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Stop looking at me while I sleep!

[MizzouRah]

HAHAHA love all the pictures!!!

[Lathum]

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Bernie playing in the snow

[MizzouRah]

Those are great Lathum! Bernie should meet Benny.

[Flasch186]

so Nola, since yesterday, wont put any weight (which is a lot of weight) on her hind right leg. Im having to carry her outside to go to the bathroom. This is an ongoing issue that creeps up every now and then but this seems to be the worst Ive seen it. She's on her way to a knee surgery I think...which might be better than hip replacement I dunno. Regardless it's gonna cost me a pretty penny (so this could transition to the 2008 financials thread) and she thinks this about it:

[Lathum]

Flasch, Bernie has arthritis and we give him cosequin and deramaxx and it makes a huge difference.

Not sure if that is the case but you may want to ask your vet about it

[Fidatelo]

Here is Molly, our Old English Sheepdog that just turned 3 on the weekend, sleeping on my shoes.




Here is a picture from around Christmas when her hair was a little shorter and you could see more of her eyes.

[Landshark44]

this is comet....

six month old lab/husky....

[Ryche]

Our new pup with her big 'sister'

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by Ryche

Our new pup with her big 'sister'

Cuties!!!

[path12]

Dogs are so awesome. One of these days I'll figure out how to post a picture of mine.

[flere-imsaho]

Bear says: "Come help me pee on all of these plants!"

[Flasch186]

Vet just called:

thinks it's a torn ACL and we'll need to do surgery. still a possibility that after they go in that it could turn out to be the hip but theyre fairly certain its the knee. Pow $1500 knee, $2500 antivenim vs. the Cottonmouth, food, meds, this sucks....

plus anytime they put her under she could....double sucks! damnit.

[Flasch186]

so one of the XCL's was torn and the other had taken the brunt of carrying the load and was showing signs of strain. Not anymore, I guess but now she's miserable and cant move. the slightest movement of it and she yelps:

[JetsIn06]

Hope your dog heals quickly, Flasch.

So my girlfriend and I are probably going to adopt another dog before this summer. We don't really know what kind we want though. The beagle we have now was in a rescue that only had beagles...and our dog had a friend there and we may consider adopting him.

Doggie friends reunion!

[oliegirl]

Awww, hope she gets better very soon...looks like she needs lots of TLC and babying

[oliegirl]

Dola, here is a pic of our puppies, Weeble and Riley...Riley is the blonde/yellow one, he is Golden Retriever and Schnauzer. Weeble is Jack Russell Terrier and Beagle

[JetsIn06]

Woohoo Beagles!

[MizzouRah]

Ouch Flash!

[Lathum]

cuto dogs olie.

best wishes for a speedy recovery Flasch

[wade moore]

Hope your pup gets better Flasch. Dealing with pet injuries is SO hard. Sometimes you really want to be able to have them answer "where does it hurt?".

[Yossarian]

I think this was posted in the YouTube thread but some of you folks here might have missed it.

"Jerry needs no help playing with his ball"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk

[Flasch186]

Originally Posted by wade moore

Hope your pup gets better Flasch. Dealing with pet injuries is SO hard. Sometimes you really want to be able to have them answer "where does it hurt?".

thx Wade.

Yeah last night was rough. In an out of bed, she was whining so much but she wouldnt let me pick her up to help her. Finally I just ignored the whining and took her outside and she immediately went to the bathroom.....that helped

[wade moore]

My girl dog has had rib injuries on at least two occasions (maybe more). There were a couple of times when she would go a week or so where we'd pick her up and she'd scream in agony - we had no clue why. The only way we finally knew is one of the times they were injured enough that they healed awkwardly and created a lump at the end of a couple of the ribs.

Anyway. Point being, wish she could have said "ow, ow! my ribs, my ribs!" the first time. Hearing that whining and not knowing what to do about it is one of the worst feelings.

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by Yossarian

I think this was posted in the YouTube thread but some of you folks here might have missed it.

