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Dewey The Sock Bandit & Dusty Cajun Dew Right Mojo, Dewey for short, is a Cardigan Welsh Corgi. He is an AKC certified Canine Goo

18/01/2025

This perfect little troublemaker is 1 year old today!!! Happy 1st birthday, Dusty, aka Cajun Dust of the Chase, aka Dust Bowl!!!💙

16/01/2025

As part of our 1st year in review, here's some pictures from June, July, & August when Dusty was 5 - 7 months old.

His floppy puppy ears were trying to stand up on their own, but we ended up helping them out with a little tape for a few days. Fortunately, for all of us we only had to use the tape for 3 days and his ears stayed up.

He started puppy classes with floppy ears and graduated with his ears standing up!

10/01/2025

Dusty's first snow, and he loved it! ❄️☃️
I'll post a video in the comments.

08/01/2025

Dusty will turn 1 year old later this month and, since I didn't get around to posting his puppy pictures along the way, we'll try to catch up with a few posts before his birthday. Here's the first with a few pictures from April and May 2024 when he was 3-4 months old.

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas!

It's hard to believe Dusty's already 11 months old!

I really meant to be posting puppy pictures along the way and just never got around to it but we've got tons of pictures and I'll be making some "catch up" posts real soon, so stay tuned and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

17/04/2024

Introducing Dusty!

I wasn't sure when, or if, I'd be ready to welcome a new pup to the family, but I knew if I did, that I would be blessed with the right pup at the right time...and here he is!

The breeder that I adopted Dewey from had a couple of litters back in January, but I just wasn't ready yet. By March I decided to reach out and see if any of the pups were still available. He only had a couple female pups that weren't spoken for, but their color and markings were so similar to Dewey's that I knew it would be too hard on me. Then about 3 weeks later he contacted me and said that the people who had this pup reserved were unable to take him at this time, so after a 10 hour round trip drive to Louisiana and back last Thursday, Dusty is home. 💙🙏

Cajun Cardigans

13/03/2024

It took a while, but Dewey's headstone is in place.
The second picture is with the memorial sign we had up while waiting on the headstone. The third picture is of my first Corgi, Dixie's headstone. They were buried close to each other, and I know they're running and playing together now.

14/05/2023

I haven't been able to make this post until now, but I wanted to let you know that my little buddy went to Heaven last Saturday, just a few weeks away from his 15th birthday.

I didn't go to work Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, so we had a lot of time together and we enjoyed several trips to his parks during that time. We were treating for a GI bleed as a probable cause for anemia and bloodwork on Thursday showed his kidney values had spiked. Whether this was progression of chronic kidney disease or due to another unknown issue, the values were so high that his vets agreed this was not something we could come back from.

I prayed Friday night for the Lord to let him go peacefully and naturally if that was His will, but if not, to let me know that I was making the right decision. I got what I needed to make that decision, and Dewey went peacefully sitting in my lap surrounded by those who love him.

Life will never be the same without my little buddy.

Thank you all for your prayers and support. It has really meant a lot.

Dewey the Sock Bandit
June 3, 2008 - May 6, 2023

23/04/2023

It’s been way too long since our last post and there’s a lot to talk about.

At the beginning of February, I noticed Dewey’s lymph nodes felt a little enlarged, and a cytology confirmed he was out of remission. Dewey has been through the CHOP protocol twice and handled it very well both times with minimal side effects, however he has been in remission and hasn’t had chemo in over a year. The CHOP protocol is the gold standard for lymphoma, but it is also pretty aggressive with weekly treatments and Dewey just isn’t as young as he used to be (he’ll be 15 in June), so we decided to use a less aggressive protocol (COP) that includes some of the same drugs from CHOP, but would only require treatments every three weeks.

The Dewd’s first COP treatment was on Feb 7th with a “booster” on Feb 14th, and he was back in remission before his next treatment on March 7th. In the past Dewey handled visits to the vet very well and I would drop him off in the morning and pick him up later after his treatment. Vet visits stress him out a lot more now, so on his chemo days Dew would go in for his exam and bloodwork, then we would wait in the truck (or sitting on the tailgate – see pic in comments) until it was his turn for treatment, and that seemed to make it less stressful for him. We used pre-meds for side effects and Dewey did well with just a little decrease in appetite. Then about a week before his next chemo was due, he had a flare up of his disc disease with weakness in his hind legs and more of a decrease in his appetite.

Because of the decreased appetite, at his next chemo appointment on March 28th, I requested we do a chem panel along with the normal CBC and his kidney values were elevated. We decided not to do chemo due to the elevated kidney values, the disc disease flare up/ pain, and the ongoing decrease in appetite. We changed some meds and increased the sub-q fluids at home and at his follow-up a week later his kidney values were back to the stable, stage 2 levels he was at before, and his disc disease was improving with the oncologist noting no pain on his physical exam. Ideally, even though he is in remission, we would complete the entire chemo protocol, but since he was still recovering from that episode we held off on chemo and will reassess at his next visit.

