update on Buddy and Bella-pictures taken February 7, 2013

Bella is a brindle and white pit bull mix, born in late July or early August, found wandering with a fractured skull, a horrible wound on her backside, a parasite infection, cuts, bite marks, missing fur, etc. She was thought to be around 8 weeks old when she was found dazed and wandering just immediately prior to Hurricane Sandy. As you can see from one of the pixs posted here her head was swollen, she slept all the time, some times seemed not to be alive... a song created for her seemed to do something very healing for Bella. She now runs to the cell phone when I call so I can sing it for her even now at 6 months old. See below, 33 lb Bella recovering very quickly from d. mange with the help of fantastic care from Petcare in Flushing, Queens and Dr. Jack Biederman.

Bella and Buddy are being fed a power diet of a high quality dog kibble and a recipe like the one below that is evolving over time. We are cooking a fresh dog food and making changes very slowly. We add a cooked egg 3 times a week in addition to the food we are making and this month we added one new ingredient: KALE and we've introduced it very slowly.

Buddy was found in early December whining and cowering. He was 3 weeks old and weighed just 2 lbs. Dr. Jack's reaction to the tiny puppy was a heart warming, "oh my." Buddy needed to be bottle fed initially and it was first thought he had parvo...thankfully he did not. It was rough going for Buddy for a few weeks as well; he was bitten and had a couple of very deep ugly wounds. One of the things he had going for him was an incredible appetite thanks, in part, to 2 protozoa infections. Here he is, at 3 months old, as Dr. Jack proclaimed, "a healthy puppy!"

isn't amazing what love can do...sadly, however, my son who is caretaker of the dogs now has to move because of damage to his place from Hurricane Sandy, a mysterious illness he has contracted, which may yet prove to be a protozoa infection from the spillage of ground water into his living space which may be how the dogs landed up with protozoa as well. We may never know. Updates will be coming shortly.