u/Tiago_Rivera

I apologize for the delay in updating you on Hopi; I wanted to be sure first.
Hope's exam revealed a very minor hernia in the front of her abdomen. It wasn't lumbar after all, as the first vet had told me.
They said she was so minor that she should be fine with medication alone. She has today and tomorrow left. We'll see how she feels the day after tomorrow.
She feels fine with the medication; if she doesn't, we'll have to evaluate how to proceed.
But seeing her wagging her tail and not stiff with pain gives me hope.
I'm going to find out if I should take her for acupuncture like I did with Kira.
Have a great day!

I apologize for the delay in updating you on Hopi; I wanted to be sure first.
Hope's exam revealed a very minor hernia in the front of her abdomen. It wasn't lumbar after all, as the first vet had told me.
They said she was so minor that she should be fine with medication alone. She has today and tomorrow left. We'll see how she feels the day after tomorrow.
She feels fine with the medication; if she doesn't, we'll have to evaluate how to proceed.
But seeing her wagging her tail and not stiff with pain gives me hope.
I'm going to find out if I should take her for acupuncture like I did with Kira.
Have a great day!

Rayita is my mom's chick. She was given her when she was just a few days old, and she's still living inside (they tried to take her to her chicken coops, an hour and a half away from here.
There was a hen with two chicks there, but since it was a incubator chick, it got scared of its own kind, saw the hen, and ran after my nephews 🫠🫠).
They're looking into building a small coop for her here. I never thought I'd get attached to a chicken; it's the most wonderful thing in life.

We're staying at my parents' house at least until Saturday, since my mother had to travel due to health issues.
Hope and Kira were perfectly calm until I petted them and they realized their sworn mortal enemies were there... the gardeners.
The window even fogged up as they barked with hatred, the kind that comes from deep within, that oozes from their pores.
Those creatures should be grateful everything was closed! Otherwise, they would have fallen into their schnauzer jaws...

P.S.: I'll get Hope's x-ray results tomorrow, hoping everything is alright. At least with the medication, she's pain-free most of the day.

Hopi has been responding well to her medication. Tomorrow I'll finally be able to take her for x-rays to find out what's wrong... please... all good vibes for her

She's already been taken to the vet... they gave her pain medication because she has lower back pain... I can only take her for the x-ray she needs to find out what's wrong on Wednesday... Hope is 8 years old.

Today she had trouble eating, and it hurt so much that her back arched completely, her legs tense... I'd never seen her like that before... I put her to bed while I got ready to go to the vet, and afterwards she didn't want to get up... the photo was taken at that moment.

I'd never seen her so vulnerable... she usually doesn't show her pain... in fact, at the vet she tried to hide it, she wagged her tail and moved around as if nothing was wrong, until the vet examined her and it was clear she was in quite a bit of pain I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, now that Hope is also having problems...

they have their own staircase, I don't let them jump up or down the bed, I've already corrected them so they don't go down stairs when we go for walks... if I see they're not in pain or tired, we do go up, but mostly in the elevator and there aren't many stairs in the yard (I'm already thinking about not going down the stairs at all, since it's possible).

They've already started eating less so they can start losing weight, now I've realized that Hope is also a little overweight. I feel like I'm going crazy... even so, I'm always grateful that they're still by my side, I love them madly.

Please wish Hope luck, and that Kira continues to do as well as she is now with the medication... They are a very important reason why I'm still alive today; I want to give them the best life possible

This past year I've learned to take things easy, to go at Kira's pace. She sets the rhythm of our walks. I have hip problems and that has helped me too.

I think less and less about the possibility that she might not live more than two years... I'm learning to enjoy the present... and be grateful to still have her with me.

Kira and Hope... are teaching me something I had forgotten somewhere since I was a child... to love today.

Because if one thing is certain, it's that we will all leave someday, but it's up to each of us to decide how to live with the time we have left.

Have a wonderful day!

My whiskey is almost 11 years old... he's a beautiful old fellow.

I decided to take him to the groomer... his "what did I do to deserve this betrayal?" face was priceless... but he looked gorgeous.

He looks like he's been made 5 years younger.

My English isn't the best; it seems you don't say "groomer" in English. 😅

My whiskey is almost 11 years old... he's a beautiful old fellow.

I decided to take him to the groomer... his "what did I do to deserve this betrayal?" face was priceless... but he looked gorgeous.

He looks like he's been made 5 years younger.

My English isn't the best; it seems you don't say "groomer" in English. 😅