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Holy cow DDD - they're an impressive set of steps!

Dear old soul. I'm thinking of getting some step type arrangement for Scottie in the coming months. Before we *have* to have it.

Looks so good - doesn't it!

All the way down the bottom of the page on a phone

don't seem to be quite doing that. And they list rescues as beneficiaries but it's obviously not direct financial benefit. Did they ever own the IP/copyright to the booklet that Shel wrote? How does stopping her from using it - help when one of their aims is to spread the word as much as possible? On my phone so will keep it short. There çould ve some thing in her employment contract

Scoopability is a lovely thing. I must admit. Ps Scottie is huge for a foxie type

exact reason my next dog will be hip height LOL

Oh - can I also say that little bunny hop for his treat. Too cute.

I own one of these. Might work? http://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/hardware/ladders/buy_right_steel_step_stool_252_x_390_x_434mm_grey_black_179477/

My fav raw feeding resource - by a DOL member. http://www.balanced-canine.com/#!raw-feeding/cpgh I highly recommend her CALCULATOR PS _ What breed is he? How big do you expect him to get.

OMG. I just saw this. I'll never forget the feeling on the day Scottie went form "OMG X 1000000000 - you're home!!!!!!!!!!" to "oh cool -its you - well see ya I have this thing in the yard to do" You must feel the same way. Very very happy for you both. Edit: saw your other update too. :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: GO JUSTICE! :thumbsup:

LOL PK - you're a dork :)

Could you pick him up and distract him for a few minutes when you first get home (say 5-10) - so the excitement of you being home wares off before he goes and has a drink? Scottie is a bit the same - even if he's crated and has water (always has a full bowl) he'll have a big drink when we get home. but he doesnt puke :/

Personally - if there isn't another / better vet option - I'd demand bloods. Edit: I just googled - there are at least 2 other vets in town. http://www.milduravet.com.au/contact-us/ Seriously - go get a new vet if they're not even going to investigate. You can't leave your pet feeling shitty when it's something so easy to manage. He may or may not lose weight but he'll feel better if you're managing the diabetes and there might be other underlying issues too

We have a king sized bed and have never really gotten around to buying a king or super-king doona. I do have a nice king cover quilted needs no inner but it doesn't go on much as its a pain to wash and dry. We actually have two doonas - which apart from helping with the Puppy snuggle cave also eases the eternal he's too hot / she's too cold drama we live with.

So...I know all dogs have different toileting habits but maybe you could try getting him (or all of them) to poo on walks so that you can scoop it immediately. Chances are he'll be empty then and not have as much opportunity to eat it. There are a few tricks you can try for poo eating (or Coprophagia if you want to use the correct term) my family vet recommended adding pineapple to the poo - I've long wondered if that was true or more of an old wives (old vets) tale? I have also read you can add probiotics to all your dogs feeds. I would caution with both - and say speak to the vet before adding anything to a feed as you have IBD to deal with too. And I would not be adding pineapple to an overweight dogs diet (probably any dogs diet to be honest) - just using it as one example of something to try - google returns 1000's of results. Why not have him tested for diabetes? It would make managing him a lot easier if you know what you're dealing with? Do you need to find a new vet? Do you need a referral to a specialist? I'd be having a full blood panel done as a minimum - my old dog lost a lot of weight when she was diagnosed with liver disease and treated accordingly. Got lots of spark and energy back too - we'd assumed her slowing down was age but she just felt off. As for his meals - I would be doing one of two things - or both. Add some vegies to his meal as bulk- if he can have them or possibly brown rice. Check out what extras (if any) he can tolerate with IBD and give him a few serves of that a day to help make him feel full. Just don't over compensate. I would also be splitting his meals up into 3 or 4. That's four 20 gram serves of kibble a day + possibly some bland low fat filler and a probiotic like greek yoghurt. It's easy enough to do too -2 small breakfasts are easy enough to get in before work even if you need to get up an hour early to feed him, lock him away somewhere to eat and go back to bed. Then a feed as soon as someone is home from school or work and another one later in the evening. Weigh it out - put his daily allowance in snaplock bags or containers. Make it known that is all he is to eat in a single day. It's not easy having an obese dog. I had an overweight dog in the past too. For a long time I had my head in the sand over it, I didn't investigate better nutrition options for her and she lived out her last few months on Hills ID - which she hated. More - hubby never got on board with it - he was always sneaking her contraband. It's hard to say it but her obesity caused pretty much all of her senior health problems - she was PTS at 15 after she went blind and deaf but her last few years were expensive and not fun (meds twice a day and ID only- yuck) and I often think a lot of it would have been avoided if we'd been more proactive when she was younger. Responsibility for that is entirely on me as her primary caregiver. Good luck.

Awesome snaps

:cry: In places you’d hardly know it had been fixed. Cost me a small fortune and the guy was incredibly slow. 6 weeks, 10 hours a day to do windows (inside and out) doors, skirting boards and architraves. If I asked him to fix something up (such as paint runs) he just about had hysterics - and I’m not joking . Extraordinary. I could write a book. I had three new doors done and one he’d painted rather badly leaving rolls of paint and a couple of runs. He kept on saying he couldn’t see it so I took a photograph. He finally (after we’d discussed it at least 4-5 times) fixed it. If he wanted to do something and I said, no it was fine, he argued; if I asked him to do something, he argued. It will take a while to get over the whole debacle. :( Oh dear

It's pretty big. Growing every day too - but sadly it wont last the week as there is going to be a mock fire exercise in that house this week and I expect it will be trampled ... I hope the Smurfs know that they have to relocate before then. Me too...

It's pretty big. Growing every day too - but sadly it wont last the week as there is going to be a mock fire exercise in that house this week and I expect it will be trampled ...

oh dear

... jumps on my full bladder first thing in the morning. But hey - puppy snuggles.

LOL Willem - we've had over an inch of rain every day for the last week. And its bitterly cold and comes from no where - one minute its fine/sunny the next minute its bucketing down. Nothing is drying - everything is slushy -and between you and me and the thread - the coffee isn't that great in this town LOL. ...one of the cheapest ways to make a good coffee or espresso are with these stovetop coffee makers http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3-Cup-Espresso-Coffee-Maker-Italian-Style/191345332224?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140117125611%26meid%3D5299b13865c64ba7b2f1a2933e385d10%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D161595682675... ...but even a Nespresso tastes much better (as long as it is hot) after a walk that makes you feel the cold and wet straight through the bones :) ....or a hot chocolate, or a good tea... So I make a coffee for the wet dog every time he comes in from a wee? Seems excessive. He'd be buzzing. ;)

It was not a smooth ride ....... nor a smooth finish . On a couple of days Danny was pretty sick (he is very old after all and we elderlies have bad days) and all I wanted to do was to lie on the couch with him, but at times I was so cross, I just had to leave the house for a few hours. The man is, I believe OCD, and I don’t think I have ever experienced anyone so argumentative. Anyway, I can now spend as much time as I like lazying around with Danny and the others :laugh: :laugh: But is it all better now? Shoddy job from last time fixed?

:) It needs to be quite small - under 300kb to add as an attachment - thats like a low res jpeg from paint.