SHOW US YOUR PETS!!!

[junebug]

thanks gino
she is down for the count today
took her by a VET friend of parents 1st thing this morn.......
tiff let her out of the cage this morn to pee....and she had welts all over her back and head
we think SPIDER bite???.........black widows been bad round here
so now she is on benadryl........and if this dont work i guess she may need a steroid med too
she's on her 1st dose...and groggy and just not her self. poor thang all swoll up.

[junebug]

she just woke up from a nap and atleast 2/3 of swelling is all gone
lil puffy around her right eye/side of face area........but NOTHIN LIKE THIS MORNING...WOOOHOOOO!
i see no welts on her back either!!!!
she is eating and drinkin like normal......just still way groggy from benadryl
and goin back to sleep as i type

always scarey when its a PUP...LOLOL
IF it was old man RUGER...i would boil him a chicken and he would be GOLDEN ...lololol cures him every time!

[Cutty]

Glad she's better Josh. My dogs are like my kids.

She is a cutie pie

[junebug]

thanks fellas
so true like a child...lololol
she is totally back to normal like nothin happened......
total relief for everyone here at home

[vikingdog]

Good to hear. That's a beautiful dog.

[zp4ja]

Real glad to hear that cute pup is doing well Josh! Possibly a bee or wasp bite? A black widow bite is devasting to humans let alone dogs, especially a pup, but hey, I am not a VET!

Had some experience with this...

A few years back, I go to feed my lab in the morning and it looks like Mike Tyson came in the middle of the night and punched her in the right eye. Big old bubble around her eye socket. I call the VET(Awesome, reasonable and caring man) on a Saturday. Instead of saying I will meet you at the office and charging the hell out of me, he suggests a benadryl. Swelling is gone in half a day. We have fire ants here so that is my guess.

Two years ago, wasps hanging around the water spout. My wife has a 14 pound Shitzu. He crys out, stung by a wasp and starts to immiediately aspirate. He had a severe allergic reaction to the bite and his windpipe was closing up. I run up and grab the benadyrl and get a quarter tablet down his throat (due to his weight). Of course the wife is freaking and thinking I just killed him by giving him the dose. Rush him to the VET and he was fine. Same thing he would have done.

Real glad you pup is OK Josh!

I am no VET, please consult yours and use at your own discretion, but I carry Benadryl whenever I am in the field, traveling with the dogs and at home. Can be a lifesaver or a good cure for allergic reactions, at least till you get to the VET!

Regards, Jerry

[junebug]

jerry you are DEAD ON!
and my story is pretty much the same!
SHE LOOKED BEAT TA CRAP
my parents friend (on a saturday ,have you) said BRING THE PUP "NOW" TO MY HOME!!!!
we went straight there.....gave her 1/2 a benadryl(like ya say :by weight-i guess 1mg per pound after that)
i talked with GINO and he has experience with spiders and let me know PROLLY NOT A BLACK WIDOW....
thank goodness!!!
thanks again GINO!
VET said could be a number of things ...even some short hair folical THANG ....till he seen her!NOT THAT
def a allergic reaction to something???????????

and like you said JERRY.....i will now carry BENYDRIL tabs for my dogs!!!!!!!!
also i am NO VET! i just happened to see a straight up guy who helped me ,help my dog!FREE

couple other things i have learned in the past:
if yer dog eats a bag of chocolate chips : make him/her chug some hydrogen perrocide to induse vomiting.......DO THIS OUTSIDE...LOLOLOLOLOL

OBSTRUCTED BOWL-warning!, this is a surgery deal if gets bad!!!......but if caught early the daily regiment of
pedialite(for babies) - ensure(vanilla shake-daily vitamin deals)- MILK OF MAGNESEUM (sp?)
get it down there throat how ever ya can(its a PAIN,plug their nose and shove bottle in mouth,they are SICK and DO NOT WANT ANYTHING in there mouth!!!)......every couple hours and MofM as directed on bottle.
hopefully the obstruction come out of EITHER END

AGAIN I AM NO VET!
NOT SAYIN TO DO THIS.......SAYIN WHAT I HAVE USED TO SAVE MY DOGS.......always by a VETS ADVISE!
and without a VET bill i might add.........not that ,that was the point,it is just a BONUS of sorts i guess?

[Cutty]

Theys buds fer life


I have given my dogs Benadryl for similar situations in the past as well. Works like a charm. Just consult your Vet. first!!!
It's so many mg per pound. I give my dogs two pills at a time when they need it, by Dr's orders. There pretty big dogs though 78lbs and 90ish lbs.

[junebug]

hehehe yeah CUTTY......RUGER still keeps one eye on her though......lollol JUST IN CASE!

[zp4ja]

WoW Josh. Bag of Chocalate chips.

Best way I know to induce vomiting is to crack an egg down their throat. Not raw in a dish or whipped up in an omellete. Crack it and gentlly pry their mouth open and drop it in. Without the shell of course. My dogs eat eggs all the time, raw in their kibble or sometimes I just put the whole egg in their mouth and they eat the shell too.

The peroxide trick, never used it but from what I have read, 1 teaspoon per 10 pounds of dog. Some case you don't want to do it also like certain types of poision/chemical ingestion.

You can also use Pepto Bismol on a dog for diarrehea, etc. just like people use it for. Not a cat as far as I know. On dogs, 1 teaspoon (roughy 5 milliliters) per 20 pounds every 6 hours, 2 days MAX.

