Pippin

*sob* I rarely browse the remembrance thread, so I'm just now seeing this. Jabari is/was one of my faves. I had forgotten about him getting loose until I read your tribute. I know your pain about having to say goodbye without being there -- I had to make that same decision with my Angie-girl. It took me probably five years to stop feeling guilty about not being there for her. My heart aches for you, but I know that Riley & Jabari are having fun at hte bridge. I pray they visit your dreams and remind you how very much they love you.

Jessie, my lovable nuisance, had kidney failure. I can't tell you about her last week, because I was on a business trip. But for us, it went like this... Aug 7, I dropped her off at Doc's for a routine dental. Doc called me around 10am and said we weren't doing a dental, cause her kidney values were poor. Jessie had been on enalapril and prednisone since before I'd gotten her 2 years earlier. Some kind of liver problem - hepatitis, I think? It's been 8+ years ago now, so I don't remember. Anyway, Doc said we'll put her on this kidney food, and check her again in a month. I was on the road most of that month, and I had 2 dreams about Jessie -- in one, she was lost and Angie, Casey & I were walking country roads/small town streets looking for her. It was dusk, cloudy, and a storm clearly on the way, so I was worried for her. We found her standing next to a hedge on the side of the road, staring through a hole in it to the view beyond. When I looked to see what she was looking at, the other side of the hedge was sunshine and blue skies, green grass as far as you could see... To this day, I"m convinced she was looking at the other side of the rainbow bridge. The next dream was a week or so later, after I was back on the road. This time, Jessie wasn't in the house, and we weren't worried about her, like we had been the first time. We didn't need to go looking for her. (dang, 6 years later this memory still brings tears). A week later, she was due for her blood re-check. Dee took her in, cause I was still on the road, but was heading home that day (driving home from TX). Doc called me about 530 that night, when I was in central MS. I pulled off the road so we could talk, and she told me that Jessie's numbers had gotten worse, not better. I asked her what was the next step, and her reply was that kidney failure is a very painful way to go, and the kindest thing to do was to let my lovable nuisance go before she was constantly suffering. Also, I was scheduled to be traveling for most of the next 6 weeks, and Doc couldn't give me any kind of reliable time-frame. I asked Doc "what would you do if she was your dog?" and Doc said "I'd let her go." This was Thurs night. She had an appt available Sat afternoon, so we scheduled that. Sat a.m. I took Jessie out to breakfast with me, to a local restaurant that had an outdoor patio with dogs allowed. Some strangers at a nearby table gave her their leftover bacon, which she gobbled up. A couple hours later, she threw up the undigested bacon on my livingroom floor. I had been second-guessing myself on my decision, but that showed me I was actually making the right choice. What does your heart tell you, Ducky? What do Harold's eyes tell you? I wish I lived closer and could give you a hug.

thanks! Just had to ask

I was looking for more of a time-frame, but thanks for not saying "the period of time between night and afternoon" F'r instance, I'm typically online around 6-7am, then off for a bit, then back on. Do you have any idea when you'll be doing this update/reboot?

define "morning" ?

First, I am SO sorry this happened to you and your boy. And I just sent my vet an email telling her how much I appreciate her and all the staff in her practice. Hang in there!

My dogs get Purina One Healthy Weight, or something like that. It's $30 for 34lbs at my PetSmart, and one big bag lasts me 2 weeks for my 2 greys. We used to do sensitive stomach, until I bought the wrong bag one time by mistake,a nd they scarfed it up

I totally remember his story.... run free to good health, little lion dog... send some rainbows back this way to comfort all your friends.

What she said, not that I'll be awake at that time

Some of the early message boards (EZBoard comes to mind) used to base it on characters rather than display. For them to switch to that is a HUGE step backwards. If they don't change it, I guess we can add information about tinyurl.com into the sig guidelines?

