surgery

Hi, I haven't been on here in a long time. I wanted to share that my 11 year old sheltie girl named Bonita came through surgery amazingly well and her recovery was faster than the surgeon and our vet expected. She had one large stone that blocked her urethra. She had surgery the same day ($$$...

Hi, everyone. Our 1-year-old puppy who has had health issues all his life is four days out from a hind-leg osteotomy. He has another one to go through in four to six weeks. He has to wear a cone collar all the time because he immediately licks his splinted leg if the collar is taken off. He...

Friends, I have a terrible story to tell. My husband and I don't know what to do. We have a sweet and loving male Sheltie puppy, Fainly, who is now not quite 8 1/2 months old. He has been diagnosed with IBD, having had diarrhea or loose bowels every day since we got him at the end of last...

So, this is day 3 post-surgery... Everything is looking good... However, I left his onesie on overnight as I have done for the past couple of nights. Today I had to go out to shovel snow and I left it on him. When I came in I thought something was amiss. To my surprise... The Onesie is not...

I'm at a bit of a loss, and hoping for some advice, or at least a sympathetic ear. It's a long story, but here goes: Bit of backstory, I got my sheltie, Loki, from a "free dog" craigslist ad in September 2014. He'd been dumped in the country, and he was emaciated, matted, and terrified of...