Anne

I'm so sorry to hear this, my sincerest condolences to his wife and family.

And with fall coming up, buy a pumpkin or two and cook it and freeze the pumpkin for use for the pups during the year!

I am so very sorry for your loss Glenn.

I agree with those who say not necessarily. I have found a single flea on one of my dogs on 2 or 3 occasions out here. And I don't treat routinely because my dogs don't get, haven't had and hopefully won't ever have fleas. Out here there are fleas we call "stick fleas" and they are bigger than your average flea and they don't flee and vanish into the dogs fur when you see them and are easy to pick off the dog. My vet says they are the 'body builders of fleas,' and they can be gotten from a dog sticking his head into a bunch of weeds or leaves of trees. Don't know the what, when or why of these fleas, but they don't usually mean you have an infestation.

My greyhounds have never had another DHLPP or anything like that since I adopted them. They did all get one last rabies shot when we moved here 5 years ago. My poodle got the routine puppy shots (I've had him since he was 12 weeks old) and then the 2 year booster and has never had anything else except that rabies shot 5 years ago. And my dogs will never get another shot. I did titers once about 7 years ago and they were great. I won't be doing titers again either. edited cause I can't spell!

I'm not sure what you are paying for his drugs, but prozac is 10$ for 3 months worth at Wallmart and out here in several of the grocery store drug counters as well. Just an FYI.

Generally speaking, most bones that were broken and now healed are a bit stronger than they were to start with. At least that was the thought of the day back in the old days when I went to nursing school!! (you know, back when dirt was new and dinosaurs walked the earth!!) And the biggest issue may be the possibility of arthritic problems as the dogs ages.

One of my dogs is on 0.5 synthroid. One of my other dogs got the bottle and ate probably 10 of them, she was fine. Dogs can do the darnedest things!

My Lulu was on prozac for a couple of months, and it did help, a lot! She developed bloody diarrhea and so I took her off of it, though I am not convinced it was the prozac. It took about 3 weeks to see a difference. Prozac is known to curb the appetite in humans, no upset of the tummy, just less appetite. Some docs have used it for a diet pill due to that side effect. Lulu has horrible HORRIBLE separation anxiety and I drug her with Benedryl, but I'm rarely gone more than 4 hours. If I had to be gone for more than that, I would have to use ACE. When her anxiety gets really bad, her IBD kicks in and she'll have horrible bloody diarrhea, so I do what I can to avoid that. Good luck!

I'm so very sorry, Ryan was such a special boy in so many ways. My heart hurts for you and I will keep you both in my thoughts and prayers. Godspeed Ryan.

Awe, poor houndie, hope it all comes through without a problem. I will second the muzzle thing. I have two that would probably eat the house up, so they get muzzled, and both of them have stool guards on their muzzles. I don't muzzle the poodle and my blind hound doesn't get muzzled either, he's not destructive at all. If a muzzle isn't an option, then you might have to crate her or use an ex-pen to keep her contained and safe and your house safe as well. Though the things in the house are replaceable. (goodness knows I've replaced couches and tables and such many times!) Good luck!

I looked at your pics (while I was eating my dinner no less! I have a cast iron stomach for the most part!) and I gotta tell you that's like nothing I've ever seen come out of a dog or a person before, not without them eating something goofy. (kids do that, dogs do that) Looks like no kind of worm (dead, alive or egg of worm) I've ever seen. Did you take a knife and open those things and try to see what was inside of them? I've had a foster hound puke up tons of plastic, I've had a great dane poop a sock, I've seen my poodle poop out rice that wasn't cooked and lots of other interesting stuff, but nothing ever looked like that! I hope someone else see's something I'm not seeing!!

Can you post the pics? And honestly, I'd be more than a little upset if my dog pooped something odd or unusual and unidentifiable and my vet refused to even look at it. I'd not have liked that at all.

Kao-pec is an anti diarrhea and should work just fine. The other thing with Pepto, it tends to make the stools black so you don't know if the dog (or human) is bleeding or if it's the pepto. I don't like it for humans and won't give it to dogs either. The Kao-pec was probably less than 20$ at the feed store, great stuff, a little messy to give, but works well.

I had a pup once with horrible diarrhea. It took about 5 stool samples for the coccidia and the giardia to show up. It must be an absolutely fresh sample and best if looked at within 5-10 minutes of exiting the dog. I have a dog with frequent bloody stools, but it's stress and anxiety and she'll have pure blood coming out of her if she's not drugged when I leave or when she's stressed. I use a lot of benedryl. I thought that pepto-bismol shouldn't be used in dogs because it contains subsalicylate and that can cause bleeding? Subsalicylate is related to asprin, which causes bleeding in some people and pets. I have kao-pec (a gallon!!) from the feed store that I use, it's got kaolin and pectin in it, no subsalicylates. ???????? edited cause I can't speeel.

