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Having babies is so educational and so much fun - NOT!!!
Mommosa had her babies night of 6/7 and 6/8 as she started at 6:30 pm on the 7th and finished up at 3:30 am on the 8th. I hear so many times people not in rescue saying they want to let their dog have babies for educating their kids on the birthing process, or Princess just needs to have one litter etc.... WHY??? All they need to do is to get on the interenet and they can find plenty of birthing videos. Shoot in my opinion, having babies is a nasty, disgusting business unless you are the momma who is gonna love them shriveled up little crying babies. I saw animals having babies when I was a kid and swore then I would never have any babies of my own. YUCK!!! Ruined my momma's chances of EVER having any grandkids from me. Anyway, there are other reasons not to have a dog have babies if you are not a breeder who is breeding to meet the breed standard, better the health of the breed and have a dog with excellent temperament. Ever hear of complications? C-Sections? Dead babies? Puppies stuck in the birth canals? All sorts of nasty things can happen during birth not just all the placenta and afterbirth coming out. Anyway, yesterday I had gotten called for jury duty, what fun! NOT! HOT! Uncomfortable chairs! Boring, since they explained every thing in baby steps and I have sat a jury more than once in the past. So finally didn't get picked and got out of there around 4:30. Did a few errands and got home about 5:30. Checked on Mommosa and she was having a baby!!! OH BOY! Just what I needed after a long hot and tiring day. So we had a little black and white girl puppy. And then Mommosa was being a good little momma and cleaning her up. We waited and waited and waited some more. Finally around 8, I started getting worried cause no other puppy had come out and I thought maybe it was stuck in the birth canal. Mommosa didn't seem to be in any distress, but birthing babies is not on my list of things that make me calm. So I called Dr. Cindy on both office and cell numbers and left voice mails. Then went back to check on Mommosa and she had a puppy halfway out that was cleaned off and already curled around and attached to her back teat sucking. That baby came partially out and was hungry. So I watched and waited and nothing happened. So I started getting worried again. Decided to call Dr. Shelly at home. Left a message on her voice mail. Went back in and the whole puppy was out, but it looked like her stomach was attached to the momma's vulva. Something was not right!! Luckily the phone rings and it is Dr. Shelly. She tells me what to do with rubber gloves and sterile scissors to help the puppy. I am to put on the sterile glove, put some vaseline on it, insert my finger up the vulva and massage gently while gently pulling on the puppy. Once I get it out to where I have an inch of umbilical cord out, I am to use the sterile scissors to snip the cord and to clamp it off. Luckily when I get back in there at 9 something Mommosa is standing up and puppy is dangling with the placenta out and drops out. the momma whips around and eats the placenta before i can get over there. It is gross and disgusting but if you want to watch a dog give birth, that is what you will see. Well that puppy and the first puppy are both really skinny and very very pink, pinker than I have ever seen and I have seen lots of puppies and other critters being born in my lifetime since I am from a rural background. I wait some more. Wray (Dr. Cindy's husband and vet tech) calls and I tell him that one is born finally. So he says since that one is born then to see how it goes and if I need to call her to do so, otherwise bring them in in the morning for a looksee. Talking to Wray is like talking to Cindy and made me feel better about the process anyway. Most of my mommas have their puppies a lot faster than this one did. The next one is born around 10:24 and is also a female and black with white chest. Mommosa takes care of the placenta and I change out her towels so she has clean bedding. She is dripping really nasty looking stuff, but that is normal for birthing although this is darker than I am used to seeing. And we wait some more. Mommosa is not in any distress as i keep watching her for panting. It seems as though she is having slight contractions instead of the heavy contractions I have seen in the past and that may be why it is taking so long in between puppies. Our next black and white female baby is born at 11:45 p.m. So it still looks like she has another one in there, so I wait some more. Finally around 3:21 she has a little black boy with white chest and some white on his paws. He is not doing real well and seems very lethargic after his long delivery. He is breathing though so there is hope for him. I get a bit of nutrical and give him a drop on his tongue. Wait a little bit and do it again about 7 times. Then he starts to liven up a little bit and I put him at Mommosa's breast and he suckles. So I decide it will probalby be an hour or so until she has another one and I sit down to read and fall asleep. When I woke up this morning, I run check on them. Still just 5 babies, but there is greenish black discharge smeared all over and that threw me into a tizzy. The reason being is that from my experience when we have had that happen during birth before and it generally means one of the puppies died in utero and has started disentegrating and poisoning the momma. That usually means they need an immediate c section and good cleaning out with antibiotics. Needless to say, we rushed down to Dr. Cindy's office as fast as we could. Dr. Cindy was in surgery, but she got to her as fast as she could. Dr. Cindy took an xray to verify the number of pups left and to see what she needed to do. Lucky for Mommosa, there wasn't a puppy in there. It was something to do with the placentas. She got a shot and I was told to monitor her. When we got home Mommosa started throwing up some really nasty black green stuff. At first I thought she was pooping it because she did it on the piddle pads when I wasn't in there. Then she threw up in front of me while I was cleaning up the first urp. Lets just say... It was extremely disgusting and I wouldn't have wanted that in my stomach for sure. She threw up about 8 times until she got all that nasty afterbirth placental crap out of her tummy. Then she proceeded to lay down and snooze on and off the rest of the afternoon. The puppies are very tiny, very skinny, very pink and not real thrifty or active. Personally I think they may be a bit premature due to the placental nastiness going on causing them to come early. Plus poor Mommosa was a rack of bones with a huge belly and still is a rack of bones without the huge belly as I have only had her a week. I did start giving her calcium suppliments and good food. Other than that little bit at the end, She had NO prenatal care that I am aware of so the puppies have started lives with a challenge already behind them. Hopefully, they will get better and when their immune systems are due to kick in around 4-6 weeks that we don't get fading puppy syndrome like we have on a few mommas that came in in as bad a shape as Mommosa did. I am giving a drop of nutrical every hour or so to keep them pepped up. I will keep checking on Mommosa's milk to make sure that she is giving enough for them. 2 of the little girls really don't look too good. They are the runts, but not one of them are what I would call big or healthy as they are teeny tiny lil puppers. Anyway, we now have puppies. Please pray that the little ones manage to survive their prenatal non care. Whoever dumped this little momma should be totally ashamed of themselves for the conditon this little girl was in. She is a sweet baby girl too. Thanks for letting me get this off my chest. I hate birthing babies, but being in rescue and taking them as they come, that is just one of the not so lovely perks of my calling. Please folks, have your dogs spayed or neutered. Birth is not something for the squeemish or someone who doesn't know what they are doing as if there are complications you could wait too long and your dog die on you just so you or your kids could see puppies being born that you will have to clean up their poops, get their shots, feed them, and generally make sure they go to a good home which is not always easy to do unless you are one of the people that dump their puppies on anyone they can just to get rid of them. Don't let anyone tell you any different, PUPPIES are a HELL OF A LOT OF WORK. I don't call them poopies for nothing. They pee and poop every 15 minutes when they are this young and they don't care where they pee or poop either. They don't choose the same 15 minutes either so you are constantly cleaning. JOY!!! NOT!!! IF you are really dying to see the miracle of birth then I suggest that you rent a video or google it or watch it on utube as I am sure they got some videos there. That way you can see it and don't have to clean up the mess as I had a washer full of bloody nasty towels to wash. AND I have 8 weeks or more of puppy DOOTY to clean up and deal with. The miracle of birth... is not what it is cracked up to be,in my opinion. