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Glad the pooch is ok. My sister-in-law's min pin got into a bottle of aspirin in my wife's purse once. Ate more than half of the bottle before she found out. The dog lived though thankfully.
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http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/07/ne ... _beco.html
Unintended consequence: PA passed an antitethering law, now shelters are completely overrun with surrendered dogs, saw a local shelter has dropped adoption fees down to $0 to try and make room.
Thanks government.
Unintended consequence: PA passed an antitethering law, now shelters are completely overrun with surrendered dogs, saw a local shelter has dropped adoption fees down to $0 to try and make room.
Thanks government.
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It's really not an invasive government problem, it's an dadhole owner problem. The law is a good one. Anyone who would surrender their dog because of this should be tethered outside themselves.http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/07/ne ... _beco.html
Unintended consequence: PA passed an antitethering law, now shelters are completely overrun with surrendered dogs, saw a local shelter has dropped adoption fees down to $0 to try and make room.
Thanks government.
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Yeah, I agree with WK on this one. Dog's can still be outside provided they have adequate shelter. They just can't be tied to a deck, tree, etc. This law is saving many dogs from freezing to death or, at best, suffering frostbite. Maybe a few tough adoptees will end up euthanized, but (imo) that's a better outcome than the alternative.
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this kind of weekend
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Does that 30 minutes outside rule only apply if you're tethering?It's really not an invasive government problem, it's an dadhole owner problem. The law is a good one. Anyone who would surrender their dog because of this should be tethered outside themselves.http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/07/ne ... _beco.html
Unintended consequence: PA passed an antitethering law, now shelters are completely overrun with surrendered dogs, saw a local shelter has dropped adoption fees down to $0 to try and make room.
Thanks government.
We dogsat for our friends last weekend and I'd let her and my dog out in the backyard for probably an hour a couple of times. They just wrestle non stop and when they bark I let them in. But mostly they just wanted to play out in the snow in the backyard.
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What happens if you have a husky and it loves the cold weather?
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I normally don't mess around with filters, but I took a pic of our 6 year old goldendoodle, Molly, at Christmastime and thought I would share
Yes, she is wearing a Pens jersey
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Older, but a nice eulogy for a Mississippi dog
http://gardenandgun.com/articles/good-d ... 8_facebook
http://gardenandgun.com/articles/good-d ... 8_facebook
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My golden turned 8 today. It makes me sad knowing he's on the back half of life.
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Don't try mashing it down a drain.
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Oof.
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Our vet called my 9 y/o GSP a “senior” last visit. Made me misty eyed.My golden turned 8 today. It makes me sad knowing he's on the back half of life.
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My goldendoodle just turned 6, but I'm already starting to get that melancholy feeling that she's getting older. She is in great shape and still acts like a puppy, but I know how fast the back half of a dog's life goes. She gets up in bed with us every night for cuddles before we go to bed, and I find myself treasuring every minute of it.Our vet called my 9 y/o GSP a “senior” last visit. Made me misty eyed.My golden turned 8 today. It makes me sad knowing he's on the back half of life.
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Our beagles are 12 and 13. We've had the younger one since she was around 10 weeks old, and if be lying if I said I didn't think about..... that..... at least once a day every day since we brought her home.
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A few months ago I posted about Odin coming into our house.
An update.
He's such a fascinating dog. He has birth defects that left him with, among other things, only about a third of his lower jaw and the problems extend into his trachea.
His trouble breathing eventually necessitated an emergency tracheostomy at Kansas State Vet Med Hospital.
That was followed by a CT scan and examination by a half-dozen or so clinicians. The diagnosis was unanimous: his trachea was collapsing due to his difficulty breathing as a result of the defects.
SO ... the recommendation was a permanent tracheostomy: a hole in his neck. They said that without this ... maybe a few months. With it ... maybe a few years.
It was done last week.
We've had hundreds of dogs and nothing like this. I thought I'd post about it here in case anyone else has or ever will have a pet that has to undergo this. This is a work in progress, since it's only been slightly more than a week.
First of all and most importantly, Odin is doing very well. He's a boy of boundless spirit and love. He seems to have no idea that anything is wrong with him. I wish we could all have that lightness of being.
He's got a hole about one inch by half-inch in his neck. I thought there was going to be some sort of apparatus holding it open or something, but no. Just a hole.
