Re: Pet death

On Nov 21, 5:48�am, Ruby Vee <rubyv...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-11-20 11:15:41 -0500, "Nunya B." <nunyadayumbid...@xxxxxxxxx> said:







"PJ" <pjm...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Nov 20, 6:57?am, "Nunya B." <nunyadayumbid...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"PJ" <pjm...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I really didn't know how to choose a subject line for this. Our
beloved great dane died this morning and I'm completely distraught.
She was fine and dandy when we went to bed last night and at death's
door this morning. We drove like hell to the vet's office but she died
about five minutes before we got there. Apparently the cause was
*bloat*. The vet said there's no way to predict it and nothing we
could have done to save her. Those are good words to hear but they
don't alleviate the loss. The reason I'm posting this here is to ask
if anyone has experienced this condition with a positive outcome.
*Katie* was only 6 years old. We rescued her about 5 1/2 years ago and
she became a huge part of our family. A sweet and wonderfully loving
dog. I guess I'm just hoping someone will reiterate what the vet told
us, that there was nothing we could have done. I'm really beating
myself up about this.

Thanks.

PJ

Very sorry to hear about your loss. I know other dog owners who have been
through the same kind of thing. You can't blame yourself.

My last dog had issues with eating socks and other things that could have
caused major blockages but somehow she managed to survive even if it took
a
few days of being sick to pass everything. She made it to 13 before her
5th
go round with mass cell cancer took her.

The first time the sock thing happened we suspected bloat (didn't realize
the socks were missing) and read up on it. Our new dog is a lab mix who
enjoys grazing in her bowl and cannot finish a meal at one sitting. She
actually walks around the house with a mouthful of food and chews it as
she
goes. The obedience school trainer was not happy with this habit but we're
ok with it. If she hasn't finished her first bowl of food (she gets 2 a
day)
by the time we eat supper then we know something's up. I use other status
reduction methods to establish my alpha position.

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Katie was a grazer too. But socks? Our little corgi chews socks but I
don't think he's actually eaten any! �:-> �And I agree with you about
choosing your method of establishing who's *top dog*. Whatever gets
the point across works for me. So far, it's simply been that I go
first and I don't go around them. All the rest is hugs!

PJ

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She ate socks & nylons - swallowed them whole. She ate a bag of balloons
once.

We do the top dog thing the same way but there are 30 minute down-stays most
evenings and 10 minute ones when she gets aggressive with us or the cats.

My Katie (a beautiful golden retriever who died 8 years ago last month)
ate a sweater -- most of it anyway. �She also ate pickles, jalpenos,
toothpaste, a Coke can, the cords off three different electric blankets
(while plugged in) most of the lights off a Christmas tree -- while lit
(she shit those little bitty bulbs for a week!) nails, a toy soldier,
my contact lenses, two pairs of glasses and my master's thesis about an
hour before I was leaving to take it to the printer (in 1989). �She ate
a birthday card containing $100 in cash, my MasterCard, enough drywall
to chew herself out of the bedroom and a good chunk of living room
carpeting in a rental house. �When we had a doggy door, she'd bring in
slugs and frozen dog turds for her later snacking pleasure. �
(Defrosting dog turds under the kitchen table is SUCH a pleasant
discovery when you have guests for dinner!) �Despite all that, she
lived to be 13 at which point Clancy, my 14 year old golden who sired
her died. �Katie decided she didn't want to be an only dog and more or
less willed herself to death. �She was a stubborn bitch! �I still miss
her! �But, like Lucy, I can think of her and laugh now, not cry.

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Oh, my gosh. I had no idea dogs would eat such things. Mine have
stolen food (an 8 lb ham comes to mind) but I don't think any of them
ever ate anything but food. We have a dog door and our corgi digs
stuff out of the compost pile and brings it in the house but, again,
just food items. He especially seems to think decomposing canteloupe
rinds are fun to carry around. Gag.

Dogs! Some of us can't live without them, even though the pain of
losing them is intense.

PJ
.

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