As 2025 not so slowly approaches... there will be somewhat of an overhaul to this site and our actual jackal's den.... This will be a slow but ongoing process you'll see while in progress.

Where my crafting efforts started as RabidJackalGraphX.Com, I came to decide that was waaay too long a name to type. I secured GraphX.Me and while it's still secured to me, it's not the post I want to hang my hat on. It's been stewing in my mind now for a good long while — BlueCoyote.Art!

     It's secured to me for the next couple years. BlueCoyote.Com belongs to some bar in Arizona so I had to settle for alternate "Dot Com" extensions. ".Art" has been with me since BlueCoyote has been an "obsession". BlueCoyote.Site will get you to RabidJackal.Com. The logos will merge; I created the RabidJackal logo. FontAwesome.Com created my BlueCoyote logo for all to use. I AM NOT TAKING CREDIT FOR IT IN ANYWAY. I'm just using it where I am not making any money off of it. If my crafting (stroke rehabilitation/occupational therapy) picks up, I'll certainly create my own logo.
     Now... why BlueCoyote??? Why???... Well... three reasons, the first being the throat chakra is blue and husky / malamute — Aluskies — are vocal, communicating to their packs out there as they still have a little wolf in them. Secondly, it started when I purchased a coyote tail on a key chain in 2007ish. It's dyed blue. It's that simple. And third — aluskies aren't so much the Wylie Coyotes or rabid jackals their appearance makes them out to be. They're happy go lucky dogs are owned by someone who desperately tries to give them some kind of ominous appearance. We'll see which name works out best....
     Then I got into collecting hides and skulls — starting with that of a South African black backed jackal that I ordered at the height of a postal picketing fun-fest and had to wait a while for delivery. And a less eventful coyote hide purchase, etc.... I tried my hand at dying coyote skulls blue and I succeeded! The deer and coyote skulls I had were hunted by friends' husbands who hunted for deer meat and coyotes got in the way. So there is a little "wear and tear" on them to explain any damage, such as missing or broken teeth.
     I kept the best for my lot and added taxidermy eyes in the distinctive RabidJackal green color... thus completing the merge....

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8-22-2024
It has come to my attention that Sassy is not the jealous hoarding meany that she portrays herself as! When it's not obvious that you're watching her, you'll see that she is well aware that Akula is now blind. She herds him out in the yard and pretty much protects him when she's not protecting HER things that HE wants. That's an alusky for ya!
     I've been seeing Sassy sleeping on the floor in the evening with a paw or tail or her fuzzy butt touching some art of Akula so he knows she's near. It took a while for me to notice this cos I see them ALL the time. It took someone bringing it to my attention.
     Clearly, in the morning, after breakfast when they're all fat n' happy, they could care less about each other....

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8-10-2024... (Happy birthday, Brimstone!)
My day started with Sassy having puked in her bed... She ate breffess without the vigor she usually has - as Akula always has.... Her not wanting her morning ice cube is a bad sign! Someone WILL be cleaning up something later....

 

So... no coffee this morning. It's a Dr Pepper and Everclear kind of morning! I'm already chilled out with just making room for ice and all!... So... GOOD FRIGGIN' MORNIN'!!!..

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Akula, NOT to be left out....

A couple weeks later.... Concerns have risen. AFTER getting an all clear from 2 separate and trusted vets - Akula has Chronic kidney disease and Systemic hypertension. I would have liked to have known this prior to surgery.... Well, that explains Akula's excessive drinking like a racehorse.... One vet's office says he'll be needing a needing a special diet and high blood pressure meds - a half a pill twice a day. The primary vet told me his blood work numbers show a light elevation in a couple different numbers that are only consistent with old age and not a death sentence. Not necessary to change his diet.
     Cataract surgery for dogs are extremely different than for humans in that humans can recover and see shortly thereafter whereas dogs have to deal with inflammation for a long time. Akula doesn't love receiving the eye drops anymore than love giving him the drops. Or various pills but here we are. It's still too soon to give up hope on his eye recovery so we shall ...see....
     Meanwhile, good thing he has a hard head cos he's now booping it into walls and things. He's real slow now, head hanging low. He ambles about with his head hung low.
     He's often really slow when it's time to go into the backyard. There's a big half circle brick step, 6" or so tall step to the back door and glass screen door. Often, I need to tell him to "follow my voice......." so he knows which way to go.
     The worst thing about this is all is the malamute in him can no longer protect his family, particularly me. He knows I'm "wounded" from my stroke. I now have to protect him. The mothering instinct in me.... He knows it's there and I've not done wrong by him so he's able to find his way to the - HIS - chaise lounge bed in the living room.

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The Legend of Sasin....

Whoever wakes up first and finds the "prize" has to clean it. We finally got Sasin aka Sassy to a diagnostic vet clinic to solve the mystery of her vomiting issues. Well... She has "Mega-esophagus"... WTH??

Poor Sassy has a "Mega-esophagus" and our vet has not seen one has bad/big as hers. "It should not be visible on an x-ray". Her's and Akula's food and water bowls are now up on 5 gallon paint buckets and the condition has greatly improved BUT...

if her food manages to not get down to her tummy, anything and everything caught in her esophagus will find its way out with deadly accuracy to target any last cleaned and disinfected area. The esophagus is the black tube to the left, below the spine. Our vet said something about it's not supposed to show up an x-ray. Great...

So with the food bowls on the buckets, almost daily vomiting reduced to a few times a week. Yay! But... vomiting was still happening and since I'm a kinda light sleeper, if I don't hear Sassy ringing the bells at the door, I'll be the one getting to clean it up. Yay, me....

So, again... I got to thinking when it was grooming time. Sassy will sit in the corner of the couch to avoid nail clipping. I got to thinking... She's sitting almost upright! I started rubbing her chest and her throat, hitting that sweet spot where Lil Miss Princess gets a thorough rub down in her "spa day". I say "Bailey Chair" and Sassy will come, knowing it's a good thing. I'm retraining her to come to "Gravity" cos it adheres to the "1 word, 3 syllables" rule for dog learning.

This also means treats and snacks have to be well thought out cos even a bite of BBQ'ed steak can "release the hounds".

Now... where the diagnostic clinic urged us to get a Bailey's Chair, we declined, needing to research this. Considering it cost over $1,400 for the diagnostics service, we weren't about to wrestle an unwilling participant into a $275 (at least) chair!

From time to time, I snooker Sassy into getting on the couch and into position as shown. I'll massage her chest then throat. Easy peasy.

So far she has not yakked Sassy style!!! Yay!!!

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