Loving my Oldies

Brilliant!! Love hearing the good news. I've just read about Cho Cho on PetRescue. What a darling she sounds and hopefully she will soon have her own home where she can tame the whipper snippers and have tea cake in the cool of the afternoon.

Well you'll certainly get flamed by me!! From being too nice :laugh: :laugh: What a stupid woman. She needs to check a few stats. I wish I'd been there. I would have been very vigorously :clap:

Hey, Benny !! :birthday: Big Beautiful Boy. You are looking great and I imagine it won't be long before you are sporting a very smart Green Collar. Much from Mooch City.

You don't "socialise" any dog to get them put up with larger pups that overwhelm them. The saddest thing here is that the little dog's owner failed to step in before the dog had to become snappy. I don't find anything remotely funny about it. :mad I missed the "It was funny," bit. And now i am angrier and sadder than ever for that little dog. As Haredown Whippets says: they is nothing remotely funny about it. That dog will end up a nervous wreck barking at a leaf blowing and probably be a nightmare to walk so never taken out. And whose fault will that be?

Picture Perfect.

If a tablet made a dog of mine stagger like a drunkard, no way would I be giving him or her that dosage ----- no matter what the vet or others said. Read any of the threads about medications in Off Topic and you will have people swearing by the efficacy of something and then someone else saying it made them sick. There are any number of stories like that. Dogs are no different.

That makes me so angry ...... for the little dog. In the hands of someone who didn't put stupid labels on dogs and cared a bit more, Fred would probably be fine. Poor little dog is destined to have a very unsettled life.

Message just came into my FB that he has turned 14. :birthday: to Leo - an incredible spirit saved by an amazing family. Still brings tears to my eyes and flutters to my stomach.

Thanks T. Will do, when he has finished "digging to China" through a doggy mat.

:mad :cry: As if Danny didn't have enough to contend with. He'd been licking himself a bit and I thought maybe he was itchy from the grass. So I checked him out and saw puss coming out of his penis. This was yesterday and as I already had an appointment for a follow up with Bunter and wanted Jeune checked over as well, I took Danny instead of Jeune. OMG. I'll have nightmares forever watching the vet wash out his penis with a latex "needle" and saline. The muck just poured out. Danny, as always, behaved perfectly and just took everything in his stride. Unfortunately, he is now on yet another medication (Antibiotics) which he has thrown up each time. So back to the vet this afternoon for a long lasting injection. My poor boy. He is looking older by the day. :cry: Just because - LOL - in happier days:

I'm going a bit OT, but I know Yonjuro won't mind :D Mumsie your post interested me because of my experience with a tiny little rescue dog of mine, Myrtie. Because of her extreme reactivity, I decided join a dog training club simply to try the "flooding" method. Well, she didn't bat an eyelid. We walked into this large park where the training was held, dogs everywhere, all sorts and all sizes and I honestly expected Myrtie to either die of fright or start a stampede. Neither. Her insouciance was amazing, almost embarrassing LOL. I also found the same when I took her to a dog park. I was waiting for my Pink Slip so decided to walk to the nearby dog park. I chatted for a while through the fence while Myrtie ignored all the other dogs and just sniffed around. When I finally bit the bullet and went inside -- same thing. She totally ignored all the other dogs and just sniffed around to her heart's content. Sadly, I didn't get the chance to do much dog training with her as she died of Pulmonary Hypertension in the middle of last year. I always believed that Myrtie's reactivity was caused through fright and, because she was a brave little thing, her attitude was: I'm going to get you before you get me. And it didn't matter the size of the dog. Despite this, she was the best little dog at home, full of vip and vim and lots of personality.

No way, Kirislin. That is too much. I had valium for Myrtie to settle her when there were really bad electrical storms. She was 3.6kg and I would give her a quarter of a tablet. In no time, she'd be fine without any affects such as grogginess or being unsteady on her feet. I think to overdose is cruel because dogs can get very upset when they are unsteady and don't know which way is up and the problem may be being compounded. I started using valium for Mrytie when visiting my brother during a storm and he asked his wife if she'd given their dog his valium. That dog was about 8kgs and he would get half a tablet. For something like Feather is experiencing it is better to start off small and increase rather than the other way around. If someone is in chronic pain, sure, give a big dose, but for anxiety or similar, I believe you should start off with the lowest dose and increase if there isn't an improvement.

There never was such a rule in my house. In the beginning the dogs were too little (Maltese) to get onto the couch. When I brought Danny home (from a pound), he was so damned excited that I think he spent about the first hour leaping from chair to couch to chair, etc etc etc. But, I have to say, Ronin would enhance any couch. :laugh: :laugh:

And we wonder why dogs are allowed in so few places. OWNERS OWNERS OWNERS. (And all odds and sods of people who think they are dog trainers are doing even more harm.) Ronin is such a fabulous dog, it would be horrible to see any of that taken away by irresponsible people Sonny Boy sounds a wonderful dog, Gruf, with a beautiful temperament. (Any pix )

Pot head I prophesy that that will be THE look at next Melbourne Cup Fashion Parade.

