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    Owners Of Poop Eaters

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    Go ahead and feed her. She just got a bad turd that didn't agree with her stomach. Poo vomit is one of the most vile odors on earth. Seriously :puke

     

    WAIT!!!!!!!!!! There's good-eating turds?????? :lol:eek

     

    apparently...b/c some don't 'em vomit ;):lol We've had some masterful poo eaters in our pack over the years. Our old guy Grandpa, toothless as he was, never met a yard brownie he didn't want to eat. When he got older and had laryngeal paralysis we absolutely couldn't muzzle him. I remember once yelling: "Grandpa! Quit eating sh*t and get your fuzzy old @$$ back inside!" I realized if our neighbors were within earshot they must have had a :blink: moment :lol

    Yup, I'd have loved to see your neighbors faces if they heard that one Heather! I am often very happy that the house next to me is empty as I tell my girls to 'walk away from the poop' and come into the house! Or that they don't see me racing down the ramp to 'intervene' in the poop eating behaviour!

    Of all the behaviours of all the dogs in all the world, the poop eating is the one I wish someone would come up with a cure for!

    Owners Of Poop Eaters

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    yeah, I'd feed, but I'd add rice to her food to help make her poo more normal. AND I'd buy that one a nice stool cup to go on her muzzle. I have 2 poop eaters and they do not go into the yard without their muzzles and stool cups on them unless I am RIGHT next to them. It only takes a blink of an eye to snarf up a turd. I so wish dogs wouldn't do this.

    Gryffin's Having A Bad Day

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    When my Phantom had osteo, I gave him enough pain meds to make him comfy. Towards the end I gave more than the "max" novox dose and more than the "max" tramadol as well. I wasn't worried about labs or anything but pain relief. He did better with more meds. But it was only about 5 weeks from first limp until the end.

    I'm so very sorry you have to go through this, it's hard, very hard.

    My Sweet And Wonderful Cali

    in Remembrance

    Posted

    Katsu Lady aka Miss Cali Lou

    January 17, 1995 – January 29, 2010

    Cali was indeed a Lady, and looked like a girl, you never called her a him. She came to me when she was 6 and I fostered her for a few days before I officially adopted her. She was my Alpha girl until her death. She ruled the house with an iron paw, often being the play police. She loved people, all people, kids, adults, didn’t matter to her. She was my greyhound smiler, she’d pull her lips back and give the biggest grins!

    Her back legs began to get weak a few years ago, but she kept right on running and playing. As time passed, they would occasionally collapse on her but she’d persist and get right back up and keep on going. But in the last few months it was becoming more and more obvious that her back legs just weren’t working very well anymore. Even the ramp was giving her fits. And in the last few days she was having a lot of trouble getting up and staying up.

    Today we stopped at Mickey D’s on the way to the vet and she ate two cheeseburgers and an order of fries. Then to the vet. She left softly and quietly in the most peaceful way with me telling her what a wonderful girl she was and how much I’d miss her and how very much I loved her. She was in the back of my SUV with the warm sun on her precious face. I miss her so much already. I was so lucky to have this girl in my life.

    It was one year ago yesterday that my Phantom left this earth. I’m sure that he was there to greet Miss Cali when she arrived at the bridge.

    Alternatives To Rimadyl, Deramaxx & Previcox

    in Health and Medical discussion

    Posted

    My 15 year old Cali has been on generic rimadyl (it's called Novox) for 2 years now with no problems at all. I paid 100$ for a bottle of 180 caps of 100 mg strength. I broke the tab into the dose that she needed so that I got way more than 180 doses out of it. Got mine at FosterSmith as well.

    My vet has no problem giving me scripts, nor did my vet in Ohio. If a vet doesn't understand that I cannot afford big bucks on a monthly basis, then I would change vets.

    Heart Gard Unflavored- Discontinued Till 2012

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    The greyhound kennels have been using the ivermectin for years as have many of my friends who have greyhounds and other dogs! A vial of ivermectin will last you for YEARS and costs about 50$. Most folks put the dose on a piece of bread, top with peanut butter and down the hatch it goes!

    I bought my ivermectin at the local feed store, it was 25$ and with all my dogs, it lasts for about 4 years, store in the fridge.

    You can also dose them monthly with pyrantel to get the same stuff that heartgard has in it! AND a whole lot cheaper!

    Colder Temps And Greyhounds

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    In the winter the temp in my house is between 60 and 70 at night and during the day it's usually up to 75, but I don't use heat during the day because it just naturally gets up to 70-75 and occasionally 80 here in Az. In the summer I keep the temp about 75-80ish or 85ish. My hounds adjust well to all those temps!

    Weird

    in Health and Medical discussion

    Posted

    My old gal Cali had this 'toenail' that appeared to be embedded into the pad of her foot. Now while Cali is terrified of a dremel or the toenail clippers, her nails were not that bad, they just weren't even close! I pulled on it and it did not come out and yet she seemed to have no pain at all. Talked to my groomer the next day and went to look at it while I was on the phone... it wasn't there, there was NO hole in any of her foot pads. Did some more research and found out that dogs can get 'horny growths' and that they can resemble toenails. Several weeks later, there was another growth out of one of her pads, looked just like a toenail again, and again it disapeared quickly. Then she got one on her forehead and I called her my little unicorn. That one disapeared quickly too and it too looked like a toenail or a horn growing out of her forehead.

    Sooooo, I suspect that perhaps this might be what you found.

    Should We Adopt This Dog?

    in Health and Medical discussion

    Posted

    I agree with everything said here. I adopted a boy with horrible teeth, he was about 5. He'd been in and out of a number of homes. I tried for over 6 months to save his teeth, brushed 2 or 3 times a day etc and so forth.... didn't work. He lost 26 teeth his first dental. Took him about a day to recover. I fed my dogs raw back then and I did have to grind his bones, but it never made a difference in him except for the better. Bad teeth can really cause problems. Was very easy to keep what few teeth he had left clean and in good shape! And the pictures I have of him laying around the house with his tongue hanging out are too cute! Oh, and when I had to go back to feeding kibble, he did fine with it as long as it was small nuggets, I never had to soak it or give him special canned food because of his teeth.

    I have had no experience with corns, so can't help you with that one. Best of luck!

    Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Symptoms

    in Health and Medical discussion

    Posted

    Those are some scary symptoms! But how typical is it of a GH parent to worry about the pups as they are passing out :P

     

    I'm lucky, I have a built in CO detector . . . my finch. He is so sensitive to fumes, etc, that if he falls over dead I know the rest of us might be in trouble . . . .

    I believe miners used to take canaries into the mines with them and that they were safe as long as the bird was alive, but if it died, it was time to evacuate the mine.

     

    Hope the OP is feeling better soonest. :)

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