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some bull breeds get that sort of rash from beef if nothing else works try taking beef out and replacing with roo or chicken i know many dogs esp bull breeds that can't have beef hope he is feeling better dfa

watching all fall off dead is the best part i never thought it would work pick some fleas up at a show once sprayed the boy and couldn't believe all coming off so quick for a natural flea killer i love it and it does smell nice too dfa

can she have fish? dfa

alkira ave has a poultry shop but i don't think the meat stays fresh very long and dogs turn their nose up at it best one i have found is donnybrook rd meat wholesalers in norlane great meat great service and prices really good a bag of 10kg chicken frames is $5 20kg of chicken mince is $10 dfa

boil a lemon in water or buy lemon stuff in a bottle and add to water spray dog and fleas fall off them dfa

when my dog was on metacam injections shes about 30kg she only got 1-2 ml can't see a dog given 50ml you would need a bloody horse syringe to administer it dfa

i had a foal with it once vet did blood tests and said that her blood count was so low she was using her bone marrow to fight the infection and PTS was only option so big tough me was like if we have yup OK but at last second said can we at least try and save her they said they'd give her IV fluids IV antibiotics for 24 hrs if blood tests didn't improve or they stayed the same there was nothing else they could do well i'm happy to say after three weeks in the vet (and a mortgage to pay the bill) she came home she was 5 mths at the time and now is a beautiful 3 yr old filly so please don't give up hope i really hope all goes well for your new boy dfa

RIP kiesha rainbowbridge.gif kissbetter.gif for you and Jeff sometimes the hardest things to do in life are the right things and both you and Jeff have done more than right by kiesha dfa

i hope you both got some rest after your last post thinking of you both and sending lots of love and strength dfa

sorry i've been away showing for the weekend and only just had a chance to catch up we brought bonnie as a five mth old pup 11yrs ago now(only feels like 3yrs) she has given us three beautiful litters got her ch and endurance title and always been very fit and healthy when she was six she had her last litter by c-section and within a few months she had lumps coming up on her belly they weren't in the mammary glands but some laid done the centre and some quite close to her boobs of the the vets and biopsy done was told it wasn't a quick killing cancer but extremely fast growing one so had a GA and had them all removed after the fist op bonnie was like a young pup again so full of life and so much happier then she was before the op but within 4 weeks they were coming back by 6 weeks they were size of golf balls back to the vets and the vets wanted to try radiation to try and shrink them as they said from the lab test on the first lot the removed all the cancer and if the came back so quickly opener her up again would be pointless as they would probably be back again within weeks i was unsure what way to go and even though it wasn't mammary cancer i wanted her de-sexed and all mammary tissue removed anyway so of to the specialist and radiation began lumps didn't seem to shrink but more started coming up but they were only pea sized lumps coming up at one stage she got really sick and wouldn't eat and looked like she was dying so off to the vets and low and behold she has pyometra so had to be de-sexed on the spot and was told her chances were very slim of pulling through another op(we are now 10 and half yrs)even though i was told i would be lucky to have 6 mths and had got nearly four yrs i still wasn't prepared for losing her i ask that they remove the lumps that where there while she was under and all mammary tissue as well after a week i was able to pick her up from the vets(longest week of my life) and was told she also now has skin cancer on her belly as well so now we are fighting two different cancers that was six months ago and once she recovered from the op she was like a new girl again but over the last month she has not been doing to well and each day is a huge bonus there are probably things i have left out but with tears streaming down my face it is hard to think thank you all for the hugs and well wishes and for everyone with sick babies our thoughts and prays are with you and a huge big cuddle from me dfa

i don't have a rotty and hope i'm not imposing by posting here but just wanted to let you all know our thoughts and prays are with all of you my foundation girl has cancer and after a few ops we now know we are on ltd time and every day is a blessing i read the first pages with tears in my eyes but the courage and love you are all showing to your babies in these hard times warms my heart to know people still love their kids as much as i do please keep the posts going i look for them everyday with a glimmer of hope things are going well for all and please disregard the idiots who have no idea how hard these things are and would like to keep the forum all about them will be thinking of you all and big hug to all the kids and may tomorrow and everyday after see that improvement we all dream of dfa

sorry i haven't had it so can't help but will be thinking of you both and sending positive vibes your way would love to keep updated and how he goes for future reference best wishes and big hug dfa

