POND PICTURES AND ITEMS FOR SALE FOR BUTCHY

Hey Pals,

Thank you to everyone for your kind words & messages.  We don't know how we would get through things without all of you beside us.  Butchy had another seizure last night and is very very tired today.  But the tiredness is normal for him for a whole day after having a seizure.  Hopefully Butchy will be more himself tomorrow.

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We hope you can visit our good pal Gussie's blog today as he has posted the first item up for bid in his auction to help raise money for Butchy's medications.  They will be listing one item per day.  So please stop by to check out today's item.  Thank you so much Gussie!!

After we post some pond pictures, we will have photos of the first set of items we have for sale to go for Butchy's meds too.  So be sure to scroll below to view the items.

We took a few pond pictures yesterday to show you.  Things are starting to green up around here, but the ponds will look much better in about 3-4 weeks when the iris and waterlilies are blooming

The pond farther back in the photo is actually the largest pond and that is where the koi live.  Once the pampass grass and other grasses grow, they will stand about 8 feet above the back end of the pond.

Here is Koi Sylvester:

The yellow fish is Koi Sugar: (she is one of our large breeding females)

And here's me Katie!  Hmmmm, what is that buzzing sound we hear?  Mama said it was the humming birdies.

Ok, now for our items we need to sell.  This first item is actually an antique Fox Terrier Wheelie, probably made by Schuco in Germany.  Since this is one of the antiques we have to sell, it is not the price of our other items that we will have here.

Antique Wire Fox Terrier on Wheels, probably made by Schuco, 1940-50's  Price  $160.00 plus shipping
The head does swivel and the wheels turn.  Mama has completely professionally cleaned the furs and she will repair the broken nose stitching.

Boyds Father Kissmoose SOLD

Boyds Minnie Moose - The Artisan Series  $10.00 plus shipping

Boyds Mendel Moose - JB Bear  # 5547  $5.00 plus shipping

Boyds Wannabee Ewe - JB Bean  $5.00 plus shipping

Boyds Flossie Lamb - Uncle Bean's huggle fluffs - # 602100 (rattle inside)  $5.00 plus shipping

TY Lamb 1997  $5.00 plus shipping

If anyone would like more photos of an item, just email us and we'll get some photos to you.

All of the Boyds & TY items are in mint condition.  If you don't collect any of these lines, please tell your friends to stop by and have a look.  Thank you!

Additional items will be listed each Wednesday.  If you would like to purchase an item, please email us at:

butchyandsnickers@gmail.com

Please include your address so that we can figure shipping costs for you.  We can accept checks from our USA blogger pals.  ( If you send a friend that doesn't blog and they would like to purchase an item, please let us know that you sent them. )  All other countries must pay via our PayPal account and we will give you your total before having you pay via PayPal.

Wirey Hugs, Purrz & Licks,
Katie, Butchy, Ruby, Sylvester, Scuby, Hootie & Zeek

I BUTCHY GOT SOME SAD NEWS TODAY AT THE VET

Hey Pals,

This is not good news about me.  

I visited the vet today and had a lot of x-rays taken of my body.  I have 2 large cancer masses on my left lung which means that I have a primary brain tumor causing my seizures.  The cancerous tumor in the brain has spread to my left lung.  I have lost 1/2 pound in 2 weeks which is surprising with how much water I drink and food that I eat.  The drugs that I am on make me EXTREMELY thirsty and HUNGRY!!!  Did you hear me Mama???  I'm HUNGRY again.

I will have x-rays taken again on June 6th to see how fast the cancer is spreading in my lung.  This might give us some idea of how much time I have left on this earth with my family and friends, that is if we can get these seizures under control for awhile.

I have started taking the drug Prednisone now along with the other drugs I have been taking.  Typically this drug can maybe help shrink tumors.  So it's possible that it could shrink or slow down the tumor growths in my lung and brain.  It also might alleviate some of the inflammation and water on the brain mass which in turn might prevent some of the seizures I'm getting.   I'm having such a hard time getting around now.  This morning I jumped off of the big bed and crashed head first into the dresser.  Scared the crap out of Mama.  The only time I perk up is when it's FOOD TIME!

This is how I feel when I try to walk:

Like everything is all crooked and sideways.  I just feel totally bummed out now:

We took some pictures of our ponds and koi fishies today, so we'll post those tomorrow.  I told Katie that I must make sure she has learned all of the Koi Guard Duty skills as someday soon she will be Head Guard.

Mama will also try to post a few of our Moose and Lamb items that we are going to sell to raise money for my meds and tests.  Mama told me that I almost take as many medications as she does, hahaha!

