Loving my Oldies

I was talking about Danny (my sister calls me a bore and she only sees me every few years) on another thread and decided it was a good enough excuse to come in hear and give an update. We seem to have settled into a routine of good days and bad days and when we have bads days, I try not to get too worried. Danny's eye has healed well, saw the surgeon yesterday and next appointment is in six weeks. She said there is practically no sign of the crystalisation that was there previously. She was concerned that because she didn't want to risk a GA, she might not have been able to get it all. But so far so good. My experience with this veteriary hospital has not been without its dramas because of poor communication and poorly trained/not thinking receptionists - see #491. Over the weeks since the operation I have had to leave messages for the surgeon (she did say to contact her direct and gave me her mobile) which have gone unanswered, messages given to reception which have not been passed on and yesterday was no exception. I was running late because of traffic lane changes on Pacific Highway, so I rang to say I was running a few minutes late. I don't know why I do this: I am ALWAYS kept waiting. In any case, I was only about 5-10 minutes late, checked in and told to take a seat. After 1/2 hour, I approached the receptionist and she said that surgeon wouldn't be too long, she was just finishing another procedure and knows I am here. Cut a long story short, I was eventually seen after waiting over an hour. First of all I was seen by an opthamology nurse who kept on muddling the information about the various drops I was giving Danny, and when the surgeon finally, probably after another 15 minutes, arrived she said she had been told I had cancelled. Does everyone go through these dramas or do I seem to attract them? Anyway on the tummy and eating side, Danny still throws up from time to time, I have learned not to give him anything to eat in the morning - which is difficult because I have to syringe his meds in and some of them taste awful. Only once in the past few weeks has he had a throw up with consisted of undigested food, so I consider that an improvement. I generally give him his meds in a bit of bone broth and if he throws that up he will most time lick it back up again. He will occasionally come for a walk and he enjoys himself when we are out- very slow and quite short walks these days now that we no longer have dynamo Myrtie. He is happiest when I am lying on the couch reading or watching TV or on the easy chair. He then can be doing his two favourite things at the same time: sleeping and being in close contact with me. LOL. Bunter has recovered well after his drama and operation. Wound healed perfectly with no infections, torn stitches or other such things. He is too fat, like his mama, and I really have to try harder I simply cannot sing the praises of Valbitz loudly enough or long enough for putting me onto BM Animals - I really credit her and their goodies and supplements for saving Danny's life. Someone along the way also suggested Lactose free milk. That too has been a godsend. I am now giving all the dogs the supplements and dried powdered foods from BM Animals in their meals and even Gussy Cat enjoyed Danny's "Shake" of bone broth, kefir, powdered dried pancreas and powdered green tripe this morning :laugh: . I hope she doesn't start barking. Maybe I should start having some ????

Dear Dogs - I love Danny too :laugh: :laugh: As I type on my iPad at my dining room tabel, he is sitting in a bed at my feet having a little groom. I don't want to take the focus of this thread away from Henrietta and Gracie, but because it is about Health and Nutrition :D ...... I am building a shrine to Valbitz who put me onto BM Animals goodies and supplements and whoever first suggested Lactose Free Milk. I did scroll through looking for whoever that was, but couldn't find it. The BM Animals goodies have food and supplements which Danny will always eat and he will always have a lap of Lactose Free Milk. So with these, Danny is maintaining his weight and obviously helping his gut to enable him to eat other foods. So hopefully my singing these praises will help other people with old and not so well dogs.

Your post, blonde, and this one reduced me to tears. I also echo what Persephone has said re feeding him things to keep his weight up. If you have to go out, maybe put him in a smaller room or an enclosure of some description where, if he does have difficulty getting up, he has something firm and gripable under his feet and doesn't struggle to get up so he can go walkabout? Have a look at two websites I've been recommended lately with regard to natural goodies and supplements for dogs with or without health problems: BM Animals in Melbourne Loyalty Pets in Brisbane

WOW!! My order from Loyalty Pets arrived today. The dogs have had only the Roo Chews so far and loved them. I have Roo Ribs and Munch Crunch Pure Tripe (freeze dried strips) to try yet. Bit concerned about opening the packet of tripe :laugh: :laugh: Might do that on the deck.

