By the end of 2009 we noticed Maya slowing down a bit in her everyday activities and the heart disease had progressed to moderate a bit more quickly than we hoped. An air of inevitability set in as I started sensing she didn’t have years left. She became a permanent fixture sleeping on our bed [...]
After the diagnosis in 2008 we remained cautiously optimistic about Maya’s health. We started consulting with Dr Woodfield, our local cardiologist to have her monitored every 12 months. Statistically she was somewhere in the middle – we knew that 50% of Cavaliers develop Mitral Valve by age 5. Her prognosis wasn’t as bad as a [...]
After Maya’s successful decompression surgery everything seemed to progress like a dream for the first few months. I remember close to the end of her 4 weeks of confinement and drug therapy that she started tearing around the backyard with Lucy like we hadn’t seen her do for months. Of course we were cautioned that [...]
Maya was our second Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Born on 6/30/2002 she lived over 9 years with a debilitating disease, Syringohydromyelia, that we had no idea existed until it hit in May 2003. She was also diagnosed with the ubiquitous Cavalier malady Mitral Valve Disease in 2008 and lived with it for over 3 years. [...]
Maya, our first black and tan Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, was an unlikely agility dog and we were unlikely dog agility handlers. In 2002 we’d never seen or heard of the sport and thought weekends were for wine tasting, shopping, socializing with friends and other activities perfectly reasonable to accomplish when not at a dog [...]