She is being shared on FB as I recognise the photo. Hopefully she will end up in a loving and just the right kind of home.

Oh, very good

How shocking and upsetting for you. Poor darling Feather. Good idea to go back to your previous vet.

Oh, Doberkids, I am sorry to read this and send you deepest condolences. Your description of her passing "with grace and dignity" demonstrates the immense love and care you had for your beautiful Bindi. She will be in your hearts forever.

I am now helping the retirement funds of BM Animals and Loyalty Pets in Brisbane. I'll look up the Kefir link, thanks Kajtek. I'll probably keep buying it ready made as I am incredibly lazy. :o

Danny has been duly snogged !!

Mine are certainly in well sealed plastic bags and I don't really know how any smells could escape. Maybe I am losing smell as well as hearing :( I have decanted into plastic, well sealed lidded containers. The little strips of Munch Crunch green tripe weren't a success except for Fatso Fatso Bunter Boy.

OMG, those photos Kirty. Totally brilliant.

I was talking about Danny (my sister calls me a bore and she only sees me every few years) on another thread and decided it was a good enough excuse to come in hear and give an update. We seem to have settled into a routine of good days and bad days and when we have bads days, I try not to get too worried. Danny's eye has healed well, saw the surgeon yesterday and next appointment is in six weeks. She said there is practically no sign of the crystalisation that was there previously. She was concerned that because she didn't want to risk a GA, she might not have been able to get it all. But so far so good. My experience with this veteriary hospital has not been without its dramas because of poor communication and poorly trained/not thinking receptionists - see #491. Over the weeks since the operation I have had to leave messages for the surgeon (she did say to contact her direct and gave me her mobile) which have gone unanswered, messages given to reception which have not been passed on and yesterday was no exception. I was running late because of traffic lane changes on Pacific Highway, so I rang to say I was running a few minutes late. I don't know why I do this: I am ALWAYS kept waiting. In any case, I was only about 5-10 minutes late, checked in and told to take a seat. After 1/2 hour, I approached the receptionist and she said that surgeon wouldn't be too long, she was just finishing another procedure and knows I am here. Cut a long story short, I was eventually seen after waiting over an hour. First of all I was seen by an opthamology nurse who kept on muddling the information about the various drops I was giving Danny, and when the surgeon finally, probably after another 15 minutes, arrived she said she had been told I had cancelled. Does everyone go through these dramas or do I seem to attract them? Anyway on the tummy and eating side, Danny still throws up from time to time, I have learned not to give him anything to eat in the morning - which is difficult because I have to syringe his meds in and some of them taste awful. Only once in the past few weeks has he had a throw up with consisted of undigested food, so I consider that an improvement. I generally give him his meds in a bit of bone broth and if he throws that up he will most time lick it back up again. He will occasionally come for a walk and he enjoys himself when we are out- very slow and quite short walks these days now that we no longer have dynamo Myrtie. He is happiest when I am lying on the couch reading or watching TV or on the easy chair. He then can be doing his two favourite things at the same time: sleeping and being in close contact with me. LOL. Bunter has recovered well after his drama and operation. Wound healed perfectly with no infections, torn stitches or other such things. He is too fat, like his mama, and I really have to try harder I simply cannot sing the praises of Valbitz loudly enough or long enough for putting me onto BM Animals - I really credit her and their goodies and supplements for saving Danny's life. Someone along the way also suggested Lactose free milk. That too has been a godsend. I am now giving all the dogs the supplements and dried powdered foods from BM Animals in their meals and even Gussy Cat enjoyed Danny's "Shake" of bone broth, kefir, powdered dried pancreas and powdered green tripe this morning :laugh: . I hope she doesn't start barking. Maybe I should start having some ????

Dear Dogs - I love Danny too :laugh: :laugh: As I type on my iPad at my dining room tabel, he is sitting in a bed at my feet having a little groom. I don't want to take the focus of this thread away from Henrietta and Gracie, but because it is about Health and Nutrition :D ...... I am building a shrine to Valbitz who put me onto BM Animals goodies and supplements and whoever first suggested Lactose Free Milk. I did scroll through looking for whoever that was, but couldn't find it. The BM Animals goodies have food and supplements which Danny will always eat and he will always have a lap of Lactose Free Milk. So with these, Danny is maintaining his weight and obviously helping his gut to enable him to eat other foods. So hopefully my singing these praises will help other people with old and not so well dogs.