I've used frontline and advantage, but I only use it if I have to and for the first time in like 12 years, I saw a flea last week and so everyone got treated. No problems with it, the line down their backs goes away quickly. I never saw fleas on the dogs, but when one jumps on me, I treat!

Just an FYI, when I had to make my dog vomit, I used peroxide and that took care of what she ate (Advil) but the downside was that she woke me up at 4am vomiting blood. So anytime I give peroxide for vomiting, I now give a prilosec otc about an hour later. That's what the vet had me give my dog when she was vomiting blood and it worked like a charm, all was well 2 days later when we left Ohio to move 2200 miles to Arizona! I gave one tab a day for 2 weeks since she'd actually been bleeding and since she was being stressed by the move. So you might want to give something for the tummy, peroxide is very hard on the tummy.

Same type injury to several of my hounds, I put on a tee shirt, tied it (the bottom hem) around their tuck. Worked like a charm!

Have you tried the washable pads? You can get them on Ebay really cheap. They don't crinkle when they walk on them. Cali had lots of troubles with holding her pee the last 3 years. I tried the disposable pads and she'd rip them up. But the cloth ones were not a problem and she'd pee on them without fail! I still use them if I'm going to be gone a long time, I have 4 seniors and they use them too if they have to do so.

My Frasier had VD (vestibular disease) and my Lynch has had 2 bad episodes and one not so bad episode. When Lynch had his really bad episode this last time, he could barely stand, I had to hold this 90 pound hound up when he needed to go pee. He walked like a drunken sailor for quite a few days - probably 15 or so. And as he was recovering (a little better each day) he wasn't going to the same spot in the yard to pee or poop, it was like he'd never seen our yard before (been here about 5 years and he's been with me the entire time.) The last episode was the worse one and it honestly took about 6 months for him to come back 90% He's not 100% and never will be, but he has a very good live with just a little residual balance issue occasionally. And now he pees and poops in the very same place every time, right back where he used to. Frasier only had one episode adn then the next thing he had a seizure and lived his last few years out as a seizure dog without any further VD episodes. I'm still not totally convinced his first episode wasn't a seizure, but the vet said VD. Most dogs get over vestibular disease (something seems wrong about shortening it to Vd!!!) fairly quickly. I had a friend whose dog was down for about 2 days (carried her out to potty and finally gave up and for 2 days she peed in her dog bed) and then rapidly improved so it was pretty much over after about 5 or 7 days. So the episodes can vary. I think many dogs here have had this issue as well as strokes and some dogs recover quickly from strokes as well. Good luck and I hope Puffer improves quickly and is home in a jiffy.

My dogs who are very well fed cannot pass up bird seed! I have a conure and they tend to throw the seed out of the cage, so my dog all act like vacuum cleaners and snarf it up. It does make for interesting poop. I would guess they eat the seed that falls on the ground out side too, but I've never seen it!

Yup, had a foster pup do almost the same thing! And isn't it amazing that the plastic is whole and not eaten up by the stomach acids.... the same acids that will make a bone into powder and food into poo!

I'm so very sorry for the loss of your two sweet babies.

It's good to remember the ones who have left. I remember Iberia, but it sure doesn't seem possible that it's been 7 years. I'm sure he'll be smiling tomorrow when you graduate, and cheering for you as well.

That works for many hounds. I had adopted a hound to a wonderful family. That hound destroyed several crates, plastic and wire. He tore all the curtains in the house down. He chewed up most of the window sills in the home, he ruined wooden floors, doors, beds (human), covers, blankets, about 20 dog beds, the he chewed the kitchen counters and so forth. He made a ton of noise, but thankfully these folks were in their own home and all their neighbors worked. He ruined their carpet with peeing on it and pooping on it. They never saw him misbehave when they were home. We worked with them for months to help resolve this destructive behavior. Their vet (and mine at the time) examined the dog and tested the dog and tried drugging the dog. No good. Then the dog decided he couldn't eat, and began to drop pounds. This dog had been my foster and he never once showed behavior like this in my home and I did leave him to do errands and such. The head of the adoption agency and I tried and tried to get these folks to consider another dog. And finally when it was either the dogs life or trying to put another greyhound in the home, they took a foster for a weekend. BINGO, the two dogs bonded within minutes of seeing each other and the destructive behavior ended, the dog started eating and all was good. This dog was happy with a buddy. They adopted the dog that they fostered and their problems ended. It cost them thousands of dollars to fix their home to fix all the damage this dog did. But I applaud them, they fixed their home and never blamed the dog. So yeah, there are dogs with severe separation anxiety and for some of them, the only answer is another dog so that they never have to be alone. Good luck with your search for another hound, I hope it works for you as well as it worked for my adopters. I have a gal who is with 3 other dogs and if I don't drug her she will, within hours of being left at home, begin to poop bloody poop. If I drug her, no problems. She and I have been to many vets and talked to many behaviorists and gone the gammet too, for her, drugs are the only answer.