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    Black turning blue

    in Health and Medical discussion

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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.

    Bridge Angels in September 2019

    in Remembrance

    Posted

    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.

    Weird Shut Down

    in Training and Behavior discussion

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    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.

    Assisi Loop Study

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    On 7/23/2019 at 10:53 AM, NeylasMom said:

    Not sure if you have pet insurance, but mine (Healthy Paws) pays for the loop. 

    You can curve the loop a bit though bending it limits it's reach. I tend to do Violet's back end at night when she's sound asleep. The loop will usually stay in place if I rest it on her.

    I used it recently for Violet's dog bite and my cut off finger and I am sold on its effectiveness for wound healing. I also think it does really help with her disc issues, but we have to do it daily. Fyi, for acute issues you can treat 4x/day.

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

    The Dog Aging Project

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    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 2764.png<3.

    Tore Nail Entirely Off -- Vet Visit Needed?

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    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.

    How Your Dog Ran At The Track

    in Everything else Greyhound

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    3 minutes ago, dmdsmoxie said:

    Bam's Barney  ran 176 races all at Caliente . He was a dog that as a bettor was hard to figure out because he would go stretches of breaking at or near the back of the field and then he would go stretched breaking on top or near the front. When he broke well he would, as you would expect, finished in the money most times. He was in the money 91 of his 176 races with 22 wins.  Even the wins were all over the place from grade E to A.

    Mega San Onofre ran 215 races all at Caliente  She was a good racer with 130 times in the money and a good part of her career was in A and B. As long as she broke decent and got to the turn in good position she had a chance to win and being in the money 130 times she did this more often than not.

    Dick

     

    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!

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