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AloneSoul
Fanatic   Posts: 522 Registered: 6/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 19/2/2003 at 03:14 PM |
I’ve been recently noticing that my dog has been getting sicker and sicker.
Take today for instance, he threw up twice in less than half a hour...once
on the welcome mat and then the other on a rug outside the kitchen. *we
don’t let him out of the kitchen to prevent just that* He’s also been
eating the rug, bits and pieces of it. He’s trying to purposely make
himself throw up (since the grass outside is frozen and covered with two
feet of snow, he can’t eat any of that) and I’ve been noticing that this
activity is increasing. (And unless he’s extremely sick, he’ll still
eat.)
There is a strange growth on the side of his nose, I think it may be
ringworm but I’m not to sure. The growth however has scabbed up and is
healing nicely. (Yet I have never noticed this type of growth on him
before.) Also, my brother said he also noticed “lumps” or “tumors” on his
body, four of them. I checked this out and Snoopy doesn’t seem to be in any
pain when I was looking over that area...so I’m not worried about it.
I know the effects of age are slowly taking their toll on him, he is a old
dog but if someone here has any advice or a remedy for his problems
(besides visiting the vet or putting him to sleep, he was at the vet about
three weeks ago and checked out ok) it would be greatly appreciated. ____________________
 but at least you know, just how much pain there is in living
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Ironboots
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 893 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 19/2/2003 at 04:00 PM |
I'm sorry to hear your doggie companion is having trouble...
I don't know what to say about his condition, though. Not much of an animal
expert.
But I do know about eating grass and other inedibles and throwing them back
up everywhere... My family called our first dog a cow for his bovine
behavior.
All I can say is... Pet him a lot. 
Dogs rock! ____________________
Piggy's got the Conch!
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AloneSoul
Fanatic Posts: 522 Registered: 6/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 19/2/2003 at 04:24 PM |
Aye, thanks though.
Sometimes I wonder if we're going to need to put him down but then he
always seems to recover, he still gets sicker and sicker more often...heh,
it's amazing how much spunk he has though, even when he was sick and barely
moving from limes disease, he would still try to fight other dogs at the
vet's office. That's my beagle. ____________________
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size=1> but at least you know, just how much pain there is in living
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 19/2/2003 at 07:46 PM |
Alone I'm very sorry about your sick puppy 
Older dogs tend to get benign fatty tumors....my dog has a gnarly one on
her chest, it's gross but it's not anything to lose sleep over. When you
took him to the vet did you tell them about them? Sometimes they can draw
fluid from them and run a test to check if they are cancerous or not (such
as they did with my dog).
The patch on his nose may have just been an irritated scratch that got
infected, or a scrape, and older animals are more prone to infections (just
like elderly people). If it's healing and there aren't any other sores and
such it was prolly just that...a scrape that wasn't noticeable until it
scabbed over.
As for the puking....that's the scary part. Has he had his distemper shot?
All his regular shots? Distemper is usually NOT noticeable until it's too
late....dog just sort of seems down, or just "got the blues" or maybe just
feeling under the weather...goes away and comes back until wham. VERY sick
and more than likely going to die. I'm sure the vet would have picked up
on this, tho, and if he's had his shots you don't have to worry about
that.
Is he losing weight? Slobbering a lot? I dont' like to be the bearer of
bad news, but it could be cancer (which is not just tumors, tho they could
be just hidden within the body, but the kind people get, a sort of lymphoma
that has no tumors). My family's dog rudy just began to feel sick, and my
mom took her to the vet over and over and they couldn't quite figure out
what was wrong with her. Couldn't keep anything down, drooling
excessively. She pretty much just wasted away, my mom tried
EVERYTHING...and only finally decided to put her down when she realised
there was nothing to be done, and the poor girl was literally, and I kid
you not, Skin on bones with barely enough muscle left to allow her to move
around for long periods of time. I hadn't seen her in a while (the dog)
and I just happened to go visit my mom the day she was making her last trip
to the vet. I went to the garage to check on her and I literally screamed
when I saw her, because the poor girl looked like a long dead dog that had
brought it's self back to life. When she mustered the energy to wag her
tail when she saw me I just lost it all together. It was horrible. I
would hate to have that happen to snoopy, so perhaps a round of blood tests
are in order to check for cancer, or perhaps a thyroid condition or other
ailment that a blood test could figure out.