His appetite still isn’t back to normal, but with some special additions (canned chicken, tuna, green beans, carrots, and baby food) to his canned food he is eating well. It’s difficult to say what is causing the decreased appetite, because there are multiple possibilities – it could be related to the chemo and a change in taste, kidney disease and excess stomach acid, a flare up of chronic pancreatitis, or changes in taste / smell from CCD. We have an internal medicine visit next week, so we’ll keep you posted on that.

The survival time for dogs with lymphoma without chemo is only about 1-3 months, and with chemo the median survival time is about 1 year. We have been blessed with a great response to treatments and we are now over 2 years since his diagnosis! We are very grateful to our family for their help and support and we couldn’t do this without them; especially my Mom! Although he has multiple issues, we are managing everything well and the Dewd is in remission, happy, living his best life, and still stealing my socks almost every day after work!

As always, your prayers are welcome and much appreciated!

*On a side note, one of Dewey’s friend from our agility classes, Dolce Gambino, gained his wings recently and I know his family is hurting. We are keeping them in our prayers, and kindly ask that you do as well.

21/01/2023

The Dewd has had a great start to 2023 and we hope you have too! We had an oncologist follow-up last week and he's still in remission and kidney disease is stable. It's been 22 months since his diagnosis and he's feeling good, enjoying visits to his parks, and STILL STEALING SOCKS!🙏🧦💙🐾

27/11/2022

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! We did, and we have so much to be thankful for! Dewey had a follow-up with his oncologist on Friday and she said he's looking good and still in clinical remission! My Mom's been staying with Dewey a lot lately and my brother and sister have been a big help as well. We're so thankful to have such a wonderful supportive family, thankful that Dewey has been blessed with such a great response to treatment and for his continuing remission, and for all of you for your prayers and support!

*Pics from Friday and today at Dewey's park.

01/11/2022

For Halloween the Dewd and I dressed up as a different "Dude"(Jeff Bridges ) who is also kicking lymphoma's a**!

27/10/2022

The Dewd had another great follow-up with his oncologist and we’re celebrating ongoing clinical REMISSION! This marks 1 year in his second remission, and 19 months since his original diagnosis! 🎉🙏

Dewey’s first chemo (CHOP) protocol started back in March 2021, and he reached remission in the first couple weeks. He came out of remission in October 2021, so we started CHOP again and he reached remission within the first couple weeks that time as well.
His kidney disease is stable, so we are continuing the special diet and subQ fluids 4-5 times a week. He still has some mild signs of CCD including some pacing and trouble getting settled down at times, but the Selegiline has worked really well and these episodes don’t last nearly as long as before and he sleeps through the night just fine now.

We have been very blessed and Dewey is happy, feeling good, and still stealing socks!🧦

God is good! 🙏

As always, thank you all so much for your continued thoughts and prayers! 🙏🧦🐾💙

17/08/2022

The Dewd had his 6 month post chemo checkup on Monday and great news - continued clinical remission!!!🙏🎉

We also got good news on his kidney disease follow-up with his internal medicine vet last week. They did a lot of bloodwork and a urinalysis and everything remains stable! 🙏🎉

Pic from last weekend at Dewey's park (McKinney Towne Lake).🧦🐾❤️

31/07/2022

Made it out to the Dewd's park the last couple mornings before it got too hot.

15/07/2022

The Dewd had his 4 month post chemo follow up on Monday and all was good - continued clinical remission!🎉

Sorry it's been so long since I posted an update, but I'll try to catch you up on all things Dewd now.

Some routine bloodwork a couple months ago showed Dewey's kidney values had increased a little, so we followed up with his Internal Medicine Vet. His kidney values are still in Stage 2 and Dr. Rolfe isn't really concerned about the change. However, during the workup we checked his pancreas specific lipase (pancreatitis marker) and even though he was mostly asymptomatic it was high, >1200 (normal is 0 - 200), so we started a low dose/long course of Cerenia to help with inflammation of his pancreas. Fortunately, he isn't showing any signs of pancreatitis and it seems to be helping, with more recent pancreas values in the 300 - 500 range. We've also started doing Sub Q fluids at home every 2-3 days to maintain hydration and support his kidneys and we'll continue his special diet and monitoring with regular bloodwork.

We had a follow up with Dewey's neurologist a couple of weeks ago and that also went well. Dew's been taking Selegiline for about 3 months now and we have seen improvement. Before the Selegiline Dewey was having a lot of restlessness and pacing in the evenings, having trouble getting settled into bed, and getting up multiple times during the night with trouble getting back to sleep. It was a gradual improvement, and he still has episodes of pacing, but he now settles into bed quickly and sleeps through the night (with only the occasional potty break and then right back to sleep).

Overall everything is going well; Dewey is happy, feeling good, and we are now celebrating 16 months since his diagnosis!🎉

I am so thankful that the Lord has blessed us with the resources to give Dewey the care he deserves, and the great response Dewey has had to all the treatments! God is good!🙏

Thank you all so much once again for your continued thoughts and prayers! They are more appreciated than you know! 🙏🧦🐾❤️

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Happy New Year!🎉 This video just showed up on Facebook from 13 years ago when the Dewd was just about 6 months old. Stormie and Dewey had so much fun together!

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