NO VET HERE, just what I know and have done with success. CONSULT YOUR VET!!!

Just curious, anyone here feed their dogs raw food? I do a few times a week, as much as I can. Raw chicken bones and all, raw steak with bones, hamburger meat, raw vegies (Buddy the mutt is kind of indifferent to the vegies, Nikki, my lab loves veggies!), even animal organs (cow liver, heart, etc).

They say...

80 % raw meat.
15% Raw Vegies.
5% Organs.

Really good for your dogs, in my opinion. Just how I do it. Never concerned about feeding meat with bones since they are not cooked. Would do it on a regular basis/daily but one could go broke quickly with 2 ~ 80 to 90 pound dogs. Not cheap to do.

Regards, Jerry

[junebug]

hey jerry!
awesome info thanks BRO!
yeah whole bag man......Tiff was bakeing cookies.....needed vanilla err somethin,ran to store.when
she got home bag of chips were GONE! wrapper an all! looked high an low .....no chips but their the dog sat in middle of kitchen swaying like a DRUNK PERSON!!!!! dont know why,but it made her act/look DRUNK......called vet fam friend........says do peroxcide trick...fixed her up ALMOST IMMEDIATELY...after she got it all out of her stomach .

i also put a raw cracked egg once every 2 weeks on top of my dogs food....their FUR COAT seems ta SHINE after that
i also do the BARF diet - BONES,and,RAW FOODS BARF!
same ratio as you stated once a week....sometimes i skip a week

and like i said....when RUGER (older ) gets sick.....i boil a whole chicken....let cool DEBONE(no cooked bones,thats VERY DANGEROUS!,they can splinter in its throat!!!!!!!)
and give him that,pot of water/BROTH an all.............i know its really nothin but MENTAL,lolololol, but it will CURE that darn dog every time...lolololol

[junebug]

hey jerry ....question if ya dont mind???
when do you start a PUP on the BARF diet?????







enter CYA contract here = WE AINT NO VET!!!!!!!! JUST TALKIN HERE!!!!.....

[Quick Steel]

Just curious, anyone here feed their dogs raw food? I do a few times a week,

When I had dogs they had no problem wih raw foods, meaty bones and such. One exception I made was chicken bones. I felt there was extra risk of those splintering and puncturing an intestine. I don't know if that is true; it was just a hunch. Although all our dogs are descended from the grey wolf it is my understanding that their stomach acids are not as powerful as those of a wolf. And since half the chickens in any grocery store have detectable levels of salmonella I always made it a point to cook chicken.

I have read that dogs can thrive without carbohydrates. Probably, like humans, one size doesn't fit all and we need to observe how our dogs respond to different foods. But with more than half of of pet dogs in the U.S. succumbing to cancer I think avoiding most processed dog foods is essential. (Diet generates more than half of human cancers [up to 80% according to some sources].

I'll add the usual disclaimers: I am not a vet, these are only my opinions/observations.

[Cutty]

I think cooked chicken bones splinter where as raw is ok. I don't feed mine anything but high quality kibble.


Dogs use fat for energy where humans use carbs. That's my understanding anyway?

[zp4ja]

Garry my friend, could be wrong but I think dogs are much more resistant to salmonella than humans. I have fed my dogs lots of raw chicken, on the edge of being still good, in fact whole chickens at times, never an issue for me. Bones are not cooked so I don't worry about it.
Maybe I am wrong here but have heard from quite a few people and read alot of reviews, including friends that swear by it as far as raw food with bones goes.

Everyone does it different and I respect that. Just what I do. The dogs really love it!!!

I did alot of research prior to doing this but most was via the internet so who knows. I have only seen benefits thus far. The VET is very happy with my dogs health.

Regards, Jerry

[treefarmer]

Let me jump in and give an "Amen" to the raw chicken diet for dogs. One of our daughters has 3 Dachunds, and they eat raw chicken, bones and all. She got info on this and it did wonders for one of her dogs that was a rescue from a private home. Coat, weight, energy all improved for the little dog that looked so bad when she 1st took her in.
Treefarmer

[Cutty]

Sophie and I snuck outside in between the rain showers.

She's not always on the rope when outside but the neighbor and his dogs were out. She understands commands like leave it, come, no, sit and stay but when her neighbor friends are out, all of those commands fall on deaf ears

[gino]

She looks great Brian!

[junebug]

awesome!

great lookin dog............ i need to get out there and play a lil fetch with mine!

[Cutty]

Thanks Gino and Josh.

She's a year old now and about 85lbs.

[treefarmer]

Fine lookin' Lab! I she has her stick in her mouth.
Treefarmer

[wazu013]

Here's the 3 cats that I let hang around my shop. There are no rats, mice, snakes or any other moving targets around anymore. You should see them put a triangle on any racoon that wonders over as well. Living in Florida every animal or bug has something that will make you miserable if it hits you. You have to have help like this.

[Salernoslim]

Good looking lab cutty. Here's a pic of my old dog that passed on last week. He was 13 years old and I'd had since four weeks old. Best dog I ever had.

[Cutty]

Thanks Slim

So very sorry for your loss. It's as bad as loosing a human loved one in my opinion.

A beautiful dog

[junebug]

SLIM- he looks like he was a GREAT FRIEND!
sorry for yer loss BRO!
i know just how hard that can be!




WAZ- them cats look like some TOUGH dudes...hehehe prolly from hangin with all them BIKERS and such