oldrunners

Welcome from Sasha, Penny and Julio on the right coast!

I am so, so sorry to read this! He was a fine boy, and well loved, as I'm sure he knew. I understand and share your sorrow.

Welcome from slower lower Delaware! Your Penny looks exactly like my Penny!

I have been doing therapy dog work with my greys for about 16 years. We have visited a hospital, any number of long-term care facilities, a locked psychiatric unit, a library reading program and the Family Assistance Centers at Liberty State Park and Pier 94 after 9/11. I am currently visiting a veterans' home and a facility that has an alzheimers unit and an assisted living wing. Some facilities I visited weekly, some monthly. My dogs have been certified by TDI,International, in NJ, and TDI,Inc here in Delaware.

I had a similar problem, only my 3 would race frantically up and down my fence, barking hysterically, while the 2 in one back yard, and 3 in the other backyard would do the same on their side of the fence. Of course, I'm out with my dogs, and the neighbors just open the door and let dogs out, and at some point later---sometimes 3-4 hours later--open the door to let their dogs back in. My dogs were jumping on and over each other, and crashing into the bushes I planted to discourage this behavior. Bushes didn't work---they just served to poke and scrape my dogs as the dogs plowed through and around them. So, I had my handyman put 4' slats of wood right over the existing fence. He bought 12' boards, cut them into 4' lengths, and nailed them to the existing wooden fence. Do I care that my neighbors see 2 layers of fencing? Nope. Now, if they hear any dogs in the yards, mine will sometimes jump up onto the fence to peer over, and sometimes bark a couple of times, but it only lasts a minute or two, and they go back to sniffing for bunnies in my yard. Money well spent. As I was typing this, I recalled one morning that really sealed the deal. My dogs got up a little after 6, and I went to let them out. Of course, one set of dogs was out already, so my dogs and I just waited on my porch for them to go in, since I didn't want the noise to bother anyone when the barking started up. As we waited, the other set of dogs came out. I ended up waiting until almost 7 before I could let mine out (I had decided that I would get dressed and leash walk them if they couldn't go out by 7). Anyway, the new fence was done that Saturday.

We have at least a dozen of Nancy's collars!

Sasha has been on Grizzly salmon oil for almost a year, at about 1/2 the dosage they recommend. I find that if i give her too much, poops get very squishy. Her skin has improved, but she still has dandruff. She had a skin infection about 2 months ago, which i caught very early on, so it cleared up very nicely with meds. I don't want that to happen again, so I thought moving to grain free, at a price I can afford, would help.

Ok, I'm convinced. A TS just opened in my town about 3 weeks ago. Please help me to decide which one to get. My black girl has dandruff, even with fish oil supplements. Should I get the salmon one?

I hope lots of folks jump in here. This is very interesting!

I also am interested. As of about 2 months ago, my vet haven't even heard of it. We go for our yearly physicals in 2 weeks, so I'll ask again, but I,too, would like to know more about it.

Soup ladle from the dollar store.

I just switched to Sentinel last month. I believe it was Hubcitypam who said she had been using it for years, and she also used Frontline with it, with no ill effects. In my area of the country Frontline has been failing. It hasn't happened to me yet, so I figure the extra flea protection will be a good thing.

Many moons ago, my toddler daughter poked me in the eye with a hairbrush and tore off 1/3 of my cornea. Hideously painful, but the ophthalmologist just gave me several meds to put into the eye, and I wore a patch for about a week. Surgery wasn't even mentioned, and my eye healed fine. If I was in your shoes, I would go the non-surgical route.

All you have to do is mention the olives thread and i start laughing...

I'll be watching this thread also! My Sasha has terrible teeth, but won't let me brush. She's not mean about it, and does stand reasonably still, but man can she toss her head around! Then there is the tongue action---that tongue can go in and out faster than a snake's can! I'm lucky I can keep the brush in her mouth, let alone in contact with her teeth!

Welcome from Sasha, Penny and Julio in Delaware!

I swear by Grizzly, although I only use it in the winter, when my hot air heat dries out the hounds' coats and skin. I also use less than what is recommended, and only once/day.

I also keep it on my front step/porch. The concrete is always cool. The front of my house faces north and the sun never reaches it.

My first grey at ea vanilla candle, a package of clown Halloween make-up, and a foil sample packet of herb-scented shampoo. BTW, the farts resulting from eating a vanilla candle are NOT vanilla scented.

I ask St. Francis every day to keep an eye on him.

Dollar store ladle and dollar store containers.

I looked for, and found, a yak milk chew in my local pet supply store. The large one, the size I would get for my 3, was $15.99. Soooo not in my budget! I will check out the Dover Petsmart the next time I'm up there...

Greyhound Friends NJ has a couple of seniors.

I use dollar store containers and a dollar store ladle. I always decorate the lids with hearts and flowers with a perm. marker, and sign the container "With love from" whichever dog has supplied the sample. I figure whoever has the job of checking dog pee that day could use a chuckle.

All three of mine eat bunny poop, cat poop when available, and dear, sweet Penny will eat her own. We wear poop guards on our muzzles when we go out. We also don't "do" kisses in this house!