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. :) UPDATE - 6/9/10 Hey all, The other little female black one I was worried about has passed. Now another black and white one is looking very weak. The little male and the other black and white one are still nursing, not real active or thrifty looking, but nursing. I am still giving the drop of nutrical on the tongue every now and again to help give them energy. There is not much else I can do. I told Dr. Cindy about it and she said she wouldn’t be surprised if they all pass because she too thinks they were premature and with the lack of prenatal care and the shape the momma was in, there is a good possibility that none will survive even with me doing my thing with the nurtrical. Cindy is more concerned about Mommosa’s welfare than the puppies, because there really isn’t much we can do for them without spending big bux just to lose them anyway. I will keep trying to save them, but there is not a lot of hope right now. :*( But I won't stop trying until the last one is gone. You never know I might save one. So we are watching her and giving her antibiotics. She held her breakfast down I gave her this morning, but If she can’t hold food and water down, Dr. Cindy says to call her tonight to give a status report and bring her in the morning as we are gonna go ahead and spay her and put her on IVs as we don’t want to lose her too. She was trying to get Mommosa in better condition as she is thinking spaying her in the condition she is in would be too hard on her. This girl is nothing but a rack of bones. She weighed a whole 15 lbs with a bellyful of puppies. But she is oh so sweet! I am feeding her several small meals to not overtax her system. I sure hope that I don’t loose mommosa. Please pray that the puppies don’t all die on me and that Mommosa keeps her food and water down. thanks. Posted by Wanda on 08 Jun 2010. |
Teddy is starting his Terrible Twos
 Teddy is my personal Boxer. He is my protector, yet still my baby. We are still working out the rules since in Boxer age he is still a baby. When he passes the 5 year mark, Teddy will have had a good foundation to be as good a successor to my Bruce as any other Boxer could be. I will tell you that Teddy has been an exceptionally GOOD Boxer puppy. He did well in his pet smart classes and for a boxer is very well behaved in my own opinion. He knows 4 on the floor, doesn’t use people as springboards, doesn’t hit me in the back of the knees when he is doing his Boxer burns and always wants to please his momma as well as letting me use him for a footstool. He is good about letting me say “Teddy time is over” and doesn’t keep pestering the crud out of me to play and love on him. There are just a few things that drive me nuts (like BARKING AT THE OUTSIDE CATS), but you know how that is, no boxer is perfect, not even the Bruce was and he was pretty darn perfect in my eyes. J As you know Theodore Roosevelt aka Teddy my baby boy boxer goes with me everywhere and has since I got him just like the Bruce used to. So for his entire life he has known that he is to stay in the van when the doors are opened up unless I tell him “Teddy come”. Then he moves to wherever I am and waits right in front of me so I can attach his leash. He has ALWAYS been REAL GOOD at this particular bit of momma’s eccentric ways as well as stopping and sitting next to the gates and doors to go out so I can put on his leash. Now granted staying in the van has its own interpretation as to whether you are a human or a Boxer. The human momma wants him to keep all his parts in the van at all times unless told otherwise. As far as Teddy is concerned as long as his body and 3 feet are in the van that doesn’t mean that a head or a paw or a busy tongue can’t be harassing and/or bopping people standing outside the van who are trying to load dogs in the crates that Teddy is standing on top of in the head. Most humans laugh and give him the attention that he is so desperately wanting and willing to push in and practically beg for. Then he has to give them enthusiastic Teddy kisses as long as they will let him. I laugh at him and tell him that ain’t staying in the van, but he says oh yes it is. As you know the back of a mini van opens up from the bottom so you can’t see inside when you are opening it up. Keep that in mind. Last Sunday I was meeting Martha, one of my good volunteers who fosters for me. She is fostering old man Joe Collins for me and was meeting me to pick up Black Tartan through his heartworm treatment. We met in the Denton mall parking lot near Barnes and Nobel. I parked out towards the road when the incoming traffic comes in and it was a busy section so Martha could see me easily when she got there. So martha gets there and brings her dogs out of the car to meet Tartan and see if they will get along so she can foster him. So I am opening the back of the van and the door is swinging up and I can’t see anything. Before I get the door up more than about 1 foot, this brindle blur flies down and out past me. There were cars driving behind the van and in front of the van and to the side of the van. I Nearly had a heart attack. Teddy was zipping all over and just so proud that he got out to VISIT and RUN. Thankfully instead of the huge circles that he does at home when he gets out in the car yard after the cats, he was doing tight circles around Martha and she managed to grab him. Thank you Martha!!! Cause he sure wasn’t watching the cars coming and would have been pancaked. Thank GOD he didn’t get hit by a car, the TOOT! Got him back in the car and gave him a REALLY good dressing down and talking to, He knows he did wrong. So now I am back to the mean momma voice saying you had better STAY in that car and you had better get back up there in the front seat NOW commands. Poor boy is gonna be so momma pecked he ain’t gonna know what to do. He gives me these hang dog faces like I didn’t mean it momma, but this is something I really have to reinforce as jumping out of the van whenever he sees something he wants to chase/meet and greet or whatever is not something he can do willy nilly. I go too many places with him. I have to open my back door to the van so I can’t have him darting out like that and I am not gonna crate him to ride with me when Bruce rode shotgun for 14 years and thought that passenger seat was his private seat by right. Gareth always had to ride in the backseat when he went with us. LOL. So now I have a few more grey hairs, but I do have a live Boxer boy. The terrible twos are starting and I hope that I manage to live through them. I don’t want to know what the next out of character thing he is gonna do. I love the boy that is for sure even if he is trying to scare me out of a few years of my life. ? Posted by Wanda on 16 May 2010. |
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Cinco de Mayo Party is a success!
