For real tho - that's a separation anxiety issue. No easy fix. Id try giving her treats the second she stops yelping. That can reinforce not yelping. Or try keeping her in another room when he walks out so she doesn't see him leave. Maybe you can trick her.
I've started leaving my laptop on with YouTube playlists of anti anxiety music for dogs. I've noticed she's stopped chewing on her blankets now.
Peanut butter stuffed kong, frozen or non frozen. Does the trick. She is getting much better with age though.
Not sure if anyone has seen it but DirecTV has a dogtv channel now that supposedly has content that stimulates or calms dogs for when you leave them at home. It's a standalone channel for $5/mo (dumb) but kinda curious. I'm sure you can just buy a couple DVDs that do the same thing.
I learned yesterday my little dude probably has lymphoma. And I completely regret taking him for granted. Anybody done chemo with a dog? And or know anything about that process?
I don't like leaving my TV on. But i have my laptop going with a youtube playlist of anti-anxiety music for dogs going. I think it's helping as she's not tearing up her blankets right now.
So one of the greyhound rescue people custom makes winter coats for them. I'm going to get an Alabama one made, but I have no idea what fabric to pick. What do y'all think? https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_...s&field-keywords=university+of+alabama+fabric
Another option is to do licensed material inside and just crimson fleece on the outside. Then have them cut up a sweatshirt and stitch the script A on the back to keep it simple.
Tanner at 1 year 4 months. 82 pounds and 15 of it is hair. My neighbors golden has hemangiosarcoma Not sure about the chemo, but he takes tramadol a couple of times a day. Vet gave him to January of this year, and even with a tumor the size of a football he still runs after rabbits like he was a puppy. Edit: TheFreak55
Nymeria was on 150 mg of Tramadol 3 times a day. She stayed fucked up, yesterday was the first day off it since surgery. She had way more energy.
Went to the gigantic park on monday on the river both dogs had a blast like always. Yesterday it was raining so no park...just three normal walks..get up this morning and my pit mix is favoring her left front paw...doesnt like when i look at her pad but no visible swelling or irritation....im guessing she maybe stepped on something at the park and its bruised...im sure its nothing but i hate when they just cant tell you whats wrong
it was free on the 4th of july weekend, we spent most of that weekend at a family reunion in a neighboring town, so it was on pretty much 24/7 for my dog i guess she liked it
my guy has osteosarcoma and we did 6 months of chemo. canine chemo is far less intensive than it is for humans. I saw no changes in his attitude or appetite during the entire course of treatment. he went in every 3 weeks for about an hour or so when he was hooked up to an iv for the carboplatin. your pup will probably be getting a different drug since its lymphoma - but I expect the treatment will be about the same. I know what you mean about taking him for granted. hug him all the time and let me know if you have any more questions.
Is your dude suppose to be fully rid of the osteosarcoma? Reading about the lymphoma mine will never fully be rid of it just waiting till it comes back in like an 8 month average. It was an actual iv? My vet said it would be a pill(maybe different for lymphoma but I also hope that isn't the only thing she doesn't know what she is talking about). What was the bill? I've heard three grand on mine. I can't do that especially considering it will just comeback every 8 months. On not taking him for granted I sat with him while the wife showered and he was on the bed(I would have normally been downstairs watching tv) and left the mood music Jax Teller suggested on today(even though he has never tore anything up while we were gone). Well thats a lie he tore up two beds of his own and one of another dog's while at boarding.
I really think the mood music has helped keep mine calm while she's alone. Of course now that she's off drugs, she has so much energy when I get home it's hard to keep her from jumping and running on that bad leg.
No it will come back and take him, most last a year after their amputation surgery and his was just shy of 11 months ago. He was still cancer free in July though so we hope he can be an exception. Yes, actual iv, yours may be different. The bill was significant, as we also had to do an amputation surgery on the front end. We started a GoFundMe and raised enough to cover that and the 6 months of chemo. Chemo treatments ran between $250-400 per visit. We wanted to do it because our boy is still fairly young (6 at the time of diagnosis) and he had a shot at another happy year, which he has had. There are a ton of things like this you'll need to consider before landing on a decision. I know it's brutal, and I can't tell you how sorry I am.
Thanks for the info dude, Benny is only 4 and a half Spoiler Here he is this past Sunday, rocking red and black looking like a UGA fan
Amazing pic. Benny is clearly the man. We bought Rowdy a wagon so he could finish the same walks he did when he had all fours, great investment. Let us know if we can help in any way.
was at the dog park this morning and as I am getting in the car to leave... out of the corner of my eye i see this dude punching and kicking his dog (dog is on a leash).... by the time i get my dogs in the car hes walking out of the park into neighborhoods. I was fucking furious...no idea what i would have said to the dude besides cussing him out...anyone else dealt with this before? ive also seen the guy multiple times at the park he has two dogs...one leashed one off leash....the guy doesnt want any other dogs at the park near his leashed one....my guess is its not friendly because he beats it
I was told goats milk can be good for dogs. Let him try a little tonight and I've never seen him more excited. Jumping around mixed with looking for more milk. I can only hope he enjoys the next bowl of it half as much. Hopefully even more importantly: CLA. Raw goat’s milk from grass fed goats is high in CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid). This a cancer fighting fat. CLA has been proven in European studies to reduce the risk of cancer by 74% and existing tumors by 60%. Even if it doesn't worth just based off how happy he was to get it.
