Focus on the 15 years and how lucky you were to have her. It’ll get better as time goes on. I, as well as many others in this thread, know what this feels like all too well.
Good, It’s just not my experience with any dogs I ever had. They usually hate it when you put stuff on them. If she is happy I am happy
I had an amazing heeler for almost 15 years and I’d almost forgotten how much of a monster they can be as puppies. But I dove back in anyway. Here’s Carlos. He’s kind of a stud. That’s my brother and sister in law’s heeler showing him the ropes on the tame 4H calves. After a long day of rasslin and destroying drywall.
Posted in the asshole neighbor thread where their dog bit mine. It has now gotten infected and I had to put my collie on medicine. Shit pisses me off.
Did you take your pup to the vet right after it happened? When Tosu got bit at daycare we went a couple days after and they put him on an antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, and pain medicine.
I did not. I watched it. It got better for a second but I think she kept licking it and it got infected. Got her medicine when it started taking a turn.
I got home Thursday evening and Tyson had destroyed the tray in the bottom of his crate and shredded up the sheet that was in there with him. I didn't really think anything of it at the time, but after he ate his dinner about 5 o'clock he immediately threw it up all over the living room. After he threw up he seemed to be fine, but around midnight he woke up and threw up in the bed and then a couple of more times outside. I took him to the vet first thing friday morning, they did x-rays and didn't see anything abnormal, gave him some meds for nausea, and told us to come back saturday morning for a second x-ray. He wouldn't eat friday evening and by around 8 he had quit drinking any water as well. I called my vet at home and he told me to bring him to the animal hospital ASAP. Ended up having to do emergency surgery saturday night. They found a foot and a half of sheet and a handful of plastic chunks from the crate tray in his stomach and small intestine. They called yesterday evening and said that he ate his food and seemed to be doing really well. I'll get to go pick him up this evening as long as he's still doing as well as he has been.
Things like that make me feel as though i need vet insurance. I’m kind of a poor so I don’t know what I would do having to pay for something like that.
Jujst got a call from the vet, tyson wouldn't eat last night and isn't feeling well at all this morning. they are going to open him back up and check his sutures and flush out his abdomen with saline. I;m a fucking wreck right now, worried to death about my boy.
we're already at $1,300 before today's surgery. I'[m going to be giving handjobs behind huddle house before it's over with.
Tyson is out of surgery and seems to be doing ok. They found a couple of tiny tears in his intestine and part of it was dying, and there was infection in his abdomen so they removed 14 inches of intestine and flushed everything out. They have him on some really strong antibiotics, but he said he anticipates that he'll be ok now. I'm leaving work in a few mins to go see him.
Went in Thursday to get a harmless fatty mass removed from Baxter. Took out a half pound hamburger patty looking thing from his belly just as a precaution in case it got bigger and would block his pissing. No other danger at all. Of course in the surgery the vet found a mini ping pong ball knot on his elbow he wanted to take out as well. "Hopefully my instincts are wrong but I feel like that one was a tumor so we're sending it to get a biopsy" and then mentioned the if and when we cross that bridge chemo etc etc. Really hoping it's benign and the day hasn't come where i have the "quality of life" conversation. Definitely the thought of that and seeing him with a leg wrapped up and the sight of the incision on his stomach / whole torso wrap kinda broke down thursday night. Trying not to play worst case scenario. Family dog had the same thing on his rear knee and it was benign so that makes me hopeful. That and his ridiculous happy demeanor even now that we removed the drainage tube and he's got a mighty cone on. Sad and Hilarious at the same time he bumps the side of it into EVERYTHING. Have slept on the couch or floor the past 4 nights to try and keep him from waking up and coming into the bedroom to "check on me" just because I can tell getting up and laying down is a process for him and is probably not good to do as much as he does for the arm stitches and stomach staples. Should get the lab results back sometime this week. Please send good vibes. Few months away from turning 11 and his first health complication ever so very lucky in a way, but I'm not ready for the conversation that I'm going to have to have if the knot comes back as malignant.
