Doggie stoke

[happytimefunbox]

I am stoked that Ruby ate 2 chicken breasts and a thigh yesterday without puking it up.
I am stoked that she comes out of her cage for a pet when you call her.
I am not stoked that she is a pill detective no matter how deep you bury it in a piece of chicken.
I am very not stoked that the congestive heart failure keeps filling her lungs with mucous.

Micro improvements in her condition.
The fact she has any appetite at all is huge.
Baby steps.

[riser4]

I am stoked that Ruby ate 2 chicken breasts and a thigh yesterday without puking it up.
I am stoked that she comes out of her cage for a pet when you call her.
I am not stoked that she is a pill detective no matter how deep you bury it in a piece of chicken.
I am very not stoked that the congestive heart failure keeps filling her lungs with mucous.

Micro improvements in her condition.
The fact she has any appetite at all is huge.
Baby steps.

Powder the pill and work it into wet food?

[happytimefunbox]

Powder the pill and work it into wet food?

She isn't super keen of wet food but maybe using spiked wet food as a sauce for her preferred food of chicken will work.
Gonna giver!

[happytimefunbox]

Powder the pill and work it into wet food?

She isn't super keen of wet food but maybe using spiked wet food as a sauce for her preferred food of chicken will work.
Gonna giv'er!
Thanks Man!

[I've seen black diamonds!]

These guys are becoming good buddies:

[booner]

Day 12 did not as planned for this duo

[uglymoney]

Day 7 we let Casper run off leash. Shock collar on for safety but didn't need it. He has zero desire to run away. I wonder when he last ran ran free?



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[zion zig zag]

Day 7 we let Casper run off leash. Shock collar on for safety but didn't need it. He has zero desire to run away. I wonder when he last ran ran free?



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Herding dogs are awesome that way, they want to stay with you. My cow dog does occasionally get overwhelmed with desire to chase something into the woods when I take him MTB, but he doesn't go far and comes right back.

[skifishbum]

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lost this guy last saturday
was sad but he was also over 15 so we had time to ease into it and we had good times with him.
this picture is him at 14 1/2 tho so he looked good for his age- nobody believed his age when we ran into fans on our walks.
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here he is on his last day. he just wanted to be outside in the fresh air. andrew set up this umbrella above him so he wouldn’t get roof drips on him RIP best friend
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typed out a reponse a few times but never got to post it
I don't like to cry at work
color me nonconformist too
the rainbow bridge destinations a given for all from 2 to 4 legged
the stokes in the shared journeys
theres sumthin bout the black and white ones
and we have a lot on our working dog team





the mrs. got us one of them photo plaques for st valentine's day to put on my work bench
I put it in the store cause it makes people smile

vibes and 4 legged luvs to you and A
I hopes to see ted on the otherside of the multi colored bridge
ive put in a request in my next life im gonna gits a job hanging out there and takes peeps gods fishin till they arrive at the destination of reunitement

[Mustonen]

I am stoked that Ruby ate 2 chicken breasts and a thigh yesterday without puking it up.
I am stoked that she comes out of her cage for a pet when you call her.
I am not stoked that she is a pill detective no matter how deep you bury it in a piece of chicken.
I am very not stoked that the congestive heart failure keeps filling her lungs with mucous.

Micro improvements in her condition.
The fact she has any appetite at all is huge.
Baby steps.

My husky/Australian shepherd mix is a pill detective too. You can wrap a pill in cheese and he’ll suck off all the cheese and spit the pill out.

Joke’s on him, though, since I’m forced to open his mouth and rifle the pills into the back of his throat, then close his mouth and rub his throat for a second, keeping his snout pointed up. Easier and faster for me than dicking around with cheese or peanut butter, and he misses out on a cumulative shitload of tasty treats.

Also, second or third the comments on herding dogs not running. Growing up with labs and goldens who would disappear for an hour+ if they got half a chance, having dogs who don’t have a desire to run away is a revelation.

