I am Tucker’s owner (his story was posted last week) and I have very good news. Tucker has been diagnosed with Cushing’s Disease (of the pituitary gland) and this can be treated with Triostane. Mark, your on-the-air conversation last night with Janet (during the last part of the second hour) rang a bell with me. The description of her dying dog’s condition: an inoperable brain tumor of the pituitary gland, a ravenous appetite (followed by weight gain and joint weakness) is classic pituitary Cushing’s which is caused by the pituitary gland putting out too much cortesol (due to a benign tumor)and can be treated very effectively with the above mentioned drug. Please let her know, Mark, that her dog needs a very simple blood test called a ACTH “stim test” to verify this condition.

Tim from CA

I’m writing this e-mail with two purposes in mind. As of six months ago I didn’t know who you were. I work as a nuclear engineering intern at a DOE laboratory in the Idaho desert and my office is in the basement of a decommissioned nuclear reactor. Due to the large amounts of structural concrete my office doesn’t get radio reception so I was forced to resort to online radio. This turned out to be fortunate for me as I discovered your radio show along with your friend Shawn Hannity. (more…)

I’m 38 years old, and have had dogs all my life. I’m currently on my fourth, a wonderful 1 year old Shetland Sheepdog named Fletcher. He’s the first dog I’ve had as an adult alone, and I love him with all my heart…he’s one of my best friends.

Prior to Fletch, I had 3 Keeshonds over the course of my life. The first one was sick, and passed away at 3 years old, when I was 10. I was heartbroken; I don’t think until that point in my life I’d ever dealt with death directly.

My next one was Vader, and I had this dog for 13 years, all through junior high, high school and college. He had a good life, was a wonderful friend, but developed kidney problems in his 13th year, requiring us to put him to sleep. The problem was, he had no idea he was sick, and looked in perfect health when we took him to the Vet. I was so troubled, that I refused to go in the room with him…I couldn’t bear to have that memory in my head, and my family agreed. We said goodbye to him in the waiting room of the vet’s office, and the vet took him away. (more…)

Hello Great One!
Hi Mark, I want to say that I have loved listening to you for years and as a Salesman who travels into the Northeast often I always turn my dial to WABC so that I can hear your show. You are definitely a great american and I certainly enjoy your very intelligent and witty commentary. Keep up the good work.

I haven’t yet read your new book, Rescuing Sprite, but I do intend to. I too am an avid dog lover. It never used to be that way until I got my first dog. I had always grown up with and had cats. I still have one cat. I have found though that I have truly become a dog lover first and foremost. The first dog that I had was named Luke. He was a Yellow Lab who I got when he was a puppy. I was talked into getting Luke by my exwife, probably the best thing that she ever talked me into. After a year I was talked into getting a second dog, a Black Lab named Angus so that Luke would have a playmate. They were great dogs and I still have Angus so as you can tell Luke is now no longer with me in this world but remains in my heart. (more…)

have lost 2 cats in the last 5-6 years. The first was named Rasha and she belonged to our daughter originally when she was in college.. She traveled with us.she greeted me everyday when I came home from work and was like a child to us. She developed cancer and after spending 00.00 on surgery, etc she died in my arms 2 weeks later. I hurt so bad I thought I would go mad. My husband and I both cried all weekend.

Finally he told me to look on line when I was ready and find a shelter and find another cat. I did and printed out a picture and showed it to him…….he wanted to know where I got that picture of Rasha. I said it’s not Rasha…her name is Bitsy. We adopted Bitsy and she wrapped herself around our hearts and helped to heal the hold that Rasha left and still is there. We had Rasha cremated because we were living in NJ at the time and we were moving back to Texas. Bitsy made the move but she was always a little on the sickly side, very shy almost feral. We had her about 2 ½ years when her kidneys failed. We finally realized it was time to have her put down. I held her in my arms wrapped in her little pink blanket and my husband sitting with us as the Vet gave her the shot. We brought her home and buried her in the back yard under a big tree and put a marker up. (more…)

After twenty two and one half years of providing our home with her beauty and her specific love for us, our Luv, a very beautiful black and white cat with a very human personality did pass away in December of 2006 from heart complications due to asthma that was caused by the ingestion of materials that were released downwind from the World Trade Center on September 11, as we live less than one-half mile from the site of the World Trade Center. According to our vet, the toxic materials that were released on 9-11 caused asthma and/or epilepsy to many dogs and cats as well as other animals that were caught in the path of the airflow downdraft from the materials that were released on that date and the following days from those now lost buildings. Luv was a loving, healthy cat before 9-11, with absolutely no health problems, and she had been seen by our vet on 9-10-01 for a regular check-up. We miss her every day and we miss her loving wonderful spirit. Let us hope that Sprite and Luv could meet one day and learn to play with one another, as they both appear to have the same wonderful spirit. Please keep up the good work. We need your voice to help all dogs and cats that are looking for and need a good home. Thank you.

Joel from NY