Muttville worked its magic again. Predictably, this handsome, friendly fellow got adopted in a day. Now known as Santos, he’s the first one featured in this video.

On a fuzzy bed is another picture of Zayla (fka Boobie) when she was hospitalized that I never saw until today. The medical image shows her bladder with three crystallized stones that have to be surgically removed. It must be so painful that she has to urinate past these, and they will never deprecate and pass by themselves, so surgery is required. HSNB has already invested over $5,000 in her, but at least she’s alive and well, and the meds are working. She’s had no seizures since she was treated and started meds that I administer three times a day. She’s so much cleaner and mobile now that she’s been sheared, too. The other two pictures are of her more recently acting pretty much like a normal, sweet dog.

Thank goodness this heavy breathing is gone, but this is what Edna sounded like right after her surgery. I picked her up from the vet without even knowing what she looked like, but knowing she had many foxtails in her mouth and ear and required stitches to sew her mouth back together.

Tomorrow we say au revoir to a special dog that came to us through my nosiness and diligence. Chaz was a big mess when he came to us, but he’s turned out to be quite the amazing little Pompom. He’s healthy and so much better dermatologically now that he’s had some TLC from us. I think he’ll be the star of the show when he gets to Muttville. He’s become somewhat velcro with me, which means that I know he can bond with someone else well, even though he lived his entire life with a woman who died recently. He’s so full of personality. What’s most special to me is that when he whines and gets anxious, he sounds exactly like the dog I had for 15 years, who was named Montague, or Monte for short.