Jasmine plays a game, I think it is called Catch me if You Can. While I am busy in the kitchen, she runs up to me, does a few Thumper jumps, then puts those ears to the side and runs like hell into the living room. Then here she comes again, over and over. When I act like I am going toward her, she turns around, those ears go back, and she runs like hell...We do this over and over. She is hilarious!  

4/16/07: Not good news about Jazzy's eyes. She is totally blind. Both corneas are ruptured. But I'm tellling you, you would not know she's blind. She compensates so well. She already navigates her way around our house and she's only been here since Friday. She is very smart and very, very playful. She wears Molly out during their playtimes.

I realize it's going to take a special person to adopt Jazzy, but I know you're out there!!

7/22/07: We placed Jasmine in a home last Saturday, but it didn't work out. The male pei in the home didn't understand that when Jazzy barked in his face that she wanted to play, so he and Jazzy had two fairly significant scuffles. So Jazzy is back with us. But she's ready for a new home as soon as we find the perfect one!

8/12/07: Today is a great day. Little Jasmine is on her way to her new home in Ball Ground GA. She'll have 3 playmates and a wonderful, understanding mom and dad. Thanks, Regina and Gary, for wanting to give Jazzy the opportunity for a great new life.

UPDATE 8/13/07: Hey Cindy,
So far everything has gone perfectly.  Our youngest daughter came over to meet the newest addition and it ended up being a very late night!  She is in love and so is Jasmine but Gary is still Jasmine's biggest buddy.

Her meeting with the other dogs was uneventful, thank goodness.  We introduced them one at a time..a lot of sniffing, a few licks and then they just stood back and watched her.  I think that they can sense that she is different.  It's amazing but they move near her very slowly, stop and let her find them. All 3 approach her the same way. I've never seen them behave like that before and they have been introduced to many other dogs.

Jasmine is incredible.  I know you will be happy to here that she has already mastered the deck steps.  We showed her 3 times where they were and on her fourth trip she trotted across the deck, stopped when she was about a foot from the steps, put out her paw and tapped the deck, inched forward, tapped, inched...until she found them!  She then used that same paw to find the edge of each step as she crawled down them.  As you can imagine "down" is slow but she practically flies coming up.

Right now she is busy exploring the house.  She moves slowly through a room until she has imprinted the obstacles and once she knows where they are, her pace picks up and she can move through that room with confidence.  So far she has learned the living room, kitchen, sun room and of course the deck.  As I write this she is busy checking out my bedroom.  She learned her way around the sun room last night so Gary slept with her there so that she would be in a familiar room.  He took the couch and she selected the biggest, fluffiest dog bed (there are 2 in the room) for herself.

So far Jasmine is making herself at home.  She doesn't act nervous or anxious when the other dogs are near so I think she doesn't feel threatened by their presence.

3/26/08: Just wanted to let you know that Jasmine is having seizures and it now appears that she has been having them every since she came to live with us. I feel so bad that I didn't recognize what was happening until she had one in front of me. They have been occurring about once every 5-6 weeks at night while she is asleep and the only residual evidence has been that she has peed her bed. We just thought that she was sleeping so deeply that she didn't wake up to go outside and relieve herself.

3/26/08: Saturday night I was up much later than usual getting ready for Easter. At about 1AM , from a dead sleep she bolted straight to her feet, every muscle in her body was tensed then she fell to her side and started jerking and gnashing her teeth and peed. It only lasted about a minute and she was completely recovered within 20 minutes but it scared me nearly to death! Sunday morning she was like a new dog all bouncy and bubbly and wanting to play and play and play. I hadn't really noticed at the time but she had become a little moody and very quiet a couple of days before the seizure and looking back I can now see this same pattern with what I thought were just episodes of "night peeing".

At this point, her Vet just wants me to start documenting her seizures to ensure that they are following the same course and not getting worse. She believes that anti-seizure medication is an unnecessary option for Jazzy because of her history of FSF and the possible side effects of all of the available medications include liver damage.

Jazzy had an appointment on the 24th to get her yearly vaccinations but the Vet decided to delay them until next week to give her just a bit longer between the seizure and her shots.

Anyway, if you hear reports of someones dog wetting their bed at night, not just dribbles but emptying the bladder, have them look into the possibility of seizures. Gina

12/16/09: Little Jazzy fought as long and as hard as she could, but finally her little gody gave up. Jasmine was such a trooper - blind, Shar Pei Fever, seizures. Why in the world should a sweet, innocent little dog like her have to endure so much pain during most of her short life? I guess God has a plan for her. Gina and her family are devastated at her passing.