[uglymoney]

Yes ie herders. Despite all their annoying tendencies...like chasing cars, nipping at feet, chasing kids, scaring the shit out of people in general, they don't tend to run away and can be trained to stay in a yard. This is the primary reason I've stuck with herders (the only dogs I have ever owned since early childhood). I love hiking and not thinking or worrying about where our pup is. Bridger is great that way. Seems like Casper should be too. Still it took some nuts to let him off the leash the first time. Did a lot of work with him this week with shock collar and leash on. First sign of trouble he just wants back inside and beelines for the house and he knows if he gets a hit from the collar to come back to us or back in the yard and it goes away. Without the collar I wouldn't have done it.

[happytimefunbox]

She isn't super keen of wet food but maybe using spiked wet food as a sauce for her preferred food of chicken will work.
Gonna giv'er!
Thanks Man!

No luck on the powdered poison. Cheese nope pill pockets nope peanut butter nope buried in big or lk little piece of whatever nope. The most skilled pill detective I've encountered so it's the hard way.

Ruby has taken a wrong turn hasnt eaten since yesterday, refusing chicken and hasnt drank all day. I'm @ work with wife @ home in tears trying to get her into the vet. We are counting good days vs bad she needs some good ones to balance things out....

[Flyoverland Captive]

The only pill pockets that worked for my old girl were the hickory smoked ones; she ate all the other flavors, but spit out the pills. She loved the hickory ones so much she’d swallow them whole.

[snowaddict91]

Joke’s on him, though, since I’m forced to open his mouth and rifle the pills into the back of his throat, then close his mouth and rub his throat for a second, keeping his snout pointed up. Easier and faster for me than dicking around with cheese or peanut butter, and he misses out on a cumulative shitload of tasty treats.
.

My heelers are this way too. Joke's on them I guess.

[happytimefunbox]

And then there is nick. He puked up what looked like an internal organ but what we determined was a plastic bag that had been in his belly for a long time. Like a switch he lost his belly bloat and came to life. Bonded to the wife like glue. It'll be hard to let him go but the nuts come off next week we find his furever home.

Yes that is his normal ear orientation

[skifishbum]

im home today lemme know if ya need help
Sheldon likes nick

[skuff]

No luck on the powdered poison. Cheese nope pill pockets nope peanut butter nope buried in big or lk little piece of whatever nope. The most skilled pill detective I've encountered so it's the hard way.

Ruby has taken a wrong turn hasnt eaten since yesterday, refusing chicken and hasnt drank all day. I'm @ work with wife @ home in tears trying to get her into the vet. We are counting good days vs bad she needs some good ones to balance things out....

Sorry, no new advice to offer regarding the pills. We used to give 2 pill-free treats, small hotdog bites, to our pup and the 3rd would have the pill stuffed in the middle. But our dog was dumb when it came to treats, everything else he would challenge you.

Good luck with your pal.

[MarcusBrody]

Here's my dog looking 4x her actual size on a socially distancing hike yesterday:



And here is her with a bit less forced perspective but still looking pretty large for a dog that's maybe 20 in at the shoulder:

[Ted Striker]

His bark is bigger than his bite.

[booner]

Shitface feeling SEXY tonight

[riser4]

Shitface feeling SEXY tonight

Git sum!

[Jacques Sheer-Rocko]

Frances, trying to stay above it all:

[Tele-axel]

Keetna up top & Frank in the back. Outside of Moab before everything went completely crazy.

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[smmokan]

Despite all the craziness and chaos going on these days, our foster Bo was adopted this morning. His new dad is the son of a woman who adopted one of our very first fosters, 5-1/2 years ago.

[uglymoney]

Despite all the craziness and chaos going on these days, our foster Bo was adopted this morning. His new dad is the son of a woman who adopted one of our very first fosters, 5-1/2 years ago.

That is awesome.

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