PrairieProf

Welcome and congratulations on Bruce! Given your screen name you might be amused to know there is an older children's book featuring a greyhound named Moose, Bruce, and the Goose (though Bruce is the boy and Moose is the hound in it). http://www.amazon.com/Moose-Bruce-Goose-Robert-McKinnon/dp/0965194302

Happy Birthday, Cosmo. to your family.

Welcome to you and your beautiful sweeties! Look forward to more pics and stories of them!

I've never had this experience, but if Doolin got rashes from food intolerances, it would seem reasonably likely to me that Minerva's licking might have to do with food issues too.

I am so sorry for your loss. I remember reading about Pipi-Francine shortly after I joined GT.

Welcome to you and Teague and Karma (they match nicely! ).

Welcome! Boomer looks so handsome and sweet. And big props to the kitteh!

Yeah, I majorly have this problem. Beth is very sniffy and when she decides she wants to sniff something on the opposite side of the sidewalk ... well. Knee bump is a good concept, I may try that, but she turns in front of me very quickly usually, before I can react. I have rarely or never actually fallen, though I have stumbled. Or occasionally hit her back foot with mine, and that's the foot with the toe amputation so I really want to avoid that.

Beth has dew claw pads -- hers are more prominent than those in the picture, like little peas. I never thought anything of it. I'm not at home but I'll try to get a picture later.

Wonderful news!! Congratulations!!!

Terribly, awfully sorry. I can't imagine. But you know he was happy and joyful up to the moment he was gone.

I got one when I first got Beth, thinking of it for travel. She crates wonderfully in her regular wire crate and is always crated when I go out. Set up the canvas-sided crate in my bedroom to try it out while I went out briefly. First off, she totally tipped it over on its side moving around in it. Then one stray claw pawing at it or something and the mesh window was history. So much for crating her in it. Now it stays open at the food of my bed as a sort of "canopy bed" for her (but one of my cats mostly uses it these days).

Looks like calcification of the joint to me, if it's hard.

Beth does this to me both on and off leash -- I would say it's her one seriously bad or at least annoying habit. And I haven't been able to do much to discourage it. She is really ramped up when she does it and if I yell or whatever that just seems like part of the game to her -- I see the glint in her eye and she's really not in obedience mode at all then. I read somewhere that it sounds to her like I'm barking! I don't think a yelp/scream would discourage her either, as dogs typically pack up on a dog who yelps in pain. What does work is rattling a "penny can" in her face. This knocks the behavior right out of her for a couple of days -- so sometimes when she's in a stretch being especially annoying I carry one with me on walks for a day or two. (She is not a timid or oversensitive dog at all, so the loud rattle doesn't spook or traumatize her much; she's just like "Whoa!!") With my next dog I will be much more vigilant about discouraging this behavior from Day 1. I have inadvertently reinforced Beth a good deal in that when she gets crazy on leash a treat often settles her down -- so she'll start the behavior to get a treat sometimes.

Congratulations, he is so gorgeous! Would love to see sibling pics too. My favorite is the one of him and the little girl looking at each other through the wire. And his smile in the one above.

It is totally not out of range for a greyhound.

I'm new to this thread but I can't help noticing .... does the new vet know that normal thyroid for greyhounds is lower than for other breeds? Does he know that greyhounds shouldn't be treated for low thyroid without doing a full thyroid panel, not just a T4? (The numbers you are using don't make sense -- do you mean Aladdin's T4 was 0.4? There are LOTS of greyhounds who have that reading who are NOT hypothyroid [like mine]).

Welcome to GreyTalk!

Yup, here too, though I think it just took Beth a little over 24 hours. FWIW she always has to do a real walk at a good clip (whether on leash or off) to poop. The first few days when I was just walking her in slow circles on my lawn -- nada. We had to head out into the neighborhood for her to get things moving. And walking someplace with woods and bushes or tall grass alongside our path (we have a lot of bike trails around) always is rapidly productive.

I have no experience but I have a neighbor (former vet tech) with a greyhound whom I recently learned has the following issue -- does this seem possible? "the main problem is the nerve fibers to her back legs have lost the myelin sheath and she doesn't know where her feet are. She is on Cholodin (acetylcholine and vitamins) which helps but if she misses even one pill I can tell."

PetSmart does not have quality treats typically -- we have both that and a Petco about 1/4 mile apart and I can't say I've ever seen the dehydrated stuff at PetSmart. But I order a TON of dog stuff online all the time.

Petco sells some good dehydrated treats (Pure Bites is a brand I get -- they have chicken breast, liver, maybe something else), or any quality pet supply store, or you can order online. Another thing to consider if you ever want to try hotdog again is get low-fat or even non-fat hot dogs. They are sold in any decent supermaret. The fat content is often what causes D (I can say from experience). Especially in such a little guy it might not be the ingredients per se but too much fat for his system.

Beth's way of playing with me involves jumping and play-biting when she gets ramped up -- greys playing with each other involves a lot of "bitey-face" so she's treating me like another dog. It's cute but I probably should have done more to discourage it. She has run after a thrown object only very occasionally in the 3+ years I've had her, and never tugged anything. The lure pole, yes -- but only after I attached a real fox tail to the end.

He is extremely cute and sweet looking! Welcome and congrats! I see he's an Iowa dog, and a stakes winner too. He's related to my Beth -- his grandsires are her sire and grandsire. Where did you adopt him from?

I am not a puppy expert, but I think alone training something you'd better start practicing -- eventually you will have to leave her alone, and you are likely to be in for some very unpleasant surprises if you haven't carefully worked up to her being used to being left (and preferably with a crate).