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RIP BUZZY

The week after Thanksgiving, 
Superior lost one of its friendliest and most loveable  residents.

More tragically, Ruby lost her boyfriend.

Buzzy would have been one year old in January.

Buzzy passed away,
after eating something
given to him by a Superior resident.

Some well meaning person,
probably ignorant of what they were doing,
likely gave Buzzy chicken or turkey bones
after the holiday.

Poultry bones, as a dog chews,
break into needle like splinters that the dog swallows.  
As these pass through the dog's digestive system,
they pierce the intestines causing intestinal bleeding.

Buzzy bled internally for two days
before he died a painful death despite
the medical care his owner tried to save him with.

Ruby will howl - even when Buzz was campused at home,
they would bark at each other, and answer.  
They played like two maniacs trying to kill each other whenever he came to visit.

The two pups loved each other,
and while they drove me nuts because they would eat
any available plant when they were together,
no one can imagine dogs having fun as well as these two did.

If you love dogs, do dog owners a favor:

Don't feed a dog that isn't yours.

• You mean well, but every time someone other than an owner feeds a dog, the dog learns it's OK to eat food given by someone other than the owner.  So someone can easily give poisoned food to a dog, who will eat it and die.
• If you don't know dogs and what they can eat, you may give the dog something deadly.  Chocolate, yeast breads, chewing gum, pork or poultry bones and many more things can easily kill a dog.
  If you have a treat you really want to give to a dog, give it to the dog's owner for approval and to give the dog.

If you own a dog:

• Teach your dog NOT to accept food from anyone outside the family.   Get people to come and offer dog treats, and either treat the treat beforehand with bitter apple (a compound designed to make dogs stop chewing), or thrown a soda can filled with gravel down behind the dog if he or she starts to accept the treat.   Then reward the dog for ignoring food offered by others, by giving it a treat yourself.
• Keep you dog in your house or yard. It is difficult to curb the freedom of these wonderful, vigorous animals, but disease, injury and other dangers are multiferous and can jeopardize your dog daily.  Here in Superior, there are wild animals, too.   We hear coyotes daily, and Ruby, as you know, has had multiple skunk encounters safely contained in her yard.
• Watch what your dog eats. We have to take bones away from Ruby weekly, as she digs and finds garbage buried by past residents of the house in our yard.

Ruby will miss her pal as many of us will.

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