Every animal that lives with me now with the exception of my rats are
elderly. VERY elderly...I have a 12 year old dachshund and a 19 YEAR OLD
CAT (who, by the way needs her fucking back teeth taken out $$$$ which
SUCKS)....so you can imagine how many times a year and how many "geriatric"
health scares I've gone through, and what things I've had done to figure
them out, and fix them.
Just remember, that if it comes down to it, when it's time to have them put
down, it's not your choice, it's theirs...it's their way of telling you
enough is enough, to stop loving them how you WANT (ie; keep them around
FOREVER), and to love them enough to do it one last time. I won't lie and
tell you it's easy, because having poppy put down was by far the hardest
thing I've ever had to do in my ENTIRE LIFE. It was brutal, it was
heartbreaking, but I had to do it for her.
You have NOTHING but my hopes for that day to be way far off, and to
reiterate someone else's advice....pet him and love him a LOT. Good hard
merciless affection does a lot more good than most people give it credit. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Merry_Widow
Fanatic  Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 19/2/2003 at 07:53 PM |
Hug your puppy and make sure he knows how much you love him.
Bettie pretty much covered everything I had to say and then some, except
charcol. Shit you not, try activated charcoal. I've used it on barfing pets
before, and it works. The hard part is getting them to take it. You can try
mixing it in with a small amount of wet food, or trick them into thinking
the capsule is a treat by hiding it in a little bit of cheese. Whatever
works.
I hope your dog gets better. I had to put down my doggy-dog last summer and
I still tear up when I think about it, so I hope you don't have to do
that.
Good luck with everything. ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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VampCourt
Fanatic  Posts: 293 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 19/2/2003 at 08:25 PM |
| VET! NOW! and lots of lovin ____________________
"Thou shalt not be afraid of the dark, nor of graveyards nor ghosts nor the
devil, for thou art scarey and mean." -The Goth commandments
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 20/2/2003 at 01:58 AM |
Widow I totally forgot about charcoal. It sucks any irritants/poisons
right out of their stomachs. My sister's dog had to have that done at a
vet's after a stomach pump. Her husband put out a bowl of miniature
chocolate candybars around halloween and the damned dog ATE THE WHOLE BOWL
of it, wrappers and all. SHe wouldn't have even known if there hadn't been
a few stray chocolate footprints and shreds of silver wrapper here and
there. Funny thing was, at the vets, they pumped her stomach then were
getting ready with "the tube" (ie: the tube they use to forcefeed the
charcoal stuff to animals as they WILL NOT EAT IT. EVER...especially with
the amount they have to use with emergency cases) and the vet came out
looking stunned and said "I don't know what's up with your dog, but in 15
years of practicing vet medicine I have NEVER...EVER...in my whole CAREER
seen a dog just EAT that crap right out of the bowl."
And widow, believe me, if you could see a roster of what I've taken pets to
the vet for...*sheesh* I should go into practice myself. I even spent a
week giving IV fluids to michael's cat at home after her upset tummy
incident. Two times a day. Pokey pokey. What's really funny is that the
fluid would build up under her skin in a big bubble, and when she'd get up
to walk off it'd all run into her neck or her leg or something and she'd
have a mondo jiggly leg and one skinny one *AHAHAHHA* I shouldn't laugh
about that, but it was SO funny.....
ALone I hope that we've been of some help, or at least helped you figure
out what's going on, and I hope little snoopy dog gets better soon. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Merry_Widow
Fanatic Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 21/2/2003 at 10:53 AM |
The things we do for pour pets. And quite happily, too.