She passed away yesterday at the age of 8. RIP Emma. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ver-dies-after-brain-tumor-battle/4231466002/
Saw that :( glad she had as best of the rest of her life as she could and was surrounded by wonderful humans and dogs alike
Tyson is eating again this morning and is doing MUCH better. They want to keep him one more night just to make sure everything stays on course, but as long as there is no setback he'll be able to come home tomorrow!
Tyson finally got to come home thursday evening. Everything seemed fine, other than him being really sore and not wanting to eat much, but that was to be expected after all he'd been through. I took the day off work on friday and stayed home to keep an eye on him, and again he seemed fine all things considered. I got him to eat a little bit for breakfast, but by friday evening he seemed to not be feeling too well again. We called our vet at home and she met us at the clinic and did some blood work and everything came back within normal range, so we just chalked it up to him being sore from the two surgeries, brought him back home and made him as comfortable as possible in our/his bed. By saturday morning he wouldn't eat at all and we could barely get him to drink any water. We knew something was bad wrong at that point. We called our vet again and they had us bring him back in for an ultrasound. That confirmed our worst fears. He was filling up with fluid. They opened him back up and his little insides were just really really bad inflamed and his intestine was leaking where they had stitched it back together. The sutures just wouldn't hold. They said they could try one more time, but they only gave him a really slim chance of making it through the weekend if they did. We didn't want to put him through any more pain so we made the decision to let him go. My wife and I have been absolutely devastated all weekend. We were so happy to have our boy back home thursday night and then that happiness just turned into a nightmare. We feel like we'd let him down, but we did absolutely everything we could to save him. It just wasn't meant to be. Rest in peace, sweet boy. Daddy loves you!
Crepeswithasmile my sincerest condolences for your loss. I got teary eyed especially since Groot is waiting for me to take him on his morning walk. May Tyson Rest In Peace.
Thanks guys, i appreciate it. He was such a smart, good boy. he would've been 10 months old on Saturday. He absolutely LOVED going to obedience class every thursday night. I'd ask him if he was "ready to go get smart" and he'd run grab his leash and wait at the back door. Give your pups some extra hugs and snuggles today.
freaking out right now. gf was out of town on saturday. buddy and i watched the dogs as we cooked some ribs. fed paige and the dane around noon or 1. sunday morning i leave for lunch. the dane stays out during the day because he usually just sleeps on the couch and is super lazy. totally spaced on feeding him because the gf usually does it since she wakes up before me. get home and he had gone through the trash and ate some rib bones. have never had any issues with him getting hungry and chewing up something or going through the trash so its always left out in a covered can with no issues. but he did this time. told the gf and she wasnt worried about it and agreed it was out of character for him. he's fine all night and this morning and ate normal said she came home today and he had pooped and was just laying in a corner being very lethargic. blood in the stool and tiny shards. she's calling/on the way to the vet right now. feel sick to my stomach even tho i know it was an accident and am worried she is going to hate me forever if anything happens to him. lot of self loathing right now
man, i hope the big guy is going to be ok. i've beat myself up for the last 10 days about Tyson eating his crate tray so I know what you're feeling and it's fucking awful.
thanks man. literally all he does is sleep on the couch so its never remotely been a concern to put any trash up (and there have been leftover food and to go boxes thrown away in it repeatedly) so it never even once crossed my mind as being necessary. still doesnt make me feel any better
same here, tyson had never bothered anything at all and then one day he decided to eat his crate tray and sheet. just a freak accident man, no one's fault. i really hope everything is ok with him, man.
really hope the boy is ok. In your situation it was a total accident, but everybody should use this as a reminder to never feed your animals cooked bones. They become too brittle and can splinter and harm your pet.
dude ran up to me when i got home and was in good spirits so that’s good pooped a few hours ago and while runny, it wasn’t bloody he did find a way to poop on my roku so i appreciate that he’s going down swinging
we moved the roku when we set up like 3 tvs to watch this weekend. unplugged it when my buddy took his tv home and left it on the floor in a corner. oops