Banshee is a Louisiana Catahoula Leopard mixed with Siberian
Husky. She's a special kind of howler on both sides of the
family tree and when an ambulance or fire truck roar through
the neighborhood, she's compelled to sing us the "song of
her people". Fortunately police cars don't make that same
kind of noise and they do not set off our dog alarms. The
dogs ultimately have names taking some kind of military
aircraft reference and Russian theme and/or personality
trait. A Banshee is in reference to a
British target drone and a
banshee -- a female spirit that wails at the time a
person dies. Whomever is in the ambulance is going to may be
dying....
Here she was when I first saw her. The howling at me should
have been my first clue.... When I saw that mental image of
a little animated heart above her head, I groaned and
muttered out loud -- "I just got adopted...."
The shelter attendant brought her out for me and she stared
at me for a while with those big, blue vibrant "goat eyes".
It kinda was love at first sight for both of us.
Banshee certainly felt at home in her new den.
She has her moments of being clueless and looking cute.
"Ummm... whut??"
Look close at those eyes and how clear they are....
In early July 2018, she suddenly one morning had a fully
dilated eye and an emergency trip to the vet which led to...
glaucoma....
We somehow went through 20+ years of keeping northern breed
dogs without incident. Then we somehow adopted 2 dogs were
years apart, from different locations and different and in
the same pack. We learned the hard way in just how
real
it can get.
About 2 weeks later, I survived a stroke and I've not yet
recovered enough to easily take many pictures of Banshee's
eye which was successfully treated and now she gets a dose
of 2 different eye drops. She's now blind in one of her very
unique goat eyes but she she is healthy and happy and has
adapted to having only 1 eye.
We were "fortunate" to already know about Husky glaucoma and
we were able to address it the morning it appeared so had
the "gentocin" injaction done first. It "took" the first
time we had it done. Yay! We were "fortunate" to already
know about Husky glaucoma and we were able to address it the
morning it appeared so had the "gentocin" injection done
first. It "took" the first time we had it done. Yay!
If you're reading this prior to reading about Akula, here's
what I'm referencing:
Google wants me to search "gentamicin injection". So I did.
Here's some info on it:
So I did. Here's some info on it:
Gentamicin Injection
Glaucoma/
Banshee gets Timolol in her "good" eye and Neomycin /
Polymyxin B / Dexamethasone in her "bad" eye. Thankfully
with
Good RX, we get discounts on both her and Akula's
prescription eye meds! Banshee at Akula's eyeball
specialist's office, smiling as she almost always does.
For a devoted guard dog who's always on patrol, she remains
good natured.
While she is one hell of a tracker-kind-of dog -- she NEVER
tracked the possum above her! LOL!