Four or five times a day we have to:
- For ten minutes, hold a nebulizer to the trach hole to get moisture in ... which normally would be added through the sinuses or whatever.
- Then squirt sterile saline solution (1 mL) into the hole to further moisturize and prompt expelling of mucus and build-up. He coughs it back out. That's good.
- For ten more minutes, lightly pound his sides to break up mucus and stuff and get him to expel anything he can. (It's actually funny that when we pound his sides we can hear the air getting expelled from the hole in his neck. That makes us happy, since we're doing it right.)
- Wipe the area down and probe with a medical-grade swap for any mucus/obstruction.
- Spread triple-antibiotic around the trach hole site.
We have to be watching the discharge. If it's too thick, more daily of the above. If it's too thin, less.
He'll have to have this routine done for the rest of his life, but we're told that as it heals and sort of becomes the norm for him the frequency can be reduced to 2-3, even just 2 times a day.
If he ever has an obstruction, we have a long rubber tube which attaches to a large syringe. Stick the end of that tube into the trach hole and suction it out. Luckily we haven't had to do that yet and hopefully will not.
When we feed him or take him out into the cold he has to wear a bandana to cover the trach hole.
Like I said, he's in great spirits and goes along with it all. He is now breathing much easier. He's gotta love that.
I haven't had a chance to take pics of him in his new state. When we get them I'll post.
An update.
He's such a fascinating dog. He has birth defects that left him with, among other things, only about a third of his lower jaw and the problems extend into his trachea.
His trouble breathing eventually necessitated an emergency tracheostomy at Kansas State Vet Med Hospital.
That was followed by a CT scan and examination by a half-dozen or so clinicians. The diagnosis was unanimous: his trachea was collapsing due to his difficulty breathing as a result of the defects.
SO ... the recommendation was a permanent tracheostomy: a hole in his neck. They said that without this ... maybe a few months. With it ... maybe a few years.
It was done last week.
We've had hundreds of dogs and nothing like this. I thought I'd post about it here in case anyone else has or ever will have a pet that has to undergo this. This is a work in progress, since it's only been slightly more than a week.
First of all and most importantly, Odin is doing very well. He's a boy of boundless spirit and love. He seems to have no idea that anything is wrong with him. I wish we could all have that lightness of being.
He's got a hole about one inch by half-inch in his neck. I thought there was going to be some sort of apparatus holding it open or something, but no. Just a hole.
Four or five times a day we have to:
- For ten minutes, hold a nebulizer to the trach hole to get moisture in ... which normally would be added through the sinuses or whatever.
- Then squirt sterile saline solution (1 mL) into the hole to further moisturize and prompt expelling of mucus and build-up. He coughs it back out. That's good.
- For ten more minutes, lightly pound his sides to break up mucus and stuff and get him to expel anything he can. (It's actually funny that when we pound his sides we can hear the air getting expelled from the hole in his neck. That makes us happy, since we're doing it right.)
- Wipe the area down and probe with a medical-grade swap for any mucus/obstruction.
- Spread triple-antibiotic around the trach hole site.
We have to be watching the discharge. If it's too thick, more daily of the above. If it's too thin, less.
He'll have to have this routine done for the rest of his life, but we're told that as it heals and sort of becomes the norm for him the frequency can be reduced to 2-3, even just 2 times a day.
If he ever has an obstruction, we have a long rubber tube which attaches to a large syringe. Stick the end of that tube into the trach hole and suction it out. Luckily we haven't had to do that yet and hopefully will not.
When we feed him or take him out into the cold he has to wear a bandana to cover the trach hole.
Like I said, he's in great spirits and goes along with it all. He is now breathing much easier. He's gotta love that.
I haven't had a chance to take pics of him in his new state. When we get them I'll post.
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you are more of a man than i
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Wow.
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God bless redwill
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Damn. Good thing he ended up with you. I can't imagine too many people willing to do all that.
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God bless redwill
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I'd propose a toast to redwill, but it's 8:23 am here, so the best I can do at the moment is raise my Rockstar in your honor. That's incredible pet owner in progress, right there.
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God bless redwill
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Give all credit to Odin, not me or my wife.
He's the rock star.
He's the rock star.
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