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So STella is doing great everything is like before except stairs. full three legged zommies in the back yard, chasing squirrels even jumping into the van not doing that well but she gets in the van. SHe is two Chemo treatments in and she is tolerating the Carboplatin well.

Ok i have been busy and tired so the updates have slipped. Stella is doing great the procedure was completely 7 days ago. She was up latet that night. And came hime the next day at lunchtime. First few days were rough but she insists to going out to potty and insisted on going on a few short walks over the the first few days following the procedure. 2 days after the procedure she insisted on going out and laying in tye back yarf sunny spot. She is eating well at meal time again but she now gets 1 cup of dry food and 1/3 of a can of can food. I have not decided if we will changer her diet long term or not. Yesterday when thunder storms rolled through the mid Atlantic she was trying to do our staircase to get to our bedroom her prefered location for storms. I carried her up and she let me. But wanted to come back down shortly after when DW came home from work. She can manage the 3 steps out froun and 2 steps out back and refused to use the ramp for ether front our back steps. Her procedure sight looks good and we had to go to using a muzzle with stool guard to keep her from licking it as she can easily get the cone of shape off. Thanks everyone for your help.

Thank you everyone helper harness found and order on Amazon to be here Monday. It looks like the rough gear one but has more padding on the chest and straps. I am already have a hard time keeping Stella from running enen on three legs when she gets excited. Runners are up for our hardwood through the kitchen. My DW is going to try to work from home for the first week and we are setting up a x pen in the family room were i will sleep with her. I am thinking i might set up the second x pen in our fron living room so she can see and be seen fron the home office. That room also gets good sun and both hounds like to lay in there during the day. I am trying to prepare myself for this but as you can imagine I am just a 6ft tall 200lb blubber bald man. But not around the kids or dogs. Thank you all i will keep you updated as things progress. Ryan

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So our second Grey Stella has been diagnosed With a tumor in her hind leg. We are going in for a Oncology consult On Monday We will likely go in for surgery the same day. I am consulting with Dr Couto but the Oncology center we are going to is staffed with one of Dr Coutos former Students. So my Question is what should I expect after Stella comes home post Amp. how long until she can get up and around, will she have trouble going potty with 3 legs? Can tri paws do stairs? what supplies should I have on hand pee pads helper harness any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Ryan

Stella has a great apatite and will steal food from her four and two legged brothers. We are going to up her meals and up her protein. Thanks all Ryan

Has any experienced weight loss in there hound when giving them pregnasone? Stella has been on it for a few weeks now and we are tampering the dice down now but she has dropped from 63 lbs to 53 lbs and lost 3 lbs in the last two weeks. Her weight has been a. Bit of a roller coaster sence we got her she was 55 lbs and sick,worms. Them we got her well and she got up to almost 70 lbs to heavy for her as I think her race weight was 65 lbs. Thanks Ryan

Update: Dino is now 85 lbs and on low dose Tramadol and we are giving laser therapy a try. I am also considering adding or switching his Supplements to Next level joint fluid. We use Get up and Go mix now with CMO and Yuca extract. We tried golden past but it didn't seem to help and is was messy. Drum roll it seems to have helped walks are a little easier and he is a bit more playful. Nothing earth shattering he isn't a puppy again but I think this may help us be more active and that should help too. Thanks ks again Ryan and Dino

Thanks, how often should blood work be done?

Any worried about long term NSAD use?

Hi again helpful grey talkers So Dino was dig paws with Arthritis last year but it wasn't our normal vet and I attributed it to a not fully recover for a slip and fall two years ago. We this year another more Greyhound savie vet said the same thing saying she thinks it's in his hips and front wrists. I noticed this Year Dino really started to slow down, he is a 8yr old 85lb male. He has recently lost weight too down from 90lbs. Dino is on a pile of supplements: Greyhound Gang get up and go Plus CMO and Digestive enzymes. Fish oil Golden paste/tumeric And starting Yuca again after some more education on proper dosage and mixing. Thanks Greyhound Gang. We have started Cold laser therapy and that did seem to have some effect. So what I am asking about what long term pain management. I don't think we will use it all of the time just enough to get him moving so we can him moving more which should help. Thanks Ryan Niki Cole Dino and Stella

