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Gildy is my third black greyhound, I've had greyhounds for many years now, but I'm seeing something I've never come across before. Gildy is turning blue. It's not like a gray face or chest as in the aging process, I am very familiar with that (Doodles lived to be 14 and was very gray in the face and front of her chest). Gildy's face is turning gray like normal, she's 5.5 years old. She's turning blue from the underside up. Her neck is blue and it's starting to wrap around to her ears. The sides of her chest are turning blue and it's moving up towards her back, as are the lower part of her thighs. The blue fur is bunny soft, too. When I adopted Carl, he had red patches of fur because it was August and he was still blowing his winter coat, plus he was living at an all breed shelter in the high desert, so I'm familiar with that color change. Has anyone ever experienced this? Gildy is as healthy as a horse, her mama, my beloved girl, Bowie, was a blue fawn.

I hold on to them for a long long time and reuse in a pinch.

Please add Harlan AKA Mega Parhump. He was one of Bowie's pups from her first litter. He came off the track, we discovered he had PRA. He went to a home who seemed to welcome him until he was 8 years old and had lost all of his sight and they returned him. I have no kind words for that. A friend of mine fostered him, showed him the love and gave him the life he so deserved. She had taken him on an adventure to the pet store the day before he passed, he was so happy - you could see it in the photos. She woke up the next morning and he had had a massive stroke. There was nothing to be done. He's running free and seeing in Technicolor with his mama Bowie now.

Bowie's pup, Harlan, from her first litter passed suddenly and unexpectedly on Monday. Gut-wrenching.

And now notification of a 50% increase for two dogs, one is 4 the other 5, and not one claim submitted. I've emailed them and am now shopping for companies. #healthpaws

Doodles did something like this. It was early morning and cold, so she was sleeping in a coat. I heard a squeak, thought she was dreaming (she was on a dog bed outside of my room), then another a few minutes later she gave a scream. I ran out to check on her and she had rolled off the dog bed onto the floor. Totally dead weight, completely still. I thought she'd had a stroke. I was trying to get her pajamas off of her and, it was just like you described, she was completely limp. I finally got them off of her, they were filled with static. It took a while, but she got up and was physically fine. She was a spook when she came to me, when this happened months had passed and she was doing a lot better, but this set her back for a short while. She became her old spooky self again for a free weeks. All I could imagine was that the static made the coat cling more tightly to her and scared her. She had a couple of other episodes like this in her life, but none as prolonged and scary as this.

That should have read CLEAR lungs.

My beautiful broodie, Bowie, was part of the expand field trial of her vaccine. She passed with coat lungs 25 months after her first limp. I'm very grateful, still in mourning, but grateful.

I think I'm going to start wearing one myself!

Doodles did that at first when she came home, she got over it pretty quickly. I think it was a trust thing.

Please add Ty.

I'm so sorry.

My vet won't prescribe it.

How do you get them to pay for it?! Based on diagnosis? This is incredible news.

Just seeing this, sending healing thoughts. I hope they can figure this out and get back up to speed.

You're welcome! I'm excited that retired racers will be represented!

The Dog Aging Project is once again enrolling dogs into their study! I enrolled Doodles into it years ago. They are really hoping to find people who know what year their dogs were born (we greyhound owners typically do!) and if you've had your dog since it was young, know its history, etc. I just enrolled Gildy because I have access to some of the people who took care of her when she was younger and, because I know her mama - Bowie. Please consider enrolling your dog! It's free and the researchers are really nice. When I had to let them know that Doodles had passed, they wrote me a sweet note to let me know that her DNA will continue on with the project and help others down the road. She lived to the beautiful age of 14, I was so fortunate <3. https://dogagingproject.org/

I heard about this 2 years ago! Bowie's oncologist was talking about it. This article is from 2017, I wonder if there's an update and what's happening with the drug.

Just a cautionary tale here. Carl got nailed by another dog on the top of his head, at the same time his nail was pulled completely out. The ER vet really messed up what should have been at the most, 6 stitches and never so much as cleaned the paw/nail bed. He ended up going to a different ER about 12 hours later when he was brought home (I was on vacation in Hawaii at the time) his head was massively swollen and he looked like a lab. He spent 5 days in the hospital. Again, torn toenail was never attended to because they were so worried about the head. Later, he began limping, they thought it was osteo, until it wasn't. He died horribly at home of sepsis - needlessly, I couldn't get him to the emergency vet fast enough. I had taken him to really great vets because of the botched stitches, when I asked about the toenail, everyone poo-pooed it. Moving forward, I always make sure when they rip out a toenail that it gets cleaned and they go on antibiotics.

Great news!

I'll take a look! I was just at one of the Costcos in Las Vegas last weekend and here in LA on Tuesday. I'll look again, thanks for the heads up.

Wow, they don't have them at our Costco stores here or in Las Vegas. Rats!

I would, just to get an antibiotic.

What a beautiful tribute for a beautiful soul. Thank you for sharing your girl with us. I'm so sorry, she left way too soon

Thank you, Dick, I really appreciate it. Barney is a very happy go lucky boy, but didn't get the memo that greyhounds don't bark. He is sometimes known as the fun police around here! Gildy is a firecracker. Small and mighty, she rules the boys. She's quite a hunter, too. In the short time I've had her, she has killed two squirrels. Barney ran in and grabbed the second one and gobbled it down in about 30 seconds. He was kind enough to leave a paw behind for Gildy to enjoy. Life with dogs!