Cecil says "Thanks!"

Just want to say THANK YOU to all of you who have made donations and forwarded info on about Cecil. I can't wait until he can run!!

Trouble making a donation for Cecil?

Seems there may not be a place to mark it for Cecil on the AFTR site...but please don't give up! You can still make a tax-deductible donation for Cecil by going to the Fox Terrier Network's Rescue Fund and put "Rescue Fund for Cecil" in the description box when you make a donation using paypal.



Again, thank you to all my doggie pals and their people for helping so much with Cecil. I can't wait until the little fella can see---he's going to be unstoppable!
You all are the bestest...there's no way around it!

Meet Cecil

I want you all to meet our new foster dog; his name is Cecil. His name was Skeeter, but he told mom and dad that he didn't like that name much!



Anyway, do any of you know why his name is Cecil? It's because the meaning of Cecil of "blind" and low and behold, this fella is!



Cecil (formerly Skeeter) has a pretty unfortunate story. Seems Cecil, who is 6 years old had a family of his own once and when his mom and dad didn’t get along any longer and decided to divorce, seems poor Cecil got stuck in the middle of it all. He was left chained in a garage, sometimes for days upon end until he became a malnourished ball of mats and sores. Just look at the pictures of poor Cecil still locked in that terrible garage before he came to rescue. Under all that fur, he was covered in terrible sores and he was underweight. Imagine that! Me, big Mackie boy that I am cannot imagine being under weight-hehehe!







Anyway, the man in the family knew that Cecil wasn’t being cared for and when he was approached, he agreed to release him to rescue. Cecil needed lots of cleaning and they had to shave him down to get all the mats off. He had to have prednisone and other meds to take care of all the sores on his body and his ear infections due to malnourishment. With all his vaccinations updated, a good round of medications and some good food for a change, Cecil is the picture of health these days. His skin is almost completely clear (mom is still giving him medicated baths and some topical spray for some redness in his armpits) but he looks great- don’t you think?

Problem for poor Cecil is that he’s blind. Well, he has about 10% vision total- he can see light, but pretty much can’t make out shapes or faces or anything. He walks into everything and mom guides him when they are walking---she’s his seeing eye person! Heheh!

The good news for Cecil is that it’s only cataracts which are keeping him from having eyesight. The bad news is that it looks like the surgery is about $3000 to get him “repaired.” Urgh! No way mom and dad can swing that! So, mom would like to ask all my doggy pals and their families to help if you can!

We really think that baby Cecil should have a shot at a normal life. He’s already had it so bad and he’s only 6 years old, as you all know is pretty young for a WFT. And Cecil is a really great boy! He’s housebroken, crate trained, gets along with other dogs (as a matter of fact, he loves other dogs!) loves kids, all people, walks well on a leash, is really gentle and loving and mom says is one of the sweetest WFT’s she’s ever known.

If you can, will you help us get Cecil’s eye’s fixed? Please donate in Cecil’s name directly to American Fox Terrier Rescue or to the Fox Terrier Network's Rescue Fund
Both of those links have info about where to send donations and have a paypal button for instant help! But please remember to mark it for Cecil or he may not get it. Thanks so much for any help you can give! It means all the world to Cecil and to all us wires!

Dottie has a new family!

I meant to tell everyone that sweet little Dottie went to a new home on April 11. She got a fantastic new home in North Carolina with a terrier experienced family and two wonderful kids. Yippee!! Here she is with the kids in her new family. Doesn't she look happy?? By the way, she is no longer called Dottie Sue, she is now Dottie Grace...how sweet!




It's the really busy time of the year for my mom. She's really busy at work and everything so I'm not even going to harass her for not letting me online more to do my blogging.
I still have my ear infection. Thanks to you all for asking bout it. Momma and Dad took me to the vet and he said I had a bunch of different types of bacteria in my ear and had yeast too. So he put me on an antibiotic and gave me an oral anti-yeast pill to take. Also, mom was putting drops in my ears which I didn't particularly care for. Anyway, it seemed for a few days that I was getting better, but now that the medicine is over, it's back. So, momma said I have to go back to the vet again this week. Bummer.

