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  1. Hi Thanks for getting back to me. - When she initially lost interest in her food we did start changing her kibble. She still had an appetite and was interested in whatever we were eating but just seemed picky about her kibble but the switch definitely gave her an rash on her belly and paws (which are now gone). She tends to want a switch of kibble every 2 or 3 years so we thought it was the same and decided to change her food. Her tummy issues increased after this so we switched to the rice and tuna. - We live in London, UK so she's a real city dog. She never scavanges or drinks water outside her bowl. - We gave her vet prescribed dewormer and flea treatment called Prinovox. These are listed as side-effects in rare occurrences and that they can last upto 7 days. - We have sent out for a fecal test and are waiting results. - Also just fyi she is a sensitive/allergy prone girl. I'll try fasting her, I was just worried that since she was vomiting mostly bile she had an empty stomach. But I'll give it a go and keep you updated. Will also book her in at the vet's for tomorrow too. Thanks again for your response and let me know if you think of anything else.
  2. Hello, Our lovely greyhound (9 yrs old) has been experiencing some tummy upset. She went off of her food last werk and had a pot bellied appearance as well as losing weight so we put her on some deworming which has definitely helped. We gave her the deworming on Monday. Her stomach is less swollen (but it's clear there's still some inflammation) and her demeanor is back to normal. She's roaching, sleeping, not panting or in any distress. However, she still has quite watery stools and throws up about once a day (usually just watery bile but sometimes there's undigested rice as well). Her vomits are also more like burps/regurgitations rather than heaving and retching. We've been giving her white rice and tuna for the past 3 days (she has a poultry sensitivity so chicken is a no go). Really I just want some reassurance that she's on track to getting better and that the continued watery stools and infrequent watery vomits are just her stomach and intestines calming down after inflammation. Do you think this could be the case? I don't want to have to take her to the vet unnecessarily and have them poke and prod her when all she needs is a bit more time to recover. She has a full bloodwork and clean bill of health when she had her check up in September as well. Any advice and comments are really appreciated!
  3. Thanks everyone for the replies, glad to hear it's not just us! Our greyhound's name is Skelly - when we first got her she was extremely anxious and just a bundle of energy. It's been a long road (with lots of training) but even though it's frustrating and time consuming to coax her out of bed now we would have never imagined she would ever feel this comfortable in our house. So it's annoying but it's a lovely annoyance to have! We've tried putting her leash on her and giving her a tug but it didn't help haha she just gave us a cheeky grin. We have found the smelliest of all fishy treats and they seem to doing the trick.
  4. Our girl is 7.5 years old and she's started getting very stubborn about leaving her bed! Every pee and walk she flat out refuses to get up and shamelessly just asks for scratches and belly rubs. She's not a particularly food motivated greyhound either and the cold weather hasn't helped the situation. It takes us atleast 30 minutes now to coax her out of bed or at times literally pick her up. We know she's just being stubborn because she will happily jump up on us and come play when she knows she doesn't have to leave the house. This is her current schedule: Pee/poo: 7:30am Breakfast: 8am Long walk: 12pm Pee: 6pm Pee/poo: 10pm Any tips on getting this lazy gal out of bed?
  5. Hi everyone, Our greyhound (5 years old) started limping out of the blue and we noticed she had a big hole in the paw pad on her back left leg. We've soaked her paw in epsom salts to draw anything out and it looks clean. We've been applying some paw balm and keeping her off her feet as well. It's been a week and she is now walking much better but I wanted to know if there is anything else we can do to speed up the healing process? She has a lot of nervous energy and not being able to take her on walks/have a big play seems to really be getting on her nerves. We've tried booties but she cannot get on with them and ends up in a big zoomie to try and get them off! I've attached a photo as well if that helps. Thanks!
  6. Hi everyone! We noticed a thin clear slimy string of vaginal discharge this morning. Haven't seen this before and wanted to know if anyone has experienced this and if it is something we can monitor at home or of we should take her to the vet. Our lovely grey is 5 years old and was spayed around 7 months ago. She doesn't have any difficulty peeing/accidents and haven't seen any excessive licking or blood in her urine either.
  7. Unfortunately when we got Skelly her tail was amputated (we were told by the shelter she broke it during her racing days). But she definitely got what little she has left of it tucked in when she's sitting
  8. Haha! I love these stories of silly sitters. Really interesting about their back legs become less tight - definitely makes sense! I managed to be quick enough to take a picture of her latest sitdown to share. I do think Skelly looks quite pleased with herself
  9. This was the exact same situation that we had with our adopted grey Skelly. We were out for hours trying to get her to do her business and coax her out of her freezes. She is a particularly anxious dog to begin with so any slight changes in wind, cars driving by or sound would set her off and she just wouldn't be able to concentrate on doing her business. She's good as gold now (we've had her for almost 6 months) but definitely took some perseverance. For the freezing we found that crouching low next to her and just talking to her calmed her down enough to unfreeze enough to coax her to keep moving. For the bathroom, we found that she needed really clear guidance and wasn't understanding what we were asking from her. We kept her two long walks on the exact same route so she could get comfortable with it and her short bathroom breaks in the exact same spot (standing there rain or shine until she went!). It does get better but it's a lot of changes all at once. Good luck!
  10. It's the strangest thing! We've had her for a little less than 6 months now and we weren't sure if it was a new silly side of her personality we hadn't seen before. She does it on the sofa (the wrong way around as well facing the back wall haha) and on her bed. Fingers crossed it's just one of her funny quirks/a new trick and nothing more sinister!
