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  1. What a wonderful memorial, for a gorgeous girilie full of love and life. Unforgettable.
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    Joey

    Pics of our new boy Joey, who came to us April 9 2011
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    Joey

    From the album: Joey

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    From the album: Joey

  5. Unless they're straining, firm is fine. If they're straining, then a bit of tripe, heart, or other organ fed along with your turkey drum will help next time. For some dogs, eggs help too.
  6. We'll have to keep our eyes open for some Doggles at GIG for Phene. All fingers and paws crossed for a good outcome!
  7. You can definitely use the treats you bought with this last order, likely the lung would be safest if you're feeding a lot of it and he likes it - as I recall he did lol. If he likes the liver better, then use that, but you can effect the stool with liver if you give too much. You want to stick to about 5% of the diet overall with liver - and if it's dehydrated, it's triple what it would be raw (1 oz. raw dehydrated= 3 oz raw. hydrated), so lung would be better if he loves it. Just break it up into tiny pieces, they are just as happy with a tiny piece as they are with a big piece. I remember seeing a video a while back of a little **zhu, her Mom was giving her little bits of treats and she was in paroxysms of joy every time she got one. Then she got an air treat, and she still had a paroxysm of joy
  8. Oh what a beautiful boy! Congratulations, and welcome home Beaker!
  9. What a great dog - I just love the strawberry stealing, reminds me of one of my boys. He will clearly never be forgotten - I'm so sorry he had to go. Run free Tiny, with all our bridge angels.
  10. I'm so sorry your beloved boy had to go. One day you'll be able to smile when you think of him, instead of crying, but that takes some time, as many of us know. Godspeed Howard.
  11. Deepest sympathies on the loss of your Princess. What a beautiful girlie she was. Run free, sweet girl. :gh_run2:gh_run2
  12. Lucy, your vet sounds greyt - there's no reason why any vet could not try to hull with this procedure. The elevators really are worth getting, as they seem to be a lot more effecient than anything else I've tried to separate the corn from the surrounding skin. Karen
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    Becky Aka Piglet

    Run free of pain at the bridge, you sweet girl. Our condolences to all who loved her.
  14. Hey, greyt to see you over here! Scritches to the boys!
  15. There's a journal artical on corn hulling in one of the more popular vet journals, so it does seem that your vet isn't keeping up. Sounds like it's time to start trying to find a vet that has experience hulling. The tooth elevators that are used can be found on Ebay, that's where I got mine, and they are really just like rounded flat head screw drivers - they do make it easier to get around the corn. It's really not that hard to do yourself, but barring that, any vet could do it. I'd be happy to email a copy of the journal artical to you, just PM me your email address.
  16. Romi visited once, it was just recently, quite a while after his passing. I saw him lying on the couch, as he has thousands of times before, head hanging over the edge, tongue hanging out with the inevitable ETS. I really expected to see a lot more visits, but there's just been the one, and I'm lucky to have had it. There are ghost kitties prowling the halls too. I've also seen Lou in the yard several times.
  17. Being a bit of a kitchen witch, I'm experimenting with a combination gel I made myself - so far it appears to be slowing the growth rate, but it's only been on for a few weeks. Millie unfortunately has corns on 3 different feet, so I'm able to try 2 different methods and still have a "control" corn to compare results with, so to speak. She used to have more corns, but we managed to treat some homeopathically. Why they didn't all dissappear, to me, supports the multi-factorial theory, it's clear these guys get corns for more than one reason. Sending lots of healing thoughts out to all our "corn dogs".
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    Miss Echo

    Jen, you have our deepest sympathies on the loss of your beautiful Miss Echo. She couldn't have been more beloved. Run free sweet Echo, with Icarus and all the other bridge angels.
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    Grover

    Deepest sympathies on the tragic loss of Grover. He was certainly loved. Run free sweet boy!
  20. It's the perfect balance of phosphorus to calcium, 1:1. When I fed it to Romi his kidney symptoms eased tremendously; he'd had it all his life, but once his kidneys started up, I cut out organs and bone and he had raw green tripe almost exclusively. Check out the Dog Aware site, link is above, it has excellent information on kidney issues along with many other issue. Mary has done her research on this topic and knows what she's talking about.
  21. I met her and her husband Gil at the GRA picnic several years ago, what an amazing couple. I was looking forward to seeing her perform with her hounds again at GIG. The article she wrote about training greyhounds "No Pain, No Fear" has been posted on a bajillion websites - she had a deep insight into the hounds, and will be sorely missed by many, I'm sure. Godspeed, Kathleen.
  22. Brown eggs and white eggs are the same, for sure. A dog's jaw is actually designed to tear off big chunks of food and get them down their throat quickly so no one else in the pack can get it, so how your dog is eating is instinctual and natural. The only way to slow him down is to feed big meat, so that he has to chew it. If he tries to swallow a piece that's too big, it will come back up and he'll get another shot at it. When he starts back on bone, you may have to hold onto one end of his RMB to ensure he chews it up properly. If your dog is getting his 10% bone ground up in his food, he doesn't need the shell from the egg. We feed raw egg 3 or 4 times a week, and it is a perfect protein. The dogs love them, too!
  23. With broken hearts, Michelle and I are sorry to announce the passing of our beautiful boy Romi. After fighting for the last month, he was ready to give up the battle and move on Monday morning. He is survived by his pack Andy, Bailey, Connie and Millie. We had many years of pure joy from this hound, who was an unexpected addition during the 2004 GRA picnic. He had been at the Hinsdale adoption centre for over a year, but when I saw him at Bill's with his beautiful big roman nose, and listened to him rooing in his kennel, and experienced him kissing me right through the bars, I knew this unique character was for us. I have never been sorry that we added him to our pack, he has been at the centre of life at Camp Greyhound for all of these years, and was a favorite where ever he went. To say he will be missed is a tremendous understatement. Thanks to dear friends Dee and Anne for their support yesterday, you made an unbearable day almost manageable; and thanks to Anna our homeopath who made his last month really comfortable. I imagine Romi arriving at the bridge, and meeting his brother Cantankerous Lou, who pre-deceased him by less than a year, and all the SSGG angels that have left us so recently – Dove, Sadie, Hobbes, Tomtom, Jack, and most recently Hope to name a few. I'm sure he's settled in and is washing everyone's ears right about now. Goodnight, sweet Prince, til we meet again.
  24. Our bridge angel Lou had to be taught for hydrotherapy he had for his dislocated hip, he hated every second of it, but we did manage to teach him. Easiest way is to get a proper floatation device. You can also hold him while he learns, try to keep his head level rather than pointing up, that's very hard on the neck. Bella may love it, or hate it, you just never know!
  25. He likely did it running, their gait totally allows for cuts on the top of the foot or even the webbing. We would just flush it well with colloidal silver, and then spray it anytime he came in from outside. If he's fussing with it, putting a sock on will help (wrap with vet wrap just above the hock, then fold the top of the sock back down) but try not to bandage it, if the air is allowed to get at it it will close up much more quickly. Scritches to Astro, sounds like it hurts. If you use homeopathics at all, some hypercerium will likely help with that particular pain.
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