Brilliant news :thumbsup: So happy for you. Have a wonderful time away.

Your little dogs are obviously terrified of that great big beastie. Is that your back garden, CC? It's fabulous.

Yes, same here

Yeah well you can take the girl outta Gosford but you can't take the Gosford outta the girl :laugh: Ha ha ha ;) If you've got it !!! flaunt it!!! Ain't nothin' like a Gosford gal.

Well Maddie obviously failed the June Dally Watkins School for young ladies.

LOL - leaping sideways. Naturally, I had to take another look at that beautiful photo of Arkie. You know, I think that his ears are at different semaphore points LOL just add to its magic, really.

What we do for them. It must be love. :laugh:

There must be something wrong with my nose LOL. I can't smell it until the jar is opened, although I have yet to try the freeze dried. But then, I've always wondered what people are on about with the smell of expressed anal glands. For sure I wouldn't wear it as a perfume :laugh: :laugh: , but it wasn't bad enough to have me gagging. :o

You've just cost me $60, Sheena. I had to check out Loyalty's website ........ and the rest, to be very original, is history. A whole kilo . I would decant small amounts into an airtight jar and keep the main bag wrapped in a few layers of plastics bags.

:laugh: :laugh: Just keep it in a tightly sealed jar. I use those Moccona Coffee jars because they have airtight seals.

I follow a farm sanctuary in Tasmania (Brightside Farm Sanctuary) on FB. They also rescue dogs and a lot of greyhounds. The woman who runs the sanctuary has been doing a few promotional activies in the past week to counter balance all the negative publicity. A couple of days ago, she posted photographs of one of her greys with a sweet little piglet. It just occurred to me while I was typing this and thinking about Brightside's photographs, that Greyhounds must be the breed with the most variety in colours of coats: pure white to pitch black and every colour and every combination in between.

This gave me a laugh. I have the air dried powdered green tripe which I add to the dogs' food. I keep it in its packet and then in a tightly sealed container. I started a new pack this evening. Each time I walked through the kitchen I was getting this awful smell and thought some might have fallen on the floor. Out with the mop and then I saw the old packet on the bench, Yes - it is very smelly. I get mine through BM Animals and you can order via their website. They also do lots of other air dried foods for treats.

If anything could change people's minds (and educate them),Yonjuro, it would be your pix of Ronin and Tigger playing. ETA: That little Spitz in the third photo looks a bit like my Danny

Thank you for that. I will take my magnifying glass so I can read the small print LOL.

Oh that would be great,CavsRcute. I did start googling earlier, but got sidetracked.

That is fantastic news, Stitch and I hope the rumbles continue to stay away. I have a dog who is really suffering from non specific gastritis and have tried just about everything too. I did introduce all my dogs to Manuka Honey but without success. Where could I buy raw honey and know that it really was the real deal?

Get a good lawyer who can argue that you have a physical version of Tourette Syndrome and were unable to stop your arms and legs and teeth flailing around the thumpee.

Yes, Sandgrubber, it would be associated with Danny's gastro problems, poor darling. It makes very interesting and informative reading, thank you. Danny only does this very occasionally and when he does it can go on for quite some time. He can be quite frenetic about it as well and it is impossible to stop him.

I was in the latter category :)

It is amazing how much wrong you can find with a dog who has been rescued. Then it depends on how far the rescue group is prepared to go. I know any dog I rescued/fostered deserved the same sort of treatment I would give my own. Very easy for a dog who has [forgotten name - similar to parvo] to rack up a bill of a few thousand dollars.

Oh dear. Sounds more than not good. Sounds dodgy. However, rescuing can be very very expensive. $8,000 could be expended easily and quickly depending on what the group finds wrong with dogs they rescue. But to delete you and block you would suggest that they are not being honest or, at the very least, being quite immature in not understanding and accepting that people who donate have every right to (and probably should) ask questions as to whether the donations go.