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Congrats on the new "foster" :-)
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Been following this thread with some interest. Logan is still in great shape but he is 11 years 8 months old now. I am slightly allergic to dogs, so last time I was looking for one I was thinking either a "hypoallergenic" dog, or a really small dog (figuring low dander just due to small surface area :-) After some experimenting, I found a lot of the supposedly hypoallergenic dogs set me off. What I react to is the undercoat, and since greyhounds have little (Max) or no (Logan) undercoat, I have little or no allergic reaction to them. But the other breed I was thinking about at the time was a chihuahua, for the small surface area. Logan is 74 pounds and I am in decent shape, but I live alone and don't know if I could get him in the car by myself is he was completely unable to help. I got Max in the car his last night when he had a paralyzed back leg, but he was able to get to the garage on his own and I only had to lift him into the car. By the time Logan passes (really hoping that will be a couple years or more down the road) I'm not sure greyhounds will be available, and even if they are a smaller dog might be a good idea for my situation. Not sure about a chihuahua at this point. Something to be said for a dog you can pick up with one hand, but I have found I interact much better with a big male greyhound. Seems like the animal shelters have 90%+ large pit bulls and pit mixes. Anyway, hopefully I won't be in the market for quite a while, but interesting to see people's thoughts on this topic.
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Um, just make sure you don't have a metal water bowl out there :-)
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Did Abu actually end up playing? Still seems to be resisting even in the last photo :-)
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Is it warm out? My Logan dislikes walking even in the 70's (Fahrenheit), and by the time it gets to the 80's he is usually short-timing his walks.
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Nice website! One question: why are you using miles? Not that I'm complaining, being an American myself "miles" sounds perfectly correct :-) but I thought England shifted to kilometers quite a while back? BTW, I use MapMyRun (even though I'm usually walking), and that and a number of other apps will give actual distance and time info, and a map of the walk. I think most of them provide some mechanism for downloading the map to your PC, or at worst you can take a screenshot on your phone and download that screenshot image.
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See mom, at 12.2 I can still catch the wild animals around here!
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I have Healthy Paws, which I do NOT recommend. They were good, but then got sold to another company which has jacked rates up astronomically. I also suspect they jack rates up as a pet gets older knowing that you cannot switch at that point.
My recommendation is to skip the insurance, set up a bank account and put what you would have paid into pet insurance into the account each month. If I had done that I would now have several thousand dollars to cover any cost.
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Logan does that as well. Pretty common in dogs, actually. Lots of theories as to why on the Internet. I find if I try to keep Logan from eating grass he just eats it more quickly, then ends up vomiting it back out. No significant ill effects, but he sometimes has a problem with long grass creating "issues" at the other end. So I try to compromise and let him graze on shorter grass where there is not a sign up that it was just chemically treated.
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The Cleveland Metroparks Nature Center in the Rocky River reservation allows dogs. They even keep dog treats at the front desk.
At least, they used to.
After being closed for over a year for COVID, the Nature Center has just reopened. So I took Logan in for a visit. He marched right up to the front desk and looked expectantly at the receptionist. She apologized that she didn't have anything for him.
I let Logan stand there and stare for a few more seconds, then called him away.
So much for the myth that dog's memory only goes back 5 minutes :-)
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Happy birthday, Jagger!
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So Logan has now been with me 8 years today. Still going strong, though with the heat he is walking less. (By his standards, low 70's is "heat"). He came from GAO on May 18, 2013. Was an only dog until September 2014 when Max came, and was a good brother until Max' passing in January 2018. Since then he has been an only hound again, and seems to enjoy being the center of attention. Some photos from our walk yesterday. They were taken at sunset so there is some yellowing.
I'm sure if it was winter that would be yellow snow down there :-)
...and that spot.
And, that's far enough, time to crash:
FYI, we had only gone a quarter mile :-)
Thanks for looking, - Rob
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Congrats Starz!
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17 hours ago, palmettobug said:
Give them a big, huge YAWN Logan, then the resemblance is uncanny!
Not quite yawning, but this is another picture I took from yesterday's walk. Not quite yawning, but eating grass as he is wont to do.
2 hours ago, Time4ANap said:Rocket was very bright red with very pronounced striping when he came off the track and we adopted him. At one of his first vet visits, there was a little boy in the waiting room and it may be one of my favorite moments of all time when he asked, "May I pet your tiger?"
Yes, of course you can....
A lot of kids call Logan a "tiger" or "tiger dog" as well. But I guess when you are three feet tall a greyhound does look like a huge carnivore :-)
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So this is a new one. I was walking Logan down in the park this afternoon, and a couple passed us. The woman was in the lead, and asked what breed of dog, and I replied retired racing greyhound. The guy came up next, and said that he first thought my dog looked like one of those thylacines.
I've had Logan mistaken for a Great Dane, a Doberman, a deer (including by a couple rutting bucks one time, at least they kept following us), or a tiger or tiger dog (those from little kids), but "thylacine" is a new one.
In case anyone is unfamiliar with them, here is a description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine. It's generally thought that they went extinct in the 20th century, though occasionally there is still a reported sighting of them in Tasmania. Not quite as many sightings in Ohio, but apparently some...
