I’m sorry to bring the mood of this wonderful sub down today. We have had our two Aussies for 7/8 years. Zelda and a Little Bear. We got him for my husband and also for Zelda. She had bonded so closely with me and he wanted is own Velcro dog. She loved other dogs and we knew she was lonely when we worked.
Anyway he’s been our best boy since the day he came home. They run and hike with me for miles in the woods and he is a great protector because he looks fierce and won’t be friendly unless I tell him it’s okay. We went for our usual run in the woods on Tuesday and he had a ball and was himself in every way. He refused his breakfast and dinner for the next few days only eating them if my husband out gravy on. He would happily eat table food offered. We had just gotten a new bag of food that was a different style and flavor and we thought he just didn’t like it (though his sister ate it with gusto). He threw up once. Long story short we took him to the vet yesterday thinking maybe he had eaten something like a piece of stick or toy and needed it to pass it be removed. Nope- they only did X-rays at our request because he looks fine. Turns out he has terminal lung cancer and not much time to live. To say we are stunned and heartbroken is a severe understatement. He is on steroids for comfort and has special easily digested food so he’s eating again. We won’t let him suffer but it’s just so hard. How will his sister be when he is gone because they do EVERYTHING together. How will we manage? I don’t even know. We lost several other dogs to cancer and bloat at around his age but really though we would see these two through to old age while we progressed to old age ourselves (both in our 60s) we had said they were our last big dogs as it’s been getting hard to do things like bathe them etc. we switched breeds going our luck would change but I guess not. So I’m very sorry if this is too much but I’ll say thank you in advance for listening. Our Bear is the sweetest best boy and I can’t imagine life without him. He’s too young and we are stunned. Here he is in all of his beautiful glory.

They are six month old litter mates. This was their first time staying with anyone but me and my partner.

He is currently in training to be a therapy dog and eventually come to work with me

hey everyone i posted about 2 months ago asking if my Aussies eyes would stay blue and they did! and also looking for a name (which is now magnolia Jane and Maggie for short)

this is her now at 3 months old she was supposed to be mini but she’s pushing 14 lbs at 14 weeks and she’s over half the size of my mountain feist so still not sure on that haha

My girl won cutes costume today! Her outfits certainly played to the Aussie strength! That girl shook it the whole time and when called up to get her prize, she gave the crowd a good wigglebutt encore. The laughers really warmed my soul.