MrYenko posted:

Let the dog inside!

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

ok so what’s everyone’s stance on bones?

The 90s were absolutely a different time with dog ownership for sure. I had one vet that was vehemently against anything you couldn’t indent with the press of your finger. I mean, our dog’s ate a lot of rib bones growing up sans issue.

It seems as long as they are raw it’s fine, just make sure they’re supervised. But I mean, unless you’re picking up from a butcher or pet store, how often do you have uncooked meat bones lying around?

Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:

I am really thankful that Timothy and Zipper don't shed.

pantslesswithwolves posted:

My friend’s dog was so beloved by her neighbors in her small Brooklyn apartment building that she has a memorial to her in the lobby and pictures of her scattered throughout the building.





I met her a few times before she went to the Bridge and can attest that she definitely deserves this memorial, just like all other dogs.

Wingnut Ninja posted:

I was going through some old photos today and found one of my friend's late dogg Jack:



Taken before his time by a sudden illness, he was a good floofer and lifelong friends with anyone holding an empanada.

ElMaligno posted:

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

From PYF: a happy dog.
https://i.imgur.com/JhZSoll.mp4

ElMaligno posted:

Yo, any hot tips for camping with a dog?????

Naked Bear posted:

oh my god

ElMaligno posted:

Juniper met Olive today, no barking, no fighting, even shared the same bed while eating bones.

boop the snoot posted:

Here’s a picture of the Montster to hold you all over since I’m probably going to eat a 30 day or a ban from my Kavanaugh toxx.

Jay Rust posted:

Stay safe thieving pupper

TF CURES GENERATOR posted:

Can someone fill me in on the rainbow bridge?

TF CURES GENERATOR posted:

Any other requests

ElMaligno posted:

https://i.imgur.com/hXnPPJ7.gifv
https://i.imgur.com/7rdTjd6.gifv

Naked Bear posted:

https://i.imgur.com/vCaVW2B.gifv

h3r0n posted:

Golbez posted:

Maybe the best photo I've taken of Pit Pat.

StrixNebulosa posted:

https://twitter.com/zekkass/status/1155215351501791232

Got a second double dildo for Apollo and he loves them both so much

e: Picture dump!







e2: You will note that the blue dildo is missing an end. That's because we got it in 2017 and Apollo plays with it daily and a few weeks ago he just popped off the end, but the rest of it is intact. We've been monitoring it and will remove it whenever it starts disintegrating. Mom wants to remove it sooner but like, I can't. Look at him.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Icon Of Sin posted:

So, someone dumped a husky near work today, in an area popular for dumping unwanted animals. This is the same area one of our maintenance guys saw someone kick a puppy out of their car (which he took home with him that day )

She doesn’t have a name, but I think it’ll be Julie. There’s a husky rescue in the area that our intern is going to drop her off at tomorrow.





Poor girl was a bit nippy when we first got to her, but she was starving. I grabbed some dog food from my boss’ office (no idea why she has it there, but whatever) and we coaxed this good girl into our intern’s car. Intern took this good girl to the vet to look for a chip, and there wasn’t one...just a raging thirst (she drank somewhere around a gallon of water).

I don’t have words terrible enough for shitheels that dump dogs in that area. There’s barely any freshwater for miles in any direction, nothing for a dog to really eat, and when they go down to the canals to drink (it’s brackish, but they’ll try it sooner or later), there are good odds of a gator waiting for them. At least we found this girl and got her a second chance

Coasterphreak posted:

There's a post on my local Nextdoor about fuckers leaving their dogs outside in the freezing rear end cold. Please don't leave your puppers out in the cold.

DarkSoulsTantrum posted:

The best ears are the ones you’re scritchin’

Captain Invictus posted:

a bit of a tough but ever-present subject:

I posted about my old girl a couple months back, and her blind eye has since gotten progressively worse and more hosed up, bulging, the lower inner eyelid has been pushed up and out by something, etc. We got a vet appointment and they said that it is like 99% probability a cancerous tumor in her eye socket that is pushing her eye out and inflaming the area(the side of her face), but there is a slight chance it's just an aggressive infection. They prescribed antibiotics and painkillers, and said that if she doesn't improve after a week, that we should absolutely consider euthanizing her because she is in a lot of pain from the inflammation.

It's been a couple days and I don't know if the antibiotics are actually doing anything, but it seems like the painkillers are working much better than the one she had been prescribed before. This morning she actually hopped around a bit while waiting for me to get her a treat, which she hasn't done in like a year. Like, little hop-hop-hops. But I have a question about euthanizing her or not. It's probably some kind of aggressive cancer that is going to kill her eventually since it's right by her brain and if it isn't just straight up a brain tumor it'll probably metastasize into one in short order. But as of right now, she's actually acting pretty normal, basically like she was prior to the eye problem began, and she can even eat relatively normally when she was having trouble chewing before, likely from the inflammation. The rest of her body is fine, her kidneys, liver, bloodwork etc are all aces.

My question is this: if the painkillers are doing their job and she seems to be doing okay besides the ugly malformation of her eye, is it okay to just continue the painkillers, maybe increase the strength over time if necessary, and let her go out on her own, rather than pull the trigger on euthanasia immediately? Before I started her on the painkillers, she wouldn't even get up to greet me when I came home from work, but now she gets up and is ready to go out to piddle right away.

As well, I'm not completely averse to euthanasia, if she becomes crippled by the growth or something happens to her cognitive functions, I would absolutely do it to save her the suffering. My other dog that was with her developed severe dementia and didn't even recognize her own bed at a certain point, and so I was able to make the decision a lot easier since, well, I felt like she had already "died", in that her brain just was completely gone at that point, she didn't recognize anything and so was in a near-constant state of terror of the unknown. But Rosie, she's still sharp as a tack despite being over 18 years old, it's just physical frailty and this eye thing that's slowing her down, so if she can continue on while on painkillers, I would like to do so if possible.

It's tough. She was my sister's dog, and when my sister was murdered, she became our dog, so I've got an especially powerful connection with her. If she goes out in her sleep, I'd be bummed the gently caress out of course, but I've come to terms with losing her eventually for the most part, and don't think it'd weigh on me nearly as much as actively making the choice myself. Cowardly, maybe, but also, if she's able to continue on largely okay on painkillers, as long as they're not inhibiting her daily life, I'd like to let her continue on for at least a little while longer.

Rexxed posted:

Give your little friends an extra treat in honor of my little friend Sassy who passed away today very quickly after she started having breathing issues last night. She enjoyed pretty much all people food so a little bit of whatever they like is in order!

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Thanks for the news about Monty and Cole