new from europe (arthritis and vetoryl?) - Ian, Flynn and Enya have passed

Hi Iris! I hope you and Ian are doing well this weekend! What kind of other dog do you have? I think you mentioned you were walking the dogs, plural? ...

Mammograms.....Yikes! I've only had 1 in my whole lifetime. But, when I was diagnosed with lung cancer, I had a PET Scan.....which scan your whole body for cancer and whatever....and nothing was found....that was a 1 1/2 yrs ago. So, in my mind, I should be go to go for another 4 yrs. :D

What kind of fish catfood are you giving Ian? I'm glad the Vetoryl is still working for him. It seems Eli seems to have a lot of the symptoms of the Cushing's that your sweet Flynn had. I know when Eli still had his good days on Vetoryl......all his symptoms seemed to subside.

I hope you're having a nice weekend. It's rather hot here..but we had such a cold winter warm is good! With my breathing problems (COPD) the warmer weather agrees with me better anyway. Eli loves getting too and walking a lot more.

Iris:
The mammograms aren't usually that terribly bad, but this tech did them different that all the other years I have been getting them. No one has ever hurt me that badly. I swear if I don't soon get an appointment I will go crazy form this stabbing pain all day long. Tipper and Toby enjoyed the cool morning walk. The weather says thunderstorms for Monday thru Thursday, God I hope they are wrong! Tipper just cannot do four more days of thunder. I am so sick of this weather and being stressed out worrying about her. I gave her the second antibiotic pill this morning so it will take a few days to see if it works. I hope you and the dogs have a good Sunday and not too much heat and humidity. Blessings
Patti

@jo ann, my other dog is ian's sister enya. i bred them myself for agility purposes. i've done lots of competitions with my dogs.
e.g. obedience, agility, herding, ipo.
i am looking for a young dog to work with in the near future.

i found some tiny cans of catfood called gourmet fish, and this is doing the trick with ian eating his pills.[well so far so good]
today i even managed to feed him the big fish oil capsule.

flynn had the trembling and drooling too, but he did not tolerate vetoryl because of arthritis. without it he got downhill very fast.
hope your eli will be a survivor!
enjoy your nice weather and the walks with eli!

hi patti, 4 days of thunderstorms in the weather forecast?
such a bad news! is this normal for this time of the year in your area?
i think you tried everything to help tipper to survive this, i am out of ideas.
i hope you will get your appointment at the pain clinic soon! call them everyday.
hope the ab will help tipper.
we had a nice day, not too hot or humid and we walked a lot.

Hi Iris:
Well I am sick about these stupid thunderstorms coming so I have some herbal tea for Tipper and she goes to the vet Wednesday for blood pressure and Adequan. I am hoping if she is really bad he will give her something there. I am calling that pain clinic today to see what the hold up is. I am going Thursday for my echocardiogram too and my blood work. It is very hot here already this morning and they said on the news that hurricane season has started so I hope the people down south don't get bad storms too. Tipper is sensing the impending storm as she got off the bed last nite, went in her crate, then decided to sleep in the closet. Hope you do not have this humidity we have, it is hard for me to breathe in this, I can imagine how Ian feels. Do people swim in the river you go to? Hope you have a good walk with your babies? Do you have some fans in the house to keep a breeze for Ian? Blessings
Patti

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Originally Posted by flynnandian

@jo ann, my other dog is ian's sister enya. i bred them myself for agility purposes. i've done lots of competitions with my dogs.
e.g. obedience, agility, herding, ipo.
i am looking for a young dog to work with in the near future.

i found some tiny cans of catfood called gourmet fish, and this is doing the trick with ian eating his pills.[well so far so good]
today i even managed to feed him the big fish oil capsule.

flynn had the trembling and drooling too, but he did not tolerate vetoryl because of arthritis. without it he got downhill very fast.
hope your eli will be a survivor!
enjoy your nice weather and the walks with eli!

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Oh! OK! Cool! :D I wish I had the patience and probably young enough to teach something, anything. lol I wish I had gotten another baby when I got Eli. <sigh> Too late for that now.

I'm thinking I'll have to give Eli some chicken and rice for breakfast with his pill. I also found giving a pill with some cream cheese wrapped around it works for the actual pill giving. He gobbles that down so quick, I don't know how he tastes the cream cheese. He never notices the pill. :D Otherwise, he eats hard food at will...so he grazes most all day whenever he wants to eat, within reason. I have to put his food on a little rug next to where his food dish is sitting .....as the tickling of the food in the bowl while he's eating it...scares him. :rolleyes: When he started the Cushing's thing (I'm guessing here)....the last year.....he heard something in the kitchen...(I have no clue what) and sometimes he walks backward out of the kitchen! :eek:

I'm hoping the trembling stops when he starts back on the Vetoryl (it did before), but the drooling just started the day before he got sick...on the 10th day of Vetoryl use. So, I'm hoping like your sweet Flynn....he'll stop the drooling as well. I'm not letting them start him back on anything other than a VERY low dose. Even 10mg is OK with me for now. :)

I hope you have a good day and walk with your babies. It's warm here in the 80's....which is OK with me. I can breathe better. Eli is in and out all day. .He goes out now about every 2 hours.....or less all day. Our usual used to be every 4 hours....like clock work. I always thought he had a bladder of steel! lol If I wasn't home..he'd wait until I got there. Today it's all cloudy though.....it acts like it's going to rain...but it's been acting like it was going to rain for several days now and it hasn't happened yet!

hi patti and jo ann. i do have a fan and i hate the hot and humid air too. ian has his thick coat grown back fully now. 6 months after the crash.
the dogs are mostly sleeping whilst in the house so the heat does not bother them inside [yet].
the river is clean enough to swim in it, but you have to go where the stream meanders through the meadows because in the main stream it is too busy with tow boats , ferries etc.
@jo ann, if cream cheese works with eli, i would keep it this way. i think eli's peeing will be less as he is on vetoryl again.
does he want to go every 2 hours during the night too?
my ian -and i think patti's tipper too- do not need to go outside during the night.
ian was back to his normal pattern immediately after the first dose of 10 mg of vetoryl.
he is now on 30 mg. he weighs about 14 a 15 kg. [=about 30 pounds]
next weekend we have two holidays, i looked it up in the dictionary and it is called white sunday in the usa?
we have monday off too.
i am going to stay with my aunt for those 2 days with the doggies of course.
i hope-despite the thunderstorms-everyone will have a quiet night with lots of rest.

Iris:
You have a good memory!! Tipper never has to go out at note, and only a few times in the day. She never peed in the house when she got Cushing's not once. She is really good that way and has always been her whole life. I bet you are glad to get a holiday, you deserve it. Blessings
Patti

we will have temp. up to 30C [85+F] the next days...bleehhh!!!!!!
it will be a test for ian. have to be careful outside and indoors. hope he will handle it ok.
i am sorry about the thunderstorms in your area.
saw something about it on the news.
hope your vet will come up with something that will help tipper.
have a safe ride tomorrow.
o, and have you heared from the pain clinic already?

Iris:
Thank you so much for the help on the Valium. I will do what you said and make sure she gets it before the storm comes. I guess at least I will see if she is allergic to it on this small 2mg dose. So she is about 18 lbs and will need about 18-20 mg you think? I will let my vet know if this does not help her. I hope you sure do enjoy your holiday. Blessings
Patti