Hope all my blogger pals are doing well!
Hugs, Mackie

It's getting busy around here!

Now that you all have had a chance to meet Ozzie (who by the way is NOT living with us) you can all meet little Miss Dottie Sue who IS living with us.


Dottie Sue is staying with us until Mommy can find her a new family to live with. She came from a breeder in PA and was lucky to have lived in a nice home with people who loved her. Mom says she is a nice little thing, but Finnegan told me that sometime she growls at him and is a bit nasty. I've come to figure out that those female wires can be a bit bossy! Mom doesn't let me ever visit with the foster dogs since I am not too nice to other dogs so she keeps them safely away from my bite!! heheheh!

Anyway, Dottie Sue is a petite little 14 pound cutie. I've seen her go by when mom has been taking her outdoors and she is a cute little thing. She has cried when mom leaves her by herself and I feel bad for her, but we have to have mom to ourselves some too.
Momy says that Dottie Sue has to go to the vet on April 7 to get 'fixed'. I asked mommy what that means and she says they will make it so she can't have little WFT puppies.
I had to go to th vet last Friday cause my ear infection is back and mommy tried everything to get rid of it. The vet says it was a sesspool of bacteria in there and has given me a slew of medicine to take which is icky, but I hope my ear feels better soon!

Meet Ozzie!

Hi all! You all know my mommy is involved with American Fox Terrier Rescue, so she asked me to tell you all about a fella named Ozzie who needs a home. Ozzie is an 11 year old wire and is a perfect gentleman. Unfortunately, his parents got divorced and now Ozzie'a life isn't what it used to be. He lives with his mommy, but she works all the time and Ozzie is always alone. So, Ozzie's mom has decided that he needs a new family. I know that 11 may sound like an old dog, but first of all, look at that dude! He's a stud! I wish I were in that kinda shape! And besides, we just start getting good at about 8 years old (my mom always says that and it makles me feel good since I'm 8 now!)
Ozzie is crate-trained, perfectly behaved, gets along with other dogs, cats and all people.
If you or someone you know may want to open your home and heart to a sweet senior boy, please contact my mommy at wiredformackie@yahoo.com

Please help Fox Terrier Rescue!

Do you see the link on right of the screen that says please vote for Zazoo?? Well, please do it! If Zazoo wins, American Fox Terrier rescue could win up to $10,000 and believe me we really need the money AND your help to win! So, please vote and spread the word!

Thank you!!

Checkin' in!

Me and mommy haven't been so good about updating my blog lately. Seems mom is always really busy and these days, I prefer just to take it easy on the sofa.
We had a wonderful holiday and had two foster dogs through the holidays. We had the cute little girl Gabby who mom and daddy took to PA to live with a new family. She was a nice little girl and very petite maybe weighing about 13 lbs. Teeny by my standards! She is doing really well with her new family who reported to mom that they are "besotted" with her--whatever that means....here is a picture of little Gabby in her seatbelt and bed in the car on the way to her new forever home. Doesn't she look happy?


Anyway, we also had Boomer here---you all remember Boomer from Axel's bog, don't you? Well, dear Axel and his folks were kind enough to open their homes to Boomer for us since we already had Gabby here. Boomer came to stay with us and finally ended up living with a wonderful family right here in Maryland. These are also really great people and truly love little Boomer and didn't mind that he was a little wild wire fox. Truly, Boomer was a beautifully behaved little guy for being a year old, but wires will be wires and we all are a bit high maintenance.

That's about it for now, but I do want to ask everyone to join us in praying big prayers for Bogart's daddy who is very, very ill and on life support. Bogart and his mommy really want him home soon, so please help us pray to the big dude upstairs!



Hugs!
Mackie

Happy Holiday's!

Just wanted to wish all my doggie pals and their families a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and Happy New Year!

My mommy and daddy have off the week between Christmas and New Year’s so I am happy that we will have a lot of family time, but we have a very busy week planned.

