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Well, I guess good news & bad news. The good news is that the specialist did not recommend surgery. The bad news is that he wasn't able to say with any certainty WHAT the issue is. The x-rays didn't show anything obvious. This is a highly respected orthopedic clinic in the Indianapolis area...

Appointment is on October 1st, that was the first opening. Hopefully we'll get an answer at least.

I've never really had another breed, just two other shelties (Dakota & then Apollo) - but I had considered getting a Shiba Inu before we got Luna.

Not much to update, but I figured I'd update anyway... We stopped giving her Rimadyl after the second week. It didn't really seem to be doing a whole lot, so I didn't want to give it to her just to give it to her. I wouldn't say she really got noticeably worse after stopping it, as far as we...

Thanks - I will look into trying to see if there's an orthopedic vet close enough to give that a try. I also decided to move her crate to another room. We had moved it to give her a view out the back door, so that she might be less bored during the long days while we are at work. That wasn't...

OK, if you saw my hello! thread, you'll see I mentioned that Luna has been having issues with a limp. Here's a more detailed (maybe too detailed, and also maybe still forgot details!) account of the issue. I'm sorry it's SO LONG. In late July, she started limping a bit after laying down, we had...

It's been awhile, my last post was a couple years ago in the thread for our previous rescue sheltie after he had passed. I mentioned possibly getting a puppy at that time. Well, we did get a puppy. Her name is Luna, and wow, was/is she a handful. We went from Apollo, who by 17 wasn't super...

I noticed that the old link on page 1 to Apollo/Razzle's rescue page doesn't work, but his page is still actually online after all these years. So for posterity and a few pictures of the sweetest & handsomest sheltie ever (no bias here)...

Thanks for the kind words everyone. My wife and I told everyone the famous last words that we would not be getting another due to the inevitable heartbreak. But...we started looking at rescues a few months ago, found a few we thought might be good fits for us, but they didn't work out. We...

Well, I'm going to try to make this short, as I don't want to cry all over my keyboard. Yesterday we had to say goodbye to Apollo after about 13.5 years of love. Timid as he may have initially been, once he gave his love to me and my wife...he was all in on us as we were on him. He was so...

wow, lots of input quickly, thanks! well, as i mentioned after the initial far too abrupt change to diamond (for about 3 days until the diarrhea, then i bought the alpo on day 3 or 4), we then switched him gradually -- starting with approx. 1/4 diamond, 3/4 alpo proportions for about 2 weeks...

Not sure if any of those are locally available or not. I live about an hour away from any true civilization. Haha. I believe Taste of the Wild may be available at Tractor Supply here in town. The only place within an hour that sells any sort of dog food that isn't full of corn gluten and...

Hi all, I haven't been too active on here, but some of you may remember me from a thread about a timid rescue named Apollo. Well, I had never known much about dog food quality and ingredients, etc, but a few months ago I started looking into food types. Originally I had typically been giving...

Haha. Thanks, yeah, I meant to post more often. But things just kind of seemed to be really busy this year! Always something going on. Rather life changing things at that. This year, I'll try to post more. I'm hoping to eventually get Apollo some Agility toys. He is very fast, and...

Well, I figured it was probably high time I posted an update here, considering it's been nearly a year now since my last post. Apollo has done a great job of adjusting over the last year. In my last post I had just given him a try off the leash. Well, as time went on, I gave him more freedom...