Unless you have personal experience, I don't see how you can comment. I have 15 years experience with alternative medicine, and chiropractic & acupuncture work. They cannot cure cancer, there are limitations and many times you need to work with western medicine. It's interesting to see conventional medicine vets turn the corner when they see the results. Like other veterinarians, there are good & bad alternative vets. Understanding that the plural of anecdote is not data, I have to agree with Burpdog. My Casey-girl was diagnosed with LS in Jan 2009. It was excruciating for her to stand up/lie down, to the point of GSOD from a normally totally stoic greyhound. We started regular chiropractic treatments *against* the opinion of the ortho-vet who said back surgery was the only potential solution, and within 2 months my 9yr old dog was doing zoomies in the backyard like a 2yr old, showing more energy and enthusiasm than I'd ever seen with her. This past spring, her LS flared up to where regular chiro is no longer sufficient, and we've started seeing a rehab vet in Marietta who does acupuncture. She gave me some exercises to do with Casey at home, but I suck and forget to do them. Even without the exercises, with just 3 acupuncture treatments in a 6-week period and weekly chiropractic, she's back to doing zoomies in the yard. We're off all meds unless she has a flare up. At this point, it's been over 2 weeks since I"ve had to give her pain meds. As to expense? The canine chiropractor we saw charges $45/visit. The acupuncturist is doing some cold laser with the acupuncture, and that's $75/visit. If it was just acupuncture, it'd be closer to $60, IIRC. The first visit included an extensive exam, and we spent almost 2 hours in her office - that one was still less than $200. These don't seem like extremely expensive options to me, and I'm budget-conscious. Again with anecdotes, but a friend of mine used to show cardigan welsh corgis. He had a champion corgi who could no longer walk, and thought he was going to have to say goodbye. He took Bear to an acupuncturist, and the dog walked out of the clinic after his first treatment. They had several more years together, thanks to regular acupuncture.

Thanks! I was starting to feel stupid, when you'd say it was there, and I wasn't seeing it...

The Majestic Pippin came home with me from Jacksonville on Thursday, Nov 11 2007. That Saturday, he joined me and Dee at an adoption fest outside a Tractor Supply Store in rural Georgia. We were next to the miniature horses, as I recall. He adapted to the X-Pen with no issues, but what really made me smile was when I had him out of the pen, on his leash. A family came up with a toddler who was barely as tall as my boy. Pip measures 31" at the shoulder, and raced at 81lbs, IIRC. This little boy put his hands on Pip's back to pet him, his eyes barely able to see over the top of Pip's spine. And my gentle giant stood there calmly, as he's done with every child and toddler since. Those who've met him will tell you that he can be a rambunctious hound, full of zest and enthusiasm and energy, and maybe should have been named Tigger just from his bounciness. But you get him around a young child, and he stands like a living statue, letting them experience his awesomeness without giving any signs of impatience.

OK... remember, I cleared my cache yesterday. When I click "more reply options" this is what I see. Maybe I'm blind, but I'm not seeing any options for attaching pics. Is it because I'm in this forum? (must be, becasue I just checked, and I see it in the off-topic forum) Why are we not allowed to attach in here? I wanted to attach a pic yesterday to help the person who wasn't seeing the icons on the reply screen.

Don't see that in full editor. There's NOTHING in the lower left. ONly buttons I have below the full reply window are "add reply" "preview post" or cancel. Is it set so only mods can attach, or something?

Jeff, using a desktop/Firefox, the images link in the reply window only has an option for URL, not for attaching. Clicking My Media only shows me what I already have loaded. Are supporters still able to attach images to posts? Ick. Spiders. Jay, I really didn't need to see that.

OK, I don't use an iPad or a smart phone, but on my desktop PC when I'm typing a reply I see everything above the reply box (but not until I begin the reply). I grabbed a screen pic to show you, but can't figure out how to do attachments here. BRB

Right under the thread name, it says "Started by xxxx on xxxx"

He has always done that... in your post, you used the letter b and a parenthesis ) Put those together, and you get sunglass-smirky dude. Doesn't matter if you use upper or lower case, it's what you get. Seems that it converts the lower-case b to an upper-case B no matter what, too. So, anytime someone types whether upper or lower case, they get

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Wish there was some way we could help

THAT'S the kind of thing it's handy to know ahead of time. *sigh* Shoulda been a big point in the "things we'll tell you before you upgrade" info from them. Did they *have* a "things we'll tell you before you upgrade," or were you supposed to haunt the forums in all that non-existent spare tiime of yours?

above the reply box when you're replying to a post. Where you see the font options and such, I see a smiley face and when I click on it, it gives me the emoties

I ran into that with my FIRST post after the update (back on page 3 of this thread, I think). Hit "refresh" and then it all worked as it's supposed to.