kikibean

She was such a beautiful girl. I'll miss hearing about her and seeing her pictures. She's got many friends waiting.

I haven't had cats since I was a kid, but I'd work on making the cat behave. Just because cats are small doesn't mean they can be bullies and don't have to treat other family members with respect

I think it's fairly common for groups to not do any bloodwork at all before doing spay/neuter/dental from what I've seen. Or, they do it on senior dogs but do not do young dogs. We do bloodwork on all dogs, no matter the age.

I know a lot of groups don't do even a CBC because of the cost.

Rocky always ate dirt when the ground first started freezing in the winter. No idea. Barb is HORRIBLE about eating dirt. She wears a muzzle w/ a poop guard on it when she goes out.

We do blood work on every dog we vet, no matter the age. It's not uncommon for something to show up that causes our vet to do a round of antibiotics or something before we go ahead.

I do shots up until age 10/11 (do them every 3 years). At around 10 or 11 they get a 3 yr rabies and that's it.

Hate fleas! I have had several new dogs itch bald spots on their necks due to being new to wearing tags that hang down. I think they tickle their necks. I put Boomerang tags on new dogs. So, the neck itching could be tags instead of fleas. I always make sure I have a white dog for flea checks!

I had a dog with meningitis and so did my friend. Her girl made a fairly decent recovery and was able to be weaned off the pred. She died of unknown causes several months after treatment of the meningitis. RJ had a really hard time with it. He spent a week at the specialty vet and we brought him home for the weekend unable to walk still. He did manage to get up and about again, but we were never able to drop the amount of pred we were giving him (120mg per day). Any time we'd try and back it down, the symptoms would flare up again. I'd say we went on like that 2-3 months before he developed trouble breathing. X-rays showed something in his lungs - either fungal or cancer. Neither option was treatable due to the high amounts of pred he was on. He had also developed a huge sore on his tail the last week or so and was probably down to 45lbs from his usual 75 due to the pred. The specialist told me that small dogs tend to respond better to the treatment for meningitis than larger dogs do. It doesn't sound like your girl is nearly as bad as RJ was, so hopefully she will have a better outcome! If I had a dog again diagnosed with meningitis that was as bad as RJ was, I would not treat it. My friend who had the girl with better results does not feel the same way.

Mimi had a pretty severe bout of vestibular when she was maybe 12 or 13. She was fine one minute and then couldn't stand the next. We rushed her to my vet and if he had said we should put her down I would have without a second thought. She ended up being just fine. Took her about a month to be back 100% and for the head tilt to be totally gone. We saw a little improvement each day. Never had another incident of it and she lived to be 15. Hope your boy is OK.

To me it would depend on the owner's ability to control their small dog. It's a good sign the greyhound isn't fighting back, but unless the owner is willing to make the small dog behave, I wouldn't put any dog there. I turned down an adopter who wouldn't make their small dog stop getting in Maddy's face and growling during the home visit. My husband was correcting their dog while they stood there. Any other dog but Maddy and I think we would have had a dog fight.

Positive thoughts for both of you!!

I use Advocate that we buy from Australia. It's the same as Advantage Multi in the US. We've never had a problem with hooks so I can't tell if you if it works for that. It does work for fleas, I accidentally brought a dog home with fleas and didn't realize it for a day and a half and none of my dogs on the Advocate got them.

We had a new adopter with that problem and I recommended they try a 30ft training lead (not good if you have a dog at all spooky) and it worked like a charm. They've been shortening the lead up as she goes. You could also use the 30ft leash on a harness if you're worried she'll pull out of the collar. Seems to give them enough room that they don't feel you're on top of them.

Voo Doo did something similar. First she was limping and I couldn't figure out why. Then I noticed a toe was swelling a tiny bit and by that night it was really swollen. Then the foot swelled up. Naturally it was over the weekend so we did tramadol and rimadyl since it didn't seem to be an emergency. By Monday it was going down and she was using it some. I think she jammed her toe. Nothing seemed broken and her foot seemed fine. That's the only thing we could think of. She was fine in a couple of days.

