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welcome from Massachusetts, USA
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The good thing about dogs is, right now they are all sleeping peacefully on the floor around my office chair...trying to convince me they are good girls and I didn't see anything...
Do watch their ears around the chair wheels. I once rolled too far, not aware the dog had shifted her head, and ran over an ear. Very bruised and sore for her for many days.
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She got spayed westerday and came home today. She was quite happy, and much too exhuberant, lol. Must keep her quiet for 2 weeks. Not loking forward to that she is way to happy to slow down.
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Thank you
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Flea advice needed.
I have been using Sentinal with our greys for years. No flea problems at all.
But I got a new grey a week ago and she had fleas. On the 4th of July not many places are open to get flea products, so I went with Adams product, the shampoo and spray (the safe one) A bath helped a lot but there were stilll some, spray was added, causing her to get the silly spastic wigglies, but no bad reaction. Except during the night she worried one spot into a bald spot. Not quite a hot spot, but close. I put some triple antibiotic ointment on it then sprayed her again, today (monday) then went to petsmart and got some topical advantix.
I do plan on using sentinal on her, but she has not yet had a heartworm test so cannot start her on it.
She is being tested and spayed in two days, (wednesday).
So question is can i use the Advantix so soon after the Adams spray?
and should i use it two days before being she is being spayed?
I has been so long since we had a flea problem I am lost.
Thank you
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a couple of more pictures:
and her roomie, Harry:
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Harry, Grace and I went on the trailbound hounds ( http://www.trailboundhounds.org/ ) walk this morning at Bay Farm in Duxbury. It is a lovely place, open fiels, mild inclnes, not hills but not flat either. It goes down to the ocean, a bay really, but anywho, Grace loved it, went right in and wanted to bounce around and play, spinning and just being a silly thing. Splashing all of us around her. So the Kansas dog likes the beach.
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We are thrilled to welcome to our couch Grace, aka Andicot, fresh from the Ryan Farm in Abilene, Ks and with Billy O'Donnell, sr's blessing. She arrived Friday July 1 at a gh farm in CT. I picked her up Sunday night and she has settled in great. She is very friendly and a very lively little girl. I think she will do well here. Harry likes her and she likes him, following him around to learn the ropes. No reaction to fireworks or thunder.
Grace is by WW Time Warp out of Kilhara.
her gh data link: http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?z=ccQISy&d=andicot
and her racing career in a nut shell by Dick and the how your dog ran thread:
Andicot ran at Seabrook, Sarasota, Wonderland, Palm Beach and Victoryland. She had early speed and needed to be close to the front to have a chance to win. She could run a dog or two down to win or she could break on top and go box to wire.
Towards the end of her career she could only win from the front and at times could be caught, but, for a dog that ran over 160 races I think age just started to catch up to her.
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Welcome home Harold. They have the best couch for you.
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late on board here, we use sentinal. One of my dogs from years ago was very sensitve to forntline, so we stopped using it.
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i just stuff it down their maw, usually getting a finger chomped a bit in the process. After a while disguising it didn't work.
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Glad he is feeling a little bit better.
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He was a great dog to ride with. I am glad Martha, Halise and I could help his move to a great home.
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she will feel a lot better without those nasty teeth.
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Of my six greyhounds, murphy, shine, kim, sprite, red & lottie. I was able to have three pts at home.
Dog is more comfortable, much less stress than going to the vets, which few really dogs enjoy.
We let Lottie go last week, she was ready. As Rascalsmom wrote, she was tired.
Our vet is a traveling vet, no office, so she had no problem coming to the house, and timing it so that we had time to take her to the angel view pet cemetary and crematorium ourself.
Yes I have them laying on their final blanket as they are pts, then wrap it securly around them, and pick them up, i am stronger that I look, and take them out to my vehicle, then drive them down myself.
I have done that with ALL of them. I will pick their body up at the vets and help them load them into my vehicle then take them on their last ride. Then arrange for an individual cremation.
My father goes to pick up the ashes for me.
I have a thing about their collars,.their collar stays on in the hopes that where ever their spirit ends up, the escence of the collar shows to remind them that they were a loved part of the family, until the vet pronounces. They i removed it and save it.
Lottie got her last ride on the eleven days ago, on the 12th.
hope this helps
oh i forgot, Harry was in the room, laying on a nearby bed when lottie passed. When red was pts at the vet due to hemagio, we brought lottie in, Sprite passed with me holding her at the vet hospital, after a long and draining illness. Shine was pts without anyone there due to issues beyond my control/knowledge or I would have been there for her. Kim was pts at home and the others were around, she had osteo. Murphy was pts at home too, thoracic tumor and age, the others were around, and all to got to sniff once she passed.
I think it helps them to know that their friend, buddy, playmate is gone.
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thank you all.
Her ashes came home yesterday.
I hope to get her a memory box soon, when they survive the kiln.
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I am so sorry for your loss.
An excellent tribute to a loved hound.
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Red was always an early morning dog. All the advise is sound.
for us what kinda worked was to feed him a later dinner and a decent bedtime snack. He was also a phenobarb dog and very hungry.
Then dad started to feed him supper around the time he fixed his and Mom's (early bird diners) and that was just not good for the boy, he'd need to get up even earlier to go out.
So diner got moved back to 6pm and he got better, still not a sleeping in dog, but better.
Harry will sleep in, he to will snuggle.
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Blue
in Remembrance
I too am sorry for your loss. Fly high, fly well, and land safe sweet Blue.
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No unnecesary screaming from Red dog either, and he was a drama queen at times. He was on PB for 5-6 years.
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Insulinoma and prednisone.
She fought it since christmas, tolerated the pred until three weeks ago, and lost a lot of muscle tone in her back end, became very wobbly. She tried. Her spirit was willing but her body failed her.
Vet came to the house and helped her along at 8:45.
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That is a huge dose to start off with, as Lindsey wrote PB doesn't need loading doses. It works quickly.
Red worked up to a high dose over the 5 years he was on Pb (the body, humand and K9, builds a tolerance to the drug, that is why normally theu start low and work up) But I do not recall what it was. Another side effect after they get over the dopey phase is hunger.
After the seizure their blood sugar drops, give them several high cal snacks afterward.
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Nancy, have you done the diazoxide route yet?
not yet, probably soon.
I was try to hold off on that until I get back from kansas in june.
She is doing better today.
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What dose are you using now?
Lottie was diagnosed with Hypoglycemia before christmas 2010.
The pred is being used to get her body to reduce the amount of insulin secreted and to increase her appitite.
We started at 10 then worked up to 20mg qAM, and other that her increase in appitite did not notice many changes.
Just two weeks ago we, vet recommended, increased her dose to 30mg a day, splitting the doses, 20mg qAM and 10mg qPM, with meals. She was eating more but not in the am, she'd go 10-12 hours without eating not good in a hypoglycemic, so that is why there is an evening dose and that seems to be working. But at times her back leg seems a bit stiffer, muscle wasting on her thighs, and the panting and increase in water consumtion, so much so I decided to add sugar to it so as to get glucose into her.
Vulva Tuck
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We had this done with one of our girls, Lottie, she had a couple of uti's and a lot of irritation even with cleaning after going out and at bed time. tried several of the Rx powders from the vet finally went with just plain old corn starch very lightly applied/dusting to the dried area, it helped more that the powders.
We went with the surgery after a uti that took a long time to clear.
She did well with it, a few weeks after you couldn't even tell she'd had surgery it healed so well.