Here we are =)

Those tiny fur babies are such sweethearts. You can just see it. :) Champ looks like a sweetheart too, I feel so bad she lost her best friend.

yep Chopper will be 4 soon and to celebrate we are having a meetup at the dog park and I am also baking a cake and taking it to the vets office, because if it was not for their fast action he may not have been here to celebrate at all. I think Duke told him GO BACK!! Mommy can't handle it :D

I was so sick when that happened, it took him HOURS to recover. When I saw him on the operating table with all these monitors for heart rate, pulse, breathing, etc, I about died. He looked horrible, actually he looked gone...except he was breathing. His eyes did not open, his tongue was hanging out. They kept flipping him over to prevent fluid build up in the lungs. He was on a heated tablet, covered with a heating pad/blanket. He made these horrible sad sounds as he was trying to come out of it. I stayed as long as I could with him, talking to him, rubbing him and kissing him, telling him he could not leave me...he needed to stick around to ride that Harley we get again some day. They told me he could have all these different issues, one being blind, loss of cordination, maybe paralysis. They kept checking to see his reflexes in his hind feet to see if he would pull back, at first he did not. One vet even took him home so she could monitor him over night. She called and told me there really wasn't much improvement, which really had my heart broken thinking that he might have been brought back but never really wake up and have to be PTS anyway. I was in tears for hours. I kept waking up thinking...well the phone hasn't rang, no news is good news. Then I would pick of my phone to see if I missed a call. One time I dreamt it rang, that was horrible. But in the morning they called me before hours (which had my stomach in a knot) and said he was 100% himself...like nothing had ever happened:D I was so overjoyed I started crying again.

Thank you all for all the wonderful compliments on my babies. I promise to try and pop in from time to time. But I work full time and I also watch my niece while her parents are working, keeps me on my toes all day that is for sure. For an almost 4 month old she can stay awake FOREVER lol.

Oh my goodness, I am in tears just reading what you went through. I can't even imagine!!! I bet Duke sent him back. :) Wow!!

Please give Chopper some kisses from me. :p

It was so good to see all of your fur kids, and read about each individual one. They are all gorgeous, but Daisy Mae captured my heart! :love: What a little doll!!!

I can't imagine going thru the trauma that you did with little Chopper. He sure is a fighter - a tough little guy indeed. So glad that all worked out for the best.

Give them ALL a hug and a kiss for me please, and an extra one for Chopper. I don't think that the others will mind, under the circumstances. ;)

Traci, I am so so so sorry to hear about handsome little Chopper's almost fatal incidence during surgery. Working in the veterinary field, I know that all of the pre-anesthetic precautions we take to ensure that the patient will be okay with the anesthetics and other necessary drugs, sometimes we can never predict these horrible things from happening. That is why we do our BEST to prevent them, and when the unfortunate does happen, we try and try to stop it. And Chopper is a lucky guy, and I am SO GLAD he is ok!!!