Banjoman
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" We hope you had a good enough life with us."
It sounds like she had a perfect life with you!
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If she has already lived in a home and a foster home you might be lucky and find she makes the transition to living with you an easy job! She will just have to get used to your routine (or you get used to hers) and hopefully the pair of you will share many happy years together.
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You did the best that you could to look after him and in the end you did the right thing for Buck, now do the right thing for yourself and start to fill the hole in your heart by looking for the next houndie who needs you.
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With looks like that who could not love her!
Thinking of you,
Carol, Chancey & Nutmeg.
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I found moving to the side of the path and using the "Stand" and "Leave it" commands, while placing myself between Chancey and the object of her interest, to work better than to carry on walking. As she wears a muzzle it is difficult to stuff treats into her mouth to distract her! When we are moving she can leap or twist round and either pull me off balance or get her legs entwined with mine and trip me up. When we are standing still it gives me a firm base and I have my hand right tight up against her neck, holding her martingale collar closed, then, even if she tries to leap straight up into the air i can control the movement much easier.
Now she is pretty good most of the time but a running dog can still trigger her excitement. It has taken three and a half years to get to this stage. I read somewhere that it can take 18 months for a dog to calm down from the track and 2 years for a bitch - Chancey would seem to bear that out.
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There are a couple of firms that make the trays of meat, Forthglade is one & I think Nature's Menu is the other, there may be others but those are the two stocked by my petshop. Nature's Menu contain more vegetables i've found while the Forthglade are mostly meat. Just checked, they do different types now, I stick with the "Just ....." which are all meat, if I want to add vegetables I use home cooked. NM also do frozen nuggets of food which are good for a change too, if you have room in your freezer.
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Even after three and a half years Chancey still has loose stools.
I was unable to get the kibble that she arrived with and transitioned her slowly (over more than a week) to the one that gives money to the RGT. I was told by the kennels to soak the kibble in warm water, which I did. She still did huge, loose stools so I eventually tried the Burns Fish and Brown Rice. Like John I mix a quarter of a packet of Forthglade or sometimes tinned food like Chappie or a supermarket own brand in with the kibble to vary the flavour and content and now I find if I just put a little warm water over it her first poops are reasonably solid but the ones later in the day are invariably looser, which seems to be standard for greyhounds according to other owners on this board. She invariably goes to have a drink when I am getting the meals ready (2 meals a day) so I know she has plenty of fluids even though the food is fairly dry.
Treats tend to upset her innards too so they are only given when I have to leave the dogs at home in their cages.
Worms do make a difference and I find I have to worm her regularly.
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She fought to be with you as long as she could, just as you fought to keep her well. She came to you to say goodbye knowing that you loved her and showing her love for you, hold that in your heart.
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You may just have to watch and see how your new houndie's innards are on the food she comes with. Right from the start Chancey produced enormous soft to sloppy poops. After I finished the bag of food that came with her I had to transition her to something else as I couldn't find that one. She still produced huge piles of poop, each one getting looser as the day wore on. Eventually I moved her to a more expensive fish and brown rice dried food adding a quarter of a packet of cooked dog food mixed in to vary the flavour. I finally realised that if I poured just a little warm water on the kibble rather than soak it as the kennel had told me, then things firmed up quite a lot. Poops still get softer as the day goes on but they are smaller and more 'pick up able' than they were.
Now my lurcher is the other way, I have to feed her with the kibble slopping around in water otherwise she becomes a 'walking pooper' trying to go to the toilet but without much success. They both have a quarter of a packet/tin of cooked dog food mixed in with the kibble with veggies thrown in if i have some left overs or peelings.
I am home all day so mine get lunch at 1.00.p.m. and supper at 9.00.p.m. Many years ago I decided that as I take my dogs for their long walk in the morning I would rather they were hungry and want to come home with me and not chase anything if they were off lead in the forest.
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I thought it was mainly dogs that did that but my fairly dominant lurcher bitch quite often does it. She lifts her leg to do a wee too.
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Sorry, I tried to soften it with the last sentence, having made that decision several times with older dogs. We just have to grit our teeth and accept that we are the ones that take on the responsibility for our animals' health and comfort in life and death and we at least have the ability to make the end of their lives as comfortable and peaceful as we can. As far as I am concerned if my dog is telling me it has had enough then I have left it too late, I would rather it left this world on a good, happy day than one in which it has struggled either mentally or physically.
