Flynn 11 y/o Foxie Cross - Right adrenalectomy- Good Bye Flynny We will miss you

Haha at the flip flops... they called jandals here!! Can't handle the jandal!

You'd definitely see flip flops and shorts here at Chrismas. It was 80° F on Christmas. That's 26.7 degrees Celcius. Plenty warm in Southern CA. :cool: Then again, it usually is.

Oops, sorry Kathy, I guess you would there and in the warmer areas, for sure. Guess I should have said "up North" here in North America! Lol

I have never lived anywhere where it is warm at Christmas. :)

Hey Kathy, I had one Christmas in California many years ago, was very pleasant!! It was 1999 as was there for the millennium celebrations!! Was great fun :) I think if I was going to live in the USA it would have to be California for the weather :D:D

Hawaii we always went to the beach Christmas Day. Was a bit different. Went to aloha football game one year too. Flip flops all over the place. Not in Canada though. More like boots with fur in them normally. Lol.

Hey Trish, I've just been catching up on your notes on Tina's thread, and want to tell you that I feel your pain!!! Both my mom and I have been sick for almost two weeks now (we think we caught the same bug at a Christmas party we attended :( :(). And I've been doing the same thing as you -- one day I think I'm better, next day I'm sick again. The worst part has been my ear!!! Only one side is clogged, but it is driving me absolutely crazy. Can't even chew without it sounding like an echo chamber up there :eek:. I feel like I am probably yelling at everybody I talk to becuz my hearing is so messed up. Poor hubby must be very tired of hearing "Huh, whadyasay????" by now :o. I told him my best Christmas present would be to have my hearing back, but so far so bad. Maybe it'll clear up for the New Year's fireworks... I hope, I hope, I hope.

Anyway, sending my well wishes to you and Flynnie, regardless. And it is a very good thing that I am typing my notes to everybody here so that I can't be sending these nasty germs through the mail!!!!!!

Fireworks for New Years.
Aww, I guess I have to move . We have a pathetic five minutes of tiny bugger fireworks if we are lucky.

I hope you feel better soon both of you. Love the Santa suit, Koko would have matched.

Flynn is so good to pose.

Oh yeah Sharlene, I could definitely do Hawaii!!! Loved it there too during stopover on the way home!!

Koko would have definitely matched the photo shoot Addy, maybe he could have kept Elle in line too!! :D:D

Marianne, it sucks being sick and this one has sure hung around. So funny what you said about the echo, I can hear that too.. watching tv is weird right now with it having a slight delay in the echo haha and also if I am walking on the tiled floor it echos too! Gee hope you and your Mom are all better soon, I am a bit better today after a day of rest yesterday, hopefully it will continue this time!! x

OMG I missed a milestone... post 4000!!

You win a big sloppy kiss from Flynn TINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's 43 degrees here in CT and I'm still seeing flip flops on adults in the mall.

Happy 2015

Have the best year Flynny and Trish

Hey Addy!! Happy New Year to you too!!!

I had some friends over for dinner last night, only just made it to midnight...!! 2015 has dawned bright and sunny, already hot outside. Wishing everyone and their pups a happy and healthy 2015!!!!xxx

How does 2015 look so far? :D

All the best to you and Flynn in the coming year!

So far so good, but it is only 11am haha... starting off healthy, just made a berry smoothie and ate a peach for breakfast!! Will see how long this lasts!! Flynny had a date last night for NYE, will post a pic of them!

http://www.k9cushings.com/forum/albu...pictureid=7369

It certainly looks like that date was prearranged by the parents.LOL:D

I've got your back Fynny boy. Your home, your treasures, your turf!;):D

Happy New Year Trish and Flynny! Here's to keeping that devil cat in line! :D:D:D

holy moly, I'm stuck in last year:p:p:p:p:p:p:p

We are having a small party tonight, I hope I make it until midnight:rolleyes:

Doesn't that seem weird, you are in 2015 and I am still in 2014????

You are having Summer and we are having wind chills of minus who knows what-:eek::eek::eek:BUT, we had a green Christmas. I could so get used to that.

Love that Flynn had a date and she is quite good looking too;):) At least he allowed her in his house, not so sure Kokomo the Koko Puff would.

Enjoy the rest of New Years Day!!!

haha Addy, you won't be stuck there for long!!! We barely made it to midnight last night too.. well my guests did leave before midnight ... think I fed them too much :D My new favourite dessert is pannacotta, never realised it is so easy to make. Just made some more now as family dinner tonight and I am on dessert! Sprinkled a few berries around they it was delish!! Hope your party goes well and this New Year dawns sunny and bright!
HNY Kathy Leslie and everyone else!!!

Omg I actually made it past midnight:D:p

Happy New Year

Made it!! Happy new year everyone!

Big hugs

aha!!! The first Monday of 2015:eek::(

Well, if there has to be a first Monday, I hope yours and Flynn's is filled with sunshine, a warm breeze and no worries.:):):):):):):)

I hope you have an easy week!!!!!!!!

I am counting down the days until January 21st when it will be light out when I leave work!!! AHHHHHHHHH, such a happy thought:D:D:D:D:D

The picture of Flynn and his date is adorable! You go Flynn!

