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Win Prizes! Frankie the Walk ‘N Roll Dog Birthday Bash Celebration

Posted by Barbara Techel


It is hard for me to believe that Frankie will be 12-years old on August 20th. She also been in her wheels for five years now too… and still going strong! I’ve always cherished and loved my little peanut, but as each day and year passes, I find myself loving her even more and treasuring each precious moment with her… she means the world to me.

In celebration of her birthday, I have put together 3 awesome prize packages!!  And you could win! It is very easy to enter and you can enter in one of three ways, or enter all three ways.  This of course gives you better chances of winning…. and I know you want to win. <GRIN>

Contest runs August 1st through August 21st…. click here to see the list of prizes and find out all the details on how to enter.

Please share with your family and friends. The more the merrier!  GOOD LUCK!

Special Needs Pet Feature of the Week: Benny

Posted by Barbara Techel

 

How old is your pet?

6 years old

Where did you get your pet?
Nextdaypets.com (I got him for a discounted price he was the runt of the liter)

What is your pets physical challenge?
Benny is now paralyzed from about the waste down. He uses a wheel chair to run around in and he also has a drag bag for when he is not in his wheels. His wheels I got from Eddie’s Wheels. The Drag Bag was from Handicappedpets.com.

 

What is your pets favorite thing to do?
Play with his brother Canoli and his family.

What is your pets favorite thing to eat?
Pasta! Hey were Italian =)

What do you love most about your pet?
His will to live. He motovates me.

 

What has your pet most taught you?
How to be strong. That no matter what happens in your life that disables you. To keep going. Try harder. Never give up faith.

Anything else you’d like to share?
Alot of Dachshunds suffer from IVDD. They do not have homes or people to take care of them. Its very sad to see most people will just put the dog down when really they can live a happy healthy life. Just like anything its tuff at first but after you learn how to take care of them properly it’s just like having a normal dog. The only difference is you have to assist them going to the bathroom which takes 5 minutes out of your time. With a normal dog you would still need to take those 5 minutes by walking him/her outside if not longer. The last thing would be putting him in his wheels to run around. For all you Doxie lovers out there give a Doxie with IVDD some care. =)

***If you care for a special needs pet and would like your pet featured, please email me through my website contact. Send a photo and I will forward the questionnaire for your pet to be featured in an upcoming post.***

Special Needs Pet Feature of the Week: Chickie

Posted by Barbara Techel


What is your pets name?

Chickie

How old is your pet?

Approximately 13yrs old

Where did you get your pet?

We took her out of a bad situation after a friend called us about her needing rescue.

What is your pets physical challenge?

IVDD. Her back legs are paralyzed and she requires a cart to be mobile. Chickie does have bowel control but requires her bladder to be expressed several times a day and is diagnosed with chronic UTI which we monitor daily. Chickie did not always have IVDD, it came on her one day and even though she had surgery she never got the use of her hind legs again.

What is your pets favorite thing to do?

She loves to ‘boogie’, that is the code word we ask her if she wants to get in her cart and join the others.

What is your pets favorite thing to eat?

Anything & everything! We are talking about a dachshund!

What do you love most about your pet?

I can get her all set up in the chair with me and she starts to look around the room for one of her toys and I have to get them all one at a time until she decides which one she wants. It’s usually one of the last ones I bring. I often tell her she is ‘a ghra mo chroi’, which is Irish for ‘love of my heart’


What has your pet most taught you?

Commitment. We knew we were going to do whatever we had to do to give Chickie a decent quality of life. We have also learned how intelligent they can be when worked with. Oh, also how to clean up poop.

Anything else you’d like to share?

Chickie actually named herself. When we first got her she would follow my wife around always wanting to be picked up and held. So one day BJ picked up Pepper and asked her if she was ‘my little chick-a-dee’? Well, she got all excited so BJ asked her again and the same reaction! So that name stuck and she has been Chickie ever since that day. Chickie is also one of many little ambassadors for Dodgerslist, a website and support group for people with pets that suffer from IVDD. We incorporate her cart into her costumes to bring attention to her disability and show that many handicapped pets can have a decent quality of life. Many people remember her and tell us they look forward to what costume she will be wearing each Halloween.


Keep on rollin’ Chickie!!

***If you care for a special needs pet and would like your pet featured, please email me through my website contact. Send a photo and I will forward the questionnaire for your pet to be featured in an upcoming post.***