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Ducky
1990 - 2003
Ducky had cancer for the last year. The veterinarian found it November 2001. I brought him to the vet because he stopped eating, always unnatural for a dog. They found a lot of fluid in the pericardial sack that needed to be drained. I brought him to a cardiac care center for dogs and they were able to relieve the pressure. Unfortunately the problem came back. After having the pericardial sack tapped a few times, we decided to have surgery done to allow the sack to drain into the chest. That worked for the heart, but then the vet was having to drain his abdomen a lot. Fortunately after a few months, Ducky´s vets were able to find a combination of medications that relieved the fluid problem.
The cancer continued to spread and he wasn’t feeling that well anymore. Ducky was having more and more bad days after Thanksgiving 2002 and by New Years we knew it was time. We were his third owners and we not told exactly when he was born, but we think it was some time between January first and sixth. He made it to his thirteenth birthday, but was feeling so badly that we had him put to sleep the evening of January 6, 2003.
With the exception of this addition, I´m going to leave his page intact. |
nuary, 1990 soon grew too large and exceeds breed standard.
yone else from New Jersey, I like the shore. We don't go to the beach but to a marina where we have a boat. The boat is OK, but its too fast and noisy. The best part is the people there have a ramp for me to get out of the water. That's important since Golden Retrievers swim a lot. 
to retrieve my toy, but I sometimes let him swim back to the dock with it. 
ve in a nice house in New Jersey. This is a good place for me since there is game to chase and people to keep entertained. However, the squirrels here are too fast and there are too many trees for them to escape into. Anyway, these other critters are more my speed. 
ws like that again! I really did not like that stuff piling up on my head and back.