Arghhh flippin dog......

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Our lurcher is 12 years old and going a bit insane. She quakes in her boots if you go near her and yelps at the slightest touch when she is in this mood.

To make it worse she has taken to getting on the eldest sd's bed. If I go to get her off she acts like I am about to murder her! I only tell her "off" and she goes into a blind panic! I try to be as quiet and gentle around her as possible but she thinks if she is doing something wrong I am going to beat her up! Because she is stressing me out (my god add that to my long list ha ha!) I have taken to putting a chair across the bed to keep her off (believe it or not my sons bed is accessable but she never bothers with it). I wouldn't mind but she stinks and I am sure her bladder leaks...the vets said she was healthy enough but a bit neurotic!!! He said as long as sd doesn't mind let the dog sleep on the bed but SHE STINKS even after baths!!!

I can't bring myself to let her on the bed....

[essexgirl]

no i dont blame you my cat used to sleep on dd bed and the amont of cat hairs she left behind i've now got her a high bed and the cat cant get up so now if i leave my door open she go's on MY bed:ac39:

[madmoo75]

oh what a nightmare.

i had a house rabbit and he used to think that he owned the house and could go where he wanted.

When the kids came along he had to learn that NO he couldn't i didn't want to risk having them suffercated by a rabbit

j

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Well I had the critter checked by the vet and she doesn't leak! In fact he said she is in perfect health considering she is now 12. As for the yelping he said it maybe just a reflex action brought on by a past incident, I did stand her once ( obviously an accident!) so maybe thats why she panicks.

Anyway after a couple of weeks she has stopped going on the bed and sleeps in her own box which we have moved closer to the bedroom so she feels close to her best friend. She loves sd and follows her around so we got an old sweater that hasn't been washed and put it in the dog bed as well as all her cushions etc and it seems to do the trick.

Neurotic animal or what!!!! The vet said lurchers get stressed easily but are very loyal......not bad considering she has only lived with my dh and I for 12 months or so!!! I have had her most of her life but held of moving her in until my ex sold our old house, up until that point she was fine and never really bothered with any of us!

Forgot to say he also suggested powdering her with baby talc and brushing it through her coat every few days or so to combat her stink and it certainly works. I had a friend who used to do it to her collie and thought she was nuts...now I know why!

[Katiequiggle]

Well my flipping creature has just really annoyed me. Just went to make a cuppa and thought I'd have a hotcross bun to go with it and they've gone, just had a look around and found the empty packet of 6 buns in the living room. B****y sod, I really fancied one of those too.

Kate

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Mmmm.... hot cross buns.....blooming dogs !!!!b

[coco]

Emma it could be the move that has unsettled her - we had one a boxer when we moved to where we are now, we had moved before when she was very young and it was the seaside. She adored it there and we did nto know how much until we moved here. she became very unsettled, aggitated much like you describe and then became doubly incontinant.

The vet said she was fine but tbh it was like some sort of doggy alzeimhers so I can understand how you feel. As for the leaking - lmao we now have a 3 year old cocker spaniel who pees on any thing and every thing if he thinks he is in trouble and again no reason for it arrrrrrrrr why DO we have pets ??

L xx

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Is that your kitty in your avatar? How cute and fluffy!!!!:wub:

Poor dog is on anti-inflamitories. The vet has given her a check over but can't find anything wrong. The problem is now that her back legs have seized up and although the tablets are helping her move, her tail doesn't work and she is staggering alot. She is supposed to be having blood tests later today but to be honest I don't like seeing her so distressed, she is normally such an active dog and now she doesn't even want to know my eldeest sd who she normally shadows and greats as soon as she gets in from school.

My last dog went like this and he had lymphatic cancer, he was an oap too and I couldn't see her suffer while the vets take blood for testing, the way he did. I think we won't be bringing her home today.

I have said we wont have another dog now. Maybe when we move but I don't want another one for sometime. It will be the first time I have never had a dog in my life. This is also the strange reason for me being up so early.

[coco]

Yup that is our latest baby, coco fluffy cat - she is only 7 weeks old and is such a character !!

I was in the petshop today, as my older cat is suffering with his back legs and she recommended some thing called mobilise I think that is for older pets, achy joints etc dont' know if that would help you for your baby

L xx

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Unfortunately she was put to sleep. She had irripairable nerve damage caused by a possible growth in her rectum.

I felt awful, she just lay there looking at me as he put the letheal injection in and I felt her stare go so deep. Not nice. I spent the night in bed feeling very sad to have lost my darling old friend. She was very loyal and I usually took her everywhere, it was so strange without the poor old girl and leaving her in the house all the time when I would normally walk her to the horses and school two or three times a day.

[wokkies]

""cutey""b :grouphug:

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Our vet sent us a lovely, personal letter asking us to contribute to the surgery book of rememberance so we are going to add her details. I thought it was a nice thing to do.

Georgia came from a dogs home, she was aprox 2 years old when she chose me. My ex and I had not long lost my old dog ( a very bubly but ancient springer) and having never been without a dog we decided it was only right to get another to take up the stables withme. We were there ages when we got to one row of kennels and this almighty bark caught my attention, there she was my lurcher! I had often said I wanted one but my ex wanted a boarder collie or a boxer and I had reluctantly agreed but once I saw my girl, that was it and she came home with me.

When I got divorced my ex threatened to have her destroyed (she was about ten/eleven by then, and my dh said we could try her in our home and we never looked back.

We will miss her alot, I feel a bit lost when I go to the stables as she was always there with me, the kids miss taking her to school and dh misses his late evening walks over the hills.

I am hoping to get a greyhound or another lurcher from the GHT or a rescue centre (we only ever have rescue dogs) but we need to get a new house first as I don't want to stress it out when we move.

[LisaPink]

Im really sorry for your loss. At least you have all your memories to keep her close to you. xx