Loving my Oldies

Blimey - you have dinosaurs where you live ??

If she is skin and bone, try making bone broth (google easy recipe) and mix with nutrigel. My SWF (Tamar nearly 14) is very skinny as well, but not as bad as your little girl sounds. She isn’t very interested in food - just seems to be something necessary to take from time to time. However, she seems to really like the mixture and nutrigel is calorie loaded. The difficulty when older and health compromised dogs need dental care is weighing up the risks and benefits. Dogs can get a second lease on life from having rotting damaged teeth removed. So much nastiness is going into their bodies from bad teeth and/or infected gums. How confident are you with your vet? Do you know him/her well? Maybe get a second opinion? Two of my elderlies (around 16 both of them) needed dentals not so long ago and I was very very nervous as one of them has a heart murmur and is on daily meds. However, they sailed through. I’d be inclined to put some weight on your girl and then consider it again. Good luck.

LOL. Too big for you, Jonah.

Yes! Bones ARE great. Gorgeous boy. The thing is with a program like Flickr (and previously Photobucket) is that the photographs remain as sharp as the originals. I used to resize and so some of my photographs are of very poor quality

Those colours !!!! Just terrific photos, Canis.

Another photo of Jeune. Such a beautiful little girl IMG_0312 by Cynthia Waters, on Flickr

LOL. She used to climb under the bedclothes when I got up, but now she tends to want to climb under in the wee small hours. We have a lovely little cuddle and then back to sleep. When that photograph was taken, she was still under the bedcothes and I pulled them up to start making the bed just to see how long she would stay there. She won . As for being lumpy, when I go into the bedroom and she is still buried, I call out, “Where’s lumpy pumpy?” She wriggles around and slowly emerges with tail wagging.

This is Jeune: Jeune

LOL of course I knew you were joking. Dizzy doesn’t care what he is called so long as he is with you. Tamar and Jeune are foster failures from 2004 and 2003 respectively. It will soon be 14 years since Jeune FFd and the pound had her down as three. So she is coming up to 17 if they were right. I always have plenty of newspapers as we get a local weekly paper and as I walk around the neighbourhood with the dogs, I collect those that I know will just rot in the street

Paper is fine. Biodegrades.

Now that is plain rude In a moment of sheer foolishness, I said to the rescuer of my fosters Benji, Stevie and Minnie that Tamar had really blossomed having Stevie and Benji around. Jeune and Bunter are happy just to sleep the days away with an occasional wander down the back yard and a sunbake. I said I needed an older dog around Tamar’s age, but still puppy like in behaviour and she said she had just the dog. So it was arranged that I would collect [then called Chloe] from her current foster carer who lived in a tiny unit with four dogs, no balconies and had to take them all down to the complex’s car park for a run around. I was told that this little dog was very playful, loved her ball, etc etc. Anyway, I nearly died when I saw her and although I wanted another geriatric dog like a hole in the head, I couldn’t leave her behind. The rescuer did offer to take her, but I didn’t have the heart to do that to either of them LOL. Chloe, now called Orla, is on meds, her arthritis is being treated, her dreadful ear infections are cleared up, and she is as happy as a pig in mud - shame about the carpet of newspaper I have to put out every night and Tamar still doesn’t have a playmate though . However, that’s the way the cards fall.

Duh!! Silly me. Sorry @JenL. This is copy of instructions from Scottsmum which helped me to finally post photos from Flickr. It was easy to register on Flickr. Bit of trial and error, but finally made it. I was concerned about having my photos “public”, but that is the only way (I think) that the following works. Once the photos are uploaded, click on “you” then on “photostream”, find the image you want then click on it. Click on “share” arrow - a slightly curved arrow pointing to the right. This takes you to a box with the default Flickr name of the Image highlighted with another menu along the top of the box. Select BBC and a list of sizes will drop down. They differ as to which photo I have selected, but generally the one 360 x 240 (can’t remember exactly) works well. Click on the name of the image and select “copy”. Go back to the thread in DOL where you want to paste the photo and click “paste”.

LOL @JenL, you are asking someone who has to ask over and over again regarding photos. Go to the Dear ..... thread in Off Topic right at the end you will see some responses to my calls for help help help. I used to use photobucket but they are now charging an arm and a leg to post photos to third party sites, eg DOL. I registered with Flickr and after some trial and error and help from Persephone and Scottsmum am now happily transferring photos. You can’t share from your PC as they are too big. Applications such as Flickr resize so you can post. The instructions from Scottsmum helped me, but I think it also depends on what system you use. As for eating all the bone, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on the bone I think. The one that Stella was devouring this morning has disappeared courtesy of Orla. To get the @JenL, just type the @ sign and the first few letters of the DOLer’s name and the menu of names drops down. Click on the name of the DOLer you want to see your post. You have to click on it, you just can’t type the name.

This is Orla a few weeks ago with her bone. She spent most of this morning as well down in the back garden with a couple of bones. She was good and stayed downstairs LOL. Orla is nearly sixteen and is a permanent foster. IM I

@JenL Dogs love roo tails. I buy all my goodies from ClearTreats in Queensland. 100% Australian and no preservatives etc. And, yes, it can be scary, I agree. Stella is still going on her bone and there isn’t much left of it . I find that when all the meat and sinew are gone, they will still play with the little bit of bone that is left.

That bike is amazing. Great to see it on the beach. Has Jonah worn Jesse out?

Deepest condolences, CGF. Loki was so handsome and your special boy. Such a lot of love has passed between you. Run free, gorgeous boy.

There will be no stopping me now, @Scottsmum I posted a couple in a new thread LOL - because I could and because Stella is totally entrancing. But no one comes close to my Lioness Queen LOL.

One of my hobby horses (should that be hobby dogs LOL) is that little dogs are still dogs and should be treated as such in terms of diet, emotional enrichment, play, etc etc. In the interests of education, here is my little foster dog, Stella, who has been chewing on this bone for over and hour. She brought it in from outside (sadly for the aroma in my house, but at least she is staying on the bedding ). Stella weighs 4 kgs, is about to turn 4 years old and when she started on the bone it was half the size of her head. I IM

The colours are just amazing. Some of the green is almost iridescent. Love the top of Australia photo. You are creating quite a story, Canisbellum.

I don’t let Orla sleep on the bed as she is just as likely to walk off I sometimes lift her onto the couch to snuggle, but not if I am feeling sleepy. The first time I saw her lying like that, I aged several years in a second LOL.

You could try PAWS & Recover. They find foster carers for people who might be in crisis, hospital, etc etc.

This is how Orla sleeps - hanging off the edge of whatever bed she is on. Bunter looks as though he is wondering what of earth his mum had brought into the house. Orla is nearly 16 (in December) and she is doing really well. Had a few problems at the beginning, but things are looking up. IMG_0492 by Cynthia Waters, on Flickr

I’ve finally registered with Flickr, still finding my way, but after a bit of fiddling, here are some photos: I have my very own little Lion[ess] King. Behind the houses across the road from me is the top of the Lane Cove Reserve. I’ve never gone very far into it as I am not as steady on the old pins as I used to be, but a couple of weeks ago, I took Tamar and Stevie because I know I can safely let Tamar off the lead. I probably could let Stevie off as well, but he is a foster and off lead is against the rules and rightly so. I turned to check on Tamar and this is what I saw: IMG_0496 by Cynthia Waters, on Flickr

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