Florida Lupine NEWS Volume 12, Issue 2 SUMMER 2010 Living with Esophageal Stricture Published Quarterly By Sara Fenwick , FLA Member for Members. Free to Veterinarians, For the past year of 2009 since my my vet and first visit to the doctor, the pain he did an Shelters, Donors, worsened and every time I ate, it caused endoscopy Sponsors, Rescues, me to cry out in pain; I didn’t know what to see down and Animal Welfare was wrong. I loved my food, but eating into my eso- & Control Agencies. caused discomfort, which got slowly phagus and worse. I was very uncomfortable at meal stomach. times. When Dr. My mummy never knew because we Shelton (my Inside this issue: all got fed separately in the kitchen with vet) and my the door closed. You see, my friend and mummy Living with Esophageal looked down 1 canine companion was very greedy and Stricture wanted all my food after she had gulped the scope, they found some ulcers near hers down. She is a Timber Wolf mix my stomach at the cardiac sphincter We Want to Hear From You... 2 and I am a Shepherd mix with a tiny bit where the stomach and the esophagus of Arctic wolf. I do have another friend join. Dr. Shelton told us this was a rare FLA Acknowledgements 2 who lives with us, but he is not greedy, condition for a dog. so we can eat together. I was given three types of From the Desks of ... 3 My name is Peiko. I am an eight- medication, an antibiotic for a week, year-old German Shepherd/Husky/Arctic Carafate daily for a month & 5 mg of How to Estimate the Age of 4 wolf mix and weigh 70 pounds. I have Raglan with each meal (I had two meals Dogs in Human Years lived in St. Augustine, FL, since I was 3 a day). Dr. Shelton told my mummy I months old with my mummy and my two was to return if needed. What is a Wolf? And How Do 5 canine friends Tina, who is five years One year later, in January 2010, my You Know? old, and Blue, who is one year old. mummy took me back because my In the spring of 2009, I went to see condition got worse and I was still in Identifiable Characteristics: 8 pain when I was eating. When I saw Dr Wolf & Dog (Table) Shelton this time, I had to swallow some barium with a little dog food, then I laid Phenotyping: Honing Your 10 Skills down on a table very still while he X- rayed me. Dr Shelton wanted to see if I Phenotyping: The Guessing had a mega-esophagus, which is a 11 Game condition where the esophagus balloons out before the stomach and acts like a Phenotyping: How Well Did ‘holding area’ for food, which could cause 12 You Do? a lot of pain Dr Shelton viewed the X-rays and Puppy Season: found no mega-esophagus or gross 13 Vaccines & Recipes abnormalities but referred me to a specialist in Jacksonville for further Human Allergies to Dogs 14 tests. An appointment was made for the following week at Northeast Veterinary Specialists for another endoscopy that Book Review: Shaping the 15 (Continued on page 4) Wolf Within Your Dog FLORIDA LUPINE NEWS VOLUME 12, ISSUE 2 Florida Lupine Association We would like to hear from our members! What would A Federal Non-Profit Organization you like to learn more about? Do you have an animal EIN: 59-3586075 with a specific medical condition and want to learn Dedicated to Being Florida’s more about it? Do you have a puppy or a senior and Responsible Voice for Wolfdogs would like to learn more about behavior? Do you have specific questions you would like us to answer? We will try to address your questions or concerns. Letters, Advertisements & Pictures should be sent to FLAFLA AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements Special thanks to those who provided donations or Joan Ford, Editor 7217 SW 85 Terrace contributed their services to FLA this quarter: Gainesville, FL 32608 Phone: (352) 376-2083 ● To the many people who have contributed to the FLA E-Mail: [email protected] Auction. There were some beautiful items for auction! ● To Tom for once again offering his services as FLA’s All submissions will become property of Florida Lupine unless accompanied by a SASE. incredible auctioneer. ● To Mayo for cooking endless hotdogs and hamburgers on Friday and Saturday at the Rendezvous. ● To those individuals who volunteered their time and Dues, Donations, & Questions services in helping out with the Rendezvous. about FLA should be sent to ● To Sara and Peiko for their informative article on esophageal stricture. Florida Lupine Association, Inc. ● To Richard, Rebecca, Juan, Chris, Kastle, & Joan