i would put her on vitamin K just to be on the safe side vitamin K won't hurt her if there is nothing wrong but can save her life if she did absorb some paws crossed she is fine dfa

some just will hold on to they are more comfortable eg. home my little man has been shown from six mths and it took to he was 9 1/2 mths before he would do a wee at the show and the only reason he finally did one is cos we stayed over night LOL but he tried to hold on as long as possible where my 14 week old girl will go at shows no problems just depends on the dog i wouldn't be to concerned he'll go when he has to dfa

you get a better shape to the nail instead of a straight cut and it is so much quicker for me to go out and go zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom and one paw done i always used cutters and thought nah wouldn't be easier until i used one and now i love it depends on the color of the nail darker nail are easier to cut the quick on but once you cut the quick once you don't want to do it again i've only ever done it once on a friends dog as he moved just as i cut and he bleed for donkey's if you only have a smaller number of dogs to do probably not worth getting one just for convenience but when doing larger number of dogs i can't believe how much time i used to waste doing nails compared to now personally i think it would be a personal choice and what you feel most comfortable with for me i love it but others probably love cutters just the same dfa ETA you don't get splitting of the nail either

thats the cheaper L one if they have 5 available i would go to bunnings or mitre 10 and have a feel of one for yourself then get one of them if you don't mind that shaped the speed and power of that one is a bit less but for dog nails really wouldn't make a difference but it is how it feels in your hand should be the biggest decider dfa

bunnings had them on sale for $148 but mine didn't have any left so i got the demo for $90 and $100 worth of extras thrown in if not mitre 10 has them they have a smaller cordless sort of Lshaped for $128 but i wanted the big one and it is the best thing i ever brought i am so happy with it no more cutting the quick and the dogs actually lay there and let me do it dfa

yeah my girls a lot dif thankfully your boys not like that but i thought if it can stop her vomiting being on that diet thought it might help your boy to make his diet a blander for a few days to see if that helps him like it did her but slowly she is getting there and since i have fed her what the vets said big improvements and no more vomiting so from now one after seeing how sick she was if changing their diet to that few a few days helps and stops them vomiting there will always be rice and chicken backed up in my house hope they both start feeling better dfa

hopefully just a coincident have either got a temp what are sage's poohs like are they both bright and happy dfa

she has no bowel symptoms and when palpitated she protects anterior abdomen and doesn't protect her bowel first we thought she had eaten fruit stone of the fruit trees but the was nothing in her bowel and no protecting done from her all she was doing was vomiting and then endup with a high temp of 39 first incident and a temp of 40.1 second time due to the poor condition when she arrive 2 weeks ago(2/1/08) the vets wanted to see if diet made a change before heaps was spent on lab work and other tests she came in at 11.5kgs and should be around 25kgs but since being here she has gone up to 14 kgs even with vomiting so hopefully now we have that under control with diet it will be all good from now on dfa

one of my girls has been doing this lately as well vets think may be pancretitis(sp) after the first lot of drugs(anti vomit and anti-flammatory) i was told chicken(cooked) and rice only she was feeling sop much better and really looking for food i ran out of chicken so gave her a bit of dry 7am next morning she vomited on me (she was asleep at me feet) back to the vet got a bad lecture no fat and def no high protein from dry so now we have been good and only feeding her boiled chicken and rice no more vomiting we are back to the vets friday for a checkup and no lecture this time diet has been stuck to and no further vomiting dfa ETA sorry lewis is not feeling well

so glad it is not totally limp today :rolleyes: hope all is back to normal very shortly for him dfa

hi warley i had one that hurts it's tail from around the first joint whole tail was limp and when you would pinch it he didn't even notice the vet wanted to remove it but i wanted to wait good news is he kept his tail and never had a problem with it bad news he never wagged it again he was never in pain from the tail as it was completely numb so i didn't see the harm in him keeping it but would have took it off had it caused problems had to be careful that it didn't get caught in things as he couldn't feel it or try and remove it given the same choice i would def keep the tail if possible next time but hopefully there won't be a next time i still have no idea how it happened but he lived out the rest of his life very happy and it was cute in a weird sort of way best of luck and paws crossed it is just something minor and rest will fix it dfa

mine love grass and it is perfectly normal for your pup to eat it just make sure he doesn't gorge himself but it won't hurt him dfa

paws crossed dfa