Gearing up to go

We go to my sister's place in Kentucky every year for Thanksgiving. Getting out of town is always difficult, for obvious reasons. This year I hope to get at least two of three fosters farmed out to other foster homes so we don't have quite so many to board.

Tasha is going to the home of two former fosters, a rottie named Sable and a rottie mix named Bernie (formerly Rowdy). She is still on antibiotics but nothing else for now and today the vet called with the biopsy results. They showed a Class 2 mast cell tumor. The classification was the only thing in question really. The report stated the pronosis as "fair" with a 70 month median life expectancy. That's almost 6 years and she's an 8 year old dog now, so I'd be happy if she had another 6 years. The edges of the tumor were "clean", which seems to be a good indicator that it had not begun to spread. The other blood work was good and she sure seems to feel better, so under the circumstances, that's about the best we could have expected.

Her incision looks good and we changed her t-shirt this evening.

Buck, a/k/a The Big Hairy Beast, has an interesting prospect. When I was at the vet with Jeremy this afternoon, I saw the director of Service Dogs of Virginia, which uses the space on the bottom level of the vet's office. They were looking for a dog that might work as a "balance dog", which basically is a dog that a person could hold onto for balance, which walking or while getting up or down. He certainly seems to have a rock solid temperament, so they are interested in meeting him. Clay is going to drop him off there tomorrow morning to spend the day.

I have two other foster homes, one of which will probably take in Bubba, not sure about the other just yet, but she is coming on Friday to meet the pack.

Jeremey is one that I'd like to get into a foster home. He's an older shepherd mix that I've had for quite a while now. He's had a rather persistent skin condition, which isn't contagious and has improved, but hasn't entirely clear up either. We have him on more antibiotics as a result of today's vet visit and he had a medicated bath indoors this evening and will be spending the night in a crate in my office.