"Jerry needs no help playing with his ball"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk

That's great!

[Lathum]

Bernie at water aerobics


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[Fidatelo]

doggy swimming class? That's awesome!

How do they deal with dogs that don't want to go in at first? Do they have methods of training them to enjoy the water?

[hawk4669]

Here are a few of our dog....Sammy. He's a 10 year old miniature weiner dog. We've had him longer than our kids and are pretty damn attached to him. He's awesome.







Cheers!

[MrBug708]

Yay! Dachshunds rock!

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

doggy swimming class? That's awesome!

How do they deal with dogs that don't want to go in at first? Do they have methods of training them to enjoy the water?

they have doggy life jackets.

Lucky for us our dog loves it. He is 10 and has bad hips and joints so long walks are out. The vet told us he needs to lose 15 pounds so we take him here 3 times a week.

[Phototropic]

We'll be picking up one of these 3 puppies in 2 weeks for my parents.

[Lathum]

Wow.

I hope the other 2 are staying in the family.

They are perfect!

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by Lathum

they have doggy life jackets.

Lucky for us our dog loves it. He is 10 and has bad hips and joints so long walks are out. The vet told us he needs to lose 15 pounds so we take him here 3 times a week.

Hmm, maybe not what I was hoping for. My dog seems afraid to actually swim. She'll walk until her front paws start to kind of float, and then she won't go any further and sort of just paws at the water in frustration (along with some barking for good measure). Also, if we go swimming she clearly wants to come with us, but can't get the nerve, so she stands and barks at us incessantly until we come out. Quite vexxing.

So my hope was that your class might have had some kind of section on adjusting dogs to swimming, etc, and that you could maybe impart some of that wisdom my way. I guess I could try strapping a life jacket on her and seeing if she is more comfortable that way, but I'm skeptical.

Pretty cool to see those pics of your dog swimming though, that looks like it would be fun to spend time with your dog that way!

[MizzouRah]

Puppies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheOhioStateUniversity]

My new Shiba Inu "Foxy"

[Fidatelo]

Dude there's a fox on your couch!

[oliegirl]

Originally Posted by TheOhioStateUniversity

My new Shiba Inu "Foxy"

That is a stunningly beautiful puppy...very striking! Most puppies are "cute" and "adorable" and all that, but she is just gorgeous...give her lots and lots of love!

Our babies have been at the boarders since Tuesday afternoon, we had to go out of town for a family emergency and didn't get back in time to pick them up tonight The house is SO quiet without them and I miss them so much...can't wait to see them tomorrow!!!!

[TheOhioStateUniversity]

Thanks, shes quite a handful though but I guess thats to be expected during the puppy period

[Flasch186]

this from the other thread:

This is what she looked like after the swelling went down by about 40%. She was truly messed up by the snake and the pain killers.

[mauchow]

Our little soft coated wheaten terrier. We've had her for three days now but she's already 11-12 weeks old. We went on so many vacations so we decided to hold off a little longer before picking her up. So far so good as she's got the crate training down pretty well. No crying at night yet....

[Cringer]

This should be a good thread to post in......

Just got back from the vet a bit ago. Last night I was doing yard work when I made my way to the back yard. My oldest great dane (10) had found a nice little dirt hole (probably dug by my other dane) to crawl in. She has arthritis, and looked like she wanted up but was having trouble. So I went to help her and found she could barely stand on her own, and didn't really want to walk of course. I got her moved a little way and when I put her down and looked at her she had massive swelling (that was rock hard) under the neck, on the chest, on her left shoulder down her left front leg, a little on her left ear, and she wasn't really opening her left eye much. I laid her down on the unswollenside of her. Being late in the day and not knowing what was going on exactly I let her rest, brought her some food and water which she ate/drank thankfully.

