My wife is always trying to get us to “just foster” a second dog for a while, but there’s no way. Just looking at this picture my instinct is to keep and protect this dog forever. If we “fostered” a dog I’d be ready to be forever besties before the end of the first day.
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Man I have known some crazy beagles (not a Charlie Brown reference).
No doubt this is the difficult part. Luckily, this guy is already adopted (headed your way hey) but trucks only run from US to Canada bi-monthly due to COVID. So, next Thursday he’s out of here - knowing this is helping a little with the attachment I’m feeling towards him.
Their noses are crazy! I was reading that their sense of smell is 5000x stronger than humans’, which is what I attribute to much of their craziness. Imagine being able to smell better than you can see - that’s how I think of it.
This guy is pretty chill, he’s come out of his shell over the last 24 hours as he’s gotten more comfy here but all things considered he’s very well behaved.
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Found 1st tick of the year on Winston. Plump and full of blood.
When I got home from my vaccine trip, Poppy was so excited she forgot she was mad over being picked up. She let me handle her (but not lift) while she licked my face.
Now she is back to wanting to cuddle but wary of hands. First training session is Monday night. I have a feeling it’s more about training the humans. It really sucks because she used to love being picked up. Hopefully we can get back in sync with her.
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I lived in the woods for several years and Gonzo would get ticks. The 1st time, I was super concerned and got some tweezers and tried to be gentle and then disinfect the spot where I pulled the tick … lol … after a month, I learned to just grab as little of his fur as I could and just yank. The cat never cared and most times the tick came out whole and live and gross.
poor little guy definitely had a couple of bald spots one year … collars work pretty well but apaprently they’re not great for your pet
Our guys are outside constantly so they get a medication during the summer that kills the tick once it takes a bite. They still drag in the occasional crawler. Lots carry Lyme so always keep an eye out.
I do relish burning them with a lighter. Fucking hate ticks.
I’ll never forget finding a tick on a childhood dog that was about the size of a june bug. Made quite the mess when I smashed it
In other dumb things we get excited about for our pets: we made a full 6 hour drive with zero vomit from our puppy. It sounds so stupid, but she’s gotten so ridiculously car sick each of the other 3 long trips we’ve taken that we were fucking amazed that she made it 6 hours. This came out of nowhere–on the trip down on Friday she threw up before we even made it to the interstate. We’re obviously thrilled for her because I know she’s absolutely miserable when she’s carsick, but we’re also very thankful to not be cleaning a bunch of puke out of the hammock we’ve got in the backseat. Hopefully a successful trip like this reduces her overall anxiety in the car.
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Session #1 for Poppy. The trainer had her full attention for little bits of chicken. The wife and I took our turns. Turns out she is wary of our voices and our palms. She would behave similar for us if we kept our mouths shut and did the reward routine. She would readily take food from between pinched fingers but wary of open hands.
Fits with her current phobia of being picked up and us trying to talk her into doing stuff.
She was wiped out at the and had a nice snooze between us afterwards.
Seems like progress.
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A friend gives her Papillion these
If you’re going to try it, maybe check with your vet and ofc be careful with dosing.
Drugs used primarily for motion sickness and/or vestibular disease include meclizine hydrochloride (2–6 mg/kg, PO, 25 mg/dog PO, once daily in dogs
I’m chuckling at “contains aspartame.” If you want an animal to swallow it, maybe make it taste like meat?
Edit: I just realized that these are people pills, I think?
That’s an otc people version. Same med. You generally have to be a little inventive and patient to get dogs to swallow pills. Also vigilant in case they try to put one over on you and spit it out. It’s messy, but coating pills with peanut butter seems to work well because they tend to keep working their tongues and swallowing.
Well, the vet put off surgery until this evening because a rupture wasn’t imminent. She just called to tell us it was a success and everything went smoothly. She will send off part of the spleen (1.3 pound spleen btw) to check for cancer. Olives been feeling much better since getting some meds last week and can hopefully come home tomorrow morning. Thanks for all the support.
Olive
Tic Tac
Ziggy (rip)
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Jake’s labs normal again. Steroid dose dropping some more. Surgical consult on his salivary gland in two weeks.
Poppy maybe making some progress with positive reinforcement. Let me pick her up twice today with minimal urine and no snapping.
Stimmy and refund: spent or committed. Good thing Daddy is back making some money this year.
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Did not know dog surfing is a thing.
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