Mommy picks up a new foster doggy on Saturday, Gabby and we think we have her only a few days before they are going to transport her to western PA to meet her new family. This is Gabby-







And of course, many of you already know that Daniella, Ron and Axel are already “keeping” a little boy wire for us, named Boomer. We will need to go to Philly and get Boomer and bring him home this week too. Finnegan is happy to think he has a wild puppy to play with since he is a wild puppy himself! Anyway, mommy is working hard to find a good home for Boomer too and it looks really promising. This is Boomer-








Anyway, I hope you all have a blessed holiday season!

It's my birfday!!

IT'S MY BIRFDAY!!! hahahahha! I'm 8 years old in people time today. Mom says sometimes I act like I'm 50 and sometimes I act like I'm 2.
This morning I'll go to grandma and grandpa's house (my daily routine during the week) to be spoiled and then tonight I'll come home to be spoiled by mom and dad. There better be presents...and Ice cream...oh, yeah, and Pizza....and maybe a squirrel---now THAT would be a fun birfday! heheheh!

Update!!

Sorry I've been so bad about writing lately. Let me try a quick update. Little Missy who I wrote about has gone to her new home and things seem to be working out well there. She lives with a nice woman in Wilmington, Delaware (home of Joe Biden by the way!) and has a welsh terrier brother named Truman. Isn't that great? Finnegan missed her like crazy for a week. Mom says she thinks that having foster dogs is hardest on poor Finey cause he loves to romp and play with all that come through here.
On the "prayers needed" side, do you all remember the sweet puppy we had here over the spring named Basil? Of course you do! Basil was a great lil' pup and quickly became my dad's favorite of the litter. Here are a few pics of Basil.






Anyway, Basil is 11 months old and we got a call that he has something called Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease (LCP) which is a disorder of the hip joint. He is scheduled for surgery on Monday, November 24. The surgery is fairly serious and severe so I ask everyone to please join us in praying for our dear little Basil.

The Best Day of the Year?

Yesterday Mom and Dad and Finnegan went to the Montgomery Kennel Club Show outside of Philly. Mom says it's her favorite day of the year! (Can't imagine that it is better than my birthday, but whatever.)
Mom and Dad were particularly happy to meet Finnegan's father for the first time. He is Dalriada's The Boss, they call him Bruce.




Boy, is he ever a handsome fella and Mom says she thinks the Finnegan has his daddy's expression. Dad says that Brice and Finnegan behaved similarly and says it was funny to watch Bruce jump into his momma's arms just like Finney does with our Dad. Bruce's breeders are Cara Campbell and Mike Doleski and they were there and shared a lot of info with mom and dad. Mom says that they were very nice and that Finney's breeder, Mary Raggett from Edenshire was there too and it was so nice to see her again.







Mom and Dad also got to see Casey and Bebe---you may remember that Casey was a rescue dog that was here with us for a very short time. Mom and Dad said he is doing really well and that he and Bebe (who I think is the cutest little girl I've ever seen) get along really well. Bebe hasn't been feeling real great lately, so it was nice to see her well.

Below is a picture of some of the Fox Terrier Network and WireFoxTerrier group friends. The dogs from left to right are Finnegan with my dad, Lucy with her mom, then it's Bebe being held by her mom, Casey led by his daddy, and Abby in the Eagle's jersey with her mommy.
You probably can't tell form the picture, but my daddy has a Fox Terrier Network T-shirt on..heheheh! Good promotion dad!!



Anyway, they all had a wonderful time there at the show and Finney came back struttin' his stuff last night showing off. Brat! Dad says that Finnegan's registered name should be Edenshire's Moving Violation...heheehehhe!!

Introducing Missy

I wanted to introduce everyone to the latest temporary addition to the househould. Missy is a little girl wire who was pulled form a breeder in Ohio and we've had her for a few weeks now. She is a pretty little girl, and has a nice, very loving personality. She was a breeding dog and we've had her spayed so she doesn't have to worry about having little babes any longer.



