HAPPY ENDINGS: GRACIE AND GEORGE

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GRACIE                       GEORGE

There are pictures of both George and Gracie. Gracie has the natural ears and George has the cropped ears that flop over.

We adopted George 7 years ago. About a year later we adopted a 1 year old female Martha. She unfortunately got sick and died about 7 months after we adopted her.
We knew we would adopt another but thought we would wait. However, George was so depressed that we knew we would have to adopt sooner. This was 1998, shortly after the BRLA website went up. A friend showed us a picture of Gracie (then named DeeDee) and we went to see her at the BRLA kennel. We brought her home that day 10/31/98. She has since been a big part of our family along with George they pretty much run the house. Recently Gracie was not eating and very sluggish. As my office is at home I noticed right away. The next day we took her to our vet. Vanderhhoof Veterinary in Altadena. They took an x-ray and said everything looked fine, no fever etc. We took her home and she seemed to get worse over the next 4 days. We took her back on MLK day and they did some bloodwork. That evening they called us and said they suspected Addisons disease, a failure of the adrenal glands, fairly uncommon but not unheard of in 5-6 year olds. We took her the next morning and they kept her for 2 days. They confirmed the Addisons which was quite a relief for us as it is very treatable. She has an injection every 4-6 weeks and takes 5 mg of prednisone every other day. Within 2 days of returning from the vet she was completely back to normal. As you can see from the pictures.

Thanks,

Jeff Riley and Robert Fitzgerald