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Hi Tina,
I'm with Kathy...I don't understand all of this but I will read up on it so I know more about it. I'm sorry that the numbers always create so much worry and stress. I just hope Jasper is doing well, feeling fine and enjoying spring with you and Shelby!
Barbara
Hi Tina - just checking in on you guys! Hope the working week is going well and your not overdoing it, you always seem so busy with work and family so I hope Easter gives you some time to relax with Jasper and Shelby! x
Happy Easter, Tina, Jasper & Shelby!
I hope you are having a nice Easter weekend and got a day or two off from work.
I spent Friday curled up with molly on the couch, reading with a blanket and total chill mode. It was wonderful! I hope you get to enjoy the same with Jasper and Shelby. You work too hard. :)
Hope the boy is doing good.
hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
Happy Easter to you Tina...and Jasper and Shelby too! We have a few night owls on tonight waiting for the Easter Bunny.
I'm making myself crazy on google after Trixie had tummy trouble today. All the yucky details are on my thread. UGH. Too much, my nerves are shot. I'm looking up too much and don't really have any idea what she has or what she doesn't have.
I am going to try and get to bed though...just thought I'd say a quick hello before I shut it down. :D
Barbara
Hey Tina
I'm sure your building up to the Jasper update!! :D
Lol, yes I need to post an update! It isn't going to be anything too exciting. I had so much catching up to do on everyone, that was more important.
I am a little out of sorts. My BFF's mother passed away last week, and it has just been a really hard week. Thank God Jasper has been relatively stable during it all, so that enabled me to really be able to be there for her and her family, and help where needed with arrangements, etc. Very sad time. And work has just been ridiculous. I guess this is just how it is going to be. There are so many people in need of treatment for substance abuse, it is unbelievable really. And really heavy duty addiction problems. :(
As I mentioned, Jasper has been having accidents in the house since I can't keep him confined in the kitchen it seems, so that has been stressful. I need to post fully about that, I am sure I will get some good feedback from everyone here.
Hi Tina
Happy Easter to you and Jasper :)
My BF son is an addict so I know how hard she has tried to get him help but there's been so many cut backs here that the help isn't there anymore and as you say there are so many out there needing help:(
Hi All,
So as many of you know, I confine Jasper to my kitchen with baby gates and pooch pads while I am at work or away from the house, since he can't hold it all day anymore. I am not 100% sure why this has happened to him. I believe it is related to kidney issues that have developed secondary to when he had Cushings. Even though he technically has Addison's now, his polyuria and polydipsia have never resolved. Once he adjusted to being confined, this has worked great for the past year and a half or so.
About 2 1/2 weeks ago, we had a day where the wind gusted upwards of 55 mph most of the day while I was at work. :eek: Jasper has a bit of a wind phobia anyway, and this was just horrid. It literally sounded like my house was going to blow down, and my neighbors fence actually did blow down after a post snapped. I came home that day to find Jasper loose in the house. He apparently had broken out of the kitchen in a panic due to the wind and kind of trashed the house out of fear I suppose. :( He had a couple of accidents on the carpet of course.
Well, now since he knows he can break out of the kitchen, he started doing it whether it was windy or not. No matter how I have fortified the barricades, he just works at it until he budges it enough to get out. On two occasions he had blocked himself out of the kitchen so couldn't get back in to his water for who knows how long. :eek: :( Also, twice he bloodied one of his paws working to get out of the gates. :eek: Its like he gets too anxious being confined to the kitchen now. This was not an issue before, even on windy days, which we have often here. But I think that day of 55 mph plus was the worst it had been with him home alone.
Since then, I have been letting him stay loose in the house, which he seems much less anxious about. But he is peeing in multiple places, even if I put multiple pooch pads down. Thankfully his urine is dilute, but this is still making for tons of carpet cleaning.
I am thinking about trying to keep him in a spare bedroom where I can close the door to keep him in, and it would have less carpeted area to cover with pooch pads. I can't really come up with any other solution because the rest of my house is quite open and next to impossible to barricade. I am hoping that some of you may have ideas that I haven't thought of for this problem. I'm open to any and all suggestions!
Also, I have been using Natures Miracle advanced formula, but I don't like the instructions of saturating every spot and then allowing up to two weeks to dry. :rolleyes: I realize that you can't use it in a carpet shampooer, but I am wondering about putting it on all the spots for a couple of hours, and then going over it with just plain hot water in the shampooer to extract a lot of it. Has anyone tried this method? Also open to suggestions here.
Thanks for your thoughts and feedback about the proteinuria. Jasper has been feeling pretty good. <whisper> He had some redness in one of his eyes a couple of weeks ago, and my vet prescribed some antibiotic/steroid drops for that. She thought it might be allergy related. It cleared right up with the drops. I'm worrying about the proteinuria, but I'm grateful for every day that he feels good, and hope it continues. I just have to hope and pray that we can slow the progression of the protein loss from his kidneys and the next UPC will not be worse.
Ok guys, thanks for reading and for any suggestions. I know that he can't help it with the accidents, but I worry that it might be becoming behavioral since it seems he often goes on the carpet even though there are plenty of pooch pads down.
I hope everyone is having a nice Easter!
Hugs,
Tina and Jasper xo
Oh my goodness...poor Jasper, another thing in common with Trixie! She also gets frightened when the wind howls. Sometimes because of the elevator shafts a draft will come under our door and kind of make one of our coat closet doors creak and she is so afraid of that! He must have really gotten spooked to have busted out of the kitchen like he did. awww...:(
I wish I had a good suggestion for keeping Jasper safely and comfortably confined. This sounds crazy but I had a friend who actually installed a screen door on her spare bedroom to keep her dogs in there but still kind of keep it open for them..they also were able to somehow get out of the baby gates. It's a little extreme and not everyone wants a screen door inside their home! :rolleyes: It actually looked kind of cute though...it was white and kind of a conversation piece.
Barbara
I use the bissel little green machine for a carpet/spot cleaner, with the pet deodorizer solution and that seems to work fine.
It's so hard to know what do do, other than try a permanently installed pet gate. One that is attached on both walls that he can't get out of? You could give the bedroom a try for a couple days and see how he does but he might be worried being in there all day by himself and not able to see Shelby?
How very upsetting this must be for both you and Jasper. :(
hugs
Sharlene and Molly Muffin