He definitely has that face. Been really good though. Helps that Niner has started to mellow and knows the score.

 

Really? You just wanted to change the decor?

OK, Show me!

Dog vs decorating; I’m not sure if this is going to end well.

 

Seems you got yourself an aspiring Van Gogh... I mean a Van Dogh

 

MRI would tell you - that's what we had with our Whippet Raven...

More about it all here:

https://omegaforums.net/threads/hopefully-pet-owners-understand-dedicated-to-pets.15475/page-44

Ended up having spinal surgery and had a full recovery. Unfortunately less than a year later she had lymphoma and didn't make it through that, but even if it is a blown disk, it's pretty amazing what can be done...

 

Its been a grey and rainy week but a bit of sun broke the cloud... and he made the most / is glad the Tomato plants are gone so he has a new perch... but then back into hibernation... and a new pose which I think says... '' do not disturb - wake me up in May!'' (UK seasons)

 

This is going to be Eddie’s favourite spot for the next 6 months

 

Hoping Frank is on the mend.

 

His flexibility is inspiring

 

The love of my life and I are heading off tomorrow for a short holiday with my old pal for company. We have started to notice how much happier he is without the wee boy around so youngster can stay at home and it is back to old times

 

He was copying his Dad’s pose, you can see it on my onlyfans page

 

Hungry guest at a party

 

That's the next step, go for high resolution imaging, he's back on his feet on a fun sounding cocktail of drugs but prone to big spasms which are pretty debilitating. Think we're going back to the vets in Tuesday for a decision.

Stan continues to make himself popular by tickling the shins of those minding their own business on the path.

 

If you have a veterinary school within a reasonable driving distance, you might consider it. While high end imaging and diagnostics have become more widely available locally, the specialist veterinarians and facilities at a full research veterinary center are often at another level. They see things on a weekly basis that most local vets may see once a year, and a board-certified veterinary neurosurgeon can probably do things that most vets can't even imagine. If it comes to that, which I hope it won't.

Over the years, we have had a few occasions to bring our dogs to the vet school that is about a 1.5 hour drive for us. It's a bit of a pain, because vet students are also being trained, so they are involved in the process, which is time-consuming. And if the treatment goes on for an extended period of time, there can be multiple people involved (because students rotate through different specialities). But the quality of care our dogs have received has been very high, and the fees at the vet school clinic are in line with our local vet.

 

Good advice. Sometimes we wish that we'd taken out cat Cinder to Colo State University last year for care of his GI Lymphoma, but being a 2.5 hour drive each way was going to be too difficult for us. And if we'd left the cat with our son attending school there, it would have been too distracting for him and he might have failed a class or two (it was hard enough on him to be full-time and an RA in the dorm at the same time).

 

Sadly, we have firsthand knowledge that CSU has an excellent veterinary oncology department. They have treated three of our dogs. Of course, as a physician yourself, you know that they don’t perform miracles. I always thought that cancer was uncommon in cats. But maybe it’s all relative.

 

I almost brought hairy to the vet as I thought she lost a paw again

 

Yeah, it was a big shock to us - we'd taken him into the vet a few times over a year with problems keeping his food down, and they didn't find anything (didn't look too hard since he was a chunk). Then January last year Cinder started to throw up old blood - we took him in right away, and he was diagnosed with a large mass in his stomach enveloping the pylorus and making surgical resection impossible. Apparently gastrointestinal lymphoma is not uncommon in cats.

He passed away 3 months later that April, as he was too far gone according to the local vet to do more than soft food, steroids, sulcrafate for ulceration and antiemetics. The steroids helped for about 2 months, and then he rapidly went down hill after that. he was the best cat ever, and I wish we'd done more - but driving 5 hours round trip to CSU Oncology 2x a week wasn't possible, and it was still a 3 hours round trip to the nearest private oncologist. Just thinking about all of this just now made me look at his pictures and tear up a little.

When he was just a few months old in Feb 2014


The day he passed on April 2019, at home in my arms, with a Vet who made a house call to gave him his final rest.

 

Well sooper dooper was diagnosed with cancer when she was 17. That was five years ago. She does need daily IV which I do myself. She may not look to happy right now as I’m trying to get her to move so I can vacuum but she is doing amazingly well considering. I know her time is short but we don’t focus on that as long as she isn’t suffering I do her meds and IV. She has good days and bad days I can tell when she isn’t feeling well by the appearance and feel of her fur at which time I increase her meds and she bounces back.

 

Here is a photo to prove she still moves

 

Oh well, why did the chipmunk come into our house


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