Caeda's Aching Heart

UPDATE: My co-worker and friend Lisa instant messaged me and told me that HER Cada (which we named our Caeda after) has a heart murmur too. She said that they are pretty common in dogs, and her Cada is feisty as well. Although the pictures posted below may seem different :) That made me feel a lot better! Here is the Reberg's Cada...who is SO cute! The first picture looks like Cada misses Caeda and wants to play. Thanks Lisa!!




"So" i realized today when looking back at one of my blogs and then scrolling up, that i start just about every blog with the word "so"....i suck :)

On a different note, yesterday i took both Chloe and Caeda in to the vet for their yearly check ups. Everything was going fine, we were in the exam room, and the vet checked Chloe first. Chloe HATES the vet. She hid in her kennel the whole time she wasn't being examined, and peeked out shaking. The vet went to check her ears, and as soon as the little ear checker pointy thing went in her ear, Chloe screamed bloody murder. The vet laughed, and tried again. (She laughed because Chloe's scream sounds like a high pitched bird squawking). She thought that Chloe might have had an ear infection, but besides that everything was fine. Chloe FINALLY broke the 3 pound mark, and weighed in at 3 pounds exactly. They took her back to check her ears to be SURE that there was no infection, which there wasn't, and then the vet started to check out Caeda. Cadea, loves the vet, she sniffs around at everything. When the vet went to check Caedas ears, she just bent down and sniffed all of the cool doctors instruments laying on the table. Ears were fine, teeth were fine, weight was fine (3 1/2 lbs), then the doctor went to check her heart. She listened, and looked at her watch...listened, and looked at her watch...listened, and looked at her watch. I started to get nervous, being that the vet only listened to Chloe's heart for a few seconds. She looked up at me, and asked if anything had ever been brought up about Caeda's heart in the past, and i told her no. She told me that she heard a possible heart murmur. :( She said they rate them on a scale of 1 - 10, and Caeda was at a 1, but she said we need to bring her back in in 2 months to have them listen again. All this time, we thought Chloe was going to be the one to have medical issues. She has always had bad knees, and is so small, we just figured we would always have to worry about medical issues with Chloe, not Caeda. It just about broke my heart...Caeda is the strong, feisty one, who is brave, and curious, and unstoppable. So, say a prayer for Caeda, that this was just a fluke, and we will never hear a murmur again! Needless to say, Caeda got a lot of cuddles from mom and dad last night, and Caeda slept in my arms all night!