Happy Birthday Raji and Irdhi!
Posted: June 27, 2010 Filed under: Gompa Lhasa Apsos 8 CommentsSixteen years old today!
Danielle and Irdhi, several months after the Gompas arrived at my house…
Raji…
Luxating patellas
Posted: June 24, 2010 Filed under: Gompa Lhasa Apsos Leave a commentSusan wrote:
I know that the Gompas are particularly susceptible to this: I’ve seen
it in at least one Gompa that I know; my vet has diagnosed it in at least one of mine, but until just now I have never seen it manifested. As of a few days ago I started to notice that particular "skip walk" in Rinchen. What I am guessing is that although he has always had a patella that was subject to luxating that for some reason it is just now actually acting up and hurting him???? Do you have a course of action you can suggest for me? Not long after the Gompas came to live with me, I met with an excellent physical therapist. Planned breedings do take patellas into account, but with such a small number of dogs, it's going to take some time to breed away from luxating patellas. Marty Peace, the physical therapist and Canine Conditioning and Rehabilitation Group, was so helpful. You can read what I compiled here.
Expanding our gene pool…
Posted: March 2, 2010 Filed under: Gompa Lhasa Apsos | Tags: Debby Rothman, Gompa Lhasa Apso, Julie Timbers 3 CommentsSunday Julie gave the presentation I presented last October in Pennsylvania to the American Lhasa Apso Club….which is where I’ve been the past week or so. Not in Minnesota, but trying to make final preparations so Julie could pull if off smoothly, with all the necessary components. As some of you may know, about 2 years ago I was appointed chairman of ALAC’s newly formed Native Stock Committee. The Breeders Education Committee of ALAC invited me to give that presentation, which included updating members on the Gompa dogs. Ergo, the film Ancient Treasure – The Remake.
This presentation will be given around the country in the upcoming months. The next one will be here in the Denver area. Please join us!
Dawa and Karma
Posted: July 12, 2009 Filed under: Gompa Lhasa Apsos 3 CommentsFrom Rod:
Hi Debby,
I wanted to let you know the little girl went in for her surgery this week. Dr. O’Brien thought now was the time, she came home Wednesday night with some pain but after the first dose of medication she soon relaxed and went to sleep. Today she is up and about like nothing happen but we are keeping her from getting to active for the next several days.
We took the boy in for his summer hair cut and when Olga went to pick him up she barely could recognize him. Needless to say we were not too pleased with the way the groom cut him and I must say he was very unhappy about it as well. We could not get him to go outside and he was having accidents in the house so we had to revert back to the puppy training methods again. His hair is starting to grow back now some and I jokingly call him our Chia Pup. I would suspect he will be back to his full coat by October. Here is a picture of both after his cut and the second is of the girl on graduation day from puppy training. Take care!
Rod & Olga
Kipu…
Posted: July 9, 2009 Filed under: Apso Aficionados, Gompa Lhasa Apsos Leave a comment
June 16, 2009 – One Year Old! Kipu sends Birthday Greetings to siblings Akasa, Karma and Skyob! Kipu hopes his sister and brothers are doing as well as he is.
He loves going on his walks…in fact…if I even mention the word ‘walk’ he runs over to the front door and has an excited look of expectation on his face. (And he has many wonderful expressions…you know exactly what he’s thinking.) On his walks he loves everyone he meets so I’ve broadened the number of people I know. He’ll wag his tail and continue to look over his shoulder till he can’t see them anymore.
He has turned into a bird dog, too. That means he doesn’t like any birds in his yard. That makes things a little difficult for me as I have several bird feeders. He’ll be laying by the patio door looking out, a rabbit shows up and Kipu’s up growling and barking. If he happens to be outside when the bunny appears, the bunny has to run for his life! Talk about fast! Kipu can catch the ball I throw before it goes downstairs. Granted, it’s just his squeaky, stuffed soccer ball, but still it amazes me!
I love when he talks to me. I can’t interrupt what he’s saying, but it’s a really cool sound he makes. The closest thing I can think of to compare it to is a cooing dove.
And he’s definitely a helper with my gardening. I’ve had to fence my veggie garden to try to keep him out after he walked down my row of poblano peppers and tipped them all over and then tried to go through the climbing pea fence I had made with twine.
He’s also my protector. When a dog on TV barks, he stands up on alert and begins growling. Or a doorbell on TV rings, he’s immediately standing and barking, glancing over his shoulder to check to see if I’m heeding his warning.
I woke in the wee small hours this morning to someone stroking my hair. I discovered he gave a couple of licks to my hair while he decided to share my pillow. His little butt was under the covers, too, so not sure how he managed all that.
I honestly couldn’t imagine what I’d do without him….
Sandy
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