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« on: January 13, 2012, 06:15:42 PM »
Hi everyone,
  Thought I would introduce myself. I've been a pugalug fan for quite a few years now. I have 2 pugs, Pickle a 3 year old fawn male & Cricket a 2 year old black female. My husband and I live outside of Cambridge and I work at a vet clinic in Guelph. I'm also currently a vet tech student at Ridgetown College, through the alternative delivery. I learned quite a bit about pugs from Peggy Allen, who I worked with about 3 years ago at Ren's Pets Depot. She has quite the pug pack!
We got Pickle from a breeder who used to be located in Stratford but now lives even closer to us in Guelph. Cricket we adopted next from pugalug's sister rescue Under my wing pug rescue. We drove all the way to Ottawa to get our little girl. She and her sister ended up at the rescue when their elderly owner passed away. Unfortunately the poor puppies had been left alone for a few days in the apartment before the neighbours realized what happened. Luckily she doesn't appear to suffer from any long term trauma and is a fearless little weasel of a pug Smiley
I'll probably be picking your brains about medical topics. Pickle was diagnosed with IMHA about 2 months ago. It was a really traumatic experience that I wouldn't wish on anybody. After several days of hospitalization and an emergency blood transfusion he pulled through. He's doing quite well right now but we are just trying to work on his dosages for his medications as he's been having some gastrointestinal side effects. My vet has been working hard doing research to figure out which way is best to taper his drugs, there's so many different protocols out there! It's been a huge learning experience, which if anyone has gone through a similar experience I'd be happy to chat with you about it.
 I'm happy to see that many of the discussions here are pro raw, as well as towards minimal vaccines and a more natural approach to health. I love talking about nutrition, as well as training so I think I will have a lot of fun here. I'm looking forward to making some new friends:)
I'll warn you I love taking pictures of my dogs and seeing pictures of other peoples pugs too!
Best Regards Shannon, Pickle & Cricket

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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2012, 09:50:24 PM »
Welcome Shannon! Pickle and Cricket are  really cute!
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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2012, 11:09:33 PM »
Welcome! Always nice to have more pugs...
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« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2012, 06:57:07 AM »
Welcome Shannon, Pickles and Cricket!

Smiley  they are very sweet looking puggies and I am glad to read that
Pickles is feeling much better after all that transpired!

Hope you join in the discussions and post lots of pics cause we always
love to have new posters on board Smiley

How are you enjoying the Ridgetown experience if even from afar??
It's a pretty cute little town!
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« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2012, 08:08:07 AM »
Thanks for the welcome Smiley I do like Ridgetown, in the summer I live there for 3 months to do my practical. I stayed last summer and I grew up in the country so it's pretty similar. I found all the teachers to be really great and nice so looking forward to going back this year:)
They even have a tiny zoo just outside of town called Greenpark Avaries. My husband and I had some neat animal encounters that day.
It's not great because it encourages a lot of feeding of the animals but you get really close to some amazing creatures.
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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2012, 08:58:34 AM »
Yes, I remember a field trip to the "ZOO" Smiley

It is a very cute little town and yes the prof's are really great!
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2012, 09:55:20 AM »
Welcome! Your puggies look adorable. We love pictures and videos, with stories of all those pug antics. I hope you can get the medical stuff under control.
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2012, 03:49:49 PM »
Welcome!  Sorry to hear about the IMHA--we had a girl in foster care with Evan's Syndrome (IMHA and ITP) combined, but in the end, the internist felt that she only had ITP (I think).  She's doing well, but it was a struggle and a half initially to get her stabilized especially since she had a transfusion reaction.  She was adopted by an ICU vet tech at the Vet Emerg Clinic--which was a huge bonus.
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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2012, 04:28:50 PM »
Pickle and Cricket are adorable! My boy Chewy also came from Under My Wing. Hope Pickle's health turns around. Welcome to the forum.
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« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2012, 06:17:17 AM »
Welcome to all of you. Pickles and Cricket are adorable. Looking forward to hearing more about them.
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« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2012, 08:59:59 PM »
Hi Tawn,
  When did you adopt Chewy from Under My Wing?
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