Crysti_Lei

does anyone have any contact details?

a girl i used to work with mantioned that her sisters pug has a spine problem with a pinched nerve and they were quoted $6k for surgery. i was just thinking of alternate options for them, to try before surgery.

again i am so sorry.

He was just a stunning as his big brother.

i'm so sorry.

he was so beautiful.

so often, you need to see whats happening and owners may misinterpret or miss certain signs.

thats my concern with a phone consult too. i have been very suprised my Herbies behavious in the past, so i don't trust myself to understand him so well anymore.

Dr Debbie Calnon, Veterinary Behaviourist

i still have that in mind from the other night, but i wasn't sure about the whole phone consult thing after i thought about it a bit. she would only be able to go be my description of what is happening, and i may be way off.

Herbie, my 3yo pug, had never been perfect in terms of toilet training, but lately he seems to have his wired completely crossed.

when i let him inside, even alfter being out all day, and even if i leave the back door open (no dog door anymore and the saints fat head kept breaking it), he will poo inside.

it is as if he's outside saying 'come on mum, let me it, i really gotta go!!'

this behaviour coinsides with the baby getting more mobile, but wether it is the cause i don't know.

but i have to accept that this isn't so much as need to rehash his toilet training, as it is more a behavioual thing. especially lately, when he has toileted right in front of me several times (when he does i tell him off and put him outside again)

what kind of professional would be best suited to handle something like this? trainer, behaivourist ir Vetinary Behaivourist??

he has basically become an outside dog because of this, though he sleeps inside, he is out first thing in the morning and stay out intill i go to bed, if do let him in earlier then he poos and he goes back out.

i love my pug, but i really don't like him right now.

i took this today, without knowing the chalange, but seeing it fits (i think) i'll post it here

(9 month old today!!! OMG where did the time go??)

its not just other dogs that take their time to understand pugs. when i got Herbie, it took me a week or two to bond with him cause i just couldn't read him. now he's like an open book, and i find him far more expressive then any other dog. i can see the naughty ideas as they pop into his head.

i think it is also the noises they make the throw other dogs at first.

wow, thanky you, everyone. i will pass all this info in to my friend and hopeully she can start getting some really answers for her little frenchie.

at the very least, if she can take this info to her vet, they might want to look a little differently rather then just give the boy a vitamin shot which she said that that always want to do.

Have structural problems been ruled out with imaging (xrays, contrast studies, ultrasound etc)?

i am no sure, it would be interesting to see if havern't.

Doesn't sound too good Poor Frenchie. Has it happened all his life? Is he incredibly skinny then? Hope your friend can find an answer for him CL.

yeah, aparently he had gotten into a pretty bad way.

and as far as i know it has been all his life.

a friend was telling my today about all the problems she is having with her 3yo Frenchie. Neither she, nor her vet, can work out the problem.

what ever he eats, he throws up. some foods he can keep down better then others, and has only just been put on a locally made brand 'natural slect' or something, and it is the first thing he has ever not thrown up. they even have to ration his water, because if he drinks too much he with throw up.

he has been on all kinds of elimination diets and nothing ever seems to be a common demnoninater, and when it is water as well causeing it, it sounds like a really tricky issue.

has anyone ever heard of this??

(i may not answer the threads as i don't have internet acsess for the next few days, but tonight and when i get back online, i will be eagerly returning here to see answers)

Crysti thats a lovely waterfall. Is the mist from the water spray?

it all artificial. it was in the rainforest exibit at the zoo. the spray is from the misters keeping the section moist.

slow shutter speed

went to the zoo on monday and took the camera along. 500 shots, all crap LOL

i use it for my cat. he is terrified of the dogs, but with a dose of RR he will actively seek out the dogs to chase him! LOL

OK today i learnt that the dogs only listen to me, and that makes it hard to take photos of them running past me. i also learnt that it you want to take pictures at my park in winter you will eather have the sun in front of you or houses in the background. and i leant that my OH isn't very good at taking directions.

here is what i managed to get, but a good place to start from. i will be more prepared next time.

