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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I suppose it could be worms.  I'm not good at diagnosing things with 
dogs, even though I am a dog lover.  We had a GS when I was a kid.  She 
died of heartworms, and I am sad to say that the symptoms were similar 
to what you describe, BUT, she was fine one month and died the next. 
She did not suffer for long, but she became very thin very quickly. 
Doubt you have many mosquitos in the high desert, so I wouldn't worry 
too much about heartworms.
On a happy note, we were able to re-home my Swissy yesterday.  He went 
to a couple with 3 acres and a couple of other dogs and cats.  Followups 
last night and today find the new owners happy with him, even though he 
is chasing their cats.  The cats seem to like him though, ironically. 
I'm just so happy that he found a good home where he will get lots of 
attention. I wish that they had kids for him to play with, but I guess 
you can't have everything.

Bunjov AT aol.com wrote:

> I have the old German Shepherd in tonight, because it's too cold and windy,  
> and I can feel his hipbones and his backbone and his ribs protruding. He  gets 
> skinnier by the day and - although I've started feeding him twice a day  inste
> ad of just once, he doesn't improve. 
>  
> I just worry with the unfinished wood floors and the fact that he's become  
> incontinent of late.
>  
> He is a rescue dog - or so I'd like to think  - that my daughter  brought 
> home from Ace Hardware two years ago when he either ran away from  home or was 
> abandoned. Could this all-of-a-sudden be worms? 
>  
> He's asleep now, along with all five cats, two cockatiels, one parakeet and  
> one desert tortoise. If I tippy-toe, I'll get some sleep myself. It's just  
> that I'll go to sleep wondering what I can do to make him comfortable. 
>  
> I have no way to get a 'house' for him, even though I've tried. He's just  
> too big - even in his skinny state. 
>  
>  
> In a message dated 10/10/2008 7:58:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
> erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:
>
>
>
> Bunjov AT aol.com wrote:
>
> >  
> > I was five and  a half, and he was four and a half, and we were  partners. 
> Toy 
> >  cars and little dirt roads under our dining room window.  Hunting  
> spiders. 
> > Bird-watching with a pair of worn-out binoculars. Hiding  up  under the 
> boxcars 
> > and pretending we were hoboes. Oh, that's  the life for me!  Getting into 
> > trouble for firing up the back  yard incinerator at 4 a.m. on a  Saturday 
> morning and 
> > stealing  our mother's potatoes just to see if we could bake  one in the 
> coals  
> > and eat it.
>
> That sounds wonderful! I am glad you had such a  great friend.
> Speaking of books and boxcars, did anyone ever read _The  Boxcar 
> Children_ when they were kids?  I loved those books,  fantasized about 
> living that way.  Maybe they influenced my  homesteading desires.
>
>
> >  
> > My mother and I, several  years later, when I was a teenager, were taking  
> the 
> > Long Beach  'red train' and I was so looking forward to finding Eddie 
> again.   
> > But we happened to pick up a local paper at one of the  stops,and  of  the 
> lead 
> > articles told of how Eddie had been  horribly maimed in an auto  accident.
> >  
> > I don't know  where he is today.
>
> You should find him.  You should tell him what  you just told me/us. 
> People live to hear things like that.  It's real  and powerful.  You 
> should find him now.
>
> Bev
>
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