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Keeping my fingers crossed for many yays .

you're both in my thoughts today.

good news!!

:yay

Thing is, Dr. Couto came right out and said if she were his dog he'd treat her with chemo. I didn't ask, he volunteered that. The vet from University of Guelph who was tending to Loca actually argued with me about my decision to let her go. She completely disagreed with me. I my case, both Loca and I knew what had to be done. I know how hard it is. For at least a week prior to Loca's death (probably even longer; that period of time is an awful blur), I was posting in health and medical constantly. Everything was so hard and so confusing. My brain said one thing while my heart said something else. I don't envy you at all. I hope you have somebody you can really discuss this with. Feel free to pm me if you want to talk or rant, or anything else which will help you deal with this crummy situation

What a beautiful girl. I'm so sorry

Loca enjoyed eating wood and feasted on both furniture and baseboards. i think she was also bored. i handled it by not investing a lot of $$ in furniture.

Follow your heart and what Pearl tells you. Although Dr. Couto wasn't working on Loca's case at the end, I went against the local vet school specialist's recommendation and opted for euthanasia rather than treatment, which may or not have been successful with a 13.5 year old dog. best case scenario would have involved keeping her off of her feet for 4-6 weeks. i knew she was in lots of pain and she told me she was ready to go to the bridge. go with your heart and listen to Pearl. She'll tell you what to do

I'm so sorry for your loss

pill pockets work well here.

I'll be thinking of both of you on Monday.

wow, i just saw this. whoa, i can't begin to imagine this past year for you glad things went well with Apollo.

I'm so sorry, Anne

I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm sure Dee Dee is whopping it up with my Loca as I type

great news!!

I'm so sorry

It's very possible that she's depressed. Phoenix also stopped eating after Loca passed awa, so i adopted another for him . are there any local greyhounds that she could hang out with?

what a week you had! i'm soglad TJ is ok. thanks for the warning. i had something similar happen to Loca. she found and ate the contents of a bottle of vegetarian vitamins (90 count; i had no idea who many were actually in the bottle). her reaction wasn't as severe at TJ's, but she her treatment was the same and she had to spend the night at the e-vet. as with TJ, i had no idea that they vitamins even existed and didn't have a clue where she found them. so please, be careful.

She was quite the character, wasn't she? . Cody, go out and celebrate with Loca and the others

Jen, I recognized his name and knew that he must've been your hound. It's great to see you back here, but I'm so sorry it's under these circumstances. He will be missed. Loca will meet him at the Bridge.

Misty has had to have that done so many times, but usually they will feel for urine before they would stick her. Mine have been on Baytril many times but never less than 10-14 days. Lets hope this clears up quickly I'm pretty sure that Loca was always on it for at least 14 days but she had chronic UTIs.

I think Loca was on it for more than seven days, but I'm not sure. I do remember that it is very strong and that I was giving Loca probiotics (or was it prebiotics) to try to replace some of the good bacteria in her system since Baytril is so strong.