Peggy's Fund

Austin Pets Alive has used money from "Peggy's Fund" to purchase agility equipment and to start a behavioral program. This fund was started by friends.

APA will have a little celebration to dedicate the agility area soon.

Funds donated now will help them start the behavioral program.

There is a website for donations
http://www.razoo.com/story/Peggy-s-Fund

APA will take checks and thank donors. They are a well run non-profit.
Austin Pets Alive
PO BOX 6247 AUSTIN, TX 78762

EIN 742893360

Other Stuff

In the middle of the cancer upheaval little Darwin's home fell apart for him. Fortunately his longtime owner contacted me and and he came back to his puppy home.

With the help of friends and family he rested and regrouped and then found a fantastic home that appreciates his sunny, funny personality and need for order.

He is a happy boy and I am truely blessed, too.

It's April Already

Santa Dash welcomed Christmas for us easing the loss of his storied Momma, DB.

I was recovering nicely from neck surgery and though worries remained, I was looking ahead. Notice the past tense.

January brought the poor news that the sarcoma was sprinkling nodes in my lungs and no one wanted to surgically address that. Chemo was not working. My system was just not bouncing back between doses.

Finally, the sarcoma tumor returned to my neck. I went to the UT Med Branch at Brackenridge knowing I was not alone in my neck. Sure enough it was back. The resident doctor who announced the results to me looked in shock. I clearly instructed her to begin contacting my local oncologist immediately. She did.

Radiation treatments to shrink or slow the tumor progress were set up at Austin Cancer Center. I just finished my last of 25 treatments. I await arrangements for an assessment of progress.

So 2011 did not start as I had hoped.