Hi all

Up and down week for us.... back to work was a shock to the system! Hot as heck here with no rain, so unlike all the storms many of you are facing we are looking at drought soon.

Poor Flynn has upset gut AGAIN!!:mad: So annoying for him, but it was the worst I have even seen with watery poops. So back on the metronidazole and probiotics. Changing his diet to turkey, cannot find any good quality canned food here with just turkey, most of them have added chicken in some form which he cannot tolerate. So I am embarking on home cooking. After seeing the watery ones yesterday I got turkey mince and did the mushy rice thing. No poop so far this morning. Been googling home cooking and joined groups on FB so have a couple of recipes up my sleeve. Man he hovered the turkey/rice combo up so think he might like this new diet change!!! If any of you have any advice on what supplements to add I would be grateful. He is on a multivitamin for joint health already.

Hope your all doing well for the start of 2015! xxxx :)

Oh poor Flynny, tummy trouble again.:o I hope it settled right back down soon. So glad he likes the turkey, rice mush. Home cooking , yum!! :p

I hope you're feeling better too, Trish. It seems that you've had that creeping crud for sometime now!:o

Sending healing energy to you both,

Well phoey that poor Flynny is feeling icky. I thought of home cooking for Zoe since she needed such a limited diet but then the raw and honest kitchen worked out for her. I thought Leslie mentioned a few times a Monica Segual (maybe wrong last name) and I thought she formulated diets. Anyway I know Leslie has some contacts for people who do that.

Hopefully the metronidazole will set our boy right. Good to hear he liked the turkey. I like it myself. I told hubby I'm going to start gobbling pretty soon, I eat so much turkey breast!

Hope you are feeling better. I treated Kate and myself to high tea on the 23rd floor of our Hotel Pfister. Lovely afternoon and views were amazing. You could see all of the city from that height.

Let us know how Flynn is.

Yes, Monica Segal would a good one to contact. That's who we will use next time, too. If raw is the way you want to go, talk to Lou Olsen. They both have Yahoo groups, too.

I hope you and Flynny both are feeling much better soon!

Awwww, I'm so sorry about Flynn. I just hate it when poop patrol turns out to be a nightmare! You have high hopes each time you head out the door, but then you end with disappointment and you anxiously await the next go-round. :o

I hope you can arrive at a solution fast. I ended up switching Peg off her Clavamox Friday evening because I saw the beginnings of soft-serve/mucous and I was not wanting to see that worsen over the weekend. I guess Clavamox is supposed to be generally well tolerated and it may have been unrelated. But she had never had it before and it turned out that her e. coli is sensitive to just about everything. So I called the vet before closing and we switched her over to simplicef which she's done fine with in the past. But I still hold my breath every time we head to the yard, regardless. :rolleyes:

Are you feeling better yourself? My ear is still clogged up which initially freaked me out but I now read it can take weeks to resolve. :(

Hey Trish - if you plan to homecook for an extended period of time, you'll definitely want to make sure you understand the supplement side of things and how to keep everything balanced. Like Leslie suggested, Lew Olson is a great resource. Her book Raw & Natural Nutrition is the like the bible of raw feeding, but it also has an excellent few chapters on homecooking, so don't think she's only about raw.

I have off and on homecooked for my pugs for years. I homecooked for Tobey for a solid 8 months before transitioning her back onto The Honest Kitchen.

Hey Trish,
Just checking in real quick here, and I am so sorry to read that Flynn is not feeling well again. Yes, I know that disappointed feeling well when on poop patrol. It sounds like you are pretty sure his diet has caused the issue this time rather than an "indiscretion"? I'm wondering about just trying the bland mushy rice and turkey diet along with the metronidazole and probiotics to get him stabilized and then transitioning him back to what he was eating. If I remember right he was eating a lamb based diet, is that right? You must be thinking that he can't tolerate that now? I know nothing about home cooking Trish, I hope you can find the information you need and it isn't too difficult.

I'm wondering how you are feeling as well. Did you finally kick that nasty cold?

And tell Flynn thanks for the sloppy dog smooch for my post 4000, I loved it! :D :p

I will be watching for an update.

Hugs,
Tina and Jasper xo

Hi all

Thanks for all your comments, I do think this might be due to a "dietary indiscretion"! He is a typical terrier with his nose constantly to the ground on our walks, I have him strictly on leash walks now... well extendable leash so he gets a bit of freedom. But if he comes across something even remotely edible, he will grab it up. So frustrating when I want to give him freedom, but he is not to be trusted and these episodes really knock him. But his poop was yellow and watery a couple of days, but only a couple per day then he did a soft-serve (I like that description Marianne!:)) small one yesterday and that was it! Nothing this morning and I am thinking he must be getting a bit bunged up. But I guess it is like that in humans when you have had a bug, then tonight he has had two almost constipated yellowish poops. So hopefully he will get going normally again now.

Not much turkey about here, all I can find in the supermarkets is either shaved turkey meat and it was smoked or frozen rolled roasts with stuffing inside. Neither really appropriate for a dog. I did luck upon some turkey mince on Saturday which he had over the weekend with mushy rice. But that supermarket does not have it regularly when I enquired.

