Positive Thoughts for Marlowe Please *Updated Sat. Afternoon*

Keeping paws and fingers crossed.
 

I am so sorry.  I really hope he pulls through.  Hugs, kisses, and belly rubs to Marlowe from Riley and I.

now that marlowe seems to be doing better, is it ok for me to ask what you said to your husband for leaving the medicine out.

So glad to read the good news. We will keep paws crossed for continued improvement

Marlowe's coming home tomorrow morning! The vets are extremely pleased with his progress and his blood panels appear to be back to normal, so he may not even have any lasting effects after this, which would just be such a miracle.
 
Faramir, I didn't say anything to my husband really. He left them there, but I overlooked them, so we both made a mistake. I did however ask him to promise that he'd be more involved with the dogs in the future, because they're sorta "my" dogs right now even though the choices to adopt both of them were ours together. I do feel (and I expressed this to him) that I generally give a lot more thought to their needs than he does. So, we'll work on that. But it was an accident. I was mad for a bit, but I got over it.
 
The person that I'm really still angry at is the person who left us that anonymous note that prompted us to uncrate Marlowe during the days. Because it was anonymous and didn't state when it was that the barking was happening (it's not 24/7 because there's no barking the 16 hours a day that we're home and often when I came home from work I didn't hear barking) or where this person lived that it was bothering them, we basically had to take an approach that Marlowe had to be silent all the time and under all circumstances. If we'd known the details, maybe we could have moved his crate to another part of the house or arranged for a dogwalker to come around the time of day that he started up, or just negotiated with this person a little. But instead we just had to do whatever it took to make sure he never uttered a peep. And that meant uncrating, which I was always really uncomfortable with for this very reason. 
 
Anyway, we're reformatting the parts of the house Marlowe has access to. We're clearing out the spare bedroom and just making it his room and then getting a latch for the bedroom door and babygating off the dining room/kitchen.
 
I'll be surprised if I can sleep at all tonight, I'm so excited to bring my baby home tomorrow!

Excellent news.

And I figured out a way to get the anonymous twerp that left the note to leave you alone about the dog barking, though I don't know they can know. You need to make friends with a biker club that doesn't believe in mufflers and then let them have parties every day and night. A dog barking now and then is nothing next to a '68 Shovelhead with shorties and a Del Orto 42 mm carb. (translation: extremely loud, as in rattling the windows.)

Ron, remind me never to tick you off, ok?? *grin* (he's right -- it would work!)
 
I'm so glad to hear Marlowe's coming home -- and sometimes it takes stuff like this to get you all on the same page.  Good for you for working it out!!

I'm glad he's coming home.

Yay! It's great to hear Marlowe's well enough to come home, and it sounds like you may have solved the barking problem.
 
Give him ear skritches and a yummy treat for me!

houndlove...glad to hear that marlowe is doing better...i had a positive vibe from the beginning, for whatever that is worth...also glad your husband was never in the dog house.

OMG houndlove, I'm so sorry to hear this.  Of course we will send all our good vibes his way.  Going to light some sage right now!!!!!

Ron's idea is a great one - we have a "loud pipes save lives" crew round here - I'd be HAPPY to send them to your neighborhood!
 
I'm really so relieved for you and so thrilled Marlowe will be home soon! 

ORIGINAL: ron2

Excellent news.

And I figured out a way to get the anonymous twerp that left the note to leave you alone about the dog barking, though I don't know they can know. You need to make friends with a biker club that doesn't believe in mufflers and then let them have parties every day and night. A dog barking now and then is nothing next to a '68 Shovelhead with shorties and a Del Orto 42 mm carb. (translation: extremely loud, as in rattling the windows.)

I think I can do you one better.....make friends with the local bagpipe band. Those guys are notorious for drinking, and you add highland pipes to that and send them to someone's house at 3am.....

I honestly can't think of anything more evil. [sm=devil.gif]

I so happy that Marlowe doesn't have any organ damage! Give him some rubs for me, will ya?

Oh Bugsy & i are sooo happy to hear that Marlowe is coming home[sm=happy.gif]

I recently went away for the weekend and had to type a 2.5 page 'note' out for my husband on how to take care of Bugs.  they just don't get it sometimes and I do believe that part of it is the lack of a natural nuturing component.
HOWEVER since we had out health scare and then me being away for the weekend my husband has a much better idea of what is entailed so may be writing up what you do with the dogs everyday or their routine if you like will help your husband - it has helped here.
Some dogs are not as 'adventerous' as others - Marlowe (and Bugsy) are the curious type and hungry sort - BAD combo so you can't prevent them from all trouble
Anyway glad to hear he's doing well

He's home! Just a real quick note because I'm about to take both the boys out for a walk on this very lovely but very cold and windy fall day.
 
The vet says that as far as they can tell, he'll have no lasting effects from this whole incident, which is just so amazing! We reconfigured the spare bedroom, took everything out of it, but Marlowe's crate in to it and I picked up a couple new comfy beds at PetCo that we also put in there for him. Latches were purchased for doors, baby gates have been moved, and Marlowe will now only be able to access the spare room (his room now, I guess), the hallway and the stairs.
 
He's up in his crate right now sleeping it all off. He is all crusty and smelly from being confined to a veterinary kennel for the past three days, so he may get a bath tonight. I suspect that even though he wasn't able to get much exercise, he also wasn't able to get much good sleep either, being in the emergency room of a 24-hour clinic most of the time, and probably wearing a cone-head too. So he's all curled up in his crate on the new wooly crate pad I got him. I'm going to go roust him now and do our walk in time to listen to This American Life on my walkman.
 
Thanks everyone!