GreyWrangler

try using a t-shirt and taped over safety pins.

manuka honey also could try EMT gel, I used that on Sprite after her cancer surgery, with a petrolatum dressing over to keep the stuff in the right place.

Two weeks ago it was 1400+ for Red. A week ago 750 for Lottie. but on average it used to be less than $500. Sprite, well, I don't even want to try to remember how much we spent for her over her lifetime, just to say she was a very expensive free dog.

Phenobarb can increase their appetite. Think munchies. Red had the hungry horrors when first strated on Phenobarb. Sorry you are going through this and best wishes for Rainey.

god speed sweet Duke, look up my Red dog.

she is doing great. slight swelling of her upper muzzle, the vet warmed about that, as all removed were uppers.

Thank you all, she is home and doing great. She lost 5 teeth. Has some stitches. Riadyl for pain. Had half her wet supper and will get the rest in a bit. (She wants it ALL now!) lol.

Lottie goes into the vet this am for a preop check and then a dental. Please keep her in your thoughts.

hugs and best wishes to Mafi.

Got his ashes back on thursday. My dad wetn down and picked them up. I got him into his memory box from Sarah Snavely already. I got it in March, didn't think he'd be using it quite so soon. She painted it blue and the dog on top is fawn in a great cockroah, I'll get a picture soon. Thank you all.

lottie did this tuesday night. her nail was broken down near the base, and bleeding. I coated liberally with triple anitbiotic oint, wrapped with gauze and then vet wrap. I briefly considered a trip to the vet, but did not take her to the E-Vet cause it wasn't really an emergency, and still not quite over bring a dog over there but not home Unwrapped it the next day and she, um, took care of the offending nail herself. It is already healing

He did, he knew how to pose, and had a great face, not too long, but a good stop, and good bite. His ears were not the 'proper' rose ears, but he was handsome.

this is so true, we have had hounds leave both ways. I prefer neither. I was in tears this morning from just glancing at his settee. I was empty, not fawn face hanging over the armrest/pillow watching his breakfast bowl. Only one bowl on the counter, too. I even feel guilty that I slept well last night.

Red - Barcopa Mred May 30, 1999 - August 16, 2010 Cancer got him, he missed one meal and was gone 9 hours later. My big stoic boy, Red, red dog, red man, big boy, moose and a few others. One of the first picture I took of him, still at the kennel before he came home with us, (well before affordable digital cameras, lol) I didn't even know he had a ridge, i only saw him in a coat and snood. spur of the moment camera phone picture: At the 2009 Jingle Bell walk at Boston Common, he won best dressed male. Thank you for the picture George: this was his glamour shot from the first years we went to the jingle Bell walk. Mark Ready took this picture: Early on with us: one of my favorite shots of him: Little grayer, but he still had those ears at a walk last moth with TBH: in the yard one summer: a few months ago - no worries for this boy: Red Dog's photobucket album: http://s707.photobucket.com/albums/ww79/Nikkimonster_2009/Red%20%20may%201999%20%20-%20aug%202010/

he is gone. 4:15 ish pm. cancer, spleen & Liver. his ultrasound was clear in december, 2009 not so todays. He went peacefully to the bridge, with me, my dad, Lottie and our favorite vet by his side. Tomorrow I will pick him up and take him to Angel View for cremation. I already have a SSR box for him.

My first greyhound, Murphy, had reactions to cedar, so I have never bought any for the others, why tempt fate.

I fed Sprite chiken noodle soup with extra chicken and enough crakers to make it mush. A little salty but that kept her drinking water.