And Heidi was so worried it was gonna rain us out again!! hehehe I am so tired, I can hardly stand it. I haven’t unloaded the van other than dogs and leftover food. I will do that tomorrow, then head back down to Nancy and PM’s to get the rest of the party stuff, Tents, benches, etc. Poor Giggles, Squeeky and Momo are exhausted. They crashed on the way home. They will sleep hard tonight. A tired dog is a GOOD dog. ? ABTR’s Cinco de Mayo party was a success!!! We had a great turn out with Lots of new people as well as a lot of regulars. Dr. Cindy made it. The whole board of directors were there. The rain held off thank goodness. We had boxers, bostons, a beautiful grey poodle, a Bichon, a Scottie and some frenchies. The dogs all had a great time playing and the people all had a good time chatting with other Boston folks and watching the dogs interact. The FOOD was GREAT!!! We had a great set of photographers who took some awesome pictures. Mary Leeper from Colorado brought the finished raffle quilt that has been in the works since 2004 and it is unique and there will never be another one like it. IT IS BEAUTIFUL and surpasses what I was hoping for. We got pix of that and I am not sure when Heidi will put that up on line, maybe in a month or 3. The proceeds from that quilt will go to The Bruce Project (Boston Rescue Ultimate Construction Endeavor). It won’t be a month long raffle since it took us so long to do it, probably up for raffle for 6 months to a year so it will give the word to spread about it and give everyone a chance to see it and tell their friends so we can sell a lot of tickets. Lots of people put hard work in that quilt as it is a very detailed appliqué and has many different breeds of dogs on it, Boxer, English Bulldog, French Bulldog (my Butch is the model), Boston, Pug (Micah’s Mason was the model), Dachshund, Golden Retriever, Dalmatian, Brussels Griffon, Weimeraner, Portuguese Water Dog, Springer Spaniel, Rat Terrier and Schnauzer . We were given permission to make a quilt using Maggie Walker the designers design and to add other breeds of dog blocks to it for the benefit of our rescue. It is now a king sized quilt so could be used as a king or used as a bed spread on a smaller bed. We have given Mary permission to enter the quilt in her Colorado Quilters Guild contest and if it wins a ribbon that will go to the winner of the raffle along with the quilt. We had a great silent auction. It should knock a hole in our vet bill. Woohoo!! I am not sure what we made on it yet, but Heidi has to collect funds from the out of state folks who bid in the online auction. I only bid on one item in the silent auction and I bet that I spent more than anyone, but… I REALLY wanted that Top Hat quilt. Gareth basically gave me permission to bid up pretty high and since I did win, he is giving it to me as my 18th anniversary present early since our anniversary is this month. Can you believe anyone could stand me that many years? It amazes me too! LOL I got 2 new dogs at the party that were brought up from Louisiana and Austin area. And believe it or not, I already got an app on one of them from one of the ladies attending the party. Hehehehe I love it when that happens. We also have a possible new volunteer who has a cute little red boston from Shreveport Louisiana and I am trying hard to talk him into adopting another one as well. LOL I chatted and talked and walked and told dogs what to do, ate, laughed, and just generally had a great doggie day. I kept getting comments they had never seen so many Bostons together. My camera was taking pix of people as they came in so I didn’t get any of the party pix. But… everyone else did and will post to us and Eveline will get them up on the website as she gets them. The photographers took a group photo so you can see most of the folks that were there, but they changed regularly as people came and stayed for an hour and then took off, but it was constant coming and going. I loved it. Thank you all who came to the party and bid in the online silent auction for making our Cinco de Mayo a success. ? Anyone that missed the party is still welcome to make donations to the cause using paypal or mailing a donation to our P.O. Box. The success of this party this means that ABTR can keep on doing what we do and that is rescuing Bostons. ? Thank you so much. Now I am gonna kick off my shoes and go lay down and recuperate from all the excitement of the day with my pooped out pups. ? Posted by Wanda on 01 May 2010. |
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Boring But Busy!