This morning I HAD to leave early in the morning to do some work stuff (of course this happens during a horrible 3 day busy stretch) and when I get back at about 10 AM I went out to check on her. Went to help her up as she had decided to lay down on her swollen side again. Right away I feel wetness. Her skin opened up on her shoulder and a blood/puss mixture was leaking out in heavy amounts. Spent a crazy time of trying to take her to one vet who was close, getting warned off by his assistant that not much would be done (it was really odd), so we said screw this and took the longer trip to our normal vet.

Cutting this short. We are back home with her. They agree with my worry (which came from flasch's ordeal) that she may have been bitten by something, snake or spider maybe. Though no vets down here do any kind of testing for it I guess. They cleaned out the open abscess and gave us antibiotics. They also confirmed the poor girl is partially blind, which wasn't a horrible surprise. She is now resting in her one room doggy suite with her own a/c. She is drinking water and just ate some food, in fact got excited about the food which was nice to see. Hopefully she will be able to walk in a few days though, not sure I can spend more then that carrying her in and out to go to the bathroom.

[MizzouRah]

Keep us posted Cringer, hopefully the antibotics do their thing and get her back to walking.

[Cringer]

Well, she got up to walk a bit ago. Forced her way onto her feet to eat and drink (she was doing it laying down before). After eating she walked out to piss, came back in to look for more food I guess, then made it out onto the patio before the urge to crap over took her. Overall, her spirits seemed better too, as did her left eye....

I think some time alone, away from the other two dogs has helped and some good old fashion rest. I know the antibiotics haven't kicked in that fast. Hopefully she is still improving come morning. I think the fluid coming out of her from her shoulder and leg is the key. It must have been causing a lot of pain at the peak and she didn't want to put too much pressure on her front legs. COmbine that with weak back legs from her arthritis and that was a bad situation for her.

[wade moore]

10 year old great dane? That's impressive.

[dickysty]

Great Danes are just awesome dogs.

When I was growing up we had one that romed our neighborhood, that was before leash laws.

He was just massive yet so damn friendly and his name was THOR. I never really knew who the owner was but he loved to follows us kids around.

Cringer keep us posted.

[Flasch186]

woah Cringe. Im so sorry and i definitely know what youre going through although you should know a vet that can handle snakes or spider bites...I know I needed it. Anyways Im rooting for ya.

[Poli]

My little girl, she'll be 8 years old this fall.

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by wade moore

10 year old great dane? That's impressive.

Yes it is, although we had a great dane for several years whom lived to 13. We got her when she was 10 as her owners were moving north and didn't want to expose her to a real winter. She had bad arthritis in her rear hips and legs but had adapted to it so that she had this massive chest that she put all her weight on. although you still had to help her sometimes like on stairs or into the car. Crazy old lady is what she was, and I still am amazed by her living that long.

Originally Posted by Flasch186

woah Cringe. Im so sorry and i definitely know what youre going through although you should know a vet that can handle snakes or spider bites...I know I needed it. Anyways Im rooting for ya.

We called around, it just seems no one down here does anything too different even if they know for sure it's a snake/spider bite. My wife asked some straight out like we knew that was the problem. There might be, I would think there would be, but we didn't have the time yesterday and I have never had a problem like this in my 11 years down here.

Update: Hopefully just stiff this morning. She couldn't get up because she was not putting any pressure on her front feet. After carrying her out she was able to get better footing in the yard and walked some to piss. Didn't want to move after that though so I carried her back in. Baby steps.....

[Lathum]

Hope for a speedy recovery Cringer. We just went thorough a tough one with Bernie, so I know how stressfull it can be.

[INDalltheway]

Originally Posted by mauboy1

Our little soft coated wheaten terrier. We've had her for three days now but she's already 11-12 weeks old. We went on so many vacations so we decided to hold off a little longer before picking her up. So far so good as she's got the crate training down pretty well. No crying at night yet....

I have two wheatens.. They are really cool dogs. I'm sure yours has lost that brown and black color and is fairly white now. I will post a picture of our newest puppy, Annabelle.