Cairo, 8 year old staffordshire bull terrier just diagnosed

Man, the ear drops are a trial. He's not intentionally biting at me - air snapping to voice his displeasure but if I'm not quick enough to get my hand out of the way, he gets me - and that's with a muzzle on!!

So far, we did sausage roll on the floor so as he bent down to get it, I squirted the drops in (the vet said 10 drops - yeah, right, we do squirt, massage and run). Yesterday, we thought we were going to have to heave him into the bath (he hates being in the bath and won't move) but put the sausage roll on the closed toilet lid (not hygenic I know) and whilst he was sniffing at it, drops went in. Today, I was in a hurry and just told him no nonsense but we did sausage roll to the floor again and got them in.

He was bad this morning - really listless and puffing and panting when he was out but on this evening's walk, he seemed fine - bright eyed and skipping up the road and we had a little game of chase with his toy. We have to do that whilst my mum checks a side road - there's a big dog around here that is bad with other dogs but his owners never have him on a lead, so if it's about time for him being out, we have to hang back and check down the road to make sure he's not there. Last thing Cairo needs is the stress of this other dog.

It was a holiday today so the vet school didn't get in touch with our vet as they were only open for emergencies.

I had done a bit of reading for alternative treatments in case they say no more vetoryl and I printed off a bit on ketoconazole and anipryl but the vet said no to both. She said ketoconazole was really toxic to dog's livers and both were not reliable treatments and neither was licensed here for use in Cushing's. Ahh well, it was a thought.

Hopefully the vet school will get in touch with her tomorrow.

I'll definitely try and video him but you'll have to excuse any of my puffing and panting!! We have a really steep hill to get up onto the road he's been getting walked on. Between us, I dont' know who pants the most!!

That made me laugh squirt and run lol. At least your getting them in. When woody had an eye infection I had to put drops in his eye it was not mean feat trying to get them in whilst he thrashed about and head butted me a few times :D

Oh I know the feeling of peeking round corners and side streets for not so friendly dogs my only trouble was Woody was the non friendly dog hated them, so I was always on guard whilst out.

Hopefully the vet school should get back to you tomorrow Ian Ramsey is pretty good at that. Let us know if he contacts you, just make sure you write it all down or like me you may forget some of it

You don't have to worry right now about Cushing's until symptoms come back and is cortisol is naturally high again. Doesn't sound like he is there yet.

Shake the bottle of ear meds and my Molly is off like lightening! Lol

Hugs
Sharlene and Molly muffin

God, I hope Cairo never gets an eye infection - that would be even worse!

Cairo doesn't like other dogs either but we deal with it. We do a lot of standing behind parked cars - if ever cars are broken into around here, we're going to be prime suspects. It's the off lead dog aggressive dogs I can't cope with. I mean if your dog hates other dogs, why would you let it run loose?

Ian Ramsey will be phoning the vet, not me :(

Cairo sat and watched me cut the sausage roll up, sitting licking his lips, then I picked up the bottle of ear drops and he ran like hell!!

Alison:
This is sounding more and more like a comedy. Cairo is too funny. Tipper does not like other dogs either. She is an alpha female, and she let's them know immediately! I had a very large dog run up to me once in my old neighborhood. Tipper will fight anything no matter how big. I picked her up on my shoulder and he is trying to climb up me and get her. I was not going to let that happen, I began kicking at him and hitting him with my free hand. I looked up as I heard someone talking, and there stood his owner looking out the door. I was so mad, he never attempted to help me. The dog got me on the leg, and the arm, but he did not get Tipper who I was having a problem holding as she wanted to kill him.The man told me to stop kicking at his dog! Tipper was wanting down to go after him, she let me know she was mad at me for not letting her get him!! I was up most of the nite so we are resting now. Hope that big dog never runs into Cairo, as Cairo is a pretty formadible opponent. Hope he enjoys his nitely walk.
Blessings
Patti

Oh God, poor Tipper and poor you. Cairo doesn't like other dogs because he's scared of them! He was attacked by a lhasa apso and it just ruined him with other dogs. He's such a scardey cat.

We were walking up the road one day when this dog appeared from nowhere. It attacked Cairo and I jumped in to help him, tripped over him and fell flat on my back with two dogs fighting over the top of my head!!! And I wonder why the poor boy gets stressed when he sees another dog - probably scared I'll squash him flat!!! LOL

Wow that sounds like a dilemma, on your back in the middle of a dog fight! Hoping Cairo is doing well this today. It is rainy here today and we are having a rest day as I am not feeling all that great today. Hope the vet school will be getting in touch soon. Blessings
Patti

It was hard to know how he was this morning because it was chucking it down with rain and Cairo just doesn't do rain. He got to the front, took one look and had to be pushed out!!

Alison:
He is too funny. Tipper doesn't mind the rain unless it gets into a hard down pour and then she is scared to death and I have to let her in the closet. Was he always not liking the rain? He just does not like it, but has no fear of it? I am going to talk to my vet on what we are going to do with Tipper and the thunder problem. Absolutely nothing will calm her down, and she made her blood pressure go up one day last year during a storm, and it broke blood vessels in her eyes. I do not want that again, and she has a heart murmur now, and does not need this. Those collars do not work for her as I was told you have to leave them on all the time and she is allergic to them and scratches herself raw. The vet does not want to give her tranquilizers, so I don't know what to do, but we need a plan asap, not after it starts. Blessings
Patti

Cairo's not frightened of the rain - he just doesn't like getting wet. Even when he was a tiny puppy and we were toilet training him, we'd be standing in the garden with him, getting soaked whilst we held an umbrella over him so he didn't get wet!!!

He is scared of thunder storms though.

Have you tried a thunder shirt for Tipper? It's supposed to be reassuring to dogs that are frightened - thunder, fireworks, etc

http://www.thundershirt.com/

You'll possibly get them cheaper if you hunt around.

Another thing could be Bach's Rescue Remedy - do you get that over there?

Neo, our old lad (now at the Bridge) was terrified of fireworks - absolutely terrified - to the point that he knew that when the clocks changed in autumn and it was dark on his evening walk, that meant scary noises and he would be frantic up until spring when it was light again. We tried everything for him - even valium but all that did was made him so dozy that he was going to hurt himself. We just had to let him hide, turn the volume up on the TV and let him deal with it himself - so Tipper hiding is maybe the only way she can cope with it and maybe you just have to let her hide somewhere dark and cosy and safe. We tried DAP diffusers and a drug called Zylkene (it was expensive) but they didn't work for him either - the Zylkene was supposed to help but it's one of these drugs that needs to build up over time so no use for one off storms or fireworks. We used to use amythist essence - a lady I know makes up gem essences for a variet of conditions and as a rule, there is huge success with it but poor Neo was a dog that was too clever for his own good - he knew it was going to happen and just worked himself up into a frenzy even when there was no noise.