Just another typical day in rescue My life is boring! Dogs, dogs, dogs!!! All I have to talk about is what I do. LOL Anyway got up this morning at 7:30 took a shower, loaded 11 dogs and headed to the vet In Gainesville with Teddy riding shotgun as always after he jumped out of the van while I was loading a dog so he could chase the outside cats for a bit and I finally coaxed him into coming to me for a liver treat, the big turd. He had a long day too and is sacked out in his (MY) chair snoozing. I Let the vet know that I had a transport that I didn’t know what time they were coming through so I might have to stop and head out to meet the transport. I did get most of the dogs vetted but had 3 more to do when the lady who picked up the Yorkie from the transporter who got her from the lady who pulled him for me called. So I stopped and headed down to meet her so she didn’t have to wait for me too long. Met the lady in Denton and picked up the most matted little Yorkie guy you ever want to see. So since I was gonna take 2 of the fuzzies Mingtini and Sweet Nan over to the groomer in Lewisville to be bathed and haircuts to get their mats out, I decided that this one was in worse shape and I would substitute him for Mingtini since he wasn’t badly matted. When I got there Randy the groomer told me that he was matted so close to his skin that there might be pink patches and possible little nicks, but that he would get all the mats off him. (I BET IT TOOK HIM HOURS as this one was BAD matted). Anyway Randy said he would still groom Mingtini too so I didn’t have to drive so far to bring him back and that it would be around 5 or 6 before they were ready to go. What can I say? These fuzzies needed help and no one else was stepping up for them. Mingtini came in with a Boston and I wasn’t gonna just take the Boston and leave his buddy behind to be euthed. So since I was in Lewisville I headed over to the screen place and put in an order for 7 screens with hardware cloth across them to keep the cats and dogs from tearing them up so fast. That way I can have more windows open while it is nice outside and save on electricity as well as keep the damn flies, wasps and other flying nasty critters out of the house. Then I got a call Gareth’s car was ready. So I drove back home, we unloaded all the dogs that had been vetted. Loaded the hubby and took off to Gainesville to get his car. Once there a customer from the Garage stopped me and asked for my card and to see the dogs we had and she chatted a bit. I may have a possible adopter there. Chatted with Reye a bit and got the car paid for, sent Gareth off with the gas cans to get gas so he could mow some on the lawn while I continued my run. Then I went back to the vet, got the other 3 vetted and picked up the 2 Boston girls that I put in to be spayed yesterday. Both girls are heartworm positive. Tiki Tini is older than the 3 years shelter guessed, she had some mammary tumors that Dr. Cindy found while she had her out for her spay and took care of that as well as a few skin lesions. Poor girl has a hell of a load of heartworms too from what Dr. Cindy said. I am thinking we might do the slower treatment on her. She is a precious girl and I don’t want to lose her to the treatment. My little mange baby girl Kis-Kesay is light positive, is miserable as can be from the demodex and IN HEAT no less. We will be keeping her crated for a while so she won’t be bothered by any of the neutered boys with lots of testosterone still in their system. I already have someone interested in adopting her. Our Flying Kangaroo is positive for heartworms as well and with Ottie that makes 4 that will start their heartworm treatment on Monday. She has enough immitacide to do them all thank goodness. ? ALL the other babies were heartworm negative. Yippee Skippee!!! After all that it was getting close to 4:30 so decided since it was about an hour drive with no traffic to Lewisville, I had best get it in gear and head on back down to the groomers to pick up the 3 fluffies. Good thing I did as DFW traffic was doing its worst as usual and we were backed up through Denton. When I got back to the Groomer he told me that I needed to get the Yorkie to the vet as under all those horrible mats that we couldn’t see through, he had some open and infected wounds which he showed me under his neck and on the back of his ear. Since being home, I have washed it out with the surgical wash stuff that Dr. Cindy gave me for Nicky’s open neck wounds and started him on amoxi. I will get him into the vet in the morning. Then when Randy brought out Sweet Nan the Lasha Apso one of his customers cooed over her and asked about possibly adopting her. She took my card and an application. Then Randy asked me if Mingtini was mine and if I was real attached to him as he would like to adopt him. So I left him a card and an application as well. ? So maybe have possible adopters there for those babies. And YEP I was considering keeping the Mingtini as mine as has everyone that has met him since we pulled him from the shelter. But this groomer is a really nice guy and it is just he and his little dog who he thinks would be good with Mingtini. Ming would get a lot of one on one time with him and could go to work with his Daddy. So… I would put my desire to keep the sweetie aside and send him home with someone who could really give him LOTS AND LOTS Of time and attention like that. ;) That is how I lose all my good favorite fosters. I think I am gonna keep them then the perfect adopter comes along and off they go to their new home and I am left here all alone (NOT! Says Teddy and the rest of the crew). LOL DFW traffic was in full rush hour mode when I got them picked up so it took me almost 2 hours to get home. Hurry up and wait you know how that is. Anyway, got home and the babies unloaded, dogs out of crates, watered, fed, and poops picked up. I am one pooped puppy. I need to check emails as I still have to get my day scheduled for tomorrow as I have to go to Denton and check/pull a Boston mix there, then head down to Fort Worth and pick up a Doxie there and meet a lady to hand off the little male Chihuahua I named Taco that I picked up for Hilda yesterday at the Collin County Animal Shelter in McKinney. Hilda, I had his shots, comfortis, Heartgard as well as worming done today. He is heartworm negative! I also got a note about a dog in Ardemore OK needing help so I may have to add that to my to do tomorrow things. I wanted to concrete in my clothes line so I can have fresh smelling like when I was a kid clothes when Granny and I hung the clothes out together, but I may not have time until Sunday. I am not planning on doing any rescue running on Sunday I am staying home gosh darn it. I got things around here I need to do too> ? I still have to get my webpage updated, pix of the dogs taken and on there, descriptions done, and old dogs taken down. It is never ending. ? Anyway, I think I have had a long enough day and I am gonna eat me some supper and go curl up in bed with MY dogs and a few fosters. ? Told you I was boring. ? Posted by Wanda on 09 Apr 2010. |
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Bronson Pinchot my toothless old man Min Pin
A memory shared of my sweet old boy. This morning my little Pinch was passed away in his bed. I knew it was coming and almost put him to sleep at the vets week before I left for Tennessee as he was losing weight, coughing like mad from his heart condition etc. and I thought he was feeling miserable cause I sure hate coughing. But he was still eating, getting around well and wanting me to love him, so…I just couldn’t do it. So we got him some more meds to help with the cough and I brought him home. Most of you remember Bronson Pinchot the little toothless old man Min Pin I pulled from a shelter years ago in 2006 because his pathetic pix spoke to me so I posted him to my abtr list where my volunteer Stephanie in Houston said she would foster. Took me 2 weeks to get him vetted and then handed off to Stephanie. He wouldn’t eat for 5 days and had dropped weight. Seeing he was only 7 lbs, he didn’t have much to drop. Stephanie was worried about him and brought him back to me. He started eating and protecting me fiercely immediately when I got him back. This boy had bonded to me so he decided he was my dog and that was all there was to it. So he became a permanent foster. Gareth and Pinch had a love hate relationship going. Pinch hated Gareth and was always barking at him to let momma know “that mean man is gonna get us momma, watch out for the strange man!” Gareth loved to torment him by walking toward him saying “ I’m gonna get you Pinchot, I’m gonna get you.” All the while Pinch is barking his fool head off and backing up so that dangerous man couldn’t get him. I would have to get on Gareth for messing with Pinch like that. In all the years he lived here, Pinch never did like Gareth and most dogs love GAreth cause he isn’t the typical loud male. When Gareth wasn’t home you didn’t hear a bark out of the Pinch, just when he was home and then it was nonstop barking if Pinch thought he was coming in our area. Pinch was a sweet old man who got along well with all the dogs and cats here. He lived a long life and he was loved by me and Gareth as well. We guessed him around 10 plus years old when we got him, but he could have been older. He had heart issues and was on meds for them. He loved me dearly and was always happy to get his canned food with his kibbles and treats. I will miss the little old fart and his sweet face with that goofy tongue hanging out the side of his mouth. He was a great lil old fart who loved and protected me to his utmost. He was loyal and loving, everything a dog should be. God speed my little Pinch. Momma will miss you. Posted by Wanda on 07 Apr 2010. |
