Bruno came down with pneumonia after being neutered. We have him home from the vets, but he spent 3 days on IV antibiotics at Mueller in Sacramento, to the tune of $1200 with xrays and blood work and antibiotics. He will be on antibiotics for the next 3 weeks and then he will have to go back for more xrays to make sure that his pneumonia is gone.

Update 5/22/08 We had to have Reb euthanized today. He was having a lot of difficulty breathing. his abdomen was full of fluid and it was pushing on his diaphragm so he could hardly breath. he could no longer get up and would have probably died in the next day or so . He also had a large mass in his abdomen and Nancy said it was probably cancer. She came to the house and euthanized him so he would not be stressed. If he would have lived until Nov., he would have been 16 years old.

Update 5/3/08  We took Reb to the vet last week and he is not doing well. He has some fluid in his abdomen and he probably has a cacerous mass.  He is doing ok and is not in pain . He is eating very well and still loves to be brushed . He will be 16 in November.

This is Reb I don't know if it is short for Rebel or whatever. What I do know is that he was owned by the same people for 12 years and then one day they decided they did not want him any more and they threw him out of their apartment, in one of the busiest part of Sacramento(Arden and Howe). He apparently roamed around the apartment complex without food or water for three days until a very nice man caught him. Reb was wearing a rabies tag from a pet hospital in San Francisco. The people were so stupid that they did not remove his tag. The man phoned the hospital in SF and got the owners name.
Since they lived in the same complex he got their current phone
number from the manager. When he called them they told him "don't
bother to bring him back we will just throw him out again". The man then took Reb to the nearest pet hospital and then called me and I went and picked him up so he would not go to Sac City animal control.
I tried to complain to Sac City animal control about the abandonment but it fell on deaf ears. Clearly there is little justice for the animals living in the area serviced by Sac City animal control. .So what we have here is a very sweet older dog, fully vaccinated, neutered and housebroken.(I had his records sent to me from the SF pet hospital, placing his age at 12.5 years). He moves very well for his age and is in good health. He is very friendly and loving and he gets along well with my dogs. He is crate trained and is a very gentle soul. We would like to place him with an older couple since he is so quiet and gentle, where he can live out the remainder of his life with love and dignity.