My favorites are the ones I see walking their golden retrievers with a prong collar and a retractable leash. I saw a toy poodle wearing one at a pet store one time.

I've been doing adoptions for 11+ years and 99.99% of the time when someone tells me that the dog is growling or snapping at kids it's because 1. the dog is on furniture and/or 2. kids are petting the dog while it's laying down. The Kathleen Gilley article is an excellent one. I'd make the house rule that no one pets her while she's laying down, no matter how cute looks. It's easier if everyone has the same rule to follow. If you want to pet the dog, call her over to you and do it while she's standing up. I'd also revoke furniture privileges. I would have your sister walk you with her and give her treats. She may become a dog who's OK being petted on her bed or while she's laying down, or she may not. Your family needs to decide if it's OK if she isn't and if everyone is on the same page in working with her.

Knowing my mom, they're all eating filet mignon today and drinking wine Seamie probably did most of the work. Funny they have the same birthday.

I've got a rabbit, chinchilla, birds and 4 greyhounds. The small animals are in a bedroom and I keep the door closed when I'm not home. I trusted my first greyhounds with the small pets, especially Mimi. This current group I don't except for Molly who is almost 14. They all have been more interested in the chinchilla than the rabbit. I guess because she moves faster and bounces around her cage. The rabbit is a big, lazy, white new zealand with a head tilt who doesn't move around a whole lot. I had a guinea pig and birds in the same room where the dogs spent all their time when I first got greyhounds. The original trio of Mimi, Molly & Rocky were completely disinterested in anything small and furry. So, it can be done. You just need the right dog and you need to supervise for quite some time.

Maddy did that one spring / summer. Since she was white, I could tell she didn't have fleas. We switched to a grain free food and that took care of it. Switched back to her regular food in the fall and she was fine. I figured it must have been something seasonal, but switching food made just enough difference. We feed all of ours grain free now since it's so inexpensive at Costco.

OP asked for opinions on if there is a time under vs teeth pulled and I was sharing our experience as a group who's been around 20 years and vetted 1,000+ dogs. We haven't lost one that I can remember in probably 10 years during routine surgery and we take a lot of seniors and special needs dogs and work with multiple vets. I respect the opinions of the vets and vet techs. We're not vets. We would just rather do two dentals over a couple of months and spend the extra money than risk having a dog under longer than we're comfortable with based on past experience.

I don't know how much it has been documented, other than we've had it happen and that was what our vet determined was the cause of the dogs dying. When other people have lost dogs during dentals and I ask, they're almost always under more than 2 hrs and everything is fine until they get ready to wake them up. I just had a friend lose a dog during an uneventful dental / spay and when I asked the dog had been out 2.5 hrs. Everything was fine, flipped the dog over and she crashed and died. I'm not a vet so I can't give you technical info. Our group vets 75-100+ dogs a year and has been around since 1994. We take a lot of seniors and special needs. Every dog, no matter age, gets bloodwork before we put them under - which I know a lot of groups don't do. I'd rather err on the side of caution than have a dead dog. We use Amicar on Irish dogs and dogs with Flying Oak in their bloodline since we've found those dogs more prone to bleeding issues. It's been a long time since we've lost a dog during surgery and, like I said, we vet a good number of dogs every year. Just putting out our experience. I would suggest people discuss it with their own vet or do what they're comfortable with.

I'd say if your girl was under 3 hrs and you lost her, the problem was probably what I was describing. They probably turned it off, flipped her back over and she stoked out.

They might not need Amicar, but it's not always easy to find so I'd recommend you have it on hand in case it's needed. We are in a fairly decent sized metro area and it is hard to find a pharmacy that has it in stock, normally it takes a day or two to order in. They can monitor the vitals and still have an issue. To me it's just not worth it to have them under more than 2 hours since there is the risk. I just had a girl in for a spay and dental and she was under less than two hours. They did complete bloodwork, monitored her blood pressure, temp, etc. and she still crashed as they were finishing up and they barely got her back (had to do chest compressions and the whole bit).