Awesome dogs / Crazy pets Thread

[Moose7060]

When these two were young pups whilst alone in my truck, they proceeded to eat a full pack of chewing gum, wrappers and all. I wasn't concerned about health risks but sure was startled every time one farted and it sounded like a gun shot when the bubble burst!

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

When these two were young pups whilst alone in my truck, they proceeded to eat a full pack of chewing gum, wrappers and all. I wasn't concerned about health risks but sure was startled every time one farted and it sounded like a gun shot when the bubble burst!

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I had one of my Wolves that was really really fond of Bubble tape, he was so cool, he would eat just little bits at time.

 

[Daren Todd]

We have brother and sister Catahoula dogs. The male takes to the wife and the female to me. It's interesting how that works.

We had brother and sister German shepherds. Our daughter had the male, we have the female.

We used to dog sit him quite often. He would take uo for my wife and Gypsy takes up for me

 

[Daren Todd]

I had one of my Wolves that was really really fond of Bubble tape, he was so cool, he would eat just little bits at time.

My mom's boyfriend has a black nose cur/ bull mastiff mix that weighs around 120 to 150 lbs.

He's an absolute knuckle head.

He flopped on his back for a belly rub. So of course I obliged. Moms BF told me to take about 5 steps from him and ignore him.

That idiot wiggled across the floor on his back, so his belly was still exposed for rubs until he was right next to me. I gave him a couple rubs on his belly, then walked across the room. He followed me around the kitchen like that

Gypsy can't stand me wearing a bandaid on my fingers. If I had my hand over the side of the chairs or couch, I'll start feeling gentle tugging (about consistent with a guppies nibbles.

Then I'll feeling the occasional deliberate gentle tug along with the guppy nibbles.

I'll look and She'll have the end of the bandaid between one of her upper and lower teeth and concentrating really hard on sneaking it off from my finger

 

[Daren Todd]

" Librela (aka, bedinvetmab injection; aka Barensa in Australia) is one of the newest tools in our OA management tool box. It a monoclonal antibody (mAb) that targets nerve growth factor (NGF) and is used to control pain in dogs with osteoarthritis (OA) (Enomoto). NGF has been recognized as an important mediator of pain, and levels are increased in joints of dogs with OA (Isola). The goal of using Librela is to reduce excessive NGF and thereby reduce pain. "

I've had my Heeler mix on Librella for five months or so, along with Gabapentin, but I've noticed that her coordination suffers and she'll stumble and even fall over at times. I have a meeting this week to figure out which med should be stopped first in an attempt to isolate the cause of the lack of coordination.

Gypsy was on Gabapantin and remdil for her arthritis.

We had to ween her off the gabpantin for the same reason.

She's been off the rimidil for a year now since she went on the librella shot.

I've been on an medication that works similarly to librella for about 6 years now. So librella for Gypsy was an easy sell to me

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

This is my doggy Public Awareness Post:

We've been doing rescues for 20+ years and having a dog die from these things is a sad death.
Almost all of these shut down or destroy their kidneys and liver very quickly.

RIMADYL is top on my list!
I know some swear by it and love it, but Not anywhere near my pack, I will spare you the extremely sad tale of what rimadyl did to us.
Any nsaid (Anti Inflammatory) can cause this to happen suddenly.
If you going to give nsaids to your dogs have there blood work checked before you start and all the while (often) while they are taking it.
Also to help with stomach issues, give them An antacid (calcium based) like tums, Not Rolaids ( magnesium hydroxide) with their meds, some of our kids like the crunchy ones some like the soft ones.

Real Chocolate, with Coco, like bakers chocolate, one of the worst chocolate things is German Chocolate cake.
White chocolate is OK.

Grapes, Wine, Raisins, blueberries, and persimmons all fall in this group, it's actually the tannins in the skin that are toxic.

Anything Xylitol!
Xylitol is a sweetener that is toxic to dogs. It's also known as birch sugar or wood sugar.
Also in natural form birch bark is also toxic.

Anything Caffeine!

Antifreeze.

Whole Almonds, walnuts, Macadamia nuts, Brazil Nuts.

Garlic.

Onions, specifically vidalias!

Ice melt, the non pet safe variety.

If your dog ever eats any of these things one of the fastest and safest ways to get it out of them is 3% Hydrogen peroxide (general store available variety).
DO NOT USE the stronger commercial Hydrogen Peroxide!
Start with a 50/50 mix of water and peroxide mix and force them to take it, I use a big syringe, in an emergency just pour it down their throat.
If they have not thrown up within a few min do it again with a 75 peroxide to 25 water mix.
Again if they still have not thrown up in a few min give them 100% (it does not hurt them).
And don't be sparing.
They will throw up, several times, after they are done talk to your vet on follow up testing and care.

