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Welcome to foster world. Been checking your blog with each visit. Sweet little dog, please do join my ever growing list of must follows 
Thanks for your comment. Although Jet has mange she is her normal, happy (greedy) little self. Bald area on her cheek just below the side of her eye and coat a bit thin but nothing too bad. Interested to read your comment about the pink nose. The top of her nose has pink areas and I even said to the vet that I would have to put sunscreen on her nose if we EVER see the sun again
Will post an image of her once her coat is looking better 
The saga of Jet’s thinning coat
Had a day off work, Jet’s coat is getting thin again so we trotted off to the vet. The took a scraping from the side of her face (where the hair fell out a couple of weeks ago) and clipped hair from her forearm and took another scraping from there. Nurse left the consulting room with the two slides, vet and I chatted about life in general – known him for years so he is as much a friend as the vet. Nurse returned and said to him, "she has mange", vet said to me, come through and have a look so we all, including Jet, trotted through to peer into the microscope and there was the little blighter 
. Apparently they are quite difficult to find so the nurse was very happy. I have to put ‘stuff’ onto Jet this Sunday, as it is a month ago since the first treatment and then the last treatment next month and that should be that . Doesn’t spread to other dogs but we knew that because Nellie and Dudley are not affected at all. Asked the vet how she got it and he said they are often born with it. Don’t want to tell Jet she has mange, not good news for a girlie but at least it’s easy to treat and I can’t wait to see a big improvement in her coat 
.Sorry Lacey, but the picture of you hanging over the back of that chair to look out the window makes me laugh every time I look at it. You are clearly very interested in your surroundings and keeping a close eye on everything
Many happy returns Hailey. You are quite the young lady and I hope you are enjoying every second of everything Best wishes to you and your family from Nellie and I Well heck, just look at you
I don’t think I have seen such a small dog – and you appear to get along with other dogs too. 
Smitten yet again with you and my other very, very favourites but you are all gorgeous. Most certainly following 
Chasing after you too Ronald
Are you enjoying all the things that come with being in foster You are a very handsome little fellow with that fab coat in such rich colours Couldn’t agree more Yoddy, he is a much happier puppy dog now. Don’t you just love the image of the ‘flying Alfie’ heading out the door
. Grand little soul Last session of our 6 week training course last night. Consisted of being scored for everything we have been taught thus far and then 3 little competitions between us all. Delighted to report that Jet and I won the ‘musical mats, ‘egg and spoon race’ and we came second out of six for dog managing to sit the longest. She won 2 tubes of liver paste (the trainers use it a lot!) a lovely rosette (OK, we all got a rosette for ‘graduating’ the beginners course) and the trainer also said that Jet got the highest overall score for the night. Goodness knows where she was 9 months ago but after a stint with her great foster family (who set her off on the right path) and then having settled into her life she is doing very well and I am very pleased with her
. Needless to say, she is not up to the Nells Bells standard as yet but we will get there On the general front, Jet’s coat is still not great, very thin, a patch of hair fell out the side of her face a few weeks ago and it’s taking a VERY long time to come back in. We (vets and myself) are not worried about her as she eats well, runs about normally and there is nothing obvious so I just think ‘leave well alone’ unless she looks unwell. She can be a cheeky madam at times but is very affectionate. If she HAD to choose between me and food, well the food would win but I am happy to be second best in her little world. She can now twirl and twist, sit, lie down, not so good at the standing command, sort of weaves and that is about it. So, things are going well. I hope she will enjoy training for HTM and if so, we will enter some competitions and see how things go. All 3 dogs coming to work with me so each morning and lunchtime I get dragged around a country estate, diving in and out of bushes and plodding through the many puddles and muddy areas. They are all very good in the car and happily sleep between walks .
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