I had ordered his usual food but swapped to venison/fish mixture as he seemed to go off the lamb a bit at the end of last week, tried to cancel it but courier delivered it today. So I have given him that tonight and he gobbled it down like a dog starved. I think the metronidazole has got rid of the bug, whatever it was. So if it carries on I am still considering home cooking, not raw. Thanks for the contacts Addy, Leslie and Renee I will definitely contact one of them to get advice on supplements etc if I go down that path. I can order turkey to get shipped to me from the other end of the country, but boy is it expensive!! I came across a company called Mauri via Sharlene's googling skills, that does a turkey grain free canned product with no added chicken that sounded perfect. It was marketed as a NZ product, using a Maori name... but I had never heard of it. But on searching their website stockists cannot even buy it here!! LOL they only sell in North America. I emailed them and he wanted to know how I heard about them, then next email said he would help me and send samples. Then he wanted me to get my pet store to contact them LOL... all too hard!!! Was just weird that is sounded very New Zealand, but it wasn't and is manufactured in the US!!

I am feeling better thank you all, took 3 weeks to kick it and finally my ear is clear!! :D So hope yours will come right soon Marianne. xx

Hi Trish!! Can you believe I've finally gotten back on the forum. I hope Flynn's tummy trouble cleared up by now. We go through much the same. Since my vet gave me a bottle of metronidazole tablets it has been much easier to control these episodes. I think Trixie has a touch of irritable bowel or something similar and I did some reading about the use of metrod. for this...apparently it helps though they don't really know why. When I asked the vet could I give a half tab for a couple of days when her poops start to act up..or did it have to be a full course of treatment. She told me popping a few is just fine...so that's what I do. For instance Trixie woke up at 3am and wanted out...when my husband got in with her he reported poops were not terrible but a little soft..that's all I need to hear...soft poops combined with the unusual need to go out at that hour and I know she needs a half tab! It does the trick every time. It did not escalate into a full out attack of the bad poops or vomiting. If I hear a lot of gurgling from her belly over the course of the course of the evening I will give her one. It seems to really help us to stave off the real bad stuff.
I have to say after our bout of whatever it was last year when we winded up in the e/r , I get paranoid about her digestive tract. Nothing was ever conclusive last year...they suspected pancreatitis but the tests didn't fully support it. Meanwhile metrod. for now is helping so much and (knocking wood) it's been awhile since we even needed one!!
Hope all is well with Flynn...I've got to click on to the photos and see his newest pics!! :D:D:D:D:D See you on Facebook!! ;)

Barbara

Hi Trish! I hope Flynn is feeling better and so glad you are. I have missed you all! HUGS to Flynn and you!

Hey there, stopping by to bump you to page one and send love and hugs to you and Flynn.

I hope all is well, no worries about our little man.

I'm hoping poop patrol is only finding good poop:D

Aww thanks for checking in on Flynny!! Poop patrol is excellent right now!!! YAY, *fingers and paws crossed**!! :D:D

We are off tomorrow for his checkup scan, Tina if you are reading appointment is 11.30am :):) so we will be leaving first thing to get up there on time. This is for that stomach nodule, hope it has not grown. I do not think it has, only one vomit last week but it had a pile of grass in it so think he had a munch then puked it back up. Otherwise eating fine, walking heaps as I am on a get fit regime so walking nearly an hour twice a day and he loving it! He snapped up a sparrow the other day, boy is he fast when he wants to be! Plus Dad is walking him during the day if it is not too hot.

I am going to take a urine spec for UPC, now six weeks since he has been on the increased enalopril dose so will see if IMS wants to test it now to see if it has come down. Last one was 1.4

Will let you know how we get one xxxxxxx

Good luck Trish and Flynnie!!!

(Save some space in the waiting room for all of us! ;))

Marianne

Paws up, Flynn, I think everything will go well, Trish.

Wish we could walk again, walking for us has been so limited with the bad weather. An hour a day is quite good for you both. Walking is so good. Every day on my drive to walk, I see a women waling a very, very,old Golden Retriever; the dog's back legs are stiff and thin, they walk very, very slowly, but every day they are out there walking.

I think it is wonderful Flynn can walk for an hour. :):):):):)

I don'think I could:rolleyes::rolleyes: My brother hurt is knee in December and it is getting worse, he has to start PT and he said since he has not been able to walk for 5 weeks, he has gained 10 pounds:eek:

Hope UPC is good and no nodule growth. Have a safe trip.

Catching birds at age 14(?)...that is impressive!
Good luck Flynn and Trish.

Trish, I am reading, and I will be there with nothing but positive thoughts and energy! Clocks synchronized, 4:30 pm my time. :D ;) Wishing you all the best for his scan and the UPC. Paws up Flynny! Safe travels and I will be watching for the report.

Hugs from me and Jasper xo

Popping in with some good thoughts for Flynny not that he will need them as I am sure he will sail through it all.

Now Flynny leave them birds alone they are not to be caught and eaten :D

Joining Tina in the virtual waiting room.;) GO FLYNNY!! xxxxoooo

Best of luck today!