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@NTP66

Two week update on the CPDs. All 8 are still with us. Four have really grown and colored up. Four are still small and kind of drab. Excuse all the debris in the water. It's frozen baby brine

Ohh, I like those. Very unique pattern compared to most freshwater fish.

What else do you feed? I am exclusively NLS pellets for both fresh and salt.

The CPDs get only frozen baby brine. The 75 gets a good mix. Frozen blood worms. Frozen brine. Xtreme flakes. Xtreme wafers for the corys. Neither of our lfs carry NLS. I need to get the CPDs onto a pellet so it’s not all frozen food.

Amazon is your friend there. It’s still the best resource for NLS.

@meow: Do your Rainbows school up and follow you? Ours do, constantly. Literally, every single one of them.

Yeah. Ours are absolute chonkers, so I assume they are begging for food. I took this about 30 seconds ago. This is their constant position.

Man, yours are huge. We must have really bought ours very young.

Yeah. Our LFS has one bosemani that is absolutely massive in one of their Not For Sale tanks. He is massive. I assume ours are from the same breed as that one.

Another thing that I realized today. I threw in some cherry shrimp like two months ago. Like 8 of them and mostly forgot they were in there. I was doing maintenance today and stopped counting at 45. They are everywhere.

I think our cherry shrimp are all gone now. Started with four, didn’t see one for like 6 months, then would randomly see one every once in a while. Haven’t seen one in 3-4 months now.

Our Molly girl turns the big 1-0 next month. I wanted to share a photo of her just because (along with my disinterested son in the background )

Pretty dog.

Good girl, Molly Dog.

Dogs are the best.

*sigh*

Yes, they really are.

Yup.

That is one blonde ass kid.

That is one blonde ass kid.

Chip off the old block

And thanks bros. She's been with us for all the big life events of the last decade. Definitely a good girl.

So my younger Cocker had pancreatitis back in July which triggered thrombocytopenia, which is an inability to make platelets and therefore makes an animal's blood (including humans) unable to clot. Treated 2 months with steroids, tapered her off last week. Took her to groomer yesterday, they found a lot of bruising on her and sent her home rather than risk nicking her and being unable to stop the bleeding.

Called our vet, can't get her in till tomorrow, called emergency vet, can't even get them to return my calls since 3 PM yesterday. So I guess we go with tomorrow. She has no other symptoms and is her usual active self bopping all over the place. Hard to keep an active dog settled down so she doesn't bruise herself more or god forbid get cut.

So my younger Cocker had pancreatitis back in July which triggered thrombocytopenia, which is an inability to make platelets and therefore makes an animal's blood (including humans) unable to clot. Treated 2 months with steroids, tapered her off last week. Took her to groomer yesterday, they found a lot of bruising on her and sent her home rather than risk nicking her and being unable to stop the bleeding.

Called our vet, can't get her in till tomorrow, called emergency vet, can't even get them to return my calls since 3 PM yesterday. So I guess we go with tomorrow. She has no other symptoms and is her usual active self bopping all over the place. Hard to keep an active dog settled down so she doesn't bruise herself more or god forbid get cut.

Do you not have an actual emergency vet there? We have two within like 30 minutes of us that basically acts like an ER. The charges are crazy, but if it's really serious we have gone there before. You end up waiting several hours like a human ER, but they at least get looked at.

Though based on what you said it doesn't sound quite that serious and waiting 24 hours isn't the end of the world.

So my younger Cocker had pancreatitis back in July which triggered thrombocytopenia, which is an inability to make platelets and therefore makes an animal's blood (including humans) unable to clot. Treated 2 months with steroids, tapered her off last week. Took her to groomer yesterday, they found a lot of bruising on her and sent her home rather than risk nicking her and being unable to stop the bleeding.

Called our vet, can't get her in till tomorrow, called emergency vet, can't even get them to return my calls since 3 PM yesterday. So I guess we go with tomorrow. She has no other symptoms and is her usual active self bopping all over the place. Hard to keep an active dog settled down so she doesn't bruise herself more or god forbid get cut.

Do you not have an actual emergency vet there? We have two within like 30 minutes of us that basically acts like an ER. The charges are crazy, but if it's really serious we have gone there before. You end up waiting several hours like a human ER, but they at least get looked at.

Though based on what you said it doesn't sound quite that serious and waiting 24 hours isn't the end of the world.

We do, which is actually where she spent 4th of July weekend. They'll see you if you just show up but prefer to do phone consult to determine if it's really emergent. A few vets have left the area and their wait times are through the roof (talking, 10-12 hours) for walk ins. At this point she's not worse than yesterday so tomorrow should work- I mean, the wait time alone is 1/3 of the way to 2:00 tomorrow.

It helps that we know what's going on. Just worried about her and frustrated.

Speaking of dogs and vets. Our older dog who is coming up on turning 11 I believe is starting to just do weird things. He's always been a bit skittish, but recently he's just been basically pacing up and down our back hallway all day, going in circles, then going back to his bed and sleeping. Rinse and repeat.

He's also been having way more accidents in the house recently. Yesterday after he had been outside earlier in the morning he got up... I heard him in the hallway and it sounded like he scared himself, but then I notice a big puddle of pee. I go to clean that up and then I find another trail of pee basically going from the living room to the dining room around the kitchen island and into the kitchen. This is a 12lb dog.. I don't even know where all that pee came from.

I'm debating on taking him to the vet just to see if anything is us. Like I don't know if he is starting to get doggie dementia and just doesn't know where he is or how to signal he needs to go out, but the pacing up and down the hall way randomly and sleeping way more than he used to combined with the peeing everywhere has me concerned a bit.

Could it be a UTI maybe?

Last night, Audrey left us for the Dark Forest. She was 16 and had a slew of health issues, but was still bobbin' around the house pretty well. Last few days she stayed on a pillow near her food and water and rarely got up. She was 11 when we adopted her and Lilly, so I think we gave her the best last 5 years we could.

I'll miss the little thing. She was the most vocal cat I ever met and was always yelling at us about something.

Aw, sorry Kane. Adopting an older animal can be very tough but is undoubtedly a noble thing to do. RIP Audrey