Pets of Wein

Since our old dog died the younger guy has developed a new personality. He sleeps in, doesn’t eat breakfast until he’s hungry (sometimes that’s noon), follows me around the house (I put a dog beg in the music room), and has learned to harass my husband for walks. He’s like a different dog. I want to get another beagle but I’m starting to think that my guy might just be a happy only dog.
 
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Lovely picture.

Mrs JBJ is out so I've spent a few hours (and beers,) making French onion soup. Lola is eyeing it up even though it's essentially a massive pot of poison :embarrassed:
 
We've had a few tough weeks. One morning, Monty was acting weird and all of a sudden there was.. I'll spare you the details, but it was literally a bloody mess. Off to the vet and they figured it was either some kind of poisoning or virus.

A week later, after more visits to the vet, Monty was on all sorts of drugs and painkillers. Not eating and quickly dehydrating, shaking badly, hardly responsive. After a few more days, we expected him to go into shock and die at any moment. One night we administered the rest of the painkillers we were allowed to that day, and decided to give it one more hour, or take him to a clinic and have him freed from his misery.

About 50 minutes later he got up from his basket and went for a sip of water. He's recovering now, on a strict low-fat diet, but he's up and about and getting more and more active day by day.

I was so scared I was gonna lose my boy!

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Monson said:
We've had a few tough weeks. One morning, Monty was acting weird and all of a sudden there was.. I'll spare you the details, but it was literally a bloody mess. Off to the vet and they figured it was either some kind of poisoning or virus.

A week later, after more visits to the vet, Monty was on all sorts of drugs and painkillers. Not eating and quickly dehydrating, shaking badly, hardly responsive. After a few more days, we expected him to go into shock and die at any moment. One night we administered the rest of the painkillers we were allowed to that day, and decided to give it one more hour, or take him to a clinic and have him freed from his misery.

About 50 minutes later he got up from his basket and went for a sip of water. He's recovering now, on a strict low-fat diet, but he's up and about and getting more and more active day by day.

I was so scared I was gonna lose my boy!

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So glad he's recovering! Much pupper mojo!
 
We’re trying the new dog thing again. This time with a much smaller dog. My husband’s buddy runs an animal sanctuary and picked up this girl who is having trouble adapting to all the other animals. So we took her in. She’s a sweet cuddly thing and very easygoing. She arrived yesterday and settled right in. Our other dog is getting along with her, albeit grudgingly at times. I’m debating buying more dog beds or just letting her sleep on the carpet, which she seems happy to do. She does have weird marking habits. She often lifts her leg to mark but doesn’t actually pee (this is good because she lifts her leg on my music stands). After she eats she marks her bowl. If the other dog’s bowl is out she marks that one, too. She even marked her barf.

She’s really the dog my husband and daughter wanted. I’m using her as a trial run for how another beagle might be accepted by the old dog who has anxiety issues.

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jp_nyc said:
We’re trying the new dog thing again. This time with a much smaller dog. My husband’s buddy runs an animal sanctuary and picked up this girl who is having trouble adapting to all the other animals. So we took her in. She’s a sweet cuddly thing and very easygoing. She arrived yesterday and settled right in. Our other dog is getting along with her, albeit grudgingly at times. I’m debating buying more dog beds or just letting her sleep on the carpet, which she seems happy to do. She does have weird marking habits. She often lifts her leg to mark but doesn’t actually pee (this is good because she lifts her leg on my music stands). After she eats she marks her bowl. If the other dog’s bowl is out she marks that one, too. She even marked her barf.

She’s really the dog my husband and daughter wanted. I’m using her as a trial run for how another beagle might be accepted by the old dog who has anxiety issues.

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The marking may be a temporary or at least rare thing once she gets comfortable in her new home. It can take her a few weeks to relax. Several of our smaller males stopped after a few days.
 
jp_nyc said:
We’re trying the new dog thing again. This time with a much smaller dog. My husband’s buddy runs an animal sanctuary and picked up this girl who is having trouble adapting to all the other animals. So we took her in. She’s a sweet cuddly thing and very easygoing. She arrived yesterday and settled right in. Our other dog is getting along with her, albeit grudgingly at times. I’m debating buying more dog beds or just letting her sleep on the carpet, which she seems happy to do. She does have weird marking habits. She often lifts her leg to mark but doesn’t actually pee (this is good because she lifts her leg on my music stands). After she eats she marks her bowl. If the other dog’s bowl is out she marks that one, too. She even marked her barf.

She’s really the dog my husband and daughter wanted. I’m using her as a trial run for how another beagle might be accepted by the old dog who has anxiety issues.

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We had a female chihuahua named Millie that weighed less than 3lbs. She would lift her leg on people’s feet. She wouldn’t pee, but when someone experienced it for the first time, they would freak out thinking she was going to pee on them. We used to say that she was claiming them like, “Mine.”

She was a funny dog. She loved people and would immediately roll on her back and show them her belly. But, with other dogs, she was the alpha, always bossing them around. She ruled the roost.

We had a guy installing blinds in the house one day. He said, “I swear I keep putting clips here and they keep disappearing.” I went over to Millie’s kennel to find she had a pile of this guys plastic blinds clips that she had stollen from him.

Here’s a pic of Millie….
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The new dog, Endora has settled in well. I just built a new bass pedal board so I could try out my Eau Clair Thunder clone. She was a little confused by the noise at first and spent some time sniffing around the speaker cabinet. After ten minutes she just got used to it and fell asleep on the dog bed.
 
Monson said:
We've had a few tough weeks. One morning, Monty was acting weird and all of a sudden there was.. I'll spare you the details, but it was literally a bloody mess. Off to the vet and they figured it was either some kind of poisoning or virus.

A week later, after more visits to the vet, Monty was on all sorts of drugs and painkillers. Not eating and quickly dehydrating, shaking badly, hardly responsive. After a few more days, we expected him to go into shock and die at any moment. One night we administered the rest of the painkillers we were allowed to that day, and decided to give it one more hour, or take him to a clinic and have him freed from his misery.

About 50 minutes later he got up from his basket and went for a sip of water. He's recovering now, on a strict low-fat diet, but he's up and about and getting more and more active day by day.

I was so scared I was gonna lose my boy!

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Blegh, tons of mojo.

We're going through a similar (though less terrifying sounding) episode with Kiira. She's always been prone to diarrhea, but suddenly it was absolutely terrible. Then she started vomiting. Blood tests showed all kinds of really shitty stuff going on.

Long story (and loads of vet visits) short, she probably has chronic inflammatory bowel disease, that went rogue due to eating/drinking something crappy (she's an enthusiastic puddle-licker :facepalm: ), caused her to develop protein losing enteropathy. At some point the vet was freaking out cause her kidneys were getting affected.

She's now on some heavy meds, yesterday's tests shows things going (very slowly) in the right direction and her kidneys are all good again. But it hasn't been a fun 4 weeks...


How's Monty doing now?
 
ColourofFire said:
Blegh, tons of mojo.

We're going through a similar (though less terrifying sounding) episode with Kiira. She's always been prone to diarrhea, but suddenly it was absolutely terrible. Then she started vomiting. Blood tests showed all kinds of really shitty stuff going on.

Long story (and loads of vet visits) short, she probably has chronic inflammatory bowel disease, that went rogue due to eating/drinking something crappy (she's an enthusiastic puddle-licker :facepalm: ), caused her to develop protein losing enteropathy. At some point the vet was freaking out cause her kidneys were getting affected.

She's now on some heavy meds, yesterday's tests shows things going (very slowly) in the right direction and her kidneys are all good again. But it hasn't been a fun 4 weeks...


How's Monty doing now?
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Thanks for asking! Monty is getting better every day. He does get tired earlier still, but he's active and enjoying the same things as before. He's off the pills and whatnot, but still on his low-fat diet. He has kind of obtained a sort of L.A. Woman-era Jim Morrison look as it is very difficult to groom him without the treats he's used to.

And loads and loads of mojo your way. I don't like the word 'chronic' at all. I really hope she'll be 100% again. I guess there's no way to prevent shit like this from happening, I mean it's their nature to 'investigate' stuff, read the Daily Dog, and get exposed to all sorts of dubious things.

:shrug:
 
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