These are some of my favorite pictures of one of my dogs. Her name is Lasha and she's the elder doggie of the bunch.

Her age is sometimes an iffy subject, but she's around 13 years old I guess. She has a couple of health issues of course seeing as though she's up there in age. The first thing that happened was that her right eye's tear gland stopped producing enough tears, so she gets optimune everyday in her eye. Then came artherits in her hip and for that she takes Synovicre. As if that wasn't enough she also has cataracts and at times it seems like she doesn't hear you either. The hearing part I think it's just her way of ignoring us because as soon as she hears a faint bark somewhere outside, she's right there barking back. Fourthly, she developed a cough which turned out to be a colapsed trachea. That apparently is something common for old pomeranians to develop. All it means is that her windpipe sort of closes, so the small hairs of the sides touch...causes her to think she has something in her throat and she'll cough. It also has to do with the lungs. It's like asthma and for that she takes Aminophyline. Finally, last year she had a vagina prolapse and was operated on. Turns out she had a couple of begign masses (which are also common) and were removed.

She's been through a lot, but she's still pretty active when she wants to be. Or if she wants to sleep all day, that's what she does :)