Marsha, How is Java?

I was just wondering how things are with Java today? I have been praying for answers for you, not matter which kind....

Hugs my friend,
Sherry

Hi Sherry,  thank you for asking and most of all for your prayers and support.  I am happy to report that Java seems to be feeling good.  She wouldn't eat yesterday morning, but when I got home yesterday afternoon she did eat, and that's probably because I ended up giving her her regular food instead of that special food.  She won't touch it.  I even tried to mix it with the other and she refuses to eat it.  So I may be wrong, but I figure her last days might as well be good ones, and if that means she gets to eat what she wants then so be it.  If that means that her days are shortened, at least she was happy and her tummy was full.  She was so restless when I got home last night but after I fed her and she got satisfied, she layed down by my feet and slept, then slept all night.  She ran in the yard, jumped up on me when I got home, just like she has done for the 11 years she has been my baby, so I know she's feeling better for now.  As long as she's happy and not hurting, I will let her be, once she's in pain and not feeling well, I can't make her live.  She has brought me many, many happy memories that will always live in my heart, and I know that she knows I love her and would do anything for her.  God will help me through the decision when I have to make it, but for now He has given me a little more time with her, and for that, no matter how short, I am so very blessed.

Hugs,
Marsha

I agree make her last days or months or years happy ones for her! Let her eat what she enjoys! Sometimes, I think Doctors, though well meaning just "sell" us stuff that is designed for purposes that really don't appeal to the animals at all....I bet if Java could talk she would have told you the food sucked! LOL. I am so glad she is doing better!

Sherry

Marsha I am glad to hear that Java is feeling better.


LaDetra

I think she feels about that food, what we all feel for the liquid diet we have to be on for what seems like forever!  I got to the point that I just as soon not eat as to have to have broth.  LOL 

Java is a fiesty little thing, she has a mind of her own and she only does what she wants to do, but that's why I love her, she has so much personality.  I always say I have animals because they don't talk  back, but that's not entirely true...sometimes if I say something to her, she responds with a "ARF!"  LOL 

She makes my heart smile, jus****ching her and Cadillac both.  I think I must feel for them, what a mother feels for her children.  Jus****ching them sleep just gives me a warm feeling in my heart. 

Thanks for all the prayers!

Hugs,
Marsha

I was going to mention that same thing about feeling towards her new food like we feel about these liquids, but couldn't get the words out of my mouth without gagging thinking about it again! lol
Yep, kids are always great while sleeping! LOL  Jusk kidding!!

I had decided after putting my 3rd dog and a cat down....NO MORE! I said I hated animals except for horses.....I actually became cold about it...The strange thing is...every lost dog in this area came here...One even dug into my yard to get here! Luckily I found the owners....My kids dogs loved me and I just didn't want to love back....
Then my daughter gave me one of her dogs last April, to keep her two from fighting.....That's how I got GreyCe, my sheppard. She has melted my heart. She is 9 and I know that my years with her are short but she has changed me for the better in many ways.....She has had many years of extensive training  and I know  that to allow her to do certain things would undermind what she has been trained and bred to do, so I have to respect that in her, so I don't ask her to get in bed with me or to eat people food and other little things,  but she has opened me back up to feeling things again that I had locked away. She is trained to be a loyal protective companion and family dog  so that is what I enjoy about her...As a working class dog, she needs to protect me and she needs to feel she is doing her job....It takes work and I am not one to be hovered over, but I allow GreyCe to do that and I enjoy that with her too. Never did I think I would want to do this ever again.....They have a way with charming us though...  GreyCe makes my heart smile too!

Marsha I am glad that she is doing better this morninga dn I agree with letting her last time be a happy time!

Sherry,

You talk about GrayCe protecting you, that brings to mind my two pups.  Both of them are small, Java is a 10 lb. Schipperke and Cadillac is way too many lbs. Pomeranian.  Java has been known to try to take a leg off my nephew who is 6'4" just because he patted me on the shoulder.  When I was so sick with the first stricture, we'd been out all day and when we got home I went straight to the bed to lie down.  Of course Java and Cadillac wanted in bed with me, so I put them up there, then my sister came in to check on me....Cadillac, who is not aggressive at all and loves everyone, tried to take her arm off just because she was standing beside the bed.  Belva told me that she was afraid to touch me or even get close because he might bite her...I agreed with her.  Once I was feeling better though, he was fine with her being close to me. 

Animals are so loyal and no matter what people say, they understand what we say to them.  They understand our feelings.  By the way, I love horses also.  I haven't been on once since I was 2 years old, but I love them.  One of these days I'm going to take riding lessons, just because I can!  :)

Sarah, thanks for your prayers and support.

Hugs,
Marsha

I'm glad you have a little more time.

It's funny, I've never even considered not having another dog-they are so much a part of my life that not having a dog would feel wrong to me.  This past year was tough, I lost two fairly close together, one a rescue I knew was a short time thing when I brought her home, the other, my faithful and much loved Dottie-who shared many adventures with me, good times and bad.  Dottie went first, and I took it very hard, as expected.  What I didn't expect was how much I grieved for little Bitty, who was on her last legs when I brought her home to begin with.

Bitty was happy to go home to her true mother, the woman who had her that passed away a few years ago. She was never devoted to me the way the ones I raise are, but instead, she was grateful and trusting and the fact that she trusted me when she didn't trust anyone else kind of tugged at me.  It was a great gift and a great honor.  

Debra,

Our animals are wonderful creatures aren't they.  Like I have stated before, they are my babies, I don't have, nor  will I have children, which I'm ok with now.  I will have dogs though.  I waited about a year and a half after my Shih Tzu passed away to get Cadillac, my Pom.  They are such amazing companions and so much company to someone who lives alone.  I always had cats growing up, and I love cats, but they are just not the companion that a dog is.  Java and Daisy, the Shih Tzu, were both given to me by a man  I worked with at Southeastern, many years ago.  They were moving to Dallas into an apartment and couldn't take them with them, so I reluctantly took them in.  The best decision I ever made.  :)

Hugs,
Marsha