I recently had an email from a former client who has a dog that suffers from seizures.

Percy is a 4 year old yellow Lab with epilepsy. He has been on traditional ant-seizure medication, and is not responding very well now. He is suffering from seizures once a month, even on the highest doses of these medications.
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Congratulations! After searching long and hard at the shelters, thru the newspaper and even enlisting friends and family in your search, you’ve found the right dog! So what’s next? Giving him/her a proper name of course!
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The PugSpeak story begins in 1999 with a love for pugs; two little pug boys – Dexter and Trevor, a computer; and a husband with superlative photographic capabilities. We began by taking photos of our pug children – almost too numerous to count. The grown-up children joked that we may have more photos of the pugs than the human children. We smiled as we continued to shoot pictures. Eventually, we put the photos on card stock and sent them out to family and friends. Somewhere along the line, someone said, “Why don’t you sell these?”
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We feel that purchasing a puppy is a life long commitment and we would like to see buyers take the time to consider what they are looking for in a dog. Please keep in mind that each year, millions of dogs and cats are killed in shelters because their temperaments have been ruined because of irresponsible, and/or uneducated, and/or unthinking owners. It is estimated that over 40% of the dogs in shelters are purebred dogs. Their owners did not move to a state that doesn’t take dogs, these dogs were surrendered to the shelter because there was a problem with the temperament of the dog, housebreaking problems, destructiveness, or aggressive type behavior. Read the rest of this entry »