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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>From today’s Lawrence Journal-World about our Chikako and Comet. Thought it would be of interest.—Susan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p style='border:none;padding:0in'><span lang=EN>LJWorld.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h2><span lang=EN>Service dog needs some help of its own<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h3><span lang=EN>Seeing-eye guide requires surgery to remove tumor, save life<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=date><span lang=EN>April 9, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/photos/2011/apr/09/211791/" title=""Click to enlarge photo" "><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=180 height=135 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CBF7C2.2653E6E0" alt="Description: Chikako Mochizuki and her seeing eye dog, Comet, on a trip to New Mexico in 2009. Last week Comet was diagnosed with a tumor that will require a $6,000 surgery."></span></a><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=caption><span lang=EN>Chikako Mochizuki and her seeing eye dog, Comet, on a trip to New Mexico in 2009. Last week Comet was diagnosed with a tumor that will require a $6,000 surgery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h6><span lang=EN>On the street<o:p></o:p></span></h6><h3><span lang=EN><a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/onthestreet/2011/apr/09/how-much-would-you-be-willing-pay-surgery-your-pet/">How much would you be willing to pay for surgery for your pet?</a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/onthestreet/2011/apr/09/how-much-would-you-be-willing-pay-surgery-your-pet/"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=160 height=71 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CBF7C2.2653E6E0" alt="Description: http://media.lawrence.com/img/manonthestreet/2011/04/09/mos_skillman_t160.jpg?773850a9d7421baff2f792d5b4bd28ce20373d52"></span></a><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=tease><span lang=EN>Whatever it took.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=byline><span lang=EN>— Matt Skillman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=more><span lang=EN><a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/onthestreet/2011/apr/09/how-much-would-you-be-willing-pay-surgery-your-pet/">More responses</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>Even with a malignant tumor, Chikako Mochizuki’s seeing eye dog, Comet, keeps working, guiding her around as she has for nine years. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>“She’s a real trouper,” said Mochizuki, a Kansas University doctoral student in history who’s from Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>Comet, a yellow Labrador retriever, was diagnosed with a tumor, called thymoma, last week. Mochizuki is seeking donations for the $6,000 surgery to remove the tumor, which is between Comet’s throat and heart. Without surgery, which would be performed at the Kansas State University Veterinary Clinic, Comet could have less than six months to live. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>Comet has been a constant companion for Mochizuki and the dog is well known throughout the history department. Eric Rath, a professor of history, recently sent out an email to the department asking for donations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>“We all hope that Comet will continue to be her companion for many years to come,” wrote Rath.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>Mochizuki will defend her dissertation this summer, and she hopes to bring Comet, who’s been with her since she started at KU.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>“I do hope Comet will be there,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>Donations can be made at Commerce Bank, where Mochizuki has opened a special fund for Comet, or checks can be made out to Mochizuki and sent to Sandee Kennedy at KU’s history department, 3650 Wescoe Hall, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045. For further information, email Mochizuki at mochizukichikako@ku.edu.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span lang=EN>Originally published at:</span></b><span lang=EN> http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/apr/09/service-dog-needs-some-help-its-own/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>