Trudy

Ok, ours was the 10x19 with the 9" rise Jet is behind the door considering making her way in And the 3 of them in front of it I found a pic of T flying through it, but it was dark, so didn't bother with it.

The one you are looking at will work fine. We had that in our house in AK. I hated it as it made using the slider to the back yard a PITA, but it worked for the dogs. But that size a person can crawl through. I'll see if I can find some pics in use.

agreed. Same goes with humans (which unfortunately, I have experience with)

Thank you, from both Jeff and I, for your thoughts and words of kindness. I'm creating this thread so I can move the threads that others had started for Ryan before I was ready to come in here and post my own this morning.

I knew it was coming. Been preparing myself for it for 3 years. But he always hung on, always pulled through, always came out the other side only a little worse for the wear. I knew this time would be different. I also knew I'd be doing it alone once he told me he was ready. Obviously 3 years of knowing it was eventually going to catch up to him doesn't lessen the pain. Doesn't help that we still don't know what it is. The last couple of months were spent watching him closely, making sure he was still breathing every morning, telling him it was ok to ask for help, doing what I could to make him comfortable and happy, telling him I wasn't going to hold him to "I'll live forever", telling him it was ok to leave if he had to, just to let me know when he was ready. He finally told me. I got the message loud and clear. And just in case I missed it or wasn't sure he meant it, he gave me a second sign he was finally ready a few hours later. So I had the rest of the weekend to say goodbye, to prepare myself for this one last time. My sweet baby boy is gone. Never to physically follow me where ever I go again.

Maybe she's not eating as much because she wants to eat something else. We changed foods when we moved back to the lower 48 in April. Jet was loving that food. Then Ry decided he was NOT going to eat it any more, so we changed back to their previous food. Which Jet will only eat when she is very very very hungry. She'd rather eat T's food. If she has food allergies, do you know what she's allergic to? If so, try a new food that will work for her and give it a try - should help with her eating maybe. As for the poop snacking... muzzle with tape over the end or stool guard - you'll have to clean that still though if she shoves it into poop at every opportunity (Ry did). Ry doesn't eat poop down here - guess he doesn't like the sun baked variety.

Could be either med. Ryan had a bleeding ulcer within 24 hours of starting pred. No oral steroids for him anymore. I'd get the sucralfate and start that.

Vet costs this year: Tavarish - $37, plus heartworm prevention since moving back to the real world Jet - $25, plus heartworm prevention (possibly a trip to the vet for stitches that we opted out when they wanted $400 for it, but that could have been last year) Ryan - $700+, plus heartworm prevention, normal meds, extra meds from the vet visits

I wouldn't want to be eating anything after throat/mouth surgery either. If he's drinking, try offering ensure or something similar - liquid meal

There is a lot you can do in photobucket to your photos, but file size is not one of them that I'm aware of.

You need to delete it all and start over if you haven't changed it since the board upgrade last year.

Mine have never been 5 pounds over race weight. Ryan at his heaviest was a pound or so over. His race weight was around 72. He was typically 69-71 and looked good. He's now 61 and looks horrible. Ry starts to lose his tuck at 70. Jet's race/training weight was 52. I've never gotten her over 50. And 50 was a short lived weight. She hovers around 47-49 and is about 46 now and looks just fine.

Wow, so many things wrong with that post - yeah, you all know the one 1 - attacking a member, oops, you didn't know it was a member, oh well, still a member 2 - know the board you are posting on, did you honestly think that comment would go over well 3 - this a greyhounds as pets board. PETS. Hard to have pets if you never interact with them. I'll be one of the first to agree that greyhounds are <gasp> just dogs, but greyhounds aren't outside dogs 100% of the time. Hope you enjoyed you stay

Unless I'm out with them, Jet and Tavarish haven't explored the yard. Jet sticks to the easily passable places while T just barrels through the brush and stuff. We have 6 acres here - about 5 of that is now fenced. They still have the dog yard for night time use and when I'm gone or just don't feel like keeping too much of an eye on them. Gate is open to the back yard now, temps aren't too bad and all 3 dogs are in laying on the floors. Jet and T were out earlier and played and then Jet took a snooze in the sand for a bit.

Does your vet take calls off hours. If so, call and leave the answering service a message that you want to know if you should bring him in or if it can wait until Monday.

Ryan is a seizure dog and does fine with front line. I just don't like it. The frontline spray seems to be working fine and hasn't bothered him either. My mom has little dogs and 2 of them were seizure dogs and they couldn't do frontline. She uses capstar

Not all of them. Taste of the Wild Salmon is only 25% protein.