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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'd like to get an update from Shannon. Yesterday was
a very tearful morning. A lot of listeners were sympathizing
with what's going on in you and Wes and the
kids with your dog Willow?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And is Willow no longer with us? Or where's Willow?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
You guys, this is the absolute craziest story. So if
you were listening to the show yesterday, and if not,
you can go back and listen to the podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We have a friend. She her name is Willow.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
She's five years old and she had a relapse from
a condition that a lot of friend shees have called IVDD.
Wasn't able to walk, totally paralyzed. In fact, like her
bottom extremity is. She couldn't walk, she couldn't go to
the bathroom on her own. Wes had been like helping
her go to the bathroom. It's just been so sad.
(00:52):
So we had an appointment yesterday afternoon for ve Hospice
to come in and we were gonna let her pass
in the come for of our home with you know, everybody,
all of the kids and everybody around her.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
And an hour and a.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Half before the appointment, this dog came back to life.
What this dog started going to the bathroom by herself.
She started getting up and putting weight on her back
legs again, and so, and I was not home at
(01:27):
the time. Obviously I was here, but my sixteen year
old stepdaughter Samantha stayed home from school to be with
her because obviously she thought these are my last hours
with my dog. And she was sending West videos all
day going Dad, look like, look what's happening. And so
Wes texted me and said I can't do it. That's
all his text said. And I'm like, wait, what are
you talking about? And he sent me the videos and
(01:50):
he's like, I'm canceling the appointment. So she's still here colling,
I like, is you know? So Wes took her to
the vet yesterday afternoon and the vet was looking at
the videos and examined her and was like okay, Like
(02:13):
I think even the vet from what Wes told me,
was like, Holy spit, like this is and he's like
keep going, like, let's see what happens. So she's on
a bunch of meds and she's being kept in her
crate comfortably. But we're just you know, Wes is holding
(02:33):
out a lot of hope that this is an answer
to his prayers to.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Any listener where that is ever about to put a
dog down or a human.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So let me tell you something. We were going to
use an incredible company, by the way from how we've
corresponded so far, called Lap of Love. They were going
to be the vet hospice that came to the house
to do this. And Wes said when he called them
yesterday and said, I'm canceling the appointment, this is the situation.
The lady was like, these are the phone calls we
love to get. And they it does happen where the
(03:04):
dog takes a turn and you you you're looking at
this dog going I can't do this now, like there's
ever there's going to change for the better.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Where they were.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Literally getting ready to put the injection and.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
And then I don't know, I did not ask that question, but.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That would be wild.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Somebody was telling me a story about a dog that
they tried to put down and they couldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
They couldn't.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
They gave the dog the medication that does it, and
the dog didn't die, would not die.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Now, obviously I say, we're very hopeful, like we you
know you this is such a delicate situation because you
love these animals so much, but you don't want to
be selfish and keep them alive when they should have
kept alive. So obviously, like we are very closely monitoring
the situation. But holy hell, it's I did not think
I was going to come in here today to tell
this story.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Derek. What's up? Hi, Derek, Derek, I.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Had a Pomeranean he.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
In a bad phone area. Start all over again. Let's
pretend I just picked you up again, Hi, Derek, what's
going on?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
All right?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Hi? Yeah, I had a Pomeranian that laid on our
kitchen floor for three days and didn't moved and eat
and drink, didn't go to the bathroom, did nothing. And
my wife wanted me to put him down, and I refused,
And after three days he stood up, went outside, went
to the bathroom and lived another two years.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Absolutely Oh my gosh, So it does happenle Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I refused to put him down, and uh, I'm glad
because he lived two more years, completely happy. You just
this is sick for a couple of days, but after
that he was totally fine. So I hope you may
have another year or two with your dogs.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
What you wonder if it's a misdiagnosis by the vets,
where the vets are like, yeah, this dog, you know,
got something bad going on, and then you look at
it going it maybe did have like a virus or
something that was able to work through. That's you feel
horrible if you what if it was one day earlier,
you know what I mean, when uh willow and feeling good.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Thank yeah, So I'll keep you updated. But it was funny,
not funny. But we came home yesterday and our friends,
you know them, doctor Matt and Justin had sent us
this big, beautiful bouquet of flowers, and West called him
and was like, I'm gonna give you money for the
flowers because.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
She's still here.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It was so kind of the flowers saying like, you know,
pugs and kisses and tail wags from Justin and Matt
and their dog room. Wes is like, she's she's still here,
so I'll send you the money for this flower arrangement?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Is it bad though?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That I feel like if this was me and this
was one of my dogs and it came back and
then all of a sudden the ve goes. Yeah, but
for another ten thousand dollars I'd be like, put the
damn dogs out.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Well, we had that.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
We had to have that conversation because we've we're already
in like fourteen grand with this dog we.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Had, Lily.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Lily ended up having a surgery done, and I believe
the surgery killed Lily.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I keep saying that. Yeah, it was the most.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Expensive surgery we've ever had to do for any human
being or animal. We did the surgery, took the dog
to Flint, to some place up in Flint that's specializes it,
and everything was great for about a week or two,
and then next thing, you know, Lily ended up ying
what's up.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Robin Hi Hi?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Our dog Chief, he had the same thing. He woke
up paralyzed from the waist back. He's a chocolate lab
about seventy five pounds. Just one morning he woke up
paralyzed and we made we took him Froy Emergency that
they wanted to do a four thousand dollars MRI. And
he's ten over ten years old, so we're like, that's
not really practical, and so we made a pointment with
laps Love to you know, have him euthanized that Thursday,
(06:32):
and a friend of ours told us to see an
animal chiropractor. So we took him in a wagon to
the animal chiropractor the next day.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It cost ninety dollars.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
And the day that he was supposed to be euthanize,
he started walking again.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Wow, it's a miracle.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
He's going to be and he's going to be thirteen
next week.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Really, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, take him to an animal chiropractor because he had
the same that Shannon's dog had.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Wow, that's wild, just absolutely wild. What's up Page I?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Yeah, I almost had the same situation. Luckily we never
had to put like called hospice or anything. But we
had a pug Chiwaha mix who was older, she was
thirteen years old and she was not using the bathroom,
super sick. And we had another Beegle who we got
as a puppy and he had never been alone by himself.