Anyway, here is the "thylacine" on his walk:
Guess there could be some resemblance seen from behind, what do you think?
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Logan thanks everyone for the well-wishes!
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Logan turned 11 yesterday. I took off early afternoon and got him some treats, and walked him down in the park. But he was not too interested in walking as we were in the 80's for the first time this year. (He starts slowing down when it gets into the 70's :-)
He also was not being very photogenic, these are the best pictures I got:
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Logan is closing in on 8 years with me, and has only had one collar, which I think goes well with his brindle. Here it is:
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Glad Abu is better, but my question is this.
Buying sauerkraut in a tin? As a German household, I would have expected you to have homemade sauerkraut on hand, made with a secret family recipe :-)
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Part of dog ownership is learning about each other and learning how to compromise with each other - both ways. Some possibilities:
Sleeping at night. Would it be possible to add a dog gate at your bedroom door, and put a dog bed just outside that gate? That way your greyhound can see you and sleep comfortably, but you still have your own space. May or may not work, but something to try. I would expect that he may still cry for a while since he is gated away, but should get tired and fall asleep. After a few nights he would likely get into the habit of just going to sleep on the provided dog bed.
Crying whenever alone. This is one where the dog eventually needs to compromise, as you cannot be around 24/7. There are many posts on the training forum on away training (I think that is what it is called, someone can correct me if wrong). The idea is basically to go away for short periods, maybe only a few minutes initially (even just going outside and hanging around the house), and eventually building up to hours. The goal is to teach the dog that you will be coming back, which he is not certain about right now. At least initially, a schedule can also help. My dog knows I go to work, so after I feed him breakfast and he sees me getting my lunch together he heads off to the extra bedroom where he sleeps. But even now, after over 7 1/2 years, he is unhappy if he sees me leaving late in the evening when he thinks I "should" be at home with him. Dogs are pattern creatures, so it will be easier for him to adjust to a fixed pattern in which you are gone at a set time or times during the day.
Another thing that may help is exercise - a tired dog is a good dog. Try taking him for a long walk, get him really tired out, and then do an away session. If you are not walking him much then that could be part of the problem, simply pent-up energy.
I'm a little confused about your statement: "can't do things like go to the loo or make a cup of tea without the dog getting stressed and crying and pacing." Is he locked in his crate? If not, I would expect him to head on over to the kitchen with you, and as long as he is with you not to be overly anxious. Does he go in the kitchen with you, and is still crying and pacing? Or, if you keep his dog treats kept in the kitchen, maybe what he is really doing is trying to get a treat? :-)
Anyway, not sure if any of the above is helpful, but just some ideas. Good luck however you proceed!
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Congratulations on adopting a senior!
This summer when Logan was 10.5 years he had a dental, no issues. I mentioned to the vet that I would probably not have another one done on him due to his age (i.e., 11 or 12 years old next time), and the vet said he would go entirely by how healthy the dog is at that time, and not by the age.
I guess another consideration is whether the teeth are actually bothering her. Hard to tell of course, but is she unwilling to eat hard treats (like milkbones), or showing signs of pain when eating? If not, I might tend to lean against having a dental done on a 12+ year old dog. But I am not a vet, so just IMHO.
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On the other hand, Grace may be saying you need to spend more money on a second, lighter coat for these "warmer" -5C days -- the fleece-lined coat should only come out when gets below -10C :-)
Logan sprained ankle
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So Logan sprained his right rear ankle a week ago from last Friday, pretty sure it was when he slipped on ice. For reference, he is 11 yr 10 mo old now, so definitely a senior. I took him to the vet on Saturday Feb 12. Vet did x-rays and saw a dislocated toe, sent them to a radiologist for a suspicious feature on one toe but fortunately came back negative for osteo (but definite arthritis). Vet bandaged his foot and sent us home with a prescription to double his Vetprofen from his usual 1 pill/day to 2 pills/day, and instructions to keep the bandage on until the next Saturday (yesterday) and call the vet with a progress report on Monday (tomorrow). Bandage stayed on till Wednesday night when Logan took it off. I rebandaged it, he got it off Thursday night, rebandaged again and I took it off Friday night. Status is he is still not putting much weight on the foot when walking, though he can put weight on it when standing or when necessary to lift his left leg to urinate (but he was always able to do those things even after hurting it initially).
I was looking at the foot today, and noticed one paw pad has a big indentation. So now I'm wondering if some of the problem is a pad problem.
So I guess my questions are:
(1) What is that indented part of the pad? Is it possibly what is causing him to not put weight on the foot?
(2) How concerned should I be that he is still not putting weight on his foot after a bit over a week? (He has had sprains before and gone two or three days before putting weight back on it, but never this long).
(3) What should I ask the vet tomorrow, beyond giving the update report?
Thanks in advance for any information or advice! - Rob
Here are some pictures of the indented pad//:
For reference, here is a comparison of the lame right rear foot and the good left rear foot:
and the foot by itself:
And one gratuitous photo from before he got hurt: