~:~:~:The Doggie Thread!!:~:~:~

Who Princess

I'm glad this thread gives me some perspective on our dogs' health and costs of caring for them. It's not a new lesson but it's a good reminder.

I took Penny and Django for dentistry last week and mentioned that Django has slowed down recently. He's been a little mopey, less active, and occasionally kind of cranky. His bloodwork was all OK so the vet figured he was starting to have osteoarthritis. He'd also packed on 5 lbs. (he weighed 47 a year ago). The vet sent him home with a week's supply of Previcox and agreed to check on him in a few days.

Django bounced back FAST. Much more active and playful. So the vet recommended we start him on a low dose for the next 6 mos. Sounds good to me and I go pick up a month's supply. Cost: $103.48. :wtf: I wasn't prepared for that one.

Of course, compared to what Gracie's going through, $100 a month probably isn't too bad. But I'd better find a job soon and maybe Django needs to get one too.

Pepe Silvia

what do you all feed your dogs? i buy natural way, it doesn't have any by products, artificial flavors, artificial colors, perservatives, hormoanes, wheat, corn or soy......and has a lot of vitamins and minerals in it

http://www.lassie.com/naturalway/natural-way-flash.htm

it's pretty cheap, too, under $20 for a bag which i think is 20lbs or thereabouts. they only have it at 1 chain of grocery stores but to get something similar at petsmart would be around twice that or more. they only have the 2 types of adult food but other than rachel ray's new brand, which they only carry in the small bags so far, are the only dry foods in the grocery store without meat by products and loaded with corn. they also have small bags of newman's but that's a lot more. some, like beneful, cost more and are filled with a lot of bad stuff. all of pedigrees dry foods, too

i mix in a little we food from petsmart, i just get a bunch of cans of different brands without by products, corn and a lot of that nasty crap. there's usually a sale on at least 1 of them which makes it basically pedigree and alpo prices, authority is pretty cheap, too. it makes me laugh when i look at brands like pedigree and alp and generally in the 'beef' ones the most 'meat' in them is chicken by products

Wobbie

OMG!! Gracie may have just had THE BEST play date EVER at the park. Besides Gracie, there was Missy the Aussie, Rusty the Golden, Damien the Shepherd and Marty the Poodle. They all just ran and ran and ran. It does my heart good (and Gracie's)

wish I woulda had my camera :roll: .

PearlOfAGirl

imalive wrote:

OMG!! Gracie may have just had THE BEST play date EVER at the park. Besides Gracie, there was Missy the Aussie, Rusty the Golden, Damien the Shepherd and Marty the Poodle. They all just ran and ran and ran. It does my heart good (and Gracie's)

wish I woulda had my camera :roll: .

That's Awesome!!!

ECM

pandora

Evil Closet Monkey wrote:

on my- is that your dog evil closet monkey :?:

PearlOfAGirl

Evil Closet Monkey wrote:

That's not a real dog, is it? :shock:

Wobbie

Evil Closet Monkey wrote:

I'm clueless

Oh dude, that's just hilarious. :lolno:

This thread celebrates dogs.... happy dogs, sick dogs, shelter dogs, purebred dogs, problem dogs, dying dogs. It's often been called "the best thread" because of the positive vibes and sense of community. If that really was your dog (but it's not) we would all shudder and be supportive of you. This wasn't funny a year ago and it doesn't strike me as funny now.

There you go though...you managed to f**k up "the best" thread. See ya in another year...........or not. :silent:

norm

imalive wrote:

Evil Closet Monkey wrote:

I'm clueless

Oh dude, that's just hilarious. :lolno:

This thread celebrates dogs.... happy dogs, sick dogs, shelter dogs, purebred dogs, problem dogs, dying dogs. It's often been called "the best thread" because of the positive vibes and sense of community. If that really was your dog (but it's not) we would all shudder and be supportive of you. This wasn't funny a year ago and it doesn't strike me as funny now.

There you go though...you managed to f**k up "the best" thread. See ya in another year...........or not. :silent:

easy my friend...ecm is good people...he's just screwing around...although i'm not sure why he chose this thread...the porch has more than enough nonsense threads to fuck around in

SENROCK

imalive wrote:

SENROCK wrote:

:shock: NORMIE HAS GONE INTO THE WILD!!!!

norm (the dad) has been meaning to do some yardwork... :shifty:

"norm the dadd"

more Gracie pics please! And where are the new pics of Orbit??!!! (Austicman!) :wave:


And effin monkey! i HATE when you post that messed up picture!!! ya big chump!!!

PJ_ROCKS

Hope everyone and their puppies had a good weekend

decides2dream

ahhhh...my chloe baby turned 10 last week!
(or at least, that is when we had designated her birthday - being a shelter puppy no way of truly knowing for sure) and on the very same day, our little igby had an allergic reaction to some antibiotics he was taking :(.....hubby had to take him to the vet at like midnight. got a benedryl injection and something else. poor little guy was covered in hives, itching like mad. also vomited a few times and peeing like crazy. wasn't fun. even yesterday he still had one hive left. we've been giving him benedryl 2x a day since then. today is the first day no benedryl and he seems ok now, finally.

another $235 vet bill. actually the smallest of em all thus far this year. man, the vet has been doing well by us, since january over 2k. ugh.

pandora

Lucy says its hot outside. Its 70 and she's already panting like mad. Lucy is a winter Doggie

eeriepadave

Hi Doggie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64ZK7KDfTQ

Wobbie

eeriepadave wrote:

Hi Doggie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64ZK7KDfTQ

:wtf: :wtf:

phillyfan

Hi all!!!! it has been awhile.Here are some pics of Logan,Rocky,and one of my daughters
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2037778&id=1174284156&l=9235a72ef1

Whizbang

The Maggster:




And again, I cannot take credit for being able to post a photo. This one was sized correctly already!

norm

Whizbang wrote:

The Maggster:




And again, I cannot take credit for being able to post a photo. This one was sized correctly already!

it's almost like i'm staring at normie

Wobbie

norm wrote:

it's almost like i'm staring at normie

right down to the red collar! :shock: :shock:

Whizbang

imalive wrote:

norm wrote:

it's almost like i'm staring at normie

right down to the red collar! :shock: :shock:

The color doesn't show well on this photo but they both have hunter orange collars....more so that I can see them when I let them out in the morning!!!

Miss Maggs is a love....I'll be scheduling her hip surgery in the coming weeks.