Re: Cesar Millan

Judith Althouse wrote:

I am so sorry Chile is having such problems. It sounds like you have
your hands full. My Lady girl is just about Chile's age, and she just
seems to sleep so soundly now. When she was younger, she always had one
eye open, figuratively speaking. Now, I have to call her name several
times or make a sound to wake her.

Chile sleeps long and like a rock, too.

Perhaps, it is not hearing loss with
her, it may be some mild form of dementia? She can still run like the
wind, when she does awake. Her eyes are cloudy, but the Vet said it is
just due to her age, and does not effect her vision.

It's hard to tell - there are so many possibilities. Chile runs in short spurts, despite serious arthritis in her knees and spine and hips, and hip dysplasia (I didn't know chi's could get it, but she did, appearing when she was about 14). Her eyes are also clouded, but vet says it's not cataracts. I don't see how it could not affect vision - the cloudiness blocks the entrance of light, just not as much as cataracts do. At the least it would reduce the detail that the dog could see.

Lady has had problems with impacted anal glands, usually a once a
month trip to the Vet relieves her, so far, no incontinence. She will
sleep for 10 hours if I would let her, without going out to pee. I
already miss her. Every once in awhile, when I take her face in my
hands and talk to her, I see her look at me, like my old Lady girl.

Yeah, you miss the old personality. Chile is very different, too; much of the time she is very passive. But the spark reappears now and then, like when she tries to muscle Oppie away from a plate that he is licking, or when she gets a brief spurt of the zoomies and runs up and down the hall a couple of times, or she wants something I am eating and demands that I give it to her This Minute (which is an object lesson in the difficulty of extinguishing an intermittently reinforced behavior...).

I hope your Chile girl will be doing better very soon.

Thanks - I don't think Chile will be doing better, but we try to keep her comfortable and well-petted - just as, I'm certain, you do for your Lady girl.

FurPaw
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