Hi Wayne...I agree Devon is a find. I love her so much I can't express the joy she gives me every day. Last summer (year ago today) I had found out she had CANCER and I had already lost a shepard to leukemia 4 years prior. The vet was so great. I am still paying off the bill but so far it hasn't returned and it has a very very low chance of re-occuring. I would do ANYTHING for her and i think she knows it!!!

Have you thought about possibly putting your flame point onto a prescription drug?? I usually do not recommend in general pills for people or pets, but after having Devon for two years and she would continally pee on my stuff (my side of the bed, my jeans, my pillow, where i sit on the couch, my bathtowel etc...NEVEr my husbands) i basically had had enough. I took her to the vet and i sat there with Devon wrapped around me...her head was under my neck and her front arms were wrapped around my neck and her body was glued to my front torso with her little legs wrapped as far as they could go. The vet thought it was cute and I am sure it was a picture, but this is how she sat most of the time even when I was at home or wrapped around my shoulders purring and drooling away. After 48 hours on the Prozac there was the hugest difference in the world. She has been on it for 2 and a half years and had ONE accident and that was MY fault. not hers. So its been a blessing in disguise. Even my vet put one of his cats on a similar drug as he had a male cat who would not quit spraying for the life of him and it worked. I think there are some animals, like some people, who need a bit of a mental boost to make sure all the connections in the head go smoothly.

How did Checker come into your life???
Michelle