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Grumman-581 wrote:

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:20:11 GMT, john smith wrote:
Having an aging dog is crimping our travel plans.
She had two strokes while I was at Oshkosh 2005, so we are reluctant to
leave her without 24 hour care and monitoring.

How old is she? Sounds like it is likely time to cut your loses and
get another dog...

She was eight last year, nine now.
She is a Golden Retriever, average life is twelve years.
She lives as long as she lives.
She has recovered quite well. The only after effect of the strokes was
the muscles on the right side of her face tightening up so her nose
points to the right, her right eyelid doesn't open as far as the left,
her right ear does stand up as high as the left, and her mouth mouth
tightened up so that her upper canine rubs her lip.
Our previous Golden had to be put down when he was nine.