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  1. I just caught Maddy (age 9) chewing on the corner of my Pottery Barn end table last night. Of course it's the same table that her mother chewed all 4 corners of so it doesn't really matter at this point other than I don't think she needs to be chewing wood. Mimi (her mother) chewed wood the entire time we had her. She even chewed the corner of our big TV stand the night we got it. Kevin was not happy! She chewed 2 Pottery Barn end tables, a coffee table, the footboard of our bed, corners of our dresser, etc.

     

    She was otherwise so perfect and lady like that it was almost funny that she was chewing. It was such a doggy thing for her to be doing.

     

    Now I look at the chewed corners of my tables and remember her :wub:

  2. I'm so sorry about your girl.

     

    I had a greyhound who had meningitis and one who had vestibular. Both came on very quickly. With the guy who had meningitis, his symptoms slowly developed over the course of a day. It was really strange. Fine in the morning, trouble with the stairs at lunch, trouble walking when I got home from work and couldn't stand by the time we go to the vet. He spent a week at the specialist.

     

    My vestibular hound had it come on all of a sudden. One minute she was fine and the next she couldn't get up, stand, her head was tilted and her body sort of stiff. We rushed her to our vet who thought it might be a brain tumor. We took her home thinking that we'd probably have to take her back the next day to have her PTS. She showed a tiny bit of improvement the next morning, but it was a good month+ before the head tilt and everything went away.

     

    Neither had seizures.

     

    You could contact OSU for a consult.

  3. My foster that had LS did have some issues with holding urine the last 6 months or so. His mom's solution was to make bellybands that fit a Depends pad and he wore those. The Depends would keep him dry even if he urinated a large amount. He was perfectly happy wearing them and never minded putting his "pants" on. She would just wipe him down with a baby wipe when she changed his pad.

  4. I had a foster that had LS. We tried the Adequan shots, etc and they didn't work. I finally talked my vet into trying the Depo shots and they made a HUGE difference. He got shots off and on for about 2 yrs before the family that adopted him finally had to let him go. I think he was 13 at the time, so the shots did give him 2 yrs of quality life.

     

    If someone asks me about them, I usually tell them to give the shots a try. It will either work or it won't. We haven't ever had a dog have a bad reaction to them, so I don't see any harm in trying them.

     

    I had a specialist refuse to give the shots because he swore it wouldn't do any good (this was for the foster dog). I talked my vet into doing it even though he was skeptical as well. He was amazed at the improvement and now has many clients who get them.

  5. I'm just now seeing this. Poor Bella.

     

    Mimi had a bout of vestibular when she was about 12. She was fine one minute and then the next she tried to get up and couldn't. Head tilt, eyes wonky, legs were stiff, etc. I called my vet and he met me up at his office. We weren't sure what it was at first, but we took her home to see how she was the next day. There was a tiny improvement the next day, but it probably took her a good week before she was walking almost normally. I'd say it was a month or so before the head tilt totally went away.

     

    She ended up being fine.

     

    Hope Bella has as good of a recovery as Mimi did.

  6. Maddy is horrible about walking. Her mother used to stop when she'd decided she had enough, but would start walking again once we went in the direction she wanted.

     

    Maddy will just flat out stop and refuse to walk. We literally have to get behind her and shove her along. There's nothing wrong with her. No corns, medical issues, etc.

    She's just stubborn. She's 9 and she's been doing it since we got her at 6 off the farm.

     

    She doesn't get to go to as many M&G's as she'd like to because I don't take her anywhere that will require her to walk any distance. She might be fine and cooperate, or she might decide 1/4 of the way there that she's done walking.

     

    I'm like - you're a DOG. DOGS walk! It's what they do.

     

    Apparently she did not get that memo.

     

    Although, sometimes if I keep telling her how cooperative she's being and what a nice walker she is, she will slowly trudge along. :rolleyes:

  7. My vet came over when we let Mimi go at home. She was 15. Molly stayed downstairs with us since she and Mimi were the closest. We'd gotten them one month apart. Rocky and Maddy were upstairs because I'm pretty sure they would have been pestering my vet and wanting his attention - which I think would have annoyed Mimi. We didn't let the others see her after she was gone, and Molly never came over to look. She just stayed on her sofa and watched. They were all a bit off their food for a few days, but were otherwise OK.

     

    Here in town we have a pet cremation service that will come to your home. They're wonderful folks who give the greyhounds a discount. I called them after I spoke to my vet and told them what time he was coming. The owner waited outside while we let her go and told us to tell him when we were ready. He brought a stretcher in the house with blankets on it and placed her on the stretcher and wrapped the blankets around and secured everything. I'm sure my neighbors were wondering what was going on if they happened to be looking. Kevin did help him carry the stretcher upstairs and put it in the car. It's wonderful how respectful they are of the body. A couple of days later they will personally deliver the cremains to you instead of you having to pick them up somewhere. I ordered Mimi a wooden box from them with her name engraved on it, and when it came in he brought it to me and transfered the cremains himself from the temporary box so I wouldn't have to do it.

     

    I want to let the others go at home if it works out.

  8. You can always have Fabio talk to Leann. She had a tripod dog. I can send you her phone and cell if you need it. Just let me know. Maybe it would make him feel better to talk to someone he knows.

     

    We adopted out a tripod boy last year. His mom can't believe what a wild man he is and doesn't think she'd have been able to handle him with 4 legs if it made him any more active. He also didn't have Osteo, just a bad break. It was much better for him to lose the leg and get to enjoy his life rather than have it end at 18 months.

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