Thank you for bringing Gus into our lives. My husband has been cancer-free since that surgery, and is also back to his healthy and happy self. He is an ideal pet who follows the house rules without fail, provides us with a ton of entertainment, and constantly showers us with affection–which is returned in spades. Today Gus is a healthy, happy, and very shiny boy adored by us, our family and friends (and his dog walker, who says that Gus “brightens his day every day”). During my husband’s surgery and recovery, Gus provided us all with some much-needed pet therapy, and was great company during those long and boring months at home. Getting Gus healthy and used to our home helped us focus on him and pass the time during the wait for the January surgery. One might expect the addition of Gus to our household shortly before my husband’s health crisis hit would have been a disruptive distraction, but it had the opposite effect. Aside from being an ideal houseguest, he was a bright shining star each day that literally got me through the most difficult two weeks of my life. I stayed at the hospital with my husband, but came home for a few hours each day to be with Gus. My husband had major surgery in January 2008, and Gus stayed at my parents’ house (about 10 minutes from the hospital).
He also adapted to our home quickly, despite the fact that barely a month after we got him he had a different random family member staying with him nearly every night as we dealt with my husband’s surprise extended hospital stay. Our new dog, now being treated by a wonderful vet (the McClures at Northside in Arlington) and eating good dog food, improved rapidly. It was a major shock, given that he was only 33 years old at the time and had no other symptoms. Tails Out! – Take a shelter dog out for a couple hours or days.
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