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All I can say is:- "Would you be happy lying in your own poop?"
No?
Then there is your answer.
We all question whether or not we are making the decision too early but as far as I am concerned early is better than too late.
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One of my whippets used to go on hikes with the scouts. The boys made it part of the hike to count how many times he lifted his leg. I think the best one was 27 times on the way out, then they stopped and had a picnic and Rolo had a drink too then he did the about the same number on the way home.
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You made the right, loving decision for your girl and no hound can ask more from the owner she loved.
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Hi John, hope Peggy recovers soon.
Whenever my dogs ( mostly whippets) have had stomach upsets I've boiled rice and given them that first, sometimes just encouraging them to drink the water first, then white fish and rice boiled together. The packs of frozen pet food fish are good for that. Scrambled eggs come next then small portions of their normal food.
Obviously if your vet says use their GI food at the moment then that's what you do.
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Make sure you NEVER leave fruit cake out on a work surface or table, same goes for dried fruits, grapes, chocolate or any human medication. My whippet kindly shared a small Christmas cake with my Japanese Chin one Christmas Eve and both were hospitalised for 24 hours. He also stole my blood pressure tablets out of their tinfoil packaging - it cost about £100 just for the injection to make him vomit them up!!!
You have been warned!
On a funnier note, many years ago I walked into the house after walking our whippets, took the lead off one and before we knew what was happening he launched himself across the room and stole my daughter's corned beef sandwich right off her plate from where she was sitting on the settee.
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I live in the UK and over here it is a legal requirement to have your dog microchipped (something you might consider) and wearing a collar with identification of owner when out in a public place, consequently mine wear a tag collar 24 hrs a day just incase they should ever escape from the house or garden.
I was taught many years ago that a harness just gives your dog more strength to pull into (think of draught horses) so for my greyhound with a smaller head than neck I use a martingale collar. This was really useful for the first couple of years when she would leap 6 feet up into the air when she saw another breed of dog when walking out in the forest. With practice and experience I would have my hand tight on the loop of the collar right behind her ear and she would be leaping up right beside me and couldn't pull away, when I had it looser she would do a back flip and I always worried that she would hurt herself.
As for toys, you could have a 'killer', in which case beware that it might eat the stuffing from a soft toy it has disembowelled or one that loves to cuddle up with a favourite stuffy.
Whatever you get it will take time to adjust on both your parts so be prepared for things to happen that you really never expected.
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You were lucky you found each other!
Snuggle well now, little one.
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We made it to our local GGGW 'cos my operation was cancelled.
83 sighthounds plus three other breeds turned out and a good time was had by all as it was a blustery but not rainy day.
If you attended one I hope you had a good time too!
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Chancey would leap nearly six feet in the air, screaming like a banshee when we saw other dogs on our walks.it has taken three years for her to calm down ( I read that it could take two years for a bitch to calm down) enough for me to take her out without too much worry, although she can still 'erupt' if she sees a dog running. I keep a muzzle on her when I expect there to be other dogs ( or cats)around for her safety. The law here in U.K. states that if somebody "believes your dog to be dangerous" they can report it, even if it hasn't touched another animal or person. All the while Chancey wears her muzzle she cannot be accused of biting another dog.
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So sorry to hear that his body was struggling with so much - but what a life! Never to be forgotten.
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You could try feeding him slightly smaller meals more often so that he actually gets more overall but spread out to make it easier for him to absorb it. It is a long time since I had a puppy but they were on four, then three and finally down to two meals a day but it took several months to get to two.
Hopefully he has made a full recovery from the parvo.
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What will HE gain if you leave your decision for a few more days? I suspect nothing but more discomfort and maybe worse. You know what is the right thing to do for your special boy and though you hate to do it you could well regret leaving it even for just a couple more days. Let him leave peacefully in his own home with you by his side, knowing that you love him.
From Dorset.
Bosco, A Real True & Brave Camper 5/26/04–10/15/17
in Remembrance
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28 days with the best camp leader in the world? No houndie would want to miss that and he told you how much fun he was having!
Run fast and free Bosco.