Andi, such a crazy thing for Maggie to be going through! She is a tough cookie and I just hope she can muster up the strength to beat this illness!

Andi and Doug, we're keeping Maggie in our thoughts!

Andi
After everything Maggie has been through, she is definitely a survivor. Wishing all 3 of you the best. Stay postive. Maggie sounds like she is.

Andi, Doug, and Maggie - Wishing you all the best and our hopes and prayers are with you.

Anthony

No Maggie update today. I hope she's doing better. Andi/Doug???

No news yet. At least it isn't bad. If all is well, we'll bring her home tomorrow at 4pm.

Thanks for the update, Andi. Hope Maggie is home with you and Doug tomorrow.

Here's hoping that Maggie will be home tomorrow and you can share a fun weekend with her.

Maggie came home today. Even the vet calls her a miracle dog!
The house was so empty without her. It is good to have her home.

Thanks again to all of you for your wonderful support!

Doug

Maggie is one amazing pooch - I hope she keeps recovering and continues to give you and Andi lots of happiness - Joanna

The vet says he is renaming her Lazarus. Her appetite is wonderful and her tail is wagging and she is happy and seems healthy. Yeah!!!!

All I can say is WOW!

Great news, Andi!

She's back sleeping in bed between us...head on the pillow!

Great news! I feel like I know Maggie.She is remarkable.I hope that she continues to improve

The Amazing Miss Maggie! She's very remarkable ... :) Congrats to all of you!

Masaki

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She ran in the yard this am and is very playful. I think it's the good Karma from this board!

Glad to hear the very good news about Maggie! Have a great weekend enjoying her being back home and in good health!

Go, Maggie! So glad thinks are looking up for her.

Great News!!!

Welcome Home, Maggie!

What a great holiday you're all going to have now.

Kathy

Yea - I knew that Maggie had that positive attitude.

Maggie the wonder dog. Way to go!!!!

She's really your SUPER DOG! I'm so glad she's back home where she belongs!

Dear Andi and Doug,

Wonderful news. Bet you all slept like babies last night!! Jeanine

Thanks. Hope all of you are enjoying your holiday. We certainly are. My mother is better and now that Maggie is doing well...

We are entertaining our friends from Switzerland and it would have been such a downer if Maggie hadn't pulled through.

So good that your Mother and Maggie are doing well.

Please give big hugs to Yvonne and Guy for us! And, of course, hugs from us to you, Doug, and Ms. Maggie the Magnificent! Have a great holiday weekend. Do you have plans to take Yvonne and Guy bungee jumping? ;)

I'm so happy to hear that Mom and Maggie are both feeling better, Andi. Now, you can enjoy your weekend. Have fun!

Shame on me....I almost forgot about all your Mom is going through Andi! This is very good news. I'm glad you're having fun with your Swiss friends. We were looking forward to seeing our "Swiss friend" too (i.e. might as well be my younger sister) but looks like it will be on hold until June 2006...DANG!!

Tom and I are happy that Maggie and your Mom are progressing so well!

Thanks for the happy update, Andi! Enjoy the weekend with your amazing girl!

Thank you all. Maggie and Mom get better every day. Health and weather were bad..(the weather was cold and rainy) and Yvonne and Guy arrived from sunny and hot (95 degrees with no A/C) Switzerland and brought health and sunny weather with them. No bungee jumping, ;) but we went shopping, to NYC and to the Catskills. Yvonne found some wonderful green tea, saved alot on some sandles and picked up some chinese cookware. We ate filet mignon, lobster, porterhouse steaks..things that are hard to get in Switzerland. A wonderful time to mellow out with terrific friends from a month of terrible stress (my only other highlight was meeting Donna).... We're sad to see them go. :bv:

Andi, I'm back to LCT after several days away, so I'm late but ... YEA for Maggie!!!! I'm thrilled to hear how well she is doing. I hadn't realized about your mother -- sorry if I missed that thread earlier -- but glad to hear that she is recovering well also. Good news all the way around! Sounds like a great weekend.

Andi and Doug - so glad to hear the good news! We'll keep sending good thoughts your way for continued improvement!

Denise: I can see that bridge that had the bungee jumping (in season!), but I can't recall where it was. Too many wonderful places we have seen, yes? (who wrote that? Yoda?)

To all: Thank you for all the continued kind words, thoughts and prayers for maggie and our moms. I'm so please to report that everyone seems to be doing well.
Now, if anyone has any helpful hints on how to get a dog to take a pill, I am all ears. Please note: If I wrap it in anything...cheese, bread, meat, etc.... she eats the good stuff & spits out the pill.
But, it is so good to have her back!

Doug

You should ask your vet first, but if it is ok, then you can crush a pilll and stir the powder into a small serving of something that you know she likes to eat, or if it is a capsule then empty it. If that won't work for some reason, then less pleasant, but ask your vet for a "piller." It looks a little like a plastic shot syringe, but it has rubber tips that hold an intact pill while you hold open the dog's mouth and push it all the way to the back of the throat, then press the plunger and eject the pill. Of course, this second option is a last resort because it seems so forceful and unpleasant, but it does not really hurt dogs. Good luck to you and all your family members, we know what you're going through.

We use peanut butter. Bury the pill in it. Alternately I also use the soft treats that are big (They used to make dog food called Special Cuts that came in a package but now they are a treat) Make a slit in it and put the pill inside the slit. These get get gulped down.

Kathy:
Thanks. But we've tried all that...with all sorts of foods. The food stays down, the pill comes up.

DFB: No, we can't break up the pill on this one.

What I am doing is to give her the pill (coated with some tasty something), and then just holding her mouth shut for a minute or so until she swallows.
Then I give her some other tasty something. This is the only way I have gotten it to work.

Doug

Doug...we used to try the peanut butter, with same results.

I think you have the best technique - we just stuff the pill as far down their throat as possible and then hold their mouth shut. It seems cruel, but it seems to be the only way.

Ditto Margo - we now have cats but that never worked for the dogs - Joanna

Doug, I think that we saw that bungee jumping site when we took our excursion to Mycenae (sp?).

Sorry, no doggie pill advice from me!

Margo & Joanna: Thank you! I felt so bad about holding her mouth shut for so long. But, I think that this is the only *sure* way to go. I shall continue to try other methods, but, at least, I have a 'sure' thing.

Denise: I think that you are right. All I can remember is the bridge and the way we parked a little ways away.

Doug