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Wow. That looks awesome!

Punkin!

I've been keeping an eye on the latest videos from Dr. Morgan because we are feeding Purina Pro Plan. It has been the house food here for over 6 years and has been awesome, but I also know that the same supply chain supplies most of the dog food makers, so I am always worried about bad or dangerous ingredients or contamination making into the supply line. To her credit, her group is having samples of various foods tested by independent labs due to the many complaints last year that surfaced about sudden deaths in dogs eating various brands of kibble. She has basically said in each video that we should be checking each bag of food for an off-smell and watching to see that our dogs aren't refusing to eat it. I'm tracking my Pro Plan lot numbers before discarding the bags just in case. I feel like she is sounding the alarm, but is very upfront that there is no proof of a problem found yet. I'd much rather be aware to watch for a potential problem than to be caught off guard when a dog has a reaction or illness to something. (This is not related to DCM, but rather the latest round of concern by many people who lost dogs and are pointing to kibble as the cause.) As with all online information/disinformation - do your own research and do what works best for your hounds.

I love Mark and Gracie, but man do I miss having a broodie around here in-charge of the place. Congratuations Ducky! She is beautiful.

Handsome Dude! Good boy, Max!

Good advice here. Also check his paw pads to make sure there are no damaged pads. It may take a bit for the pads to adjust to new surfaces. Hard spots could be a corn trying to come through which would be painful during walking. There is lots of info here on corns and they are quite common.

I think one of those two was a tripod but you barely notice it.

Hi Ducky, He has changed his style of music over the years so I'm going to listen to some of his latest stuff online before deciding if we will go. We have a great venue here with only about 300 seats which makes it a great place to see any artist. I just received the notification from the venue this morning that they have added him to the upcoming concerts so haven't had time to check out his music yet.

Great report! Feel better soon, Mama.

Hunter Hayes is a country music performer who adopted a greyhound several years ago. The hound named "Cole" toured with him on his bus back when he was first adopted. Hunter Hayes is appearing in April at one of our local music venues and I was looking at tickets. I also found an article indicatin that Cole went to the Bridge in January. It's a good article about Cole and his relationship with his owner- just wanted to pass it along. Run-free, Cole. https://countrynow.com/hunter-hayes-pens-emotional-tribute-to-his-late-greyhound-companion-cole/

Morning Update: Doctor Mark didn't leave her side last night (she sleeps in the living room by herself usually). He's a very good brother. At 2AM he barked and was letting us know that she got up and changed beds. I had the baby monitor turned all the way up and she did not make a sound when changing beds or getting up, so Mark came to the rescue. She refused water all evening and before we went to bed. I took the water bowl to her and she again refused. I put the bowl back in the holder and she walked over to it and started drinking. Apparently the water is no good if I'm holding the bowl. The water stayed down so she had a small amount of the magic chicken canned food a little bit later. This morning she gobbled dow hnalf a can. She will get another meal in a few hours. She's doing great! This probably concludes Gracie's dental adventure.

Paws crossed here for a speedy recovery for Mama.

Gracie had a dental today and lost two teeth. She is doing fine and we will pick her up in a few hours. I guess we may have more ETS pictures now. Mark gets a dental later this month too. Gracie picture just for fun. That gray thing behind her is the draft stopper from the front door which she decided would make a great toy. UPDATE: A little drunk after arriving at home The first hint of ETS a few hours later. She lost the top two chewers in the back. She already thinks that chewing your food is overrated.

Sorry for the delay. I've been traveling and just saw this. Our boy who had stress / anxiety for years was the happiest boy ever who loved everyone. There was no known reason for his condition but it would show up as stress colitis. We had every tummy test known to man with nothing found and no real reason for it. We did end up with way fewer occurrences when we changed to a food that had worked well for some other here. Since then, it;s the house food and all of our hounds through the years have done well with it, but I can't say for sure that the real cause was food. I agree with the others that sending records, x-rays etc and consulting with Dr. Cuoto is the best next step. Although he is known for dealing with Osteo, he has diagnosed and treated thousand of hounds over his career. We did a consult with him for two of our dogs with limps that were not osteo. He may ask you to take some video of your hound walking on different surfaces and from various angles if he thinks the lameness is a factor. Good luck. It is frustrating when all of the tests come back normal when there's an obvious issue that you can't find.

Mark is 11 today! I'm out of town but Aunt Carol brought him brthday fries last night.

There's Punkin. Looking beautimous as always!

Even Rocket who would walk right by a bunny on the sidewalk got a rabbit once when it suddenly ran from him. The instinct kicked in. If the bunny had stayed still nothing would have happened. The look on Tocket's face was more of a "Oh crap, what do I do with this thing now that I caught it" look. Good boy, Doolin.

That girl is incredible. Snow always meant that Rocket was going to do zoomies. Looks like they both got the memo.

I'm so sorry. Run-free, Mac.

Glad you got the issue figured out. We have had no issues with the Max and Neo salmon oil. Both hounds are bunny soft. We typically use 1 squirt of oil in the bowl for each meal.

The freezing likely has nothing to do with the martingale which is the only safe collar for walking a greyhound. I personally would trash the slip lead so that no one could accidentally use it and injure your dog. We've had our share of dogs who froze during walks including Brood Mama Petunia who quickly figured out that when she decided a walk was over, I would call home and the car would come and get her (not that she was spoiled.) I'm pretty sure that Petunia had some minor pain that escalated on walks, and when she was done, she was done. Her freezing bacame known here as The Petunia Pause. Rocket, on the other hand, would freeze when he realized that we were heading for home. Anything to prolong the walk was his favorite thing to try. I would let him stand there for a bit, and then turn around as if I were going to walk the other way. He would normally follow. Once he started walking I would do another 180 and continue walking without slowing down or breaking stride. 99% of the time that worked just fine and he would continue on. Basically you just walk in a circle with the lead as close to you as possible so that you have control. Once you've broken their concentration by circling a time or two, they will almost always follow you and keep walking. Be sure to check your dog's paw pads to make sure that the walking surface isn't causing an issue or making their pads rough. Also keep an eye on the pads to check for corns. A corn can be present before it appears through the pad, and cause them some pain, so you want to keep ahead of that. It will feel like a hard bump through the pad. We always used Burt's Bees hand cream on the pads of our dogs that had corns. It worked well to keep the pads soft. Good luck.

To all concerned: Gracie did have her birthday fries last night. There are no pictures because I had my hands full with two snapping alligators trying to get the fries from my hand as fast as I could dispense them.

Our pretty girl turns 10 today. We are so happy that she came to live with us. There will be french fries later!