My mom got a box turtle a few years ago for christmas, and the poor thing
came with a vitamin A deficiency, so it had this nasty gummy eye infection.
We had to get it drained, and then give it eyedrops and oral meds. You
don't know how much of a pain in the fingers that was.
The sad part is, after all that, the damn thing actually ran away. In all
honesty, how many people have pet turtles that run away? ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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Ironboots
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 893 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 21/2/2003 at 05:21 PM |
| I've heard of three. One from a friend, two from the news. Seems the little
suckers are better escape artists than previously thought. ____________________
Piggy's got the Conch!
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Monolycus
Fanatic  Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 21/2/2003 at 06:21 PM |
I know you said you didn't want "go to the vet" advice, but I'm with Court
on this one. If you are really in doubt, take him to the vet a.s.a.p. and
don't let him forget that he is loved.
And yeah, turtles are the wily Houdinis of the reptiles.
~M.
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 22/2/2003 at 04:35 AM |
| Didn't he say that he already took the dog to the vet? ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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Merry_Widow
Fanatic Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 22/2/2003 at 01:19 PM |
So do you think it's all part of some sort of turtle plot? They only put up
a front of placid slowness in order to make us underestimate them? And then
in reality they are amassing troops somewhere in order to bring about a
bloody take over of the globe that will end in a utopia for shelled
reptiles where humans are nothing more than producers of food, or in some
cases, the main course?
THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE! ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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AloneSoul
Fanatic Posts: 522 Registered: 6/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 23/2/2003 at 09:48 AM |
Thanks everyone. I’m going to take him to the vet this week, check out the
sore on his nose (it’s gotten worse rather than better) and also see if he
has any other problems. Sometimes he’s constipated, sometimes he has
runs...take Friday for instance. We don’t let Snoopy out of the kitchen
because if he’s sick, he’ll go on the carpets and rugs. (He has before.)
During the night he pushes open the kitchen door, walks up one set of
stairs and then takes a big crap allover the wooden floor. I guess he
thought we wouldn’t find it. Well, the smell lead us to it. Heh. So now one
of us gets up around 2am to let him out each night.
Bettie: He seems to salivate more than he used to, I don’t know it that
really is anything to worry about though. I showed the vet (the last time I
took him there) his lumps and she said they were “strange” but are no need
for alarm since they don’t cause him any pain. He’s not losing vast amounts
of weight (thank god), and he’s not to heavy either.
His shots are all up to date, that’s the strange part. We got him checked
out and he was fine, it seems that all the sudden his condition has gotten
worse. (He’s about 12 or 14 in human years, it probably is just age playing
it’s cruel games.)
And one question: Does you dog begin to lick its puke back up? Mine does,
is that normal?
...and turtles run away from homes? I’ll be damned. For some reason the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song (the original version back in the
late 90s) popped into my head. Ack, it’s gonna be in here all day now. ____________________
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 23/2/2003 at 06:03 PM |
Almost all dogs do that. I think it's because in the wild a puddle of
vomit would let a predator know that there is a sick or weakened animal
nearby. God it makes ME want to puke just thinking of it *gag*
I do NOT like turtles...I don't wanna HURT turtles, but I WILL NOT have
them as pets. When I was 6 my sister had one, and I was petting it's head
and the fucker grabbed my finger and pulled it inside it's shell and closed
up shop for about an hour.
*shudder* I STILL can't hold them without gettin the willies. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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AloneSoul
Fanatic Posts: 522 Registered: 6/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 2/3/2003 at 02:42 PM |
I heard somewhere that dogs enjoy eat'in their own crap...they say it
tastes "sweet." Well, my dog, he likes to eat his own crap...and the crap
of that cat which used to make a stop in our backyard every so often.
This is why I don't let him lick me at all. heh. Oh! He's doing alot better
now by the way, the welt on his noise is healing up nicely and he's over
all in much better spirits. I'll be hope'in he'll stay that way. *knocks on
wood* heh.
I like turtles...except for the box(?) turtles. They'll bite your fingers
off if you're not careful. ____________________
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