[I Need Some Advice]

My girl has eating problems once in a while. I boiled chicken and cooked rice in the broth and mix it together and she really likes that when she won't eat anything else.

 

Good luck, it is so frustrating, I know.

[Bone Cancer (osteosarcoma) Amputation]

I am so sorry. My sweet Sandy was diagnosed last year and I opted not to do it. She was 8. She was already in so much pain I could not imagine putting her through more. I also did not let it linger and she went to sleep peacefully with us at her side.

 

I am still crying, but I have no regrets because my sweet girl deserved to die with dignity. Don't even blame yourself about the money aspect either, we could probably not have afforded the treatment, but I would have done it if I thought it was in her best interest, which I am convinced is not the case.

 

I had one other grey, well still have her, and decided she was lonely, so got a foster and failed fostering, so now have 2.

[The Road To Kodiak - Underway As Before]

Aren't you going to see the Grand Tetons or Yellowstone since you will be so close? It would be a shame to miss all that.

 

Good luck.

[Anyone Have Experience With This]

I have just gone through this with my girl, BeBe. We were traveling in our motorhome, and the same thing happened She also had a fever. She did have a fever. the first vet (Myrtle Beach, Banfields, Petsmart) I think gave her too much predisone for too long. She came right out of her dizziness, but a week later we were in Jacksonville, FL and she vomited digested blood and it was in her stool. The second ver, also Banfields at Petsmart, put her on IV's for 2 days and I am weaning her off prednisone, and giving her meds twice a day. She is almost back to her normal self but lost lots of weight. It was scary for us since we had little choice about where to go, but beware of prednisone!! I am hoping she is on the mend now.

I don’t know where else to turn and I am hoping someone here might have some advice or may have unfortunately experience this same thing with there greyhound.

 

Wednesday night around 6:15 my 4 year old male greyhound just didn’t seem right. I called his name and he walked up to me and yelped. He stood frozen stiff like a statue along side me. His neck was tight, his ears were pinned back to his head, and his mouth was closed. Then he started to shake, but only from the shoulders forward. He never lay down and the shaking lasted about 15min. After which he couldn’t seem to get comfortable and was panting a lot. He also had kind of a drunken gate and almost fell over a couple of times. I gave him ½ of a Rymadal and we took him to the vet. Our regular vet was not available so we saw the vet on call. The following tests were done:

 

Hw/Lyme/Ehrlichia Combo Test

Heartworm Occult Antigen Test

X-ray of his stomach to make sure he had not eaten something foreign

Fluids Subcutaneous large (for the supposed dehydration)

Health Profile/CBC

CBC (sent out to the lab)

 

The following medications were prescribed:

Proscribed

Prednisone

Pepcid

Tramadal (I have not seen a need for this)

 

At first the vet thought my gray’s platelets were low and his red cells were high and that he was dehydrated but after doing some research she found out all his levels were normal for a greyhounds. Last night we got the call that the entire series of tests they sent out came back negative. The only apparent thing wrong with him was his neck was sore and due to his chronic yeast infections in his ears the vet suggested I do a course of treatment for that. I was also told that we should wean him off the prednisone and just wait and see if this happens again. My greyhound seems fine now but I am on pins and needles dreading that it may happen again and that all this was not due to a yeast infection in his ears.

 

[Marble Left For The Bridge]

I am sorry. I just lost my heart girl last month. It hurts, but you made her life so much better.

[I Lost My Little Girl]

i'm finally at a point where i can talk about this somewhat...

 

i noticed that charlie (7 years old) had been limping for a few days, so i took her to the vet on 9/28.

they did xrays, and confirmed that she had bone cancer, but it had also started to metastasize (sp?) and move into her chest.

my little girl let me know that she was ready to go on saturday, 9/29 (which also happened to be my birthday), and i helped her cross over.

 

she was cremated, and i will release some of her ashes in the baseball field that she used to love running in.

 

i miss her so much; i had her for a little over 5 years, and it was nowhere near enough time.

 

i love you charlie; you'll always be my little girl.

 

dad

I am crying as I read this. I lost my sweet girl the sme way two weeks ago. I know how hard it is. I only had mine for a year, but she enriched our lives.