(07:28):
So we thought it was a perfect opportunity to get
another puppy, and so we got another dog. And our
pug Chihuaha had a full turnaround, recovered, didn't have anything
like medications or anything to take, and we ended up
having three dogs and a newborn and it was so
much work.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Oh my god, what happens if this is the call
and you end up, you know, making the call that
you're going to be putting putting the dog down, and
you're kind of honestly thinking, while I'm getting myself another dog,
and now you got multiple dogs like you had, you
know what I mean, it's crazy a lot. I actually, honestly,
(08:09):
this is no you know, no offense to anybody that
loves their animals.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And stuff like this. I would have been like, okay,
all right, you know what I mean, almost seem happy.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
No, I'd be like, wait, wait, no, well I'd be like,
you know, it's kind of like all right, well, good
the dog. You know, it's gonna put you know dogs
uh uh, you know, okay, we're gonna you know, move
on whatever the deal is, you know, and then we're
gonna put the dog down, comfort everybody. And then you're like, crap,
the dog's still here, you know what I mean, Like
I would sit there.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I know it is.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's it is hard, like I it's hard to all
like all of a sudden, literally I thought, I just
I just did not think this could happen. I mean,
it's like the craziest dang thing ever.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, I just we were all prepared.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Like I called the kids out of school, you know,
I had already said, so I like went to pick
up the kids and Lucy calms down the way and
she's all sad. I was like, well, guess what. I'm like,
I'm picking you up. We're going to Franklin Cidermill. Because
the dog's not going to school early.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm taking you and you're not going out of school.
You got to go back to school. What's up, Alison?
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Hi, Good morning guys.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
How are you going on?
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Not much?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
So.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
I had a dog one time and he actually got parvo.
We took him to the vet to get his car
vote back seen and caught parvo right away. After that,
we took him to the vet and they basically said
that there wasn't much that they could do for him
and just kind of let it fight its course or
put him down. We took him home. We did everything
that we possibly could for him, and we just thought
(09:45):
he was a goner. And I laid in front of
his cage, crying my eyes out like a baby, saying
my goodbyes to him, and he got up and he
walked towards me and gave me a kiss. And I
looked at my boyfriend at the time, I said, he's
not ready to go. And he lived another three years.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh gosh, man, that's wild.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Yeah, it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Do you think do you think that the dog is going?
This bitch was gonna right right like, so I was
just tired.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I holding willow space in my in my hands and
I'm like, please, don't be mad.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
To kill you. Hold on.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Klaw's dog survived a fire and survived all the craziness
of possibly dying and is still around.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Is that right?
Speaker 9 (10:38):
Well? She she recently passed in her sleep.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
For old age.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
I got fourteen, so I had this dog since she
was like six months old. She was Western Highland Terrier
and I got her when I was a teenager. And
I swear like she used to just run. She used
to run away and be gone for like a weekend,
and I always knew she would come back. But I
think she was like the dog of many lives, like
a cat, like she thought she was cat or something.
But I remember when I went to Japan for vacation
(11:04):
and my mom was dog sitting and the like. When
I was finally landed back home in Chicago, my Mom's
like are you in the country. I'm like, yeah, she
goes Okay. When I was babysitting and your dog got
pack attacked, she got tore completely open. She's in surgery
right now. They think she's gonna recover and she'll be
you know. I'm like, is she dead, and they're like no,
but we're not really sure how well she's gonna do.
(11:26):
So I picked her up from surgery and then like
two weeks later, our house caught on fire, like complete fire,
and like she was found in the kitchen and she
was a she was white because she's a Western Highland Terrier,
completely black, just passed out in the.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Kitchen, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So it's like, are you sure it's not a cat,
But she was.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Like she was like barking, you know, like they think
she was just barking at the kitchen fire.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Nobody was home, but you know, the dog.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
So I take her to the vet and they're like,
what's this.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
What's your dog's name.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
I'm like Dusty and they're like, we just had a
white dog named Bessy. I'm like, yeah, that's her.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I want to, you know, to go through all of
that and then pass away into sleep.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Though it's unbelievable. That's what you want to.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Animals, so that you don't have to make that decision,
you know.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Hold on, Marco, this is sad. What happened? Marco?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Mojo? That's all.
Speaker 10 (12:21):
About I think two years ago my dog had to
get surgery for some reason. I couldn't remember, but anyway,
my mom takes her to takes him to the doctor
and they start prepping his leg. He had to get
surgery on his left leg. They make the incision on
his right leg. His whole right leg shaved off. They
ended up making the incision on the wrong leg, so
(12:41):
they had to they had to reprep them. He comes home,
both legs are shaved, both legs are cut open, with
a cone on his head. It was, uh, it was
pretty unreal. We ended up getting the surgery for free, though.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
My dad was very Anne.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Your dad was just happy that they did the wrong
leg at first, so he got the surgery for free.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
How much money did he save?
Speaker 10 (13:07):
I think it was around nine grand or something. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, it's no joke.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You want to chop off the wrong leg, So I
get it. Now, you got how is that going to happen?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That happens to humans. Though you hear the stories, I
don't think you get the surgery for free. You just
become a millionaire. You assume him, but