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Wanda's Trek in the SNOW Hey all, I am home safe and sound!! JUST TIRED AS HECK!!! I am sure glad I left yesterday afternoon, if I had left at my normal time I would have never made the transport this morning as after dark the temps dropped and I am sure all that snow and slush turned to ice and was even more treacherous to drivers. As it was my 7 to 7.5 hour trip took me almost 12 hours. It was very nerve wracking driving in the snow and my shoulders where hunched up past my eyebrows with stress quite a few times when the truckers boxed me in and they did that quite regularly and I would have to pull over and relax and chill out for a few minutes before I could continue. There were truckers everywhere and boy did they sling the water up off the road so you couldn’t see hardly at all which was why I was stressing so much. The visibility was cruddy in the day light and got worse as it got dark. There were lots of wrecks and vehicles skidded off in the ditch both yesterday and today. I drove about 35-50 miles an hour versus 70-75 like I normally do. Plus I stopped and topped up the tank when it got to half a tank several times so that I wouldn’t run out of gas if there was a pile up or anything and we were stopped on the road for hours. I have heard horror stories about that. I did take a box of snacks and drinks just in case too as well as dog food and water AND BLANKETS! It was snowing its butt off all the way to Arkadelphia and then it slacked up to Malvern. Once I got to Malvern the roads were clear and the snow stopped so I ziggyied a different way over to Hilda’s in Hot Springs to pick up the dogs as it was 4 lane most of the way that way versus the 2 lane road I usually go, it is just as twisty and up and down as the other, but I had more road to slide on if I started to slide, (you know what I mean) before I hit a ditch. Clear as a bell for about 10 miles and then it started snowing again, but nothing like what I had come out of, it was easy snow. So, I got her babies last night and that rat terrier did NOT like being in the crate when MY personal dogs and I were snoozing once we hit Cracker Barrel and were waiting for the transport to get there. He barked and let me know he wanted out with everyone else, so I didn’t get much sleep after I got to Little Rock. I did get a couple of hours I think in bits and pieces. At least I wasn’t as tired as I usually am on the way home and didn’t have to stop for a snooze at the rest stop like I usually do with my 5 protectors. I did stop and potty Teddy, Harpo, Giggles, and the Boingy boys, Momo and Squeeky. They were not real thrilled about the snow up to their bellies. Poor Squeeky lifted his leg up as far as he could and just rested that foot on top of the snow while he peed. LOL Teddy didn’t have that problem. He likes snow, but his willie ain’t draggin in it either. It was pretty clear in Arkansas until I got to Texarkana on the way back and then it looked real snow stormy in the sky the rest of the way home, but didn’t hit any snow. Lots of traffic and did hit some ice on the way home on the secondary roads to my house, but other than that the roads were clear of ice, but very wet and some slushy crap and throwing dirt on the windshield I will have to get some more wiper fluid I used so much. Everyone said the snow melted a lot today. I still have about 9-10 inches on the ground and you could tell that it had melted back from the house at the back door and the snow was wet and water was running off the roof so I wonder how much I really got while I was gone. On the way back, I stopped and met Donna and picked up our new Collin County boy. You can’t say I don’t pack as much into a trip as I can. LOL He is BEAUTIFUL. She named him Action Jackson. A pretty very skinny brindle guy who is 2 years old. I am so tired I can’t remember if he was an owner surrender or what at the shelter. I will look it up later. Anyway, I know a bunch of you were worried about me, so I thought I would let you know I was home safe and man oh man am I glad to be home. It is almost like I have no dogs in the house with just the 14 fosters many of whom are old farts and my personal dogs because I have had so many for so long. I am gonna enjoy it and hope they don’t start coming out of the woodwork. My Louisiana folks picked up the Hammond girl last night and she is a purebred. We will get her transported up this way next weekend and I can give you more info then on her. I am fixing to pick up poop cause you KNOW that no one can go outside and poop in COLD white stuff that is up past their bellies. Jeez, prima donnas!!! then I will fix a bite to eat and hit the bed. HUGS, Wanda Posted by Wanda on 12 Feb 2010. |
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Happy New Year
Things are busy as ever. Last year ended with a Bang and this year is taking off like a rocket! Killeen, Harlingen, NRH, dogs all came in New Years Eve. Then we got notified about another mange dog needing us today, so we got Ascension Louisiana, Monroe Louisiana and Wylie Texas incoming as soon as we can arrange transport and they are available. To top that off, I had several calls on the voicemail where owners wanted to surrender their dogs. Right now ABTR is not taking owner surrenders, we are concentrating on the shelter dogs that are gonna die without us. This year I was planning on trying to reduce the number of fosters so I could have a little bit of a breather after the year we had last year. Don’t look like that is happening any time soon. ? But I did get to stay in my house without going anywhere from the 24th until the 30th. It was heaven!!! I didn’t realize how tired I was until I stopped going. I even got to take naps with the dogs and they loved it as did I. I took one or 2 a day. I planned on not going anywhere until the 2nd, but emergencies happened as always. I really need to do that for a MONTH to recharge I think cause I am still very tired. But the dogs need me so what can I do, but grab rest when I can. Anyway, I thought I would share that our Harlingen boy Absolute Hunk aka Lutie is in very sad shape. I would like you guys to say some prayers for him. I have been working all day on his webpage. Why that shelter did not contact a rescue sooner for him or at least take him to a vet even though they don’t have one on staff is one of life’s mysteries to me. Here is his webpage and I am telling you the photos are as bad as Nicky’s so if you have a weak stomach don’t read after about ½ way down the page cause that is where the graphic pix are at. http://americanbostonterrierrescue.org/SpecialDogs/AbsolutHunk/Lutie.htm This year is the year, I think that Heidi is gonna start trying to fundraise to help us build a shelter for the Bostons. That way we can help more dogs. I will work up a webpage for our plans for that when I have some time too and post it, but it may be a month or so. If any of you have any ideas on fundraising to build a shelter and about how much it costs to build one so we can set a goal, I sure would appreciate the information. I am praying that 2010 will be a year that more people take responsibility for their pets and don’t dump them in the shelters or elsewhere. That it will be a year that more shelter dogs get good homes who love and spoil them. That it will be a year that donations flow freely so that we can get our shelter built. That it will be a year that more folks decide to volunteer to foster, transport, draw, do graphics, join the Board of directors and take some responsibility off my shoulders. And that it will be a year in which jobs start returning to the US, more people have hope and a job as well as a place to live. Hugs, Posted by Wanda on 02 Jan 2010. |
TEDDY HAS A NEW NICKNAME!
