Sparky is coming on in leaps and bounds after his amputation. After a nasty infection and a gaping hole in his little stump,its finally healed,now he just has to get used to his three legs,a matter of getting his balance. But for a few faltering wobbles,he is doing great.

My darling Lady is another story. She has had her scan,the tumor is spreading towards her eye and is inoperable. We are gutted that we might soon lose her.We have had her 11 years,she was our first rescue dog and she means the world to me.

I have them both on Artemisinin ,which is a herbal medicine used to treat malaria. Artemisinin comes from the herb artemesia, and it is one of four compounds that is derived from this herb. In 1999, Professors Henry Lai, Ph.D., and Narendra Singh, MBBS, researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, studied the use of Artemisinin on dogs. They found that Artemisinin stops the growth of dog cancer cells.

I will try anything. This was recommended to me by our friend Joy,one of our sponsors and a former Doggy Snapper,who used it on her own dogs.

The day after Lady's scan she was quite poorly,I really thought the worse,but the next day she was in the garden chasing lizards again.

 I guess it was the general anesthetic she had for the scan had knocked her for six.

I will keep you all informed.

Val X

Thank you so much to all who helped raise the money for Lady's scan. It is deeply appreciated.Of course it didn't quite go to plan. After driving over 200 kilometers the morning of the appointment,Lady did not have her scan. We arrived on time ,we were put in a room,the door was open and we watched the two vets going up and down both with telephones stuck to their ears,and one with a cigarette stuck in his mouth. Neither Mino or I said anything to each other,but we were both thinking the same,we didn't like the place. We watched one of the vets putting a line in a dogs leg,with a cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth.We were left in this room for almost an hour,no one talked to us or told us anything,Lady was getting more and more stressed,so we walked out! We had come a long way and they were taking a lot of money! I took the dog and went straight to the car,Mino stayed behind and told them what he thought,in no uncertain terms!It probably made their hair curl! There was no way they were going to do anything wrong with my little girl.It was disgraceful,I wanted to report them. We are now waiting for an appointment at yet another vets in Mesagne,still a fair way from us,but it has to be worth it.

This is our poor boy Sparky,his leg was amputated on 17th April. Since then he has not improved at all ,infact he has been getting worse. The leg was a mess. Mino took him to an emergency vet on Sunday,who gave him a pain killing injection,this morning we took him back to our vet,Sparky has had to stay in ,they are trying to sort it out.It is of course infected,we are hoping by this evening he will be much improved and that we can bring him home. He has never spent a night away from us. I will keep you all up to date . Oh dear why us? Why does nothing ever go smoothly.        Val X