Wirey Hugs, Purrz & Licks,
Butchy, Katie, Ruby, Sylvester, Scuby, Hootie & Zeek

MAJOR RECALL OF PIG EARS FOR PET TREATS

Hey Pals,

Keys Manufacturing Company, Inc. Recalls Pig Ears for Pet Treats Because Of Possible Salmonella Health Risk

If any of you eat pig ears, please go to this link immediately:

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm253997.htm

We don't eat these, so we are safe.  But we're sure many dogs do get these for treats.  So please check out the article on the recall and tell your furriends.

Wirey Hugs, Purrz & Licks,
Butchy, Katie, Ruby, Sylvester, Scuby, Hootie & Zeek

UPDATE ON BUTCHY AND COLLECTIBLES FOR SALE

Hey Pals,

It's Katie here today.  Butchy is sleeping off another seizure he had this morning.  We finally have some pretty colors around here in Ioway.  Our pink Magnolia tree is in full bloom, well it was 2 days ago that is....

We keep getting frost at night, so now the flowers are brown and icky.  Our yellow magnolia tree has it's buds just starting to peek through:

It looks like we might be safe from frost for about 4-5 days, so hopefully we'll be able to get a picture of the flowers in full bloom.

We've been so busy with doctor and vet appointments lately.  Mama has her appointments over with now for a bit.  I Katie had my heartworm blood test done this week and I'm worm free!  This was my first blood draw and I was such a good girl.  I held very still while the vetpire took my blood, hehehehe.  I love going to the vet, especially when he gives me those treats.  I sure gobble them right up, unlike Butchy, who won't touch them until we get into the car.

I'm 14 months old now and I weigh 13.8 lbs.  My fur mama Lily weighs only 16 lbs. so I'll be a small girl.  Hey, maybe Lacie and I can share our wardrobes.  We're about the same size, tee hee!

Mama also took some pictures of Zeek the other day and got a few good ones of him.  Can you believe that tomorrow he will have been here with us for 5 months now?  He is such a sweet kittie.

We still can't believe that his owners didn't want him anymore, such a shame.  And here is my brudder Butchy:

We just can't figure out why that mean Seizure Monster wants to keep bothering him.  Just look at that sweet face......

Butchy has been on the added drug Potassium Bromide now for 8 days and so far he has had 4 seizures and one day he woke up at 4AM wanting to go outside, but was walking wobbly that whole morning.  So he might have had one before he woke us up.  So we are not seeing an improvement yet since starting the drug.

Mama talked with the vet on Tuesday and if Butchy does not have a good enough improvement by May 16th, the vet will increase the dosage of the Potassium Bromide that day.  Normally you are supposed to be on the drug for 3-4 months, then take blood serum tests and determine if an increase can be given.  But the vet does not want to wait that long for Butchy.  He is just getting too many seizures.  So the vet is confident that an increase could be given on the 16th.  And you know what that means?  More green papers that Mama must spend.  Yikes!

So, since Mama has a ton of collectibles that she no longer has room for, we thought we would post a few each week here on the blog to see if anyone would like to purchase the items.  The money will go to buy Butchy's medications.

Here is a list of the types of collectibles we have in case any of you collect these, or maybe you know someone that does.  We will be pricing these very cheap, but the buyer must pay shipping.  In the US, we will ship First Class mail to make it as cheap as possible.  Since the prices will be low, no use in buying insurance, etc.

Boyds Plush Moose
Boyds Plush Lamb
Boyds Resin Pieces-most with bears, some holiday pieces
TY Moose
TY Lamb
Various off brands of Plush Moose & Lamb
A few dog collectible plates, one bird collectible plate.


For the plush items, the smaller pieces will be listed at $5.00 each, the larger pieces $10.00 each.
The collectible plates will be $5.00 each.
The Boyds resin pieces will be between $5-20 each and for these if you want to pay for insurance, that can be arranged.

Now remember, these will not be auctioned, these are the asking prices.  We have at least 100 pieces.
If any of you collect any of these, if there is a certain piece you have been looking for, please email us and let us know and we can  sell it without listing on the blog.    butchyandsnickers@gmail.com

Also, when purchasing an item, after we have your address, we will let you know the shipping costs.  We will take checks or PayPal for our blog friends living in the USA.  For Canada or other countries, we can only accept PayPal.

So please help spread the word to any Moose or Lamb collectors.

We also ask that you pray for our buddy Mango.  He had 2 really bad cluster seizures yesterday and has now started on Phenobarbital.  We sure hope it works for him.

Wirey Hugs, Purrz & Licks,
Katie, Butchy, Ruby, Sylvester, Scuby, Hootie & Zeek