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Loving my Oldies

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  1. Aside from the veterinary side of things, he spent many years battling the developers around him and the council, of course, was interested only in the developers. He had his trees poisoned, he had his and his staff's cars deliberately parked in, his electricity was cut several times - it was endless. He was told by one executive that "someone should bomb your place." Although I hated losing him as my vet, I was frightened for him and was relieved when he retired. On the veterinary side of things, one story that I can impart that will make people angry, but not sickened ........ I visited him at the clinic one day and was wandering around looking at the animals in their runs and there was a beautiful Dalmatian there. The dog was very sick and despite being told on several occasions not to, his stupid owner would sneak him a big feed of peanuts. Naturally the dog always threw up after her visits. I have forgotten the details now, obviously over a couple of decades ago, but I think they had to make her leave her handbag in the office. And there was the never ending stream of clients who would complain about the cost of appointments and that was 20 years ago. Anyway, the human race seems to be getting worse and worse and the few people trying to make a difference are being ground down.
  2. My brother used to have his own Veterinary Hospital. He has been retired for nearly 20 years. Some of his stories still give me the horrors and he was a big confident man, not a 5ft nothing young woman. His wife called the police on a few occasions. And who could forget that stupid thoughtless woman recently bemoaning the fact she had to sell a few designer handbags.
  3. I wish I had a few designer handbags that could pay for the eye surgery Beatrice and Bunches have recently had. Actually, I do have a Louis Vuitton that was a parting pressie from the company I worked for nearly 20 years ago. I would be more than happy to sell that LOL. It is hardly used. Any takers? POA.
  4. Those photos are very special . Too cold for me LOL.
  5. The Boss must have had a terrible fright. Good Clive, though.
  6. I might try this …… in the dead of night!!! Actually, I could probably gather enough wondrously scented rags from just my front footpath, so many people walk and walk their dogs past my place. Actually it is very interesting. I have often witnessed any number of my dogs racing downstairs to go to the toilet, stop dead in their tracks to sniff something, and that is in a yard they spend time in everyday. In fact, I saw Bunches do it just a couple of days ago even with her Velfast collar on. And, of course, if people visit with their dogs, those dogs spend so long in the back yard that the owners get nervous thinking they have gone missing, not to mention the workout my dogs’ noses get afterwards .
  7. Yes, me too. Lots of very strange videos of cheating Asian men with even stranger translations
  8. That’s for sure Beatrice is getting rather vocal in her displeasure !!
  9. A long time ago, I used to be a morning runner and I was always very careful when I saw dogs (long before I had any in my life). One day when I was out, I saw a Golden Retriever lying on the footpath and so I stopped running and walked by at a casual pace. To my surprise, just as I passed him, he jumped up and bit my leg behind my knee. I think he got a bit of a surprise too because he obviously didn't mean business. However, my leg in that area was all colours of the rainbow for weeks afterwards. I can't even begin to think what these people who have been "seriously injured" look and feel like. The pain must be horrific and the fear when it is happening would be unimaginable.
  10. They are doing well, thank you. Beatrice has been fine from the start and, after her re-stitching episode, Bunches is fine as well. Poor things are going stir crazy though. They are not interested in going for walks, so I generally have them out the front with me so they can watch the world go by. Their discharge sheets said no running or jumping and when they are out the front they race up and down and through the garden. I am sure they would be fine with the running now, but they push in through the bushes so they can stand on the low brick fence (against which I have high plastic mesh). I can just see them being stabbed in their faces by the bushes !!! It is so hard for them and, I confess, I nearly weakened today when they were at the front door looking back at me with pleading eyes. Commonsense prevailed. Their check up is on Monday, so still a while to go. I have to be strong for them LOL. It is getting cool now, so I might try a short walk or to to give them some interest. They have finished all their tablets, just the eyedrops now and they have three several times a day. They are still in the Velfast collars which I take off for them to eat, but they are able to drink with them on -- and get up and down the stairs which surprised me. So that makes life a bit easier.
  11. Yes, I've heard this too. Also "Oodle" bought from breeder.
  12. We are home, Bunches seems okay and quite bright. Obviously anaesthetic wasn’t nearly as strong as last time. Surgeon still didn’t have the courtesy of coming out to see me.
  13. OMG DRAMA !!! I went looking for Bunches to give eye meds and she was downstairs, sunbaking in a patch of sun on the pathway. When I walked towards her she turned her head to look at me and I nearly fainted. The whole wound had opened, all the stitches had given way. Mad dash to the Eye Clinic where, although he was there, the surgeon didn't even deign to see me. While I was reception prior to leaving, someone came out and went into another room, but stopped in the doorway to chat to the receptionists. I couldn't see who it was and, because my hearing is so bad, I did not hear what was being said. After this person went into the other room, I made some comment to the receptionist and it turned out the person had been the surgeon. So there he was, about six feet away from me and could not even pay me the courtesy of speaking with me. I am so angry. I comment to the receptionist that he could have at least said hello, and she said how busy he was, etc etc. The specialist I did see said that he would put a larger cone on her and I commented that I had been wondering if the seam of the cone had been rubbing against her eye. Poor little Bunches, she is so tiny and defenceless, I hate that she has had to go through this. At this rate, I will need more than a bit of valium. I've just had a call from the Clinic and she will be ready to be picked up by 4pm. I am so sick and tired of arrogant, compassionless people.