 Teddy Roosevelt earns a new nickname. In all the excitement of meeting Margaret and Nick from Florida with some of the other ABTRfriends folks for dinner, I forgot to tell you guys this story. Everyone knows Theodore Roosevelt aka Teddy my baby boxer boy. Although Teddy is usually known as Ted the destroyer, on Wednesday night he earned a new nickname. Ted the protector! He is gonna protect his momma, no matter what the threat if he perceives it to be one. Setting the stage: I am in the bathroom with Teddy, Giggles, Harpo, Squeeky and Momo and everyone else is locked out behind the doggie gate so they can see in, just not be under my wet feet when I step out of the shower. My personal dogs have to feel special you know. ? They are the only ones that can move at just the right moment as I am stepping out of the shower so I nearly break my neck to keep from stepping on them. It has been cold and we had a small warm spell up to like 50 degrees that day. I had the gas logs and other heaters working still cranked up so it was toasty warm so I could shower and not get cold. The Bostons were loving it and had promptly appropriated the towel that I lay out to step on when I get out of the shower and were laid out soaking that heat up. I have proceeded to get undressed, don’t have my glasses on as I have taken them off so I can shower and they are in the bedroom, not the bathroom. Something hits me in the back which freaks me out as I know there aren’t any possible ghosts in my house cause this used to be a cow pasture. So I let out a screech and for those who don’t know me my normal talking volume is loud and my screech is ear splitting. Ted jumps up in instant protection mode. Where is the threat and I will run over and bark at it acting all tough. Well I look around and don’t see anything that could have fallen on me, don’t see any plaster off the ceiling on the floor, so I decide I am imagining things or my nerves are doing strange ticks making me think something has touched me as that happens sometimes. I go ahead and hop in the shower leaving Ted on what the hell is going on mode and listening for whatever he needs to be listening for with his head cocked looking out the doorway. The Bostons are laying in front of the heater on the towel and starting to go to sleep cause that is what they do at shower time and they know Teddy is always doing something stupid that don’t rate any Boston attention when there is good snoozing to be had. Get done with my shower and am drying off when I notice Ted poking something on the floor over next to the sink with his nose, then slapping the hell out of it with his feet. Ted is very touchy feely and uses them feet for everything so that is nothing unusual, but then he would jump backwards about a foot and then go back in and poke it with his nose and slap it with his feet again. I watched him for a minute before it hit me that he hadn’t caught a mouse cause he usually gulps them down if he catches one (YUCK!!!!) I hate it, but we have mice that come in cause we live in middle of cow pasture and I am always trapping them as I can’t use poison with the dogs and cats. Anyway, it finally dawns on my tired brain that he ain’t playing with a mouse over there, so I go over to figure out what the hell the goofy idiot was playing with now. I figured he had managed to get something from my quilting down on the floor that he shouldn’t have like usual and it had a pin in it. Now remember I didn’t have my glasses on and I can’t see worth a crap without them and I am NEKKID from the shower. I get over and Teddy is trying to keep his body between me and what he perceived to be a threat to me, while I was thinking that he was trying to keep me from taking his new toy away. Have you ever had a boxer keep his body between you and what he don’t want you near? Well, I can tell you it is hard to move em cause they are STRONG. But I finally get him moved back after tussling with him a minute, I loose my towel and bend down so I am close enough to see what he was messing with. OMG!!! It is a YELLOW JACKET!!! Instant reaction is to stomp on the damn thing before it can sting me. In less than a second I am in the process of bringing my NEKKID foot down on a pissed off yellow jacket ready to sting the snot out of me before I realize that HOLY CRAP!!! I AM STOMPING A YELLOW JACKET WITH NO SHOES ON!!! Hey my fight or flight reflexes work just fine I am telling you! The old lady brain is just a little slower than natural animal instinct! Luckily the Boxer is faster than my animal instincts as he popped his paw out at the damn thing again at just the right time and I stomped on Teddy’s foot instead of the yellow jacket. Teddy didn’t even bat an eye that momma was stomping on him. He wanted to get that yeller jacket and was prepared to snag it with his foot and drag it away from the momma. Needless to say, I didn’t try and stomp on the damn thing again cause the brain was finally working. I got my house shoe and did the tussle with Teddy again as he wasn’t gonna let me near that thing that kept stinging him. Yellow Jackets can sting over and over and over again. They don’t lose their stingers like Bees do when they sting. Finally got Teddy pushed back and I proceeded to beat that yellow jacket to death with my house shoe!!! I put in a good 20 or 30 whacks just to be sure he was dead. Never knew I was such a vicious killer bitch, now did you? Better watch out cause I am bad news!! Especially if you are a bug!!! LOL I managed to get several layers of paper towels and get the Yellow Jacket picked up and thrown away. I had to check Teddy over, but he didn’t have any welts developing and looked and acted fine. I gave him a double dose of benydryl just in case. If the damn thing had stung me I would have had welted up reactions for weeks as I am allergic to them. Ted was not real happy that I removed his new enemy that he was pounding the crap out of and then poking with his nose to see if it was dead from his fervent boxer attacks, but once he started getting his hot dog with benydryl in it, he forgave me. Teddy is real good that way and he loves his momma even when she does crazy things. What a brave boy!!! So as I said, Teddy has earned his new nickname of Ted the protector. I am so proud!!! LOL Good boy Teddums. That’s MY BOY!!! Posted by Wanda on 01 Jan 2010. |
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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