  11. Hi everyone, Our lovely grey Skelly is 5 years old and for the past 2 days she has been sitting! We find it very curious as she's never just sat down before unless she had an itch to get to and we haven't trained her how to sit (we taught her how to lie down though). But all of a sudden she will be mooching around the flat and take a little sit down to watch us cooking or working and start back up again. Everything else in her behaviour is fine but we're curious to know if anyone else has experienced this before?
  12. Thank you both! Will keep an eye on them and fingers crossed nothing more is needed.
  13. Also just to add that there hasn't been any change in her behaviour. She is as lovely as ever, smiling, very excited for her belly rubs, walks and food!
  14. Thanks for sharing! I've added a photo (unfortunately the quality is not that great as there is a size limitation to attachments.) The lump isn't bleeding, no redness and doesn't seem to be causing her any discomfort or itching. She is a light brindle so she has quite a few speckled egg spots on her skin in general. There is no hair on the lump either. She is very prone to skin tags so I'm not sure if this is related to that somehow? The lump is hard but i can move it around quite freely.
  15. Thanks for sharing! It could potentially be a sebaceous cyst or maybe a histiocytoma based on the descriptions. I'll try and see if I can find some images to match it to what Skelly has.
  16. Hi, Our lovely grey Skelly is 5 years old and we've had her for about 4 months. When she arrived she had a little lump on her back thigh. We took her to the vet and she was put on some steroids/antibiotics and the lump reduced considerably in size. We were told to just keep an eye on it and it has now almost completely dissapeared. However she has gotten two new lumps on her back, they are like perfect little raised hard circles and a little smaller than a pea. She doesn't have any discomfort when I touch them and doesn't even seem to have noticed them. Does anyone have any idea what they might be before I rush her back to the vet? Thanks, Amrutha
  17. Hi everyone, Our lovely grey Skelly is around 5 years and we have had her for about 4 months now. She's been doing great but as we came back from her morning walk we noticed her ears and paws are quite cold. It is around 12 degrees celcius in London this morning - should she be wearing a coat? We were under the impression that she only needed a coat if it was under 10 degrees according to some of the other answers we've seen for similar questions on here. Any recommendations on whether we should be putting a coat on her? Or any other ideas of what it could be? Thanks!
  18. Hello, Our lovely grey Skelly has just turned 5 years old and we have had her for a little less than 4 months. She has just started exhibiting some new scratching behaviour over the past week that we have never seen before. She has been scratching her chin/neck a lot (about 4 or 5 times a day for a few minutes) with her back legs. She has also been rubbing her face against our sofa and her bed. I have been checking her fur and haven't seen any sign of fleas or ticks. Her appetite is still really strong so I don't think there is a dental issue. The area on her neck that she has been scratching is a little red but she still has her fur and hasn't broken the skin. She can get really aggresive with the scratching and I am worried that she will hurt herself if this continues since her skin is so thin. I've been reading about possible causes and environmental (especially since it is turning to autumn here in the UK) or food allergies seem to be popular reasons especially since she has a light coloured coat. I just wanted to find out if anyone else has experienced this and what we could do to alleviate it? Change her food, give allergy meds potentially? We have started wiping down her face and neck when she gets back from her walks and this seems to soothe her a little bit.
  19. Thanks everyone for the helpful suggestions! I am super pleased to share that our lovely Skelly is letting me sleep to 6:30am now and hasn't made a single noise during the night for the past few days. So very proud of her!
  20. This is really interesting! Skelly turned 5 in early August but I hadn't thought of protein intake. I think she is definitely getting more than 20% protein at the moment. She was being fussy with her food around a week and a half ago so we added a little dollop of yogurt and a spoon of tinned tuna to her dry kibble as recommended by the kennels to get her to eat. Now that I think about it this aligns with her waking up at 5am again. I am going to adjust her food and hopefully it will show some results - thanks!
  21. Thanks for sharing! She goes on two walks a day (around 45 minutes each). We were told that greyhounds only need two 20 minute walks a day and I was worried I was already pushing her too far. Do you think it would be alright to take her on a run? I'm definitely not a morning person but for Skelly I am willing to make that sacrifice
  22. Thanks for your answer! I haven't been able to identify an external cue but I've been waking up silently taking her out at 5am and letting her do her business. Then getting back to bed and just ignoring her until my alarm goes off at 6:30am. I've also made sure she has her chew toys near her so that she can get some of her energy out on them. I think it has slightly improved over the last 3 days. She doesn't seem to be as persistent with her whining when I go back to bed but still have a way to go I think!
  23. Hi everyone, We adopted our lovely grey Skelly a little over 2 months ago. She was especially anxious (even the kennels we got her from told us she was going to be a tough one) but we really loved her and are trying to give her the best home possible. She's come leaps and bounds in the last 2 months and is a completely different dog from when we first got her. She is full of affection and cuddles and growing more confident each day. One thing that we are still struggling with is her morning wake up, she continues to wake up very excited and full of energy around 5am. Starts whining for our attention, jumping up at the door and chewing up our books. We have tried the alarm trick and tried increasing the time increments to a little bit later each day. She was at 6:30am wake up calls which was fantastic but every few weeks she reverts back to waking up at 5am and we have to start the entire process over again. Any suggestions on how we can get a little bit more sleep? She doesn't seem to be needing the bathroom urgently in the morning or really hungry so I don't think that's what is waking her up. She just seems to wake up a bit needy for attention and affection. Our current schedule looks like this: Bathroom: 5am right now but ideally 6:30am Breakfast: 8am Walk: 9am Bathroom: 3pm Dinner: 7pm Walk: 8pm Snack: 9pm Bathroom: 10:30pm
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