Frozen

Panning

Ok, im going to start with a frozen motion pic that I took on Sunday

it must be well done because it looks like he's just leaning against the tree! LOL

i have been trying to get some good frozen shots since i got my camera, i really want to get a shot of my Saint in full flight, but every time i take she to somewhere she runs, by the time i get he the baby sorted and the camera out she has done all her rinning LOL

but these are some of what i have managed...

and this is one i got of the puppy that was at my park on the weekend *swoon*

Adrian at Ocean Keys (Clarkson). 94086999

CL - it depends on your camera. Mine does but it is a "Special" feature for my point n shot b/c it's a wanna be SLR. Shame it has no manual functions.

OK thanks

Does anyone know whatthis function would be called if i were to look it up in the manual? or, off-hand, if a Cannon 1000D would do it?

OK. found it. aparently it does continually focus. now to work out where i went wrong yesterday.....

OK. i'll play this months. but i don't have a tripod so the long exposours will be really hard but i have been tying for some time to get a good shot of my Saint in full flight, coz she is stunning when she is, so this can be my motivation. and OH is home tomorrow so he can throw the ball.

Question: when doing continous shooting does the camera refocus between shots? say if somethign was coming towards you? i figured it would, but some shots i took yesterday suggest different (but i had it set to a small depth of field as i was taking shots while giving the baby a bottle and didn't have a spare hand or pressence of mind to change the setting)

LOL, for some reason that frozen motion pic makes me think of Tampon ads ???

i really struggle to maintain the little bond i have with my allergic girl, Naut. but she has had a lot of issues other then just allergies. though her itchyness and her skin make me less inclined to be affectionate. whereas my other dog is always getting cuddles and even sleeps on the bed, Naut has been banished from the bedroom entierly as her itching kept waking the baby.

i feel terrible about it, and have only just really admited it to myself that there is a preblem with the lack of bond we have, and i have started to really try to work on it. but a quick rundown of her history will give you an idea of why it has been so hard.

*bought her as a show dog.

*14 weeks old she started itching

*did well as her first (small) show

*by the time she was out of puppy class, she was still missing one of her canines.

*at 9 months as was desexed and xrays were taken (not my at my vet clinic). Xrays showed a mass above the canine and the tooth odged in her jaw.

*several days later her 2nd surgery to biopsy the mass in her jaw and repair her stitches from her desexing (has filled with fluid).

*while waiting to get her stitches out i found a lump on her side, vet said either MTC or Hystiocytoma. i expected the worst and said good bye to her that night.

*Lump in her jaw ended up being a Complex Odentome. very rare but not cancerous. 3rd surgery to remove lump (about 10 months old now)

*4th surgery to remove the lump on her side (vet forgot to do it in the 3rd surgery, so did it for free) turns out it was histiocytome, common and non cancerous.

*on her 1st birthday i took her to the vet to have a few things checked out. the whole that was still in her jaw smelt putrid and there seemed to be a lump in her belly that wasn't going away. the vet put a needle into her belly and got only puss out of the lump. she was under within 5 minutes and opened up ands has this removed and the infection in her jaw cleaned up. inside the lump was a stitch left from her desexing op, that either wasn't disolvable or hadn't disolved.

all that in her first year and not including all the vet trips for her itchiness, including having her diagnosed with earmites by a vet to arogant to even touch her, test and treatment for mange dispite negative results (a treatment which had her throwing up all night), a bee sting when she was 5 months that had her swell up and look like a pei, an infection on her foot from her licking it, and blood tests for hormone disorders and allergies, and vet trips for bladder control problems.

oh and the huge amount of food i have to feed her to keep her in any respectable shape.

so, understandably i hope, i do feel a lot of disappointment for my show dog that came from excelent lines and i waited two years for. and a bit of resentment too as she has cost me so much i feel as if i have to lie to the OH and hide her true cost from him. anfd i also feel guilty, though none of her issues are genetic, i know people will see her as a mark on the fine breeding that she comes from.

but i do make a point to train her when i can, and pat her whenever i walk past, and to take her to dog parks to have a good run around. but it does take a concious effort.

i do love her, just not like i though it would and not like my other dog or my first saint. and i feel terrible for it.

Dont want to cause a huge debate or fight, but does anyone have any info on this? I have tired Google and must be searching for the wrong thing, or am just hopeless ;)

I want to show a friend,

thanks!!

i think that is kinda half the point, that there is no proof/info on it out there. its was all well hidden... i could be wrong though

LOL

its more likely a diet imbalance, vets wont always pick it. so don't go chopping her leg off just yet.