for their P.O. Box 142 photo contributions for the phenotyping article. Crescent City, FL 32112-0142 E-Mail: [email protected] ● To Kim for her articles and chart on wolf and dog identification and phenotyping. If sending snail mail, ● To Kim for compiling and formatting the Rendezvous please allow 2-3 weeks for a reply. members insert. All original art, photos, drawings, articles and other material within this newsletter are Copyright © and are the property of Florida Lupine Association FLA, Inc., except where otherwise indicated and credited. Directors & Officers Mayo Wetterberg, President ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION Kim Miles, Vice President 1/8 Page: $5.00 1/4 Page: $10.00 Andrea Bannon, Treasurer 1/2 Page: $20.00 Full Page: $50.00 Jill Parker, Secretary No Breeder Advertisements Allowed; Joan Ford, Editor Kennels May be Advertised Jody Haynes, Webmaster (All submissions will become property of FLA unless accompanied by a SASE) Deadlines for Submission: Letters, ads, and articles may not reflect the views of FLA. We welcome all comments, ads, and articles but require that Spring NL: March 15 Fall NL: Sept. 15 they are signed and include a phone number and address. FLA Summer NL: June 15 Winter NL: Dec. 15 and the Editor reserve the right to edit any material submitted for publication in the Florida Lupine News Newsletter. VOLUME 12, ISSUE 2 FLORIDA LUPINE NEWS From the Desk of the Treasurer From the Desk of the President By Andrea Bannon By Mayo Wetterberg I want to thank everyone who renewed their dues and As the hot season fast approaches, its hard to believe to extend a WARM WELCOME to the new members who another Spring Rendezvous is complete and behind us. I’d joined FLA; we are here for you and will be happy to like to thank all those who worked to put the event answer any questions you may have or to help in any way together. Even though we are at the same location as we we can to make living with your wolfdogs a very happy have been before, and have a fairly simple schedule, there and healthy experience. Please feel free to call on us if is still a lot of effort in planning each area and making it all you have a question or situation you don’t understand or if work. And then, the actual event is way too short—it you need any help. There are many years of experience seems to be over before we get started. Still, it is a great you may draw on among the board and the membership. time, and I am glad for all that came, brought your critters, Another FLA Rendezvous has come and gone. I want and made it another successful rendezvous. We came to thank all those who came and participated in the 2010 away with several great ideas to expand the attendance events—and to those who could not make it this year, you and schedule to make next year even better. were greatly missed. Hopefully, the economy will turn For those of you who missed the rendezvous or didn’t around and next year we will have a banner turn out. get a copy of the “Ten Years of FLA” disk, we still have Each year in planning the Rendezvous, the some left. Please contact Joan Ford if you want one. The directors worry if there is going to be enough food for all cost is $6.00 including mailing. The CD is a complete the people; thanks to everyone who brought food items! If collection of the Newsletters from our first ten years. All the anyone went away hungry, it was their own fault because articles are there, and the Newsletter pictures are in color. we had plenty of food! It’s a great source of information for any wolfdog owner, From a Treasurer’s standpoint, this year’s Rendez- and provides a great starting place for a friend who may vous was not as prosperous as previous years’, but have gotten their first wolfdog. considering the current economy, we fared well. With the We did not get the CD from the past rendezvous memberships, auction, CD and t-shirt sales, donations, events completed, but that CD will be completed very soon and raffle, we came up with $761.00 to add to the FLA and will contain photos of all the dog shows, people and treasury. I will provide a full report in the fall newsletter. presentations from the past ten years. There will be ads in Again, thanks to all and please remember to renew the FLA Newsletter and on the website for ordering them your memberships when due. There are also CD’s and t- as soon as they are ready. So if you want ten years of shirts available for purchasing.