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    Leg Shaking/ No Support

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    Yesterday after work I took Bella outside for a pee and about 2 minutes into walking around the yard, her back legs started to shake pretty bad, and she started to sort of sit, almost like falling down. I quickly lifted her onto the steps of our patio and back into the house, the moment she walked in she was fine...trotted perfectly to her bed. I'm thinking perhaps it was due to the cold? It was about -12 degrees here in Ontario, but she was wearing a double fleece layer coat. Ideas/ thoughts? She's perfectly fine now, and did her business outside this morning with no issues.

    Nine Ball Hector

    in Remembrance

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    Hector, I remember seeing your photo of you wearing your red coat, standing in the snow. You were absoulutly stunning!! You sure will turn heads at the rainbow bridge!

     

    Jen, I'm very sorry to hear. Smile that you were able to capture him so wonderfully...he will never be forgotten :)

    Let Me Show You Why They Give Us Those Muzzles

    in Training and Behavior discussion

    Posted · Edited by Yamaha_gurl

    Dogs like wolves are pack animals. The survival of the pack depends on the health of the pack, if you have a weak "link" (an injured or sick member) so to so to speak, for the pack to survive they have to rid themselves of the weak link. That's basically what "pack mentality" is.

     

    With a group of dogs, sometimes all it takes is for one of the group to "scream" and the others will turn on it and each other. For instance, you have a group of greyhounds at a play date, one of the hounds steps wrong, hurts it's leg, screams and the others will go after it. It's instinctual. If you've ever seen this happen, you will never forget it.

     

    I had it happen twice in my home. My pack went after Saint when he had a seizure. They immediately turned on him and since we were in the house, they weren't muzzled. I put myself between Saint and the pack and the only thing that kept them from getting to him was me. I'm very lucky because my pack listens to me and when I started yelling at them and pushing them back they listened, and don't kid yourself, size doesn't matter because the only dog in the house that had any success at getting passed me was Jilly Bean and she found herself tossed off to the side. My pack was deadly serious and it wasn't until after Saint quit seizing and things calmed down did the pictures come back one at a time as to how things looked and it was scary!

     

    This is the reason you see greyhounds in a turn out pen at a track with muzzles. It's for the safety of the hounds and the people caring for them.

     

    Thank you very much for the info! I take Bella to a weekly dog "playdate" at the enclosed diamond. There's only about 6 of us tops, but I will mention to them that if this were to happen, then everyone hold back their own dog...does that sound like the proper thing to do?

     

    Edit: Just wanted to mention that we do muzzle.

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