In my soon to be retirement I have taken up Photography, I have started my own company and will be doing wildlife/sports photography. This year in the stand I will have my camera also and with the electric shutter it is silent. Baily is about 5 months now seizure free, I hope no one has to ever see a dog have cluster seizures, it's just heartbreaking. With new medication he's doing really good. Below are some shots of Bailey, he's staring at a rabbit about 5 yds to my left, so my keen hunting skills are in top form as I never saw it. Canon R7 RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM
Good fortunes in your new path. Yes seizures are very scarey and hard to watch as you hold your best friend. My BIL bought a pure bred Samoyed, Strider. They moved way out in the country and on the moving day Strider got loose. Being a city apartment yr. Old pup he went straight to nighbors with free range chickens. BIL and my brother immediately went after him calling his name. Nieghbor who's husband was in the reserves grabbed his AR 16 stepped out on their porch and literally blew a hole through Strders midsection. Long short it managed to miss all vitals. Barely missing his spine. Months later he had recovered. Now all that effected him mentally and physically , Strider would have occational accidents. BIL was a pot head that didn't work and my sister was the income provider. He was home , cleaning and reloading a blk. Powder pistol. Strider had an accident. Angry, knowing Striders fear, he screamed at him shaking the pistol in Striders direction. Bam burnt a huge patch in his side. ( having bought and used blk. Powder hunting gun , I call BS on his story) Well I took him and as I was packing for Florida in their drive,they'd moved to a new town,Strider had disappeared. I called and he returned collapsing. I rolled him up on to my thighs kneeling in drive. His insides fell out. Horrified I stuffed him back in as carefully as I could wrapped him in towels and drove 40 miles to the nearest vet hospital. They managed to save him and cleaned my bank account in the process. A neighbor GSD had attacked him. Strider rolled over on his back and the GSD ripped him open from lower rib to penis. Long and short he developed seizures at any type of stress. I ended up giving him to my parents when I got married. He lived to be 17 yrs old I believe. He had occational seizures the rest of his life and was on medication The dang luckiest, loving dog I've ever known.
I've been grand pup sitting this weekend...Oh man! 4 big dogs in a small house in torrential rains. FUN times...lol Why in the world does every family group in our family HAVE to have 2 dogs each? blk lab mix, pure boxer
Took my pup to the groomer this morning to get a wash and wax and her toe nails trimmed. I assume they had issues because my pup is limping badly on her right front leg now. They mentioned her being nippy when they messed with her feet. That will be her last trip there! I just Just hope a vet trip isn't nessisary tomorrow.
Don't hold it against them just yet. Check her nails, you'll be able to see if they nipped too much off the nail, especially if she has white toes, the nails will be clear. My dog, RIP, hated his nails being trimmed. Would not have it, yelped and flopped until you let him go. Even if I did not get a nail clipped he would limp around like I broke his leg. I chalked it up to one of 2 things, either he was a big faker and tried to use my compassion against me, or he tensed up fighting so much he gave himself leg cramps and had a limp from that. You can try switching it up, but if results are similar I'd chalk it up to the pups refusal to cooperate. Still a slight chance they messed up, but sometimes it is that dog that loves the digging claws over the no scratch nubs. I caught my dog fake limping several times, acted like I was going to trim his nails and he yelped and screamed and I never got close with the clippers, just squeezed them a few times. Set him down and he'd start limping until he thought I wasn't watching. Miss that dog so much still....
I checked her nails. None looked to be cut back to short. She definitely has a muscle strain in her right front shoulder. She seems a little better this morning. I figured they put her in some kind of rig that holds her from moving and she hurt herself. She's my buddy and when she hurts I hurt.
Nails are the worst and as a previous groomer getting bit is a thing. Some groomers on a new client are'nt, lets say aware enough to check nail touching issues before getting them up on a grooming table. I always checked this in the bathing tub. If there was an issue the nails were attempted in the tub . This avoided a tussle on the table. I have to harness and hoist my own dogs to get nails done and AJ still manages to come out of a full body harness to get out of nail trimming. He turns physcotic. Always ask a groomer before making an appointment how they handle nail issue, with specifics. Hope there's no damage. P.S. if there was any shearing done. It could have been an issue with face trimming or even a air drying issue. Call them and ask what the issue on nippiness actual was.
The nipping occurred when they were doing her nails and trying to use the blow dryer. They told me that other than that she was pretty laid back. Partly my fault. I should have told them about hair dryers and her nails. She is a jerk when either one of them are attempted. Hence the use of a groomer. She grabbed her ball and wanted to play a bit ago. Hopefully she bounces back to her old self in a few days
I haven't looked at this thread in a while Sota. I'm so sorry for the loss of your pup. You know I know. I still have the ashes from my Great Pyrenees "Roxy". I've been wondering what to do with them. I just knew she was special and I wanted them. My Wonder Beagle, Elly May is getting close to the end and I thought of a fitting thing to do. I will either find a mold that I like or I'll sculpt something and make a mold. I will mix the ashes in cement and cast them in a statuette. It could be something as simple as a stone with the name carved into it or as complicated as I want to make it. Either way, those dogs will always be with me and not adrift somewhere. I know this sounds like sentimental hogwash, but I love my dogs.
I was going to dump Pita's ashes on a pontoon ride because she loved her "boaters" my wife informed me I can't do that because Pita could not swim.
A.J. was injured Sunday by Scout. They zoom around tagging each other at top speed. Well Scout caught up to A.J grabbing his hind leg. Needless to say hurting him. By Monday he was 3 legged and tried his best not to bite us while examining the leg. I figured a sprain or torn muscle . Giving it time before calling the vet. I was walking him to get him to put weight on it and not stiffen up. Well today I decided to call the vet. No appointment until Monday. I get home from working and picking blueberries AJ is running around like nothing is wrong...lol figures. I'll cancel appointment tomorrow. Phewwww dodged that 300.00 bullet
She loved her boat rides, back at the ranch she knew by how I parked my truck that we were going for a boaters, she would not leave my side till we were in the truck on the way to a lake. I see it as spreading her where she wanted to be on the water.
