Kirislin

here she is at 10 years old flying down the straight at Healesville greyhound track. My little Pocket Rocket on the far right. Beating her daughter Feather My darling girl

As sad as this is, you were fortunate to have had him and loved him, and you know it, and that is good.

she's got personality in bucket loads. I cracked up laughing at her antics

I bought a roast chicken from Coles when I thought she'd be put down today, the plan was to be stuffing her face with chicken when he injected her but since she's got a bit of a reprieve I fed it to her anyway. The other dogs got their normal dinner but Kibie got a chicken leg with all the yummy skin. I'm going to spoil her rotten for the time she has left.

thankyou all, you're a big help to me. I've got her at home for now. The xrays look pretty awful of her neck and spine. Brett the vet just put them up on the light board and he didn't need to say anything, I could immediately see the problem areas and they look nasty. At his suggestion though, I've taken her home with Meloxicam to try for about 4 days. If she's still uncomfortable we're going to try Tramal but if she cannot get relief with that I wont make her endure the pain.

thankyou all so much, you all understand exactly where I'm coming from, it makes me feel a bit better.

Kibah is at the vets doped up on pain relief but the news and options aren't great. Basically I was given 3 options. Euthanase immediately. Take her home on strong pain relief and keep confined to see if it settles down. or investigate with xrays etc with a view to surgery depending on what he finds. I just wasn't able to say put her down then and there, I need more time to get my head around it. I have asked him to take xrays to see what's going on with her neck and spine. Common sense tells me she wont be around much longer as she is an old dog. I am not going to keep her medicated if she is in severe pain, it's no life for her and I am not prepared to put her through surgery either but I just want to be sure that letting her go now is the right thing to do. he pretty much told me I was wasting my money on the xrays and it would be better spent on pain relief, but I have to be sure.

Appointment 8.20 think good thoughts for my girl.

I fear today might be Kibahs last day and it's come on suddenly. She will be 14 years old on 1st March and has always been an incredibly healthy little whippet. Last week sometime I picked her up and heard one of her vertabrae click. It was a bit of an Ewwww! moment, but because she didn't flinch or react in any way that indicated it hurt her, I put it down to either the gradual beginning of her spine deteriorating as she is aging or just a click like our own joints often do. On Wed. or Thurs. I noticed she was holding her front leg up and thought she must have hurt it. I took them all up the park and she wanted to go as usual and she wasn't noticably limping so I thought she'd walked it off. Friday she didn't want her brekky which is unusual for her, but all the dogs occasionally dont want breakfast so I didn't make the connection. I was out for most of Friday and Saturday and when I got home they were all happy to see me and all ate with gusto. Yesterday I had planned on being out again but this time decided to take her with me because she seemed a bit off. She was sometimes, but not always holding her leg and her spine was clicking but in more places than before. Again though, I gently pressed it and she showed no indication that it hurt her. She didn't duck away when I touched her back, but she did overall look uncomfortable. When we got home she happily gobbled up her dinner and licked the other girls bowls clean too. When I went to bed she jumped up on the bed and I'd just started dozing off when I heard her cry. She looked like something was hurting her and she was all hunched up. I picked her up and she swung her head as if to bite me and her spine was clicking like crazy. It's as if it's become unstable. I put her in a crate I have in my bedroom and settled her in there and she was quiet for a couple of hours but cried again when she tried to move. At 1.45 I gave her half a valium and as far as I know she hasn't cried since and she's resting now. I will ring the vet shortly to ask if I can have the first appointment but I fear what he is going to find. Does anyone know of a condition where the spine suddenly becomes unstable, not including an injury. A couple of weeks ago I posted about one of my whippet injuring herself and I thought she'd broken her back, but it isn't this girl, that was her daughter.

there's nothing there I'd buy for my whippets or IG either, I just thought some of you might like to see what they make since most of us love to look at collars.

I've never seen anything like these. My link

How are they all going.

Ears? there's nothing wrong with my ears, Mummy says they're perfect.

whippets run so fast they just aqua plane across the surface. Here's Lily in Port Phillip Bay on her way to Tassie :laugh:

she really shouldn't be allowed to own such a dog.

there's a forum especially for cruelty news items. Please move this there.

You could try posting it here https://www.facebook.com/findmy4leggedfriend

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that's a very dark brew, you sure it's beer?

If they didn't want to breed from him, and think castration is cruel they could have just vasectomised (is that a word?) him. Definitely better ways to have handled it that what they did.

Wow! You've got an especially steady hand then. I guess there's no panning with a tripod which would make capturing a bird in flight a bit difficult :D I've often wondered if a monopod would be handy, even just to help with weight bearing at times? I think you can pan with a tripod, you can get them with swivel heads.

a short haired chihuahua? or are they considered feminine looking, not sure.

Lots of photos if anyone's interested. My link

Ouchies

what's a cc wagon?