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Yeah, squeezin' that sucker is a bit tricky. I semi-sacrificed a dose by just squeezing out some into her outer ear canal, so I could get an idea of how hard/long to press in order to get a healthy application when the nozzle was buried deeply into her ear canal. Penny has had ear infections before, for which the vet gave me an anti-fungal med and wash, but, since there was an ulcer this time he gave me the dual-purpose one.

Are his throat glands swollen, preventing a smooth swallow?

My Penny just got over one. It was located right where the ear canal makes its angled turn. I took her in for an ear infection and the vet discovered it after he flushed her ear. I flushed her ears with Pharmaseb flush once/day, and dosed with Postatex otic suspension after. The ear infection cleared up before the ulcer, but eventually (2 weeks?) the ulcer cleared also.

Welcome from Delaware! Emmie sounds like a real doll!

My second grey, lo these many moons ago, had only 3 toes on one rear foot. Since there was no scaring or malformation of the foot, I believed it to be congenital. He did just fine, but freaked out many a groomer when they got to that foot to trim nails!

Search out Therapy Dogs, Incorporated. They are more interested in how well a dog behaves and how well he/she interacts with people. No formal "obedience" is required for their certification. This way, you can work on the sit command, or not, as you see fit.

Welcome From Delaware!

Breeze is lovely! Welcome from Delaware!

Please tell your daughter she has friends she doesn't even know sending sympathy and wishes of peace to her and her son.

Welcome from the right coast!

I have had 3 thyroid dogs in the past, and have one now. I give the meds at breakfast and dinner, whenever they happen to be. No one has ever had a problem. Breakfast is usually sometime between 7:30 and 8:30, and dinner is usually between 5 and 6. Although the bottle says every 12 hours, none of my vets has ever told me I had to adhere to the 12 hour span. Actually, none has ever even asked about it!. Thyroids are tested yearly, unless I suspect something needs adjusting, in which case we test earlier.

Hello from Sasha, Penny and Julio in slower, lower Delaware!

This happened to one of my bridge boys, maybe ten years ago. He had his yearly check for blood donation, after having donated for the previous year, and came up positive. I took him to my vet at the time, who said not to treat, since he was never symptomatic. He never did develop any symptoms, but was unable to donate anymore. He was a Kansas boy, who came to me by way of Florida.

My first boy was afraid of balloons. He was positive they would bite him. He was also afraid of anyone carrying a box or bundle in front of their body. Down at your side was fine, but up in front sent him running to another room.

I crate one of my girls at night and when I leave. She is not reliably housebroken. My other two get into so much mischief that they wear muzzles when I'm gone.

Greetings from the other coast! How about Soleil? Or Stella, for stars?

Welcome from slower lower Delaware!

Hooray for you! He's a handsome one for sure!

Olives were what I thought of, also. Ah, how i enjoyed that thread!

I go to Haven Lake Animal Hospital, here in Milford. I think it would be a bit of a trip for you, grey8greys! There are 5 vets in the practice, and i use 3 of the 5. All 3 of my dogs also had bloodwork done, but that was at their annual check-ups a couple of weeks ago, so that obviously wasn't included in the price.

My 3 just had dentals this morning. $135 for the dental and anesthesia each, $30 more for an iv catheter each, and I get 10% senior discount. Meds are extra, if needed.

I too, live alone. My three just had dentals this morning, and I picked them all up and brought 'em home about an hour ago. They are all conked out now, awaiting a mushy dinner. They are all 4 years old. The vet called me about 10:30 to say they were done, but I wasn't allowed to pick them up until after 2, so, I believe, if anything untowards were to happen, they would still be at the vets'.

All 3 of mine wear poop guards. One of my girls will eat any poop, and all 3 will eat rabbit and cat poop when they appear in the yard. As a matter of fact, just this morning Penny pooped in my bedroom while I was in the shower, and was savoring it as I got out. She's free to a good home, if anyone is interested... (Truth in advertising forces me to add that she isn't reliably housebroken. I can usually pick up on her cues and get her out, but since she had pooped in the yard 2 hours earlier, I wasn't looking for cues.)

I I was told that the cat testing that had been done at the track consisted of cats-in-a-cage. As you have discovered, that did not faze Brooks much at all, so he was deemed to be cat safe, or at least cat-correctable. Well, they didn't tell him about my Cheeto, who is very confident. Brooks, muzzled and leashed, met Cheeto on my porch. When he lunged, Cheeto dove under a wicker chair, which Brooks overturned, then pushed the chair into an end table. My porch has floor to ceiling screens. Next thing I knew, Cheeto was hanging by his nails as high up as he could climb! After that, the cats lived in the spare room until I could swap Brooks for a really cat safe girl. The big boys are my favorite, and I really liked him, but... Of all the dogs I have fostered over the years, he is only the second who was labeled cat safe and who really wasn't. Oh well, he is still a good boy. Enjoy him!

Hi from Milford! I actually fostered Bastone for a couple of days---he was unable to stay with me because he wasn't cat safe after all. He is one gorgeous hunk of greyhound, tho!