Any tips on keeping rabbits out of my fenced in yard? Little bastards shit everywhere and my dogs eat it and proceed to throw up in the middle of the night.
I've been playing football with my dog recently. Anytime she hears down, set. She gets all excited and then barks for hut. She also legit tackled me the other day after the wife threw me a pass.
Took our dog to the water park for dog day last weekend. It was really funny. Murphy is just warming up to water and was a little overwhelmed with all the dogs barking and splashing at first. It was like half dogs on leash and half packs of dogs just roaming running and playing. Kept him on the leash half the time while in the lazy river and wave pool then said fuck it and just let him run wild for an hour once he was better acclimated. Wish there was an easier way to post videos because it was chaos.
Oh god. The onions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-dog-lives-to-see-his-person-happily-married/ Spoiler Dying dog lives to see his person happily married Kelly O’Connell adopted Charlie Bear when he was just a pup. She was 19 at the time, living in New York state. Charlie, a 12-week-old black lab mix, had been found in a shopping cart, in the middle of winter. She wasn’t looking for a dog to adopt, but she saw Charlie in the shelter one day, and she just knew. “It was just kind of like, yeah he’s mine,” O’Connell said. Time went by. Years, really. Kelly moved to Colorado. Charlie came, too. They were like two kids, Kelly said. Then Kelly met James Garvin, and two moved in together. (Charlie came too, of course.) O’Connell and Garvin, both veterinarians, got married this September. And they wanted Charlie to be there. But Charlie, who was 15 years old, had been diagnosed with a brain tumor earlier this year. His condition had deteriorated. And it was clear Charlie wouldn’t live much longer. “I had actually made an appointment for somebody to come to the house and we were going to put him down a week before the wedding, because he had had five seizures and we were just like ‘this is too much, I don’t want to do this for him anymore,'” O’Connell said. “Eventually, it was almost as if he was like ‘no I want to see this.’ He got better.” Charlie did attend the wedding. He made it down the aisle, O’Connell said. But he couldn’t make it back. That was when O’Connell’s sister, the maid-of-honor, swooped down and scooped him up. She carried him down the aisle herself. “There isn’t enough mascara in the world for these moments,”Jen Dziuvenis, the wedding’s photographer, wrote on a Facebook post. “Dog people are the best people.” “The world,” O’Connell said of her sister’s effort. “It meant the world to me.” “This is what love looks like,” Dziuvenis said of the moment. “Love for family, love for animals, love for your sister. It was just the most touching display of that that I’ve seen, and it was spur of the moment, it just happened, because that’s how these people are.” Dziuvenis, a Colorado-based photographer, said that she was close friends with the bride’s sister, and described the family “crazy animal people, all of them.” She knew that Charlie was sick, she said, but didn’t realize how dire his condition was, and didn’t realize he was going to be in the wedding until she showed up to shoot it. “And that was kind of when I learned that they didn’t think he was going to make it that long, and that he had just a few days, maybe, after the wedding to live,” Dziuvenis said. “But they really wanted him in the wedding, because that’s the bride’s — that’s like her soul dog.” After O’Connell’s sister carried Charlie back down the aisle, bride and groom dropped to their knees and hugged the dog, O’Connell said. “I just kept saying, ‘you made it buddy, you made it,'” O’Connell said. “He just had a giant grin on his face.” As a veterinarian, O’Connell is familiar with conversations with pet owners: when do we know it’s time? She tells people to count five things that their dog loved, and if they can take away three of those things, then its clear their pet’s quality of life is dropping. Charlie was O’Connell’s marathon training buddy, so seeing him not be able to walk a few feet, she said, was “kind of like a sucker-punch to the gut.” “I think despite that feeling though, when I look at the pictures, especially the one where the flowers are all around him, I just think he looks so happy in those pictures,” she said. “I just think to myself, despite that feeling of did I push it too far, or did I force him to stay around for this wedding, looking at those makes me think, he just wanted to see that, us come together, and I guess his mom be taken care of.” O’Connell said Charlie was put down a few days after the ceremony. She described the wedding pictures as “priceless, absolutely priceless.” “He may not have been able to do what he wanted to do, and his body was definitely failing him,” O’Connell said. “But he was happy to be there.”
Thinking of buying a dog. Live in an apartment in downtown Seattle. Should I do it, yes or no? I can also bring said dog to work.
Go for it. Just make sure to research the type of dog and if your lifestyle matches it's needs for exercise and such
No, it's common in other breeds, mostly ones with squished faces, but Bulldogs are notorious for it. Only really see it when they're adolescents and it's a simple procedure.
There's a trend in the pictures below. Rory loves him some shade. Looking forward to winter as this summer sun is so intense Spoiler Buy, no. Adopt yes
Rescue a greyhound. They are amazing indoor dogs (very lazy) and the Seattle weather would probably be very good for them (other than needing a rain coat and winter coat). I bet one would love going to work with you and just lounging around and getting loved on. Everyone I've meet has been extremely people friendly. And lots of looks and attention when we are out in public.