Dr. Marie seeks stories of paralyzed dogs for her new book!
Do you have a paralyzed or disabled dog?
If so, Dr. Marie would like to hear your dog’s story. She is compiling a book about dogs with disabilities. This book will help many people learn what is involved in caring for and owning a paralyzed dog. Our hope is that many dogs will be saved from euthanasia because their owners have read the many stories of dogs who live happily with a disability.
Your submission can be as long or short as you would like. Should Dr. Marie choose your story, she may do some minor editing on it. She will send you an edited copy by email for your final approval before it goes in the book.
Here is an outline to help get you started…but if you have more (or less) to write, that is ok!
- Tell us about your dog’s life before the accident/illness
- Tell us what happened. What were the vet visits like? Did you have hard decisions to make?
- If your dog uses a wheelchair or cart, describe for us the process of getting and fitting the cart.
- Tell us stories of what your dog’s life is like now. Is there special care that you need to do? How well does he or she get around? What products have you needed to buy for your dog? What special challenges does your dog face?
- Is there any advice that you would give to owners who are facing the prospect of owning a paralyzed dog?
- We would love to have pictures of your dog as well!
If your dog’s story is published you will receive a free copy of the book!
You can email your story to drmarie (at) askavetquestion.com.
I have 9 pugs, 8 are rescues. 5 have been spinal injuries, and all have different degrees of recovery.
Are you interested in their stories? On most we do not have a background, but can start their stories from the time we rescued them. We adopted our first handicaped 4 years ago, and the last was in Jan/09.
We still have all of them plus a blind diabetic.
If you could give me a quick idea of what you are looking for, I would love to have them in your book. I have had a few canine neurologists ask for videos of these pugs, as 2 of them are now walking (mechanical or spinal walk) and one other is just beginning. All 3 of them were never “supposed to regain any motion”.
It is so important for owners to realize that not only do these guys have a chance to recover to some degree, but even those that don’t can lead productive happy lives, giving you back more love than you could ever imagine.
We have loads of pics to choose from
Joan Horning
Grand Forks B.C. Canada
jhorning@telus.net
250 442-4051
Excellent Joan! This is exactly what I am looking for! It is totally ok if you don’t have any background on your dogs. Simply write a little story for me on each of them. If you read the post above you will see some general ideas of what I am looking for.
You can email me the stories at drmarie(at)askavetquestion.com. (Just replace the (at) with @.) Once I have enough stories to get going I will do some minor editing of each of them. I will send you the edited version to get your approval before publishing. Also, when we get closer to publishing time we’ll talk about pictures.
Thank you so much for everything you do for these dogs!
p.s. Do you have youtube links to your videos? I am thinking of starting a site on this blog for people to see videos and hear the stories of dogs who live happily with paralysis or partial paralysis.
Dr. Marie.
I tried to email drmarie@askavetquestion.com. It doesn’t seem to work.
I have an Italian Greyhound I adopted who sustained a spinal injury at 10wks. He is now almost 6 months and he has been with us for about 4 weeks now.
If there is an alternate email, I can send his story in if you are interested.
drmarie@askavetquestion.com is working now.
Must have been at my end. Sorry.