I got my Moe Moe when he was just six weeks old, I had heard at the vets
that this woman had a Saint who had been bred with a Newfy, and she was
looking for puppy people. Well I called her as soon as I got home, and
told her that I wanted a puppy, and wanted to know the price. Roberta told
me that these pups were free, she just was looking for good homes.
My husband and I went back when they were just days old, and I picked out Moe.

I fell in love that day with the giant breeds, he was the most beautiful puppy I
had ever seen. That was the longest six weeks of my life, I spent more time driving back
and forth between her house and mine, than I did anything else. I lived for
that puppy, I had been off work for about 9 months after being attacked by a
patient at work, who literally torn my arm out of the socket, I was very
depressed, in a lot of pain and was waiting for two shoulder surgeries. I
was only able to get through all this because of Moe, he literally made me
want to live, after the shoulder surgeries, I was in agonizing pain,
because of him I wanted to get up in the morning, I wanted to get better.

I finally got to bring Moe home, after giving the whole litter their first
puppy shots. I was in love, I started taking him to obedience classes at a
wonderful school. The first session went fine, and I went back for another,
well in that second class was a woman named Anne, who owns Anne's Animal
Actors, she asked if she could take some pictures of Moe and I said sure.
I figured that was the end of that, well, to my surprise, Anne called me
on the phone and asked if I would like to use him in movies, tv ads, and
television, well, blow me over, I was thrilled! After that, she called to
use him several times, in Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, the movie, and
several tv ads, one for the Ford company, he was in a van with a large Asian
family of about 6 people, they all got out of this SUV, and then at the end,
here comes Big Moe, what fun that was.

We had a great time doing these things together, all the directors liked
Moe because they had never seen a dog that big who was so gentle and sweet.
As he got older he started getting a little arthritis, so the vet put him
on prednisone, off and on, a tapering dose,which worked well for him. Then
one day he told me that there was this "miracle drug" called Adequan, that
had no side effects, was not yet approved by the FDA, but he was approved to
do trials for this drug. This sounded great to me, it was a monthly shot. He
did give me paperwork to sign. But in this paperwork, NO WHERE did it say that
this could be lethal, so I signed the papers with all the love in my heart.

Moe got ONE shot, and was dead 24 hours later at the ER clinic.
I thought my husband and I would die, here was this beautiful 4 year old
dog who was now dead, from something supposedly harmless, The ER vet was also very upset, so was the tech, it was her first day there, everyone was crying as hard as we were.

I felt so guilty, this was my fault, I read the paperwork, I signed
the papers, THIS WAS MY FAULT. I gave the ER vet my permission to do a
necropsy, and we went home. She called me a while later with the results of her examination, this drug had caused him to develop DIC, it totally destroyed his liver, he bled out
in less than 24 hours, that was the result from the pathologist.

And then about 4 years later, I guess I had not learned my lesson, because
I gave my puppy "Honor," Rimadyl.... he died also.

I did contact the vet by letter, and he sent me a check for $700, which
was the price of a replacement puppy, but not the same as my Moe Moe.
As an aside, I was called the day after he died and told that he had been
approved for his own series, to be shot in BC, I had to tell Annie that he
was gone, way too soon.

You all would have loved to have seen him.....

Moe was my best friend, my life saver, my heart.

Lynnie
Silver Lake Saint Bernards