GeorgeofNE

Sounds like the dog I WISH I had asked for... If he doesn't even wake up when you come home for lunch, he clearly doesn't have to go, and if he's making it for the work day, why bother him? No reason you SHOULDN'T wake him up, if you want to, and take him out, but if he doesn't need to go, I see no reason. My former neighbor had a Bulldog they had to shake awake every morning 'cause that dog could sleep longer and deeper than any animal I've ever met! Not having slept past 6 AM in the years since I got my own dog (vs. family pet), I can only dream of the days of sleeping in! My dog jumps up almost every time I move--it gets very annoying. I requested "high energy." Oh yeah, and he's NINE and his behavior is no different now than it was when he was 5.

I don't see how mushy chicken and vegetables are going to improve a dog's coat--which is the point, right? At least any more or less than feeding the dog chicken and vegetables.

If he's eating rabbit poo, can you put him out with a muzzle and stool guard on? I'm not 100% sure about this (I'm sure I'll be corrected!) but I think they can get giardia from rabbit poo. I know my folks had a bunny poo eater, and she was diagnosed with it several times. Giardia would cause the soft poos. George had chronically soft poo for quite a while when I got him. Despite negative fecals, I bought some Panacur-D on someone's suggestion. After he was dosed with that, things cleared up.

I'd also check the length of his nails--suprised no one else suggested that.

What's your question?

Dogs can only eat when, and what, you feed them. I've never met a dog that was healthy and would not happily eat all day long! He's attempting to manipulate you. Be strong! If you start to give in...it's all over, and you're left with a beggar.

Remember: that's a bony area. There's very little skin there. What you're describing amounts to a child falling and scraping her knee. Did your Mom race to the doctor with every boo boo? Mine sure didn't! Unless you can't control the bleeding (sounds like you have), I see no reason to go the vet. Particulary if you're adept at wound care anyway.

I've been buying from Omaha Vaccine for years--but they're an actual real certified pharmacy (pet pharmacy?) and they will not sell you heartworm meds without a prescription that they received either directly from your vet's fax, or a hard copy in the mail. My vet has no issue with it. With items my vet is willing to price match, I do buy them from the clinic, but George is on daily Deramaxx. I spend almost $300 on a bottle of 90 pills (lasts 180 days). The same amount from my vet would probably cost me 3x as much because they don't price match on that. Same bottles the vet buys--stamped, patient inserts, etc.

Gosh, I hope so! And FYI, I had no idea they could not have macadamia nuts, and many a dog in my family has enjoyed a few.

There's not much a vet can do--particulary nothing that can't wait for your regular vet. Oh, I see you already got great advice from people who have been through this!

I have to say, your vet sounds unreasonably casual. Glad it seems to have worked itself out, but to not see a dog that sounded very ill is odd, and to not take some bloodwork just to make SURE it wasn't anything more seems odd. By the way, the term "bio break" cracked me up!

I assume there are other doors to the outside that might be less steep? If the stairs are so steep you're concerned, I have no advice. The stairs to the second floor at my mother's house were so steep (200 year old house--very narrow, very steep stairs) George has never even TRIED to go up them. And he can do stairs. He just can't do THOSE stairs.

Doesn't sound like kennel cough to me either, and as someone already said, it travels by air, so you can clean and scrub the dishes all you like, but it's the airborne particles when the dog coughs that spread it. My dog just got a kennel cough vaccine yesterday--and they told me it was good for a year. I normally don't get it, but with my Dad on death's door I needed George to be kennel ready if necessary, and they won't take him unless he's had it.

In a prior post, you mentioned that she got your husband to give her FIFTEEN Milk Bones! Perhaps she simply knows if she acts up he'll repeat the festival of treats? I can't even fathom giving a dog 15 treats at once! Maybe she just knows Daddy will bend over backwards for her??

I don't ever give George both the same day--well, I use Heartgard Plus--but I don't like to introduce both heartworm and flea/tick on the same day. If it is a reaction to the topical, it doesn't sound like a really NEGATIVE one. I haven't noticed any such behavior (either lethargy or extra activity) but the Heartgard does give George soft poop for a day.

Puncture wounds are not to be fooled with, in my opinion. Sounds painful too. I suppose, since he's going home tomorrow, you should just let his new family know. I think all newly adopted dogs should go to their new vet ASAP anyway--maybe that's just me--so hopefully they'd planned on taking him anyway.

I don't understand why a vet who has said she thinks he has CCD would also suggest spraying him with compressed air when he whines? He's either senile, or not. And if he is, no amount of behavior modification is going to change anything. I don't think it's CCD. Not if he's been doing this for six years.

That's not true. Watch some races on line if you haven't. The dogs are in peak physical condition. They are not underweight.

:rotfl We buy Food Club too (and we don't even HAVE Kroeger's here, so I don't think it's actually their brand--just a super generic brand)!!

I've never had a vet suggest routinely deworming my dog. They INSIST on annual heartworm tests around here, but now that it's the SNAP test that checks for all sorts of things, it seems like less of a scam to me. Mind I say that because what should be a simple annual well dog visit always ends up costing me at least $200. I was shocked that my vet said that if I wanted, I could stop giving George heartworm preventative because of his age (he's 9). I said, "What? Why?" and he said, in his own words, that George would likely die of some other cause anyway before heartworm would kill him if he happened to get it. I thought that was an odd suggestion, and asked for a prescription for Hartgard Plus anyway. That was not the vet at the clinic we usually go to-- So, to the OP, yes I have annual testing done, and yes, he's on preventative year round.

Did you by any chance recently get a new bag of kibble? I see no one has suggested perhaps you got a bad batch of kibbles. I would not leave her food for her to pick at. Give her 15 minutes, and if she doesn't eat it, take it away. If she's losing weight, I would definitely take her in if there have been no changes to her routine or her food.

Don't see why it would make any difference. Peanuts are peanuts, regardless of how smoothly they're crushed!

It shouldn't. It's an anti-inflammatory. Does't have any "loopy making" ingredients. Have you tried Deramaxx? George takes that.

I would have OSU look at the X-rays even with palliative care, but I would not do the FNA (I didn't and I went for the amp...). There certainly have been enough cases of mis-diagnosis for osteo in either direction, it's good to have the "experts" weigh in or at least have a second opinion done so you know what you're really facing. And it was also helpful to talk to an oncologist to hear about treatment options and options for palliative care, once we had the diagnosis. The submission form is here: https://greyhound.osu.edu/consultationservice/ Totally agree with this. What's the point of the FNA if the films make clear what you suspect? Since OSU will review the films for free, I would certainly do that.

I believe Joe T. Reporter had a case of lung worms?