Recent content by Bailey's Mom

Sadly, it's only been for very bad reasons. Once ours have stopped eating and lost weight the reasons have never been good.

Just one question that may seem odd has the dog eaten anything it shouldn't? I have a background with human seizures so when our previous dog Katy started having them in her senior years I was accepting it was likely a nuero issue. However, our vet asked us about wild mushrooms/fungi growing...

Ours lists any current dogs in the home. We may not like to consider it but some breeders don't outlive us. Our first foster parent had passed away when we went to get our second dog from rescue and she was a breeder who had return contracts on her dogs. Annie's breeder lives across the...

The boys, not the girls have always enjoyed sock toys. However Teddy surprised DH this weekend when he actually brought a non-discarded sock to my husband that was not quite ready to join the herd. One of DH's good sock's had fallen on the floor likely when laundry was being sorted and instead...

Ours have been long convinced its a healthy way to add fiber to the diet. Nothing we say convinces them otherwise. Teddy loves discarded sock toys and he herds them gathering them up into piles. The challenge is when he goes into the dirty clothes bins to acquire more sock sheep. :sneaky:

We just went through the cone of shame for 10 days. It wasn't fun but we survived and he's a happy little fellow post surgery. I will say I was grateful our vet keeps them overnight after surgery to make sure all is well. That was a huge gift because we've always gotten our dogs after spay or...

I'm way to far away but I will say I've met some amazing breeders who were rehoming dogs when we found Annie many years back. I had never heard about the practice but when Sheltie rescue was a dead end someone here I believe suggested looking for breeders looking for homes. There are a variety...

It's hard when practices sell out because even when they retain staff the rules of operation aren't always what you had before when the practice was run by the person you went to because you liked the practice. Obviously we've had the same Vet so it hasn't been an issue with the dogs but I've...

We have a single practitioner vet so it is the vet or the emergency Vet. I will say the office has been amazing working around emergencies and being honest when they just can't and telling us to go to the emergency vet even though in our area that has meant they can lose customers as the local...

They would have had to take out the fence. Could have been another critter. We do get nocturnal ones and we have bunnies everywhere. The tick stuff we are using is working as Karen said we are finding live ones but they aren't biting the dogs. It was a good heads up finding them on the dogs...

I understand the concept. What confuses me is we check the dogs as they come in with all kinds of flower debris, etc. from the yard along with the risk of ticks. So its not as if we wouldn't have been looking for ticks this spring/summer we just didn't find them. Fast forward to November and...

I get that we need snow on the ground before they are likely not an issue. What I found odd was it wasn't all summer and now it is if we are having a tick revival.

I understand that until it freezes we are at risk for ticks. However, the dogs were pretty tick free for most of the summer but all of a sudden we are finding ticks on Teddy daily. One advantage of his thick hair is it takes an energetic tick to work through his hair before we find them...

Bailey was a chewer but seemed to have that "caring" instinct where he'd get upset if he "broke" a toy. The girls had limited interest in toys. Teddy will chew until death due his toy depart. We have the beni bones but I'm looking for suggestions for toys that will entertain him and not die...

We found 2 on Teddy's head in the last 2 days. They hadn't had time to make a home, his snout is hard and they would have died of with the tick meds but I do hate that we don't have tick defenses.