Dakota's in surgery

Dakota, our Kentucky rescue dog, is in surgery. I should be able to go pick her up at 3:30 if everything goes well. Then, her tumor gets sent to the University of MO and in a few days we will be informed of the "grade" and the efficacy of trying chemo again. This will be her second time around.

Everybody pray it is Grade One. She's only 8 years old. Of course, to us it would make no difference if she was 25 years old.

Since she's under anesthesia anyway--I don't like putting the animals under anesthesia if I can avoid it--we're having her teeth cleaned. The last time she was in for a check up the VET said she had some tartar beginning to form. Tartar can be very bad for their health.