My holiday message to you! I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I hope that everyone gets to where they need to be for Christmas and spend it happy with family and friends or alone doing what you like to do if that is your preference. May you have the best Christmas for YOU and not what anyone else thinks Christmas should be. Enjoy old traditions or make new ones. Remember that Christmas is a season of joy and be happy. Christmas is what you make of it. If you believe it is a special time of year, then it will be, no matter what happens. So believe in the Christmas spirit for it lives within you. Yesterday and the day before when I was out running around, I wished everyone I passed a Merry Christmas with a big smile on my face. Some of the people looked very harried and like they weren’t having a good day. But you know what? EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM smiled back at me and wished me a Merry Christmas too. I know that it made me feel the season more joyfully. Sometimes we get so busy trying to do so much before Christmas that we forget to feel and share the joy of the season. I remember when I was younger folks were always wishing each other Merry Christmas. Now it seems like no one does. It is sad when this season is supposed to be a celebration of life and love that is shared. So do your part and spread a little Christmas joy by wishing someone a Merry Christmas! Share that Christmas spirit! As most of you know, Gareth and I are separated this Christmas with him in Wisconsin and me here. But we are both joyful that he has a new job and do not regret that he is working up there. We will talk on the phone tonight and tomorrow and that will make our Christmas brighter even though we will miss each other being together for the holiday. It is snowing here amazingly and the gas logs are blazing. The house is warm and comfortable. It is quiet as there is not much traffic out on the road. It is very peaceful with the dogs lazing around after our dashing through the snow a little while ago. Later on I will put on some Christmas carols and begin to make my Christmas dinner for tomorrow. I plan on opening all my Christmas cards that I received tonight and putting them up next to the fireplace. In the morning I will get up and give out the big hard chewy bones that I got for each of the dogs for Christmas. It will be a crunching on new toys festival tomorrow as I have a lot of young babies who love toys and those hard chew bones. I will even hand out some stuffies and it will look like it snowed in the house as well as outside. I will also hand out more of the goodies that my friend Lisa sent for them to have for Christmas as treats. Then I will fix a plate of food and the dogs and I will hit the bed and watch Christmas movies all day all nice and warm and snug in bed in my Christmas jammies. I know that is not a traditional Christmas, but it is one that I really enjoy. So I leave you with this wish on Christmas Eve, I wish you all the Merriest of Christmases!!! Enjoy your Christmas and feel and share the love that is there. Hugs, Wanda Posted by Wanda on 24 Dec 2009. |
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December 18th 2009
Just another busy day in rescue! I didn't get everything done I wanted. There was horrible traffic EVERYWHERE ALL DAMN DAY LONG!!! GEEZ... My butt is whooped. I didn't get back home until 6:30 or so. I got up early and got paperwork ready to take 10 dogs to the vet and Pinwinnie to the airport. AS you know the airport is 1.5 hours from me when there is traffic and soemtimest longer. I got all the dogs loaded and off to the airport we went. The girl was hateful to me at American because I didn’t have a reservation (the other girls told me not to make one as it was easier for them to input stuff rather than having to change stuff that the phone folks got wrong). Probably didn’t want to be working. I got Pinwinnie there early and called and let Tracy know she was dropped off. Then off to North Richland Hills through the traffic to pick up the 13 year old man that the owners dumped at the shelter for the holidays because they were moving. Yea right, probably going out of town for the holidays and didn’t want to pay boarding or anything else for the dog. Bitch ain't I? He was totally freaked out at the shelter and when the other dogs started barking he started growling. I got him out and he climbed into the crate in the van without a bit of protest. He is bigger than he looks in the pix I got, but that is ok. I like them big ol boys. He had a big old 1 inch or more wide buckle collar on him that I have now taken off and put a NICE LUPINE purple swirly collar on him instead. While I was eating my sammich as soon as I got home he was sitting on my foot leaning back into me. He seems to be ok with the other dogs. Does have some hairloss going on, don't know if it is fleas, allergies, idiots who left him outside or what, but we will get that addressed. My camera bag came in so I drove up to Flower Mound to pick it up at Wolf camera, that is the closest one to me. Now my new camera has padding!!! Traffic everywhere on the way there and out of there. Construction everywhere. Arrrghhh... Then off to Collin County to pick up the scared boy. This boy was scared in the shelter and is a bit timid, but once home he has been very attention houndy. He is jet black with just a couple of white toes, a thin white stripe up his nose and a white strip from under his jaws down his chest on down his belly. He is gorgeous. Reminds me of Fosters that Rene adopted from me a few months back only with a kinked tail versus fosters longer tail. Gets along ok with the other dogs. Then back to the traffic and over to Denton to pick up my crate that I had dropped True Trixie and her babies off at the vet in and to pay off that vet bill for them at Dr. Wrights. Then remembered I put the Christmas Cards in the van and stopped at the Post Office in Valley view and I just got the stamps bought and they were closing up behind me. But.... I did get my Christmas cards in the mail TODAY!!! So I am still ahead of the game instead of mailing them out on December 24th like I have a few years when my time wasn't enough to get everything done. These cards only rode around in the van for what 3-4 days? Oh and the dogs stepped on the top of them so they are sending their Christmas greetings too if you see a dirt smudge on the envelope. Got that done. Called Dr. Cindy and told them I wasn’t gonna be able to get there before they closed to get all done for the 10 dogs I had in the van and the 2 new ones so would have to come next week with them. But I did need some clavamox and some revolution and she put that out in our spot for me to pick up. So I drove on up to Gainesville and picked that up. Then I finally got to drive back home. Then get everyone unloaded and check to see how everyone gets along, pick up poops, water the goats, feed the cats, you know all the normal stuff that you gotta do. Only to have Tracy call me to let me find out that PINWINNIE was NOT on the flight. Somehow or another she missed it. ARrrgghhh.... So she is going on a later flight. I imagine that snotty girl that checked her in didn’t know what the hell she was doing and didn’t input something right. Bitchy ain't I? Anyway now I am on pins and needles hoping she gets there ok. But... I do have another bit of good news tonight!!! Leigh Ann who is fostering 12 year old Cooper has decided that she loves him and can't bear to let him go to anyone else. So... he is gonna be her dog. Isn't it great??? Another one of my old farts is gonna have a forever home!!! Isn't that wonderful? Please keep up those prayers for my old farts to find new homes cause they sure are working. Thank you all for your support and listening to me rant and rave about idiots dumping their old dogs etc. OH and Spanky the old guy from NRH knows his name so he will stay Spanky. Now I just have to think of a black liquior or something to name our boy from Collin County. I am fixing to hit the hay and start all over tomorrow. HUGS Posted by Wanda on 18 Dec 2009. |
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Whew! What a Week!!!
