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I bet that would scare him. Probably the cat that jumps up there, too! It may work for a while.

I'm finally stumped. After all the years of owning greys and fostering this guy has a behavior that is driving me nuts. At the age of 8 he is the worst counter surfer and food thief I have ever seen. He came here overweight and I thought we could get him down a few pounds but he has gained weight! He steals food from the counter, the table, the other dogs.....anywhere he can get it. Doesn't matter what it is, even peaches and bananas. He will take anything in a plastic bag, including non-food. I guess I've never had one that was so persistant. He watches food with that high prey drive stare. At his age they are usually over this. Tonight he ate a whole bag of buns that I thought were out of reach. He will do this while we are here. He gets into things that no other greys have bothered. He is so sneaky! After years of having only older dogs we've had to start checking everything before leaving the kitchen. Thank goodness he doesn't know how to open cupboards. How do you curb this behavior?

Excessive urinating can be lots of things. Start with checking for UTI but don't stop there if proves negative for infection.

E-collar attached to regular collar never worked for me. I tied it to a harness.

People disagree about what numbers mean infection,when do you treat, labs disagree in the results, groups disagree about what kind of testing to use... you name it!

This is such a hot button topic in the greyhound world but, like the others have said, we have never experienced side effects with Doxy. Regardless of the titer, I'd treat the symptoms. I had a boy with similar titers and he never showed a symptom so we did not treat him. He was fine to the age of 14.

Awww! He was so like Zinger was at that stage!

So sorry to hear this.

Hope Joe's doing better today. How's Arwen?? Not to hijack Joe's thread but, Wenny is doing fabulous. Took a while to get back to eating and still doesn't eat a full meal but she could stand to loose a few. (not too much!) She would love to jump on the couch but needs another week for that.

Yea! Glad Joe made it home yesterday!

Hugs for Joe and you! Sure thought he would be home by now. I'll be down there Thursday morning for Shi's last chemo but can't stay since I'll have Rachel with me.

Shilo gets a 100mg capsule up to once every eight hours. Mostly for LS. This was prescribed through orthopedics at OSU. Tramadol did not healp him.

Just sent you a rather lengthy responce. Sorry so wordy!

So sorry. This is not one we hear much about.. I agree with tbhounds about the pred. Side effects are not nice so why give it if you don't have a real reason.

I saw joe today as he took a little wagon ride outside. He seemed asleep from my vantage point! Jane came to sit with me during Arwen's surgery and to see him. He stood on his own when Mom tried to leave him.

Arwen is zonked on lidocaine, fentanyl and kektamine tonight. She will spend tonight at least in ICU. The mass on her liver was removed along with her spleen for good measure after a little scare that it might have attached to her diaphram. It came out and she bled very little during surgery, only about 100ml. ( they give 500ml when they donate) Hope that is all she loses. Fingers crossed for no post-op bleeding. Super stars of the day are Dr. London, Dr. Townsend, and Dr. Mc Laughlan. We've had our evening call from our student and shouldn't hear anymore till morning. Need to sleep now....

EEEWWwwww! It is ALWAYS something!

Possibly. I have a short memory for people. What dog did yu have there? Diamond, my black girl was there for an amp in Oct. I had Diamond back there (as a tripod) to keep her sister Pearl company in Jan. Pearl's white/black. Pearl was in for a splenectomy. And actually Pearl was at OSU briefly in Oct too because I thought it would be a good comparison to have littermates, one with cancer, one without. But Pearl probably already had her cancer then. Both are gone already. Pearl made it only 3 weeks. Dima got 6 months. Doesn't ring a bell with me but Angel was there for cardiology in Oct. 09.

Possibly. I have a short memory for people. What dog did yu have there?

Any news on Joe yet today?

Thanks, guys. I know that you know how it is, Mary Pat. You just can't get this kind of support from your "normal" family and friends. I've lost 4 in the last 2 years, most recently Saturn, who we only had 4 months. He was a 13 year old bounce. His hemangio. was silent until it was deadly. We made a last ditch effort to treat him but the evil stuff was like wild fire. He was gone in 4 days. Now Arwen has the same thing! We found her's while there is still a chance for surgery and chemo if the CT scan shows no other masses started yet. Fingers crossed. Our Shilo was DX with Lymphoma in Feb and is finishing up 25 weeks of chemo. Now it is a waiting game to see how long his remission will last. He had to have LP tie back in June. So you can say we are having a bad year. We are planning to go into surgery on Friday if all goes well.

Jane, glad to hear Joe is through the surgery and resting. Now comes the hard 2 weeks for you. Arwen has hemangiosarcoma and is scheduled for surgery on Friday since the prefered surgeon is out until then. Pending opinion of Dr. C. I'm still waiting to hear from him. Can't believe it. It has been only 1 month since we lost Saturn to the same thing!

Sending good thought for Joe and you in the morning. Our outcome today was not good either.

Spent half the day with Jane at OSU as we both waited out the mysterious process that goes on behind those exam room doors. Last I heard they were trying to get on the surgery schedule for tomorrow before I had to leave. I'm sure Jane will update soon.

Jane, glad you guys had a goood time. I wish I could have stayed. The wellness fund is so important. Saturn started acting funny that night and we ended up right back in Onco.with another cancer dog. Dr C. was just speachless. As always he tells me he will help as much as he can with paying for treatments. Unfortunately the Hemangiosarcoma was large and growing faster than the chemo could work and we said gooodbye to Satty on Thursday with Dr. Urie by our sides. Dr. C. e-mailed me to say he was too upset to call and knew I would be too. Last year the famous Bosha died the day of the ceremony. I think I won't go next year.