Chloe

I don't want to leave out my other Boxer from my postings. This is Chloe. We adopted her from a Boxer rescue organization when she was almost 2. She is THE sweetest dog ever . . . can not believe someone would give her up. Chloe will turn 4 next month.





Like Cooper, she has some health challenges. A year after we got her, she started losing her hair. Diagnosis: hypothyroidism. So she's on monthly meds for life too. Then, this past November, she just wasn't "acting herself", so I took her to the vet for a check-up. She had a large amount of blood in her urine (not visible to the human eye). After 4 additional days and $1400 of diagnostic testing with a board certified internal medicine specialist, no diagnosis and no improvement . . . and we were days away from the move. I'm now taking her to the same vet who diagnosed Cooper with Addison's Disease, and he thinks he has a handle on it. She's now on another daily med which is supposed to be the equivalent of cranberry juice for humans. That, combined with a round of antibiotics and prednisone have resulted in a much lower quantity of blood as of last week. We're hopeful she's on the upswing. Again, this vet is incredible. Symptomatically, she acts like the old Chloe. She tries desparately to talk, and her favorite trick is to wait until I'm in the shower and then come open the door and stick her nose through the shower curtain. I don't have the heart to lock the door because she seems to enjoy bursting in on me so much. :) Both of my Boxers know how to open doors --- I've never had any other breed of dog that did that.





Here's another picture of her my daughter took that she calls "Snowy Chloe".