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Inch by inch, day by day, the Yuki girl is making progress. Yuki can pull herself up to a sitting position now if her 2 hind legs are on her good/right side. She has tried several times to stand on her own but does even come close yet. Little by little she prefers to use [...]

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Jerry and I went up to Matt’s and had dinner with him and Yuki last night at their place before bringing the baby girl home to spend the week with us so dad could go earn mucho mula during the week. Gotta pay off those bills! A good friend of ours gave us their old [...]

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Another adventure for Yuki-neurologist visit. Dr thought she would thrive better w/out her L front leg- gives her 2 weeks till a recheck visit to make a decision to amputate or not. He felt she would recoup faster w/out it & should regain use of her back legs though to what level of function time [...]

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Another year has come and gone and we’re celebrating our dear friend Jill’s birthday again! Patty won’t be far behind so who’s counting, right Jill? The place for the feast was El Torito Grill, Jill and husband Steve brought their 2 boys, Patrick and Alex, Patty and Jerry’s son Matt couldn’t make it. We had [...]

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Yuki spent time in the backyard last night. She ate a lot of grass, eavesdropped on neighbors dogs conversation,yawned & overall enjoyed herself. She’s still very weak, sleeps a lot, has wild doggy dreams (running away from bad guy who hit her!) & tolerates her 4x a day physcial therapy with the patience of a [...]

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Dogs are so much like kids, they do the darnedest things! I was working on my computer, Yuki’s bed at my feet. We’d been talking, she’d doze, wake up, doze. It got really quiet one time and I looked down to this! How could I resist taking a picture. Worth a thousand words right? So [...]

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Yuki needs physical therapy 4 times a day to keep up muscle tone and limberness. She also needs to be rotated and flipped to prevent bed sores, no easy task when the puppy weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 40-45 lbs! Not a problem though, I figured out how place 2 large towels under Yuki [...]

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Yuki was such a good girl Sunday when her dad, and grandparents came to take her home. They had to be taught how to help her go to the bathrm, give her physical therapy and move her so she does not get sores. She was well behaved on the car ride home. Grams held her [...]

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Knowing Yuki will not be ambulatory at least right away, and knowing she will also need to be lifted, rotated so as not to get bedsores and also has to have physical therapy 4 times a day, Jerry and I bought her a red wagon and made a platform for her bed so I can [...]

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Yuki was such a good girl Sunday when her dad and grandparents came to take her home. They had to be taught how to help her go to the bathrm, give her physical therapy and move her so she does not get sores. She was well behaved on the car ride home too. Grams sat [...]

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