The Resourcefulness of Max The Dog

My little friend Max has been on a mission this morning to steal the cat's food! Poor Tulsa the cat has kidney disease and seems to prefer to eat in bed. Well this morning Max decided that was a great idea and wanted to take part in Tulsa's breakfast! After repeatedly being told to stop trying to jump on the bed, he then decided to pull the blanket off the bed.. along with the cat food.. !

Max trying to get a good hold on the blanket to pull it off the bed

Got it! and this is how I woke up this morning!

Trying another way to get to the cat food

Still trying.. maybe he can PULL the blanket off the bed!

Working it!

Cat food in sight!

Whoops where did he go!

He's back!

And another attempt at pulling the blanket with his paws

And he's gone again - kind of like whack a mole (but I would never whack max)

And there he is again.. at least his ears!

Up again!

Whoops - slipped footing!

Poor Tulsa is irritated that max is trying to steal his food.

"Really... can you please stop him?"

My goodness! Dog on a mission!

Some confusion as the bed is being attacked by Max

"I'm going to get your breakfast!"

"I'm just going to grab this blanket you are on and pull!!! Hold on tight!"

"That bowel is getting closer!"

"HA!  I think I have it!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"Get In My Belly!"

"Pardon me, but do you happen to have any Grey Poupon?  ... and a Fork?"

Information about Cyber Knife

I've received a few emails asking for more information about the CyberKnife Procedure so I wanted to post a few links for people to check out. I found these helpful.

• Cyber Knife Society
• Animal Speciality Center in Yonkers NY
• A Brochure on CyberKnife (this is intended for humans but it's more or less the same for animals)
• The CyberKnife Website
• Dogster Blog from other dogs who have been through Cyberknife or are contemplating it

** There are patient forums out there for humans who have undergone CK, which is interesting because they can put into words what your pet can't. (CK is not just for dogs, there was a cat in there when we were there and I also had heard about a goat who underwent it too!).

The main difference between the animals and the humans is that the animals need to be sedated during their procedures.

We were up in NY for 5 days. Monday was the planning day and they mapped Max's brain using CT and MRI scans and planted gold seeds (inert metal) to help the cyberknife robot triangulate and hit it's target exactly. Then we had Tuesday off, Wed, Thurs, and Fri max had CK treatments and then he was done!