I got back from the vet about 45 minutes ago, left my boy there. He was fine at 6am when we got up so he could have him morning constitutional, down and up the three stairs fine. Then we napped until 7ish (to give me the delusion of having slept in on my day off) when he woke me, he was panting heavily and very wobbly on the back end. It was not a seizure, not the post-ictal effects of a sz. I wrapped my arms around him and lifted him up to the bed (btw he now weighs 75lbs, down from 86 last year). he settled down and draped his head over my legs. fifteen minutes later time to really get up. he got off the bed okay but the back end was not tracking with the front, it was veering off to the sides, all wobbly. He wanted nothing to do with going out, instead retired to his settee to wait for breakfast. i watched ready to help as he climbed up onto the settee, he lifted each back legs, but then flopped down instead of snuggling into the corner. I had to call him for breakfast, normally he is by my side, 'helping' he oozed off the settee and followed Lottie and I out to the sunroom. When his bowl went down he didn't he sniff, he glanced then turned, very wobbly and headed tottered to the loveseat out there. That was it, he refused food. Red, who never, ever refused food. Off to the e-vet. they are doing blood work, and checking him over, he was not a happy camper, but being his good self for them. Only gave the Vet a dirty look when he took his temp. On physical exam he did show tenderness in his hips, so they will x-ray them and his abdomen. They will be calling soon, hopefully. sigh, danm allergies. Update: noon - they tried to do x-rays around 11, but he had a bit of a panicked reation to being on the table, heart rate increas, gums paled. They gave him his PB and some diazepam. The this afternnon got him back for another try. Update: 1:30 - abdominal x-ray cloudy due to fluid in his abdomen, but looks like a mass on/in his spleen, they tested the fluid and it is red. they are going to do somne chest x-rays and an ultrasound. Update: a couple of masses on his spleen and liver too. lungs fine. BTW he is 11yrs old. ]] etA; big question now is wether to euthinize him there or bring him home and have our traveling vet do it, if she is available. If we do i there I will bring a bed and a blanket and probably lottie too. Fianl update - he is gone. Our fav vet came in and did the deed, he'd been monitoring Red as he was in surgery most the day, but out when we got there. The E-vet stopped by too, the vet he often saw stopped, as did the oncologist who treated Sprite, but never Red. Red settled with us in the room quickly, Lottie was even there, so he knew we all cared and loved him. He knew it was time and he was ready. Da**it, I wasn't I wanted at least 4 more years of his cold wet nose waking me at 5am.

My Sprite lost most of her teeth in one surgery at 10 {after several dentals and much antibiotic use(she had two left at the end, one a canine, the other did require two surgeries to close up the hole but she did well)} She made it to 15. She recovered quickly from their removal and her overall health improved greatly from having so many bad teeth. We already fed soaked kibble so she made out great with that, she'd still gummed her snausages and scarfed down most anything she could, lol. She would even gum the rawhide chews I had for the younger pups.

Do not panic, sythroid is not deadly for them. my first grey recieve 0.8mg twice daily for a good portion of her life.

No change in his seizure status. He has been on a supplement called Marin for several years: What is Marin for Dogs? Benefits: • Improves your dog’s liver health • Healthier liver function can improve appetite and activity levels • Comes in a chewable tablet • Can be given in your dog’s food • No known side effects How it works: Marin for Dogs is specially formulated with vitamin E and silybin which jointly work to support healthy liver function. Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps protect the liver. Silybin provides many benefits, including a mechanism for liver cell regeneration and reducing inflammation. Marin for Dogs also includes zinc, an essential trace mineral which participates in protein and carbohydrate metabolism and hormone synthesis.

Well Red is now off the KBr. It took 10 weeks to wean him down. I was lucky my vet found a supplier for the chewable tabs and orders some in for us. I put him on it in addition to his Pb not because of worsening seizures, but due to his liver values being off a bit, I had hopes of weaning him down to a lower dose of the Pb. We did loading doses of the KBr, and then maintained at 1GM per day. He was very ataxic from about day 5 on. He even managed to break his tail in a fall. When we lowered the Pb, his ataxia lessened somewhat, but he was still unsteady and his back end very weak, and it seemed like we were losing him personality wise too. In talking over with our regular vet we started lowering the KBr, slowly, like two weeks at a time then dropping it, go two weeks then lower again, and then brought him Pb back up. I have my Red dog back. I know it works for so many hounds, but not for mine. I am really glad my regular vet understood my concerns and was willing to work with me to take him off the med slowly.

My girl Lottie had this surgery at age 4.5yrs, six years ago. She recovered very well, so well there is no scar. I do not recall how much it was. One thing we used topically before she had surgery after all the dugs failed to clear up the irritations was plain old corn starch to dry it out.

Handsome boy. What was his racing name?

probably stepped on a leaf wrong.