moderately low mitotic activity. There is a moderate stroma of mature collagen.

DIAGNOSIS: Nerve sheath tumor

PROGNOSIS: Fair

COMMENT: Behavior is similar to a hemangiopericytoma in that local recurrence is likely but metastasis is very unlikely.

 

     Let's all hope and pray that the tumor doesn't come back and that metastasis does not occur.

Angel's looking good today as she comes out of the park with her kennel mate, Ol' Pup.
Her right eye looks funny because she's just had her eye medicine applied to it.

 

Two more rescued puppy dogs will join us tomorrow

     We are honestly trying to get our shelter population down, but when we (which includes our employees) come across a stray on the road, we cannot turn our heads the other way and drive on by.

     Yesterday Tina came across what she said looks to be a female Great Pyrenees puppy dog, apparently homeless with nowhere to go, and then this morning Juana almost hit a Pit mix puppy dog, who jumped right up into her truck when she stopped to see if she had hit him.

     When our two very dedicated employees asked me what they should do with the dogs, Pat's voice came immediately to my ears, saying, "First take them to the areas where they were found and knock on every door to see if they belong to someone. If no one claims them or knows who might own them, take them to our vet clinic for their new arrivals checkup."

     We followed both of Pat's customary directives and will have photos of the two tomorrow.

It was Scooter's turn to be groomed today

     Even though I've been ordered by my daughter, Erin, to do nothing but work on the newsletter till it's done and in the mail, there was too much going on this afternoon for anyone else to be freed up to make the six-mile trip to the groomer's to pick up Scooter. I took the camera with me and snapped the following photos:

When I got to the groomer's, Scooter was too afraid at first to come out of the cage.

The groomer coaxed Scooter out, and the dog took one last look around the grooming room.

Scooter's ears are still down as we start the trip back to Straydog.

Scooter's happy to be back home.

 

Here's an early morning photo of Blind Chubs sitting in his kennel with
a toy in his mouth waiting for someone to play tug-a-rope with him.