A month later and first vet visit...

Pookie Bear has been with me for almost a month now.  Pookie Bear.  Her given name is still Annie (her tag, vet records all go by Annie) but the nickname "Pookie Bear" was created and stuck the first week she came home with me.  I don't know why but it just fits and she wags her tail like crazy when I call her that. 

Pookie Bear had her first visit with my vet yesterday.  I brought all of her previous records and pictures of when she was found in Jan. 2010 so that my vet had the best background possible.   Charlie fell in love with her and wanted to take her home but that was before she took a big poop on the examination floor and passed gas in front of the Dr.  Her pictures were passed around and several people remarked at how loveable she is and good she looks.  She is such a sweetheart, so friendly to everyone (and a great passenger in the car too!)

Dr. K gave her a full examination including blood work, fecal, bordatella, ear culture, and looked over her skin.  He does not see any evidence of demodex mange and said there were no lesions to even do a skin scraping.  He does see a skin infection (the black spots that I thought was demodex mange is not) and prescribed Cefpodoxime Proxetil.  She also has a yeast infection in her ears (one more than the other) and prescribed Fluconazole and Tresaderm and an ear wash called Glenhaven F 1/0 Itic.  I went home with Pyoben shampoo which is a follicle flushing shampoo to help get rid of that black stuff on her skin.  Top that off with the standard dewormer pyrantel.  I have to go back later this week to pick up some more pills because they ran out of them.  We go back for recheck in two weeks.

She's 11.2 pounds.  Both Charlie & Dr. K believe she is a brussels griffon x shih tzu mix! 

Pookie Bear LOVES Callie.  She loves to play and bark at Callie because Callie is such a happy go lucky and fun dog unlike the DarDar who is a possessive bully.  Oh she will play too and they will all chase each other, but that Dar is so moody!  I wish I knew how to make her stop being so possessive over me and moody with Pookie Bear. 

3 Weeks Later...

 Annie "Pookie Bear" is so cute.

 Annie "Pookie Bear" and Callie on recliner.  They play alot together.

 Doing what she does best... Bella is always in my face and near me.

 Stttrreeeeeetttchiiiingggg.... love it!

 Pookie Bear and Callie.

 Here's Annie "Pookie Bear".  Her coat is looking really good and the hair on her ears is starting to grow back in.  She still has mange though...

 All three of them laying on the couch with me.
Normally it is Bella that claims the spot next to me but Callie wasn't giving it up.

Callie is so pretty.  I ask "do you want to get pretty?" when I bring out the brush and she is the first one to claim the spot in front of me so she can be brushed.