Despite the fact that Missy is very loving, she is very scared of men, which, of course makes things pretty difficult around here, with the fact that I have a daddy living here and all. She has really come out of her shell and will run in the basement or backyard with Finnegan and play hard and she's pretty good at playing with him too.



Mom says she is very, very smart and has a keen desire to please, so she is making really good headway on her housebreaking skills--now if we could just get her to deal with daddy's! She turned 6 years old on Tuesday, and I was happy for her that she got to have her birthday in a good place.

Thanks guys!

Just want to say thank you to everyone for sending such nice emails to my blog and to mommy about my ears.

Mom has been doing a lot of reading about special allergy diets for me and has a call into my doctor about it. She is also going to talk to him about putting me on long term steriods- won't I be the big beefy dude then! heheheh!

Mom has already had me tested for low-tyroid, but it came back normal. Well, on the low side, but not low enough for medication according to the docs. Anyway, this really surprised mom cause she was sure I was a thyroid dog- whatever THAT is suppsed to mean.

Mom and dad are leaving on Saturday to go to San Diego for a week and me and Ollie are going to be staying with grandma and grandpa. Mom said something like I should enjoy it, cause I may not get to go back to grandma and grandpa's for awhile. Mom seems to think she needs to have complete control over my diet for awhile to try to get my allergies in check and she says she thinks I eat all kinds of stuff at the grandparents. It's not true, I say! I pleaded and pleaded, but mom says unless the doc has something really good up his sleeve, things might be changing for me for a few months. Now how is that fair? mom and dad go to California and I at the edm I don't get to go to grandpa's? Geez.

Finnegan is going to go to doggy camp while mom and dad are gone and he's looking forward to it. He always has so much fun there and we like it too cause he comes home so tired he sleeps all the time! Yes sir-ee---a tired Finney is a good Finney!

Anyway guys, thanks again for the nice emails. Mom says she is going to get to the bottom of this ear thing if it's the last thing she does!

So much for that...

Well, in my last post, I told you all that I was feeling a lot better, but I also mentioned that mom was wondering how I would do off my medication. We now have the answer and it's not so good. Three days off my medication and my ears are a mess again. Wish I could just stay on the stuff, but prednisone can cause liver damage, so that's no good and we all know the doc won't leave you on anti-biotics for too long. Mom has put the drops back in my ears to try to help, but that makes it even longer until I can get my next round of tests for Cushings or kidney problems. Oh well, I can't have my ears hurting like that again.
I kinda feel sorry for mom cause she is at wits end for what to do for me long term. She feels so good about it when I get a week or two worth of relief from pain, but then, when it comes bad she is as sad about it as I am.
Mom said we are going to try a grain free food and that I maight have to go on a really strict diet (which means I can't got to grandma and grandpa's either cause they sneak me stuff!) Bummer and sigh....

It's a good day in the neighborhood!

Hi everyone! Just wanted to say thank you to you all for the prayers and well wishes...it must have worked cause I'm feeling so much better these days! I've only been off of my medication for a few days now and I am getting itchy and stuff, but my ears don't seem to hurt me and I pray they never get back to hurting me like that.
By the way, other great news- William Tell gave me the "Best Blogging Friend" award! Yippee!! Now that it pawsome!! I'm feeling better AND I get this great award!



Seems I should pass this award on to some more friends, but there are some rules applied:
1. Only five friends allowed.
2. Four have to be dedicated followers of your blog.
3. One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.
Okay, so that means I'll pas it on to my best buddies:
Butchy and Snickers, Lenny, Jackson in England, Agatha and Archie, and the Barkalotboyz. How fun! Thanks William Tell! And thanks to everyone for the prayers again!

I can't hear you!!