And I am soooooo glad it is over!!! The Trip to Nebraska on Monday and Tuesday (Thank you Nebraska BT Rescue for taking some dogs), Vetting lots of dogs on Wednesday and out all day, Thursday trip to Graham and keller then Gainesville to the vet and getting Gareth's car inspected and new tags, Friday, Trip to Tyler and trying to get Gareth all ready to leave to go to Wisconsin, and today up at 5:30 am and then off to Richardson for an all day event. My arse is dragging my tracks out!!! WHEW!!! GOOD NEWS is my Velvet Moose, the sweetest big brindle boy you could ever meet was ADOPTED today. One of my previous adopters lost their Corey Haim/Buster to lymphoma earlier in the year and conatacted me to let me know they were ready to adopt again. I told them where we would be today and Adam the husband came by and met our Moose. You could tell he was in “LOVE”! Adam said he was gonna go get his wife (a vet who was working today) and bring her over to meet him on her lunch hour. Since they also have a cat and I knew him, I just told him to take Moose home and visit with him, see how he got along with their cat and meet his wife, then bring him back when he was done. He wasn’t gone 2 hours and he was back telling us they were in love and the boy was staying with them. I figured that when I let him take him home. LOL I am sneaky ain’t I? So that is good news. Bad news is as late as it is and tired as I am, I still have to feed dogs and cats, clean crates and medicate everyone. So…. I won’t be on here but to send out this message. I have something to do Sunday, but right now I am too tired to remember. BUT I DO KNOW THAT I AM SLEEPING LATE tomorrow and then starting on the pickup and rearrange everything back to my liking after I walk dogs etc that has to be done when I wake up. Thanks to Martha, Lisa, Kristi, Jim, Janet and someone else, but I can’t remember that helped me today> I was about whipped. Thanks to Heidi for working so hard to fundraise for us as well. I handed out lots of cards and reconnected with a lot of other rescue folks I know and work with. So all in all it was a good day although yesterday morning I was of a mind to say heck I am too tired to go. LOL Sunday - My late sleeping didn't work out as I planned. The bedroom dogs decided they had to go out and wouldn't just use the piddle pads, I have laid out for that purpose. Doggone dogs were barking and yodeling and making a racket. So I got up at 8. The other good news I have to share with you is that Gareth (the husband) got a job finally after 6 months of unemplyment. The pay sucks and he is gonna be working in Wisconsin in the WINTER, but I am grateful that he has a job!!! YEAH!!! Please pray that it lasts for years!!! I just thought I would jot this blog down real quick as I have lots of cleaning and stuff to do since I was gone a lot this week and you know the other half never does it the way you do it. LOL Now I am off to clean crates. Thank you all for caring enough to read about the crazy rescue lady. :) HUGS, Wanda Posted by Wanda on 08 Nov 2009. |
Pre-Birthday Message and Jack Daniels' Web Page
 Hey all,I got Jack Daniels page done. I will get it linked into the website and then I think I am off the computer for the night. I was trying to get another couple of dogs descriptions done today, but this one took me a while cause I been fiddling with the doggone 3 things in a row at the top and they danced all over the place and still ain't cooperating. So I will continue with descriptions on the new ones on Monday. The new boy we picked up today I think we will name Roswell. He is a sweet guy and gorgeous too. Eveline HELP!!! For the life of me I can't get that doggone donate button to be at the top in a line with the other 2 logos. It is off kilter and is driving me crazy. Can you fix it for me? And tell me what I did wrong? Thanks. OH and please don't expect me to talk to anyone tomorrow. It's my birthday, I am gonna have a don't answer the phone or go any doggone where computer free day where all I am gonna do is lay in bed and cuddle with my dogs and watch TIVO shows I've been recording and have not had time to watch. Well... I will get up to go potty and to eat the wonderful dinner that Gareth is gonna cook for me and eat the BEST MOST WONDERFUL moist toasted coconut CAKE IN THE WHOLE WORLD that Lisa made special for me and gave to me today!!! Thank you so much you know how much I love your cake, Lisa!! I stopped at the store today and they had ribeyes on sale and I got 2 small ones for $7. I know expensive, but it is my birthday and I love ribeyes. So I am gonna have grilled ribeyes, baked taters, and a salad that Gareth is gonna fix for me and then CAKE... LOTS AND LOTS OF CAKE!!! YUM YUM YUMMY IN MY TUMMY!!! LOL I will be one spoilt stuffed happy girl tomorrow!!! Hehehehe Nite all. HUGS Wanda Posted by Wanda on 10 Oct 2009. |
Our annual Swelterfest
 Swelterfest like all the events we have had this year unfortunately had rain on the day of the party. Since we had to reschedule from September 12th due to a deluge on that day, and the threatening rain, there were not as many attendees as usual. I was very proud that Barbara, Barry and Laura from NTBTR showed up to help support us. Although, I was very disappointed that a lot of the ABTR regulars who are not my volunteers did not show up to support us as they had stated they would. But even without a crowd of people, we did have a crowd of dogs who were happy to run around and mingle, bark at the jackrabbit, and manage to cajole folks into giving them GOOD tidbits from the people plates. The humans enjoyed the frozen drink machine, the food, the dogs, the other doggie people and bid in the silent auction. Our fundraising for the enourmous vet bill we have right now was not as good as we had hoped because there wasn't a good turnout of people. But Heidi had a wonderful showing of stuff all set out beautifully that we had to move into the garage to prevent damage from the rain. I am very proud of her hard work on this event as well as proud that Denise organized and let ABTR use her home and yard for this event. Thank you both very much! I appreciated those wonderful folks that turned out and brought all the delicious food that we enjoyed. You guys are what keeps me going when we have so many incoming dogs and I feel like I am overwhelmed. With your support, I know that I am doing something worthwhile in helping these wonderful little dogs. Thank you for always being there when the dogs need you. You do NOT know how much I appreciate all of you! View some impressions of this day in our photo album! Posted by Wanda on 08 Oct 2009. |
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