Thanks to @Moose7060 for reminding me there are different grades / strengths of Hydrogen Peroxide!

 

[je1279]

For those who are interested, here is our pup now, currently 4 years old. We love him to death, but don't let the cute face fool you as he can be an absolute terror...

 

[Moose7060]

This is my doggy Public Awareness Post:

We've been doing rescues for 20+ years and having a dog die from these things is a sad death.
Almost all of these shut down or destroy their kidneys and liver very quickly.

RIMADYL is top on my list!
I know some swear by it and love it, but Not anywhere near my pack, I will spare you the extremely sad tale of what rimadyl did to us.
Any nsaid (Anti Inflammatory) can cause this to happen suddenly.
If you going to give nsaids to your dogs have there blood work checked before you start and all the while (often) while they are taking it.
Also to help with stomach issues, give them An antacid (calcium based) like tums, Not Rolaids ( magnesium hydroxide) with their meds, some of our kids like the crunchy ones some like the soft ones.

Real Chocolate, with Coco, like bakers chocolate, one of the worst chocolate things is German Chocolate cake.
White chocolate is OK.

Grapes, Wine, Raisins, blueberries, and persimmons all fall in this group, it's actually the tannins in the skin that are toxic.

Anything Xylitol!
Xylitol is a sweetener that is toxic to dogs. It's also known as birch sugar or wood sugar.
Also in natural form birch bark is also toxic.

Anything Caffeine!

Antifreeze.

Whole Almonds, walnuts, Macadamia nuts, Brazil Nuts.

Garlic.

Onions, specifically vidalias!

Ice melt, the non pet safe variety.

If your dog ever eats any of these things one of the fastest and safest ways to get it out of them is Hydrogen peroxide.
Start with a 50/50 mix of water and peroxide mix and force them to take it, I use a big syringe, in an emergency just pour it down their throat.
If they have not thrown up within a few min do it again with a 75 peroxide to 25 water mix.
Again if they still have not thrown up in a few min give them 100% (it does not hurt them).
And don't be sparing.
They will throw up, several times, after they are done talk to your vet on follow up testing and care.

Just for clarification, and please correct me if I am mistaken, but you are referring to 3% peroxide as opposed to 35% food grade peroxide that I buy at the tack store for use in my hot tub instead of all the chemicals the tub companies want people to buy? I believe the 35% would burn their insides awfully bad.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Just for clarification, and please correct me if I am mistaken, but you are referring to 3% peroxide as opposed to 35% food grade peroxide that I buy at the tack store for use in my hot tub instead of all the chemicals the tub companies want people to buy? I believe the 35% would burn their insides awfully bad.

Oh yes, You are 100% right!
Thank you for that! I will add that in to my post!

 

[DustyRusty]

We used to carry ipecac syrup on the ambulances and the one time that I needed advice from my vet, he said to use the ipecac syrup. I don't believe that it is still available in the States, however, I believe that you can purchase it in Canada in 1/2 oz bottles without a script.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

We used to carry ipecac syrup on the ambulances and the one time that I needed advice from my vet, he said to use the ipecac syrup. I don't believe that it is still available in the States, however, I believe that you can purchase it in Canada in 1/2 oz bottles without a script.

Syrup of ipecac is no longer recommended for home use in humans or animals. The active ingredient is emetine, a toxic alkaloid, which produces vomiting by acting as a stomach irritant. If repeated use fails to induce emesis, then gastric lavage is necessary to remove the emetine to prevent additional toxicosis.

 

[Bmyers]

Our dog decided that he was going to counter surf and helped himself to a brand new bag of Hostess Chocolate Frosted Donuts. Came home to find the empty bag with a hole ripped in the side of it laying on his bed. He gave the look as if he had no idea how that got there.

Well, the 10oz bag didn't hurt him. Although, he is a 130lbs, so based on the above post he could have a few more bags, but don't tell him that.

 

[Yotekiller]

Wife just bought a pup: another Catahoula. To add to two 7yo critters, male and sister. NOTHING gets through our gate. They love people but never have I seen a dog judge a person in such short order. The dogs nail it every time. If they weird out the person is not trustworthy. Period. They stay outside the gate.

When we moved from flatlands to forest we went a different direction for dog duty. Work, security, etc. My gosh I loved my German Shep but she aged out. But a true working dog is without argument. GS didn't work too good in the forest.

We have 50 pigs. The GS watched them but wasn't raised with them. The Catahoula dogs are watching. constantly, everywhere. Including people. Both dogs can judge people but I think the Cats are more discerning. Certainly better in different biomes. Some are better than others in geography. But the swamp dogs even without swamp are first in class. And way too smart.

They love Hershey kisses once in a while and we don't worry about anything. They hear through walls.

They're beautiful dogs but you never see them around my parts which is odd considering we are a massive farming livestock state.