Sorry its been so long since I've written. Its been a crazy busy summer. Mom has been working so many overtime hours and weekends that she hardly wants to do anything when she's home. Its been made worse by the fact that we've had two more foster dogs through here in the time since we had the puppies. She's crazy, I know, but she loves us wires!
Anyway, just wanted to give you all an update about my ears. Mostly that they are still rotten. It's been a hard road lately and I've been seeing the vet a lot. I have been in constant pain and it makes mom cry sometimes. My last visit to the vet on Monday was better cause they really gave me loads of meds to make me feel better. I'm still not on top if it, but I'm certainly in less pain which is good cause I think if I could hear normally, I would hear mom and dad talking about sending me to the rainbow bridge. Sad, I know, but it's just that I've been in terrible pain 24/7and they can't seem to do anything for me...
Anyway, the bad thing that has come from my recent vet visit is that Mom and Dad collected my urine on Tuesday morning and took it to the vet to have me tested for diabetes. They are always complaining that I drink too much and pee too much---not that it is any of their business mind you. So mom finally got to talk to the Doctor today and he said that I don't have diabetes (yippee!!) but it I could be having general kidney failure or failure caused by my adrenal glands. Great. This sounds a lot like more tests to me. Anyway, the vet said that they can't do much while I'm on the steriods for my ears, but that they will test me for Cushing's Disease in a few weeks and do blood work to see if it's cushings or what is happening with my kidney's. Sigh.
This being sick stuff sucks, but I know it could be worse. Mom and I have been doing a lot of praying for our pal, Jackson too.
Sure hope all the rest of you are doin' okay!

Nice when things work out!

I am pleased to say that all four of the puppies mom had to place are all doing well in their new homes. The new families have all kept us up to date, and one puppy, Eddie, has even come back to visit us on his way to the beach. Mom says he has grown up a lot-but is as cute as ever.
Here is a picture of Eddie now.


And a picture of Eddie with his new brother, Corkie.



Mom says she also hears from the folks who adopted Ike and that Ike is doing really well. Last weekend Ike even got to go to a vacation home in the mountains, that spoiled little fella!

Mom says that Basil who went all the way to Buffalo is doing well too and that he is enjoying having a real boy brother to play with.

She also got a great video of Huck (Huck used to be called Archie when he was living here). In this video, Huck is learning how to play fetch and is doing a great job of it too, I must say! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-tzE8apNtQ

Anyway, it is always nice to hear how the pups are doing. Meanwhile, mom got another female wire named Bonnie who came to stay with us for a few days until she went to her new home nearby. Bonnie met her new daddy, Raymond just before her 5th birthday and apparently is doing pretty well. I didn’t get a chance to meet little Miss Bonnie, cause mom said she was sort of afraid of other dogs so she didn’t want her overwhelmed and scared by us boys. Mom said she was a pretty little girl too, and that although she was scared a lot, she is doing really well in her new home and has a really nice new daddy. Here is a picture of Bonnie.


Don’t you just love it when it all works out?

Puppy free!

Well, that's that. The last WFT puppy, Ike went to his new home last Saturday and we are puppy free.
Mom says while she is really glad to have more time to spend with us, she will miss those silly puppies. Basil went to a wonderful home outside of Buffalo, New York with a great family who has a little boy named Michael. Michael is seven years old and now has a little "furbrother" to play with and grow up with. My daddy was really fond of Basil and said that if he had to leave Easton, he could never have wished for a better home for him to go to than where he went. That's saying something too! Those nice people drove all the way from Buffalo to Easton (9 hours) to come get Basil..wow!!
And Ike, who mom had grown very fond of left just this past weekend. He went to a great home just outside of Philadelphia so mom says she hopes she will get to see Ike again. It was pretty neat- when the new parents came to pick up Ike, the new daddy had an "I like Ike" pin on that was back from when Eisenhower ran for President. Mom liked that and she also liked that both Basil and Ike got to keep their names.
So we are back to having full-time parents!! No more sharing mom and dad!
By the way, I am still battling my ear issues and mom is keeping on top of my skin issues so far this year. I hope it remains this way. The new shampoo and conditioner the doctor sold us works well and mom has been giving me omega 3 (or fish oil) too so no telling what is is that's helping, but I'm glad it is anyway. Now if we could just get my ears all better!!