Posted by Dido Blagden on Wednesday, February 28, 2018,
My beautiful Gumby lost the good fight on Mother's Day 2017. He succumbed to an autoimmune disease which was attacking and destroying his own red blood cells. After 3 blood transfusions and over a week at the vet, I brought my beloved boy home for one more night and Dr Lee of Florida Veterinary Hospital came to put him to sleep and set him free to run across the Rainbow Bridge the next day.... Mother's Day.
I have been unable to look at photos or his website or even be involved in any animal ...
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Posted by Dido Panagiotopoulos on Wednesday, April 18, 2012,
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Therapy Dog
An attack by dogs (or a dog bite) can be traumatic because it is often a sudden, savage, unpredictable, random act of violence which overwhelms a person's capacity to take control and cope, and subsequently master the feelings aroused by the attack. It isn't about how savage or life threatening the attack was but more about how the individual responds to the situation. It is not simply being bitten by a dog, that causes emotional turmoil. Whether it does or whether it doesn't depends on how t...
RIP GUMBY - your PAWsome legacy and insPAWration will continue ❤your mom, Dido
Abandoned in a township, and rescued by CLAW (Community Led Animal Welfare), I went on to be adopted and embraced by the Blagden-pack and taken to dog training where I was certified as a Canine Good Citizen. I am registered as a Paws for People Therapy Dog and visit lots of special people in various institutions. I foster a few CLAWbies who have been neglected, abandoned, abused or need some special TLC outside a shelter. I am also very involved in networking animals needing to find their PAWfect forever home and PAWsome happily ever after!
Years ago I had my DNA analysed and I am in fact a Pekignese-Schnauzer-Yorkshire Terrier, with a drop of Pomeranian-Jack Russel and just a smidgen of Boxer... yip, basically I'm just a paveMUNT special super-callused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis ;-D
