GreyWrangler

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.

Welcome home Harold. They have the best couch for you.

late on board here, we use sentinal. One of my dogs from years ago was very sensitve to forntline, so we stopped using it.

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.

Glad he is feeling a little bit better.

He was a great dog to ride with. I am glad Martha, Halise and I could help his move to a great home.

she will feel a lot better without those nasty teeth.

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.

thank you all. Her ashes came home yesterday. I hope to get her a memory box soon, when they survive the kiln.

I am so sorry for your loss. An excellent tribute to a loved hound.

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.

I too am sorry for your loss. Fly high, fly well, and land safe sweet Blue.

No unnecesary screaming from Red dog either, and he was a drama queen at times. He was on PB for 5-6 years.

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. From her birthday last year -

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.

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.

I know some of them and we need them - increased appitite and decreasing the production of insulin. But what are the others? We increased Lot's dose and she is hungrier but other things/issues are cropping up.

Red had the majority of his seizures around 3 am or 3 pm. right out of his sleep or a nap. He'd wake and try to run, most nights I would be awakened by something, who knows why, and be in time to catch him from flying off the bed and into the wall or behind a chair.

Yup what she said. I had a pheno boy for 6 years. His main side effect of the drug was not the drinking?peeing, but the hunger. He was always hungry, and counter surfed a lot of stuff. We tried adding the K bromide, but he had such long lasting ataxia i took him off of it. He passed 3 month later due to hemagiosarcoma, at 11.5 yrs.

So sorry for your loss of one so young and full of life.

it happens a lot. I have had several greys do this.

Scott, if far in the future, he need po meds, I have some Potassiun Bromide chewable tabs (KBr) you can have for him. Red's levels were always fine, so we never found a real cause of his grand mals, and the later part is the post-ictal phase, they are still out of it and a bit dazed.