| After losing my 15 year old Kuvasz, I went to a dog event to donate her food, toys, etc. Determined to take time off to mourn, this Border collie mix insisted he come home with me. They called him Bandit which was just too common so I changed it to Bandy. Smart, sweet, trained, a wonderful pup. I became ill and numerous blood tests revealed nothing. I was getting sicker and weaker and no one was listening. About this time Bandy took to sniffing my neck every morning and scratching at it. I mentioned this to one of my doctors who was a serious dog person. She ordered a cat scan. I had a tumor on my thyroid gland. Luckily it wasn’t cancer but had made me very ill. Bandy was a gift and certainly was the one who rescued me. RIP BANDERS 💔 [link] [comments] |