There’s a lot fewer ‘accidental’ bitzers around these days (in cities, I’m sure there’s piles of farm dogs of uncertain ancestry…), but tbh that’s a good thing in general because it stems from people spaying their pets and not having random litters of puppies show up all over the place.
I’d thoroughly recommend looking into rescued greyhounds for anyone who wants a dog though. They’re not for everyone (the sleep-23-hours-sprint-1-hour cycle doesn’t work for some lifestyles) but they’re great dogs, and unfortunately there’s rarely a shortage of them.
Haha!! We had 4 dogs at once at one stage and that would happen often. We’d wander into the lounge after tea & all couch spaces were taken so we’d sit on the floor.
Out older Kelpie had bad arthritis. We put her on ‘Rose hip Vital’ and it made a dramatic difference to her mobility. didn’t need her anti-inflams anymore.
Our Aussie Shepherd had bad arthritis as a result of two cruciate operations. Our vet told us we had two equally viable options - either a) he could sell us regular boxes of anti-inflams which would cost us a fortune, or b) we could get her a quarterly Cartrophen shot and then go to Chemist Warehouse and buy a big tub of glucosamine tablets with chondroitin and give her one of them daily as a matter of maintenance. He’s as honest as the day is long is our vet, and he told us both would have a finite period of effectivity, but option b would really get the same result as option a.
Would option a have been better? Who’s to know, but we gave option b a go and eked out a good 18-24 months as a result.
I wanted to thank everyone for all there best wishes for Rocky the other day. He went in for his surgery today and picked him up this afternoon. According to the vet everything went well. For something that was as small as a pea, they had too cut out a very big area. Rocky has still been following me everywhere so I have to sit down on the couch with a few glasses of gin so he can rest. I have put our spare mattress in the lounge room and will sleep with him there for the next couple of nights to keep an eye on him. He is not out of the woods yet and it will be a long week or so until we get the results but will stay positive and hope for the best. Cheers.
They haven’t given us any idea what grade tumour it is yet. They did warn us that the incision would be pretty big to get as much as they can. The vet was happy with how it went but said they can’t tell till the results come through. We were told that the grade 3 aggressive type is the most rare type so that gave us a bit of hope.
