6 July 2024 A Park Journey With Phineas

The day was perfect for enjoying a park walk with wildflowers.

A yellow swallowtail stopped by wildflowers.

Phineas has cancer and is dying. He has good and bad days. Today, he was having a good day. I was thrilled for being able to give him a park trip.

The bees were staying busy gathering pollen.

4 March 2024 Phin

He has cancer. He should still have a few years on the trail with us, but there's nothing to be done short of making him comfortable and happy. When we rescued him from a shelter he was miserable. He's made us laugh, and we have made him wag. Hopefully, we still have a few journeys left.

19 April 2023 Amazing Companions

They are wonderful companions getting older. 💕 

23 October 2022 Allegany State Park

We had a day to spend on the trails at the park with the dogs.  The colors were perfect and the weather was comfortable. 

Phineas went full bay early  on the trail.

Lizzie just wanted to be on the trail.

16 December 2021 Phineas

 Now he controls the remote...

15 October 2021 Tough Day

 Phin was in extreme pain this morning so we were headed off to the emergency hospital to get him evaluated.  They weren't able to provide us much help beyond a referral to a specialist and pain meds.

17 December 2020 Short, Cold Days

 It's nearly the first official day of winter,  Phineas understands the need for comfort.  😀  He's a special beagle.  💓

27 December 2019 Phineas

We both agreed that Phineas was not improving from the neck injury he had suffered. We also agreed medicating him with pain pills was not improving his comfort. We were left with three options. The first was unthinkable at this point. The second was surgery with no real assurances of success or comfort for him and a long period of rehab. The third option offered by our vet was accupuncture. She indicated she had past efforts with other dogs where the procedures helped greatly. Last evening was his first procedure. He was a brave boy with multiple needles in him as part of the process. His friendly nature helped too. It is too early to see if this has been successful, but he has one of his four treatments completed. As of today, he is still on the pain meds and clearly in discomfort.