  14. @Little Gifts, I’ve been scoffing the girls’ Trazodone !!!! LOL - not really, but when sorting through all the old medications I came across some codeine tablets and was very tempted. I stayed up very late last night and so was able to witness Bunches bringing up all her dinner (about 3am) . She seemed okay afterwards and we had cuddles in bed. This morning, She took herself downstairs and then claimed a patch of sunshine on the deck. Small breakfast. I am supposed to give them a hot compress before their ointments, but I am worried that will start Bunches bleeding again, so to be extra cautious, I think I will take her to the vet who should be able to ascertain whether or not one of the stitches has popped. As for Beatrice …. if you didn’t know, you wouldn’t know .
  15. Well I am very happy there are Chook Influencers on this forum Meals have never been done and dusted so quickly. We have had a bit of drama tonight. I have to take their VelFast cones off so they can eat, then I left them off for a little while so they could drink if they wanted to. Went looking for them to put the cones back on and I couldn't find Bunches. When I found her, she had obviously knocked her wound and it was bleeding. I rang a friend who lives a couple of streets away and then started gently compressing the wound. I was so worried that she'd broken a stitch, but after a while the bleeding stopped and I am pretty sure the stitches haven't been compromised. She seems okay, just me who is a wreck. Vet first thing in the morning, if it is still oozing. My friend was great support and has just left.
  16. I am feeling pretty low at what my girls have had to go through. Beatrice has sailed through, recovered well and you wouldn't know she'd been through anything except for the Elizabethan collar. Bunches isn't doing as well . I have been in touch with the Eye Clinic this morning as she is very low and I am pretty sure she is in pain. She has had her first meds, but they are supposed to given with food, but she won't eat, even though I tried her by hand. I am off to Woolworths to get some BBQ chicken. I should have thought ahead and had it on hand, of course. One advance that helps enormously is that the E-collars are those that fasten with velcro and don't have to be threaded through their usual collars. Because of their flat little faces, they can't eat with them on and the old sort used to be a nightmare for this fumble fingers to get on and off. Thank you for your best wishes everyone.
  17. Bunches today. I couldn't get Beatrice to look at me, she was too interested in passers by. I love them so much.
  18. The Dirt Girls go in for their surgery tomorrow and I confess to being very nervous for them. I know the surgeons are very very experienced, but the last time I took a little dog in for eye surgery (different specialist) it did not end well
  19. You could say this about just about any policy passed by any level of government. The only policy that is enforced with alacrity is locking up children. I became involved in the dog world in 1999 when I became a volunteer at a pound and around the time The Companion Animals Act was being legislated. Silly me, I thought the numbers of dogs in pound would fall away to just about nothing. 24 years later and the situation is worse than ever, absolutely catastrophic. There is more than the one factor that laws aren't being enforced, of course, but that is the one where countless hours spent on paperwork, red tape, wording of legislation, etc etc and then what happens? Nothing. Thousands of policies put in place across the country without the proper back up of support or trained people who actually take a pride in their work. How many times have people just on this forum alone tried to call rangers only to be told they don't work on weekends, there is no one available and any other excuse under the sun so they don't have to do their jobs?
  20. Confession - I haven't read the whole thing, just this paragraph. Sorry to be such a Casssandra, but none of this is going to happen in any area of our lives, in the world today. People want, people demand, people going to get by whatever means possible and bugger anyone or any morality that gets in the way. Aren't I cheerful, but when we can't even look after babies and children known to be in danger, how do you expect people to care about morality in breeding, training or owning dogs and other animals?
  21. Apart from the fact that my question was simply rhetoric, I think you missed my point, @tdierikx. You were saying that dogs don't reflect on past experiences. I am saying that I am sure they don't, but they are influenced by past experiences and this affects their day to day behaviours. I am living with one who is severely traumatised by past experiences. All she knows is that she is frightened and reacts accordingly, despite never had anything but love and kindness since coming here. And I wasn't referring to other animals, just dogs and humans. That is another conversation and millions of words entirely.
  22. That is a strange comment, @tdierikx. Dogs might not sit around thinking, "OMG a man was dreadful to me in the past, this is a man, ergo, he will be dreadful to me." But they are influenced, why else would some dogs be afraid and some not of the same situation? Same as intergenerational trauma. And PTSD. ' And I am one who firmly believes that dogs are like humans (we are animals too) in that we are all born with different personalities, characters, prone to fears, love all things dangerous, etc etc.
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