So just an update I was looking for the bump on Dino's side and I couldn't find it today. I feel a little silly now but relieve at the same time. Thanks for all of the advice and kind thoughts. Ryan,Niki,Cole Dino and Stella

So Crisis averted no bad cells in the aspiration. We will be keeping an eye on it. On the side we love our new Greyhound savie vet. Now if we could just figure out why Stella is coughing. Looks like we are taking one of our hounds to an internal med vet. So Dino is just old and lumpy and probably getting laser treatment. Thanks all Ryan

Thanks all been worrying all day. Dino does have some random soft bumps that have showed up but never changed in size. He also had what we call his side whiskers ranub thick like hair that looks he has a whisker one on each side about the center of the ribcage.

Thanks it seems to be in the soft tissue above the rib.

Actually DW noticed it. It is firm the size of a pea and moves around slightly. Doesn't seem to brother him at all. We are heading to the vet tonight but I am fearing the worst. Dino is a large male 85 to 90 lbs and 8yrs old. Any advice Thanks, Ryan

So update Dino was feeling better so good that in all of the excitement of feeling better he over did it doing spins and his rear right leg is sore again. It's not too bad as he didn't refused stairs or rather wouldn't let me help him. He still wants his walks. I think we will stay the course. Trying to slow down Dino. Going to the vet if the soreness persists. Thanks all

We are going to try tumeric and yuca to try to help with inflammation. We will try that for a while to see if that helps.I suspect this is pain and if adding more supplements doesn't seem to help I will be talking to the vet about pain management. We have already started him on a diet in an effort to get him lighter so there is weight on his hips. Thanks ALL Ryan

Dino has always been a nester and has alwyas groaned when he laid down some were comfy. But now it's more often and sometimes when he is already laying down or sometimes in his sleep I swear. We have had him for over three years so it not like he is just settling in. I was just worried that he might be hurting

A question for my Grey Talkers? We have all heard the moan when they lay down. Or you scratch there ears just right. Well over the last few months I have noticed my large older male, 8 this summer and 85-90lbs, seems to have turned up the moan. Now it's seems to come from him at random when he is laying down. Only other change is his little sister Greyhound has been here for about 6 months. So what do you think, more comfortable of is this a sign that something is wrong or sore? He does it more from ear rubs too. Thanks Ryan aka crazy Greyhound dad

I have two very fast eater. I soak the food in water for ten to thirty minutes. With one I put little metal cups the kind you get at restaurants when you ask for your salid dressing on the side. Then he had to eat around them. Another option is to hand feed them. Only giving them small hand fulls at a time. My guys are never full. Hope this helped

So we have been feeding her a 1/4 cup if kibbel at 9:00 and if she gets up I toss her a puppy sized bisket. Seems to have resolved it's self. She hasn't taken any toys apart yet.

thanks all we had a good morning when she go up around 6 i handed her two small treats got me an extra 15 min. She doesn't need more food, she is on the edge of getting over weight, because she is lazy(and afraid of school buses) and refuses morning walks. I will give a foto flora we have some here. She has been on IAMS green bag for three months because other foods made her pop funny. i will keep doing pepsid and 1/4 cup of night time. Thanks Ryan and Stella and everyone else.

Last snack is about 9pm breakfast is 6:00-6:30am. We have had her sence mid October and this is sort it f new. I say sort if becuse before when she has a similar issue we started giving here ether some kibbel or a bisket before bed. It also helps get her to bed as she can be stubborn and want to stay down stairs sometimes.

So Stella finally kicked all of the worms. Then she gets a cough, that cleared up with an antibiotic. Her new thing last few weeks is getting up at 5:30pm and if I don't get up with her right away she some times throws up. So we started to give her a small hand full of kibbel before bed after her last potty. That didn't work yesterday so last night I also gave her a genaric pepsed and a few pieces of kibbel. She still vomated the morning. When she vomuts in the morning it's very little and just clear or light yellow all liquid. Any thoughts? Thanks Ryan, Niki, Cole, Stella and Dino