Loving my Oldies

Well, silly billy, you should never feel like thatl. With elderly or sick dogs (same as people) there are good days and bad days. On bad days, you think the time has finally come and the next day they rally. If you can't share the roller coaster of emotions here, where can you. Look at some of the other end of the spectrum, that is whelping, stories we go through: temps taken, dilations, etc etc. Sounds as though your vet is wise and caring. Good day for Kuges, share it here. Bad day for Kuges, share it here.

Depends what you put in it, I think. Nothing savoury or spicy. I go with the boiled chicken and rice if they have been off colour, but nothing really serious. I used to have a little dog who would be racing around, he'd stop for a second, throw up and off he'd go again, totally unconcerned . Just one of those things. Maybe Fred was trying to replace Pro Hart with his carpet decorating.

What Persepone says. I'd try the medication, particularly if they won't tolerate the belly bands. My Rover (there is a thread on him, he died in September last year) was nearly 20 and was fine through the day, but I used belly bands on him through the night which saved my sanity. I'm sorry to hear you are going through this. Older dogs can take quite a bit of management, and to see them deteriorate can be very distressing.

Oh forget about sore backs. Altogether now: Waiting, waiting

Yep, me too. And if the dog who threw up doesn't eat it, one of the others probably will.

He sure is one handsome guy, K9A. Has he started to put on weight? Get that camera out woman ........... please!

Can't wait to see some of the pix. However, while I wait can someone tell me why there is a person disappearing into a tree

I gather Skye and Storm are "joined at the hip"? Don't they all look lovely and happy.

Deepest sympathies, Horts . A very hard call. For Kuga to have reached such a grand age means you sure must have been doing something right all this years. I've had only little dogs and adopted quite a few who were already old. They seem to be going great guns and then all of a sudden they go downhill and then there is no going back . No matter how long they've been with you or how old they are or what a wonderful life they have had, the hole they leave in your lives is immense. For many years, I have had several dogs and only three (all of whom are still alive) have been very very attached, so there haven't been any dogs who have been left bereft. That said, when I had my first two dogs and the little female died, the male was a total wreck as he had never been alone in his life. That was truly awful and to see a dog so distraught makes our own grief even worse. I would go with what others have said and let Ella know he has gone. She will grieve, but at a time like this, it is Kuga who needs you most. Again, hugs to you and to your beautiful animals.

Dogs' senses are so much more developed than human's. A dog doesn't know it is "disabled" Exactly. I think it is horrible that these kind and loving people have been made to question what they are doing. Have to agree totally and emphasise everything here. Oh that is good. I just hate to think that they are now feeling they are doing the wrong thing. They have a happy, healthy, playful and much loved dog. What more could the dog want.

Your photos are amazing.

Ah yes, the big question. Depends on the ranger and the council and how much they care.

Awful situation for everyone concerned ---- except negligent owner, of course . She sounds like a fruitloop and they are the ones who do most damage. I'm for reporting to the Ranger. I don't know much about the dog situation at St Ives as I've never taken my dogs there, but it is a huge area and I think there would be enough room to avoid people if necessary. Sue & Crew on this forum goes there regularly. Perhaps you could PM her and get first hand information.

I have to echo Persephone's post. As hard as it is and how much we miss them, we have to think of their health and well being. And, yes, to have to let a young dog go, is so many more times more difficult.

Thanks for the recommendations. I went with Gladesville as they said they had a vet that is good with rabbits. Appointment at 3:15 this afternoon. Thanks Hopefully she is okay Hope the little rabbit is okay. Porche on this forum rescues rabbits so she would be pretty well in the know. Glad that Gladesville can see you.

I don't have any helpful suggestions for you except to say: thank god Banshee is with you. I have plenty for the previous owner, but actually I have read where a lot of people with hair extensions are going bald because the extensions are pulling their own hair out - so hopefully this will happen to her. Alternatively (or as well :D ) she might fall off her shoes. Aren't I horrible, but she has done horrible things to Banshee, if not intentionally, by serious neglect and lack of love and decency. Again: well done Yellowgirl. Your exquisite little family is growing LOL.

What fun. Bert was doing okay, but Sally was just a party pooper. Saw "Happiness on Four Legs" at the vet yesterday . . . . . a little pug just like Bert. Totally gorgeous. I didn't think Pugs could grin, but she proved me wrong.

You are very severely handicapped being in Brisbane, LB. I think you'd have to fight off all the Sydney DOLers

That's interesting; I didn't realise they were as small as that. I'm pretty sure that Caramel was a pure bred German Spitz and having seen his new best friend, also a GS, I am convinced he is. I didn't weigh him before he left, but when I rescued him and he was pretty sick, he was 7.2kg. So I imagine by the time he was all healed, hale and hearty he would have been between 8 and 9kg. The more Kisho's hair grows and he gets better I am pretty sure he had GS in him as well, particularly from looking at the set of his tail. Charlie is still pretty small, isn't he, CW. So I guess there won't be a huge weight difference between them - a few kilos ??

I feel a bit like that too, deelee, but I don't have the energy. Gorgeous pix, B.B.

Sounds as though everything is going wonderfully well and very very happily.

Yes, it is extraordinary isn't it? They don't seem to have the mental capacity to put the two things together. His dogs would go being held and probably wagging their tails. The other poor little things went in fear, horror and pain. And that is what their owner, poor poor man , will be living with for the rest of his life.

What that man is going through I hate to think . Even if the dogs who killed the others were owned by someone who looked after them and had good fences and was to all intents and purposes a perfect owner, I would still want them pts. Until you have experienced having a beloved pet killed by another dog, I don't think you can truly comprehend the anguish - and the never ending "what ifs" you go through. To lose 5 in what must have been a truly shocking sight with the dogs absolutely terrified is unimaginable. The owner of the dogs who killed should be prosecuted and be barred from owning dogs for a long long time.

And so will we DOLers, K9A. Good luck Bailey and have a wonderful life with your new mum and girl friend. ETA: Can't even type one line without a typo these days

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