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Valley Fever and the Adventure of Recovery - Part 1
Quartzsite, Arizona, from January 17, 2016, until February 2, 2016, was where Bailey, Chloe, and I dry camped in our trusty motor home. We had a wonderful time and did much hiking the local area....
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Valley Fever explained by a Vet
Written by Dr. Kim Smyth Staff Veterinarian and Pet Health Writer for PetPlanCoccidioidomycosis is a fungal disease that affects humans, dogs, and sometimes cats. Also known as San Joaquin Valley...
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Valley Fever- At the Hospital part 2
Part 2 of a series on Bailey and Our Path to Recovery.Sage Veterinary Hospitals are located in Dublin, Campbell, San Mateo, and Concord, CA. Three days ago I placed Bailey in the car and headed to the...
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Prevention - Not getting Valley Fever
If your dog does come down with symptoms of Valley Fever, your vet may not know this is a possible diagnosis. Bailey is still getting thinner but his fever is dropping.A dog's lungs full of the Valley...
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Valley Fever - Bailey is improving
Now that we know for certain Bailey has Valley Fever we are on a program to wellness with the boy.It is now been 10 days since we first went to our family vet about what we thought was a bowel...
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First Hike with Bailey in 13 days
With Bailey's temperature down to 102.5 today and looking better, I felt it was time to see how he would do on a longer walk. Since he was released from the veterinarian hospital a week ago we have...
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Valley Fever - Physical and Emotional Roller Coaster
The whole of this week has revolved around the health of our 7-year-old male Vizsla, Bailey.I have placed a whiteboard in the kitchen and track his daily weight, his medication schedule and his...
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The Recovery Stage for Bailey
Glad to report that Bailey is better. It will be months if not years of recovery from the Valley Fever, but now we are past the worse of it and he is on the right path. He has added 4 pounds this...
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Nursing a Vizsla Back from Near Death
The daily board to monitor's Bailey's condition and medicationsFrom the low six weeks ago, when I really thought we were losing Bailey to Valley Fever, to his returning to 50% health has been a long...
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An Almost Healthy Bailey
My good friend John in England dropped me a line asking how Bailey was doing as the last post here on Redbirddog was way back in early April.It has been a busy spring with family and grandkids and MANY...
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Five Month Old Pup enjoying the Open Spaces.
The experience of a new couple with their young Vizsla on a hike Saturday morning up in Briones Regional Park. It is always a joy to share the experience of Vizslas off-leash in the open spaces of the...
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A Different View of Dogs - India
This weekend, as Chetan and Shwetha (both from India originally) hiked along with me in the hills overlooking the East Bay, with their wonderful 5-month-old pup, Rocky. The discussion came up, as we...
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The Very Rare Transylvanian Hound
Over the last 4 years that I have known about the other royal Hungarian hunting dog besides the Vizsla, I have been a fan of the breed. The Transylvanian Hound. If you search the name you will find...
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Red Bird Dogs at Priest Lake Idaho
August in the very tip of Idaho 2016 was special to our little band. We enjoyed five glorious days of sunshine, wonderful water, beautiful forests and QUIET. The next few posts will be some pictures...
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Beyond Hope Resort Idaho Loved Bailey and Chloe
Sam Owen National Park lies 3 miles east of the town of Hope, Idaho. This was our dry camping spot for the first week of our Northern Idaho adventure. The skies were overcast the first few days and we...
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Finishing Out 2016
Not much has changed in REDBIRDDOG land over the year. We are all a bit older and maybe a wee bit smarter. Now that I'm not working 60 hours a week, the dogs and I have been able to enjoy the hills...
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Take a Hike
Doctors Explain How Hiking Actually Changes Our BrainsAuthor: Alanna Ketler April 8, 2016While it may seem obvious that a good hike through a forest or up a...
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A Working Dog's Joy
This is Bailey's joy. Hunting pheasant. No barrier too hard or water way too wide that he will not bring his "treasure" back to me.
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Playing in the Rouge River
Four Seasons RV Resort is 7 miles east of the mouth of the Rouge River.
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Hunting with my Granddaughter
For those who have followed Redbirddog over the years, you have seen Lily grow from a newborn to now going hunting with Bailey and me. What a great day for a proud grandfather. Lily has no fear....
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The Passing of Our Two Red Bird Dogs
With the passing of Bailey last week there will be one last blog post for a good while. Not saying goodbye as there may be red bird dogs again in our future.Chloe passed from cancer in 2019, and...
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Good bye Bailey. You were a good dog.
Bailey left this life a few weeks ago to join Chloe as only fond memories. His "Dog's Purpose" had been fulfilled. He had such a full life! We had the final good bye today We used some of his ashes...
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Rebirth of Redbirddog as Vizsla Grandparents
Here it is Christmas 2023 and lying next to me as I write this post are two wonderful Vizslas.Here are Paco and Loezsie who have joined us for two weeks as their humans have gone on vacation.They came...
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Christmas off-lead hike in the local hills
Nice to continue a tradition of the Christmas morning hike with Vizslas here in our local hills.It takes us at least two weeks before we allow the Vizslas we board to run off-lead. We HAVE to make...
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Walnut Creek California - Very Nature and Dog Friendly City
Living in Walnut Creek California is a joy for a dog owner who enjoys hill hiking.We just went hiking in the Shell Ridge Open Space about 5 miles from our home. There is this new sign along the trail...
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