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Continuing to send waves of good thoughts, and chants, for Neko's recovery! :grouphug

That'll be so nice, to have your mom there with you. Sending lots of hugs to tide you over ... :grouphug

So glad Leah's feeling a little better! You must be so relieved! Hugs and healing to you both!

I was in tears reading your updates! It might possibly make cleaning him up easier if you use a squirt bottle with warm water in it to rinse, first, let things be wet briefly, then blot up. I can feel your pain for him. This is so hard, to decide what to do when faced with something on-going and mysterious like this. :grouphug

Okay, well, that's an improvement! It IS scary, isn't it? We all read these posts with our fingers crossed for our own pets' health, hoping to dodge all these whizzing bullets, and then feeling our worlds crash around us when that target shows up on one of our own. Then you just have to go forward, making the best decisions you can figure out how to make. :bighug Hang in there, you and Neko! Chanting and wishing continues .......

Oh, Lucy! I came here after FB, too. Oh man. I'm just gasping. I can only imagine what you are feeling. Poor little mite. Sending you more hugs! :grouphug

Oh! I was just looking at her portrait earlier today. I'm so sorry for your loss. She was deeply loved, and it sounds like she knew it, and made the most of it!

Gah! I'm so sorry this happened for you and Leah! I hope she proves resilient, and this awful ordeal fades into the past for you both, and quickly!! I'll be watching for updates ...

Oh man! I just read through this entire thread, and I realized I was holding my breath. Poor Neko, and poor you!! Here's a chant for his speedy recovery! *Neko's mysterious ailment, be gone! Go, and bleed no more! Be mysterious if you must, and disappearing fits that bill! Be GONE! *Neko's mysterious ailment, be gone! Go, and bleed no more! Be mysterious if you must, and disappearing fits that bill! Be GONE! *Neko's mysterious ailment, be gone! Go, and bleed no more! Be mysterious if you must, and disappearing fits that bill! Be GONE!* Repeat as necessary.

Oh, I'm so sorry Spencer's passing was one of the hard ones. I mean, they're always hard, but to know it was hard on him, harder than you had anticipated, yeah. That's tough. Happy's death was one of those, and I can't help but picture that horrible time thinking of Spencer's passing, since they shared some challenges, and you were so supportive to me during her illness. I hope you can get some peace soon, knowing that at least Spencer is suffering no more, and you did everything but move actual mountains to make his life as wonderful as it could possibly be. BIG hugs ...

You took such phenomenal care of Spencer through it all! He looked fantastic, all the way through, into his whitest face. That white face just touched me so deeply, too. Such poignance in the deeply mature hounds. Many hugs and deepest sympathies to you, now and for the whole time it takes to come through the pain, and into the more simple time when you can smile every time you think of him. :bighug

Err on the cautious side, for sure! Better to always wonder than to find out the hard way, eh?

I was thinking the same thing as greytpups. Maybe it's because your pup smelled the puppy, recognized him as a neighbor he hadn't seen before, and was highly motivated to check him out, determine personality and boundaries?

I've used this same technique (well, a very slight variation, but same concept) with great success on my hot-headed boy, Pogo. It takes time and patience proportional to the problem behavior, but it does work. Biggest tip: try to stay just beyond the real trouble zone, where you can't control his behavior. That zone will get closer and closer to the trigger, as you progress. Good luck!!

This is so funny. All these types are represented here, too. What surprised me was when I had the opportunity to use a neighbor's fenced 10 acres to let the dogs play for a few months. I figured I'd have to use hunks of bloody raw meat to get them to come to me, much less stay anywhere near me. To my complete surprise, Pogo, my most energetic hound, would run like a possessed flesh-bomb, and then celebrate each run by crashing back to me and literally smashing his face to my leg as we walked together for a few minutes, until he could detach himself enough to trot alongside before taking off again.

Deepest sympathies to the broken-hearted for March. :bighug

Hugs to you and the family on this sad anniversary.

Lauren!! I just saw this in your siggy in a different thread, and had to find out what happened! I'm so sorry. Losing her so suddenly ... Losing them at all is so hard, and watching our beloved friends go through a painful decline is its own kind of hell, but losing your sweet girl like this is such a shock. You have to shove all the first stages of grief into hours. No time for bargaining, no time for railing, no time for denial, no time for acceptance to begin to settle in before she's gone. I hope you can take some comfort in the knowledge that her suffering was a brief moment at the very end of a wonderful life that you spent together, filling each day with love and friendship. My deepest sympathies!! :bighug

My heart breaks for you with Gus's final trip. I'm going through this right now (again ), and want to say to you as I've been trying to say to myself: Second-guessing is painful, which might feel like a good way to punish yourself, but it can't make you know in the past what you simply did not know, and it makes you forget all the wonderful, good, true, right things that you shared right when you need those memories most. : Let experience be your guide, not your executioner. : :

This kind of conservative approach suits us very well. We haven't started Pb, and aren't in any hurry to do so. We did adjust his thyroid meds up, and in just a few days, he's MUCH perkier, so it's definitely having an effect. No more seizures, yet. It may sound odd, but the seizures themselves don't scare us (yet!) We just want to make sure his life isn't threatened or shortened unnecessarily, and that he has good quality of life. That's a global goal. If the seizures stay intermittent, and aren't in themselves a problem, then it's just part of the new normal. We will take measures to minimize and manage though, like adjusting his thyroid, and right now we're on a short term course with the meclizine: so far, so good.

Jiffer, good thoughts. We're pretty much there already, so that's good. In fact, I went over that in my head after the first one: what could he have been exposed to? Something new? Something toxic that's just built up for him? It may be something that wouldn't occur to me, something oddball, and we'll find out eventually, so I appreciate the reminder to keep environmental stuff under the microscope.

Wow. Wheatgrass, eh? Haven't come across that, yet. Hm! Thanks, Karen57! Congrats on a good track record with your two. That's pretty cool!

What a saga! And what a relief to have something to actually work with, I bet! I hope Legs tolerates the meds, and they DO THE JOB!!! Crossing fingers here in the frosty PNW. (grumble too hot for a vest grumble!)

Thanks for checking in, Judy. The vet called back yesterday and said Brilly's thyroid (regular ol' tests) were still waaay low, so we agreed to up his dosage. Wouldn't it be nice if it were that simple? We wait. We watch ...

Out here on the west coast, and the NORTH west coast, greyhound savvy vets are a rare commodity. My vet office has TWO! Today's vet said, basically, that it could well be a "growth" causing the seizures, as his bloodwork all looks fine. We're going to start on the bottom floor, with a over the counter non-drowsy Dramamine. He says that calms the seizure area of the brain, and might be all we need, at least for awhile. Gave me a prescription for pheno, and expects that will be the next phase of treatment. He didn't seem at all inclined to push high-tech imaging (not locally available), opting to treat the seizures. As I would not likely choose to have brain surgery done, that seems reasonable to me at this point. So, that's where we're at as of this moment. I'm still going to do a lot of reading. Think about dietary modifications, supplements ........ Thanks again for your input!