[nagdu] Echo is 14!

helene ryles dreamavdb at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 20 17:50:43 UTC 2009


Happy birthday Echo!  Jilli's 10th birthday is tommorrow.  She is semi
retired. I hope that Jilli will still be around at Echo's age too.

Helene

On 20/04/2009, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net> wrote:
> My retired guide dog Echo turned 14 on Friday!  She is amazing.  I hope
> I'm as healthy when I'm her age.  I decided to retire her at 10 and a half
> because she was slowing down and didn't have the endurance she used to.  I
> wanted her to have some time to just be a dog.  And here she is, still
> enjoying herself immensely!
> She has a whole lot of fatty cysts, and some other of the hair cyst
> things, but at this point, removing any would be likely to do her more
> harm than good.  And her breath could kill a moose.  She's got arthritis
> in her back end, which the glucosamine is helping a bit, but it's still
> apparent.  But she still follows me all around the house.  Sometimes, if
> I'm walking up and down a lot, I make her stay in one place, so she
> doesn't wear herself out over nothing, otherwise she'll run up and down as
> often as I do.  Silly thing.
> She hasn't any trouble jumping up on the bed to take a nap, at least not
> since we started giving her the glucosamine.  She enjoys taking short
> walks with my husband, sniffing everything and saying hello to any people
> they meet.  And my husband figures she must have wagged her tail well over
> a million times by now.  It's as powerful as ever, and wags just as much.
> And her apppetite is excellent, too.  She's been quite spoiled since she
> retired, getting all kinds of people food, in small amounts.  But she
> still weighs about the same as she did in class 12 years ago--only about 2
> pounds heavier.  In her heart, she's still that young silly pup, and her
> body seems to be doing a great job of keeping up with that young spirit.
> She's a sweet, loving girl, and we're so happy that she's still doing
> well.
> Oh, she's a black lab, from GDB, if anyone is curious.
> Tracy
>
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