Chunky Monkey Club
Exclusive membership for the 'overachievers'Welcome to the Chunky Monkey Club!
This is a fun page…… the Chunky Monkey Club… was started for EPI Dogs because so many of us started on this journey with dogs looking like they were knocking on deaths door….and we were scared….very scared that our babies just were not going to make it! And then, once we found the balance to managing EPI they stopped losing weight…. then they started to gain weight…. and many (much to our pleasure) gained and gained…. and gained some more weight! AND THEN…. many of us even had to put our once starving dog on a D-I-E-T!!!!! Can you imagine? So this “Chunky Monkey Club” was started in fun to simply celebrate !
New members: (to include your dog’s name (and picture if you’d like) please email to: olesia.kennedy@gmail.com and they will be uploaded here).
Founding CMC member…Olesia’a Izzy
Epi4dogs was started because of this plain, little, brown dog who was the first Spanish Water Dog world-wide to be diagnosed with EPI….EPI???? What is EPI? I had no idea back then…..all i knew is that my little dog was sick, she only weighed 27lbs and i thought she was going to die. After we got her on the right treatment, time flew by and my plain little brown dog got healthier and healthier…. she ended up hovering around 48/+ lbs and had to go on a diet multiple times throughout the years. Izzy passed away at the age of 15, but she was the most vibrant and playful pup well into her senior years and did not falter until 1 week before she passed away. She taught me so much … especially the meaning of living life to it’s fullest…. my forever heart dog………………………….
Member… Ayasha
Frank’s “Ayasha”… and.. well… and Frank too…
“Ayasha” was at the Vet on Monday. She was a member of the chunky monkey club a couple of years ago. She got up to 104 lbs and had to go on a diet. We got her down to 94 lbs and has been doing well. On Monday she tipped the scale at 100.7 lbs. So Dr Drake breathed that dreaded word; DIET. It’s not all her fault. With some of my health issues, I have also re-gained about 20 of the 40 lbs I had lost. With winter here we are both going to try and do a little more. So, Ayasha, nor I, are not happy with a little less, but it needs to be done.
Ayasha’s story is a good/bad story and mine is just a bad/bad story.
Members…Dexter & Jackie
Michele’s Dexter….the first day in his forever home
and Dexter today….. a member of the Chunky Monkey Club!
reminding me every day to take time to smell the roses …
… and the best thing in the whole wide world…. watching Dex &Jackie laughing and playing together !!!
As I write this – I am tearing up looking at the pics of Dex on the first day he came to us and how far he has come – he was 72 lbs and his hips and ribs could be seen and his EPI was not stable. Today we took him for a weigh in and he is 105 lbs – 105 lbs of pure love and he is perfectly stable!
It has been an amazing journey with him. We took him in on April 2, 2011, thinking we were fostering him and the first night he was with us, well…we fell in love with him. He and Jackie bonded from the very first night (here is a video clip of how beautifully they interacted on that very first night) http://s970.photobucket.com/albums/ae189/danimi01/?action=view¤t=P4020028.mp4. He is an old soul who just wants to be at your side and make you happy – we celebrate him every day.
God Bless each and every one of you who open your hearts and homes to these guys and give them a chance, who fight for them every day to see they are all they can be, who have truly learned the love of a dog – we are all better people for it.
Member…Hondo
After founding member Izzy comes Chunky Monkey Club member Karen’s Hondo who went from around 65 lbs to 100 lbs and was put on a diet and maintaining now around 93 lbs.
Doesn’t even look like the same dog, eh?!
(sadly HONDO passed away in 2013 due to complications other than EPI)