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[JudyN]

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Most definitely not, but it's easier to pick up if I am actually looking at it, and it's surprising what I see in it at times Like the lolly stick he'd eaten a good two or three weeks earlier, and the bit of toothed plastic I never did manage to id....

 

[JudyN]

Ah, here we are - it can't have been fun passing that!

 

[JoanneF]

I can't believe I am looking closely at that and seriously trying to work out what it is - on a Friday night. What has my life become.

Welcome to my rock and roll lifestyle.

 

[JudyN]

Just be glad I washed it first... Maybe there's an idea for a new thread here - 'Things I've found in my dog's poo'.

Or maybe not...

 

[Finsky]

Didn't think to have my camera ready for my dogs poo...…
I never found anything weird in the poo, but when Iida was pup, she had swallowed something she wasn't supposed to..4" long plastic coated piece of wire It almost got out when she was pushing but then got stuck and I didn't dare to pull it out in case I would rip her innards. So 3 weeks into new puppyhood, we had our first emergency trip to vets.
At the time it had gone back in and vet could not find it, so she had some injection to 'loosen the bowel movements' and hey ho, as soon as we got through the doors and outside, she pushed it all out. It still cost us £30...costly poo!

 

[Finsky]

Ah, here we are - it can't have been fun passing that!

Outch! I hope those divided sections were bendy type of plastic.

 

[Finsky]

YUCK yuck yuck! The tick season has started and properly so. We've just came home from dog walking and I kept picking the bleeders off from our tick magnet as she 'hoovered' them on her coat. It must be something about the texture and colour of it that attracts them as there was none on the other one!? And I found one that was missed from previous walk...it was just much bigger...YUCK! Don't like plugging them out but one must.
Our 'tick hoover' today...couldn't been more delighted despite of the 'passengers'

 

[JudyN]

Beautiful - it must be hard to spot the ticks on her in the first place?

 

[JudyN]

Phew, that was a close one!

This morning I had a bit of a sore neck so decided to take a couple of paracetamol. Got them out the cupboard and stuck them in my pocket, planning to take them when I went to the other room where my glass of water was.

Just now I thought I'd have a session with his 'nail-filing scratch board'. Sat in the garden holding it, pulled a bunch of treats out of my pocket, held them in my hand and dropped one each time Jasper had a scratch. I kept dropping them in pairs so looked down as I rearranged them in my hand... only to see amongst the treats the two paracetamol It was only by chance that I hadn't dropped one or both earlier, and he'd probably have eaten them before either of us realised they weren't treats.

Actually checking online, paracetamol aren't as bad for dogs as I thought and he should have been OK - one of the advantages of having a large dog is that he's less likely to find enough of something toxic to do him harm. But a bit scary to see how easy it is to make mistakes. For me, anyway

 

[Finsky]

Beautiful - it must be hard to spot the ticks on her in the first place?

They are hard to find if they get to crawl amongst the hairs but when they have only just landed on her, they show very easily against the black coat.
I first thought she had some seeds on her "linseeds???" (I know not possible but that's how they looked without glasses on) or some brown 'bits' on her until I looked more carefully..... After that I could not take my eyes off from her, I must have pick about dozen off!

 

[Finsky]

Phew, that was a close one!

This morning I had a bit of a sore neck so decided to take a couple of paracetamol. Got them out the cupboard and stuck them in my pocket, planning to take them when I went to the other room where my glass of water was.

Just now I thought I'd have a session with his 'nail-filing scratch board'. Sat in the garden holding it, pulled a bunch of treats out of my pocket, held them in my hand and dropped one each time Jasper had a scratch. I kept dropping them in pairs so looked down as I rearranged them in my hand... only to see amongst the treats the two paracetamol It was only by chance that I hadn't dropped one or both earlier, and he'd probably have eaten them before either of us realised they weren't treats.

Actually checking online, paracetamol aren't as bad for dogs as I thought and he should have been OK - one of the advantages of having a large dog is that he's less likely to find enough of something toxic to do him harm. But a bit scary to see how easy it is to make mistakes. For me, anyway

Oh yes...very easily done. I have such amount of various pills and potions in the house so I have to watch like a hawk to avoid any 'accident'.
Glad to hear you court them in time..

 

[Josie]

I never knew dogs could have paracetamol but when Dennis had his operation earlier this year he was on two a day! the vets said they couldn’t get any ‘dog’ paracetamol because of the pandemic but human ones were fine.

Which has led me to believe that I’m sure the ‘dog’ versions are probably triple the price but exactly the same as the human ones!

 

[JudyN]

Toxicity of paracetamol in dogs is size-dependent - which may well be the case with humans as well, but I've never seen it suggested that a large human should have a higher dose than a small human. But of course, dogs are much more variable in size than humans. So for a lab or other large dog, a 'standard' human dose may be safe, but for a smaller one it could be damaging, even fatal. And it might not even be 'scaleable' (i.e. recommended dosage might not be proportional to size) - so the bottom line is that one should never give a dog medications other than prescribed or advised by a vet (regardless of what you read on the net because we all know what rubbish some people post - e.g. injecting disinfectant to cure Covid-19 ).

 

[Josie]

Oh definitely - I would never have given Den normal paracetamol of it wasn’t suggested by a vet first

 

[Finsky]

Well....I'm SO surprised what I have just witnessed that I just had to share it!
Our younger one is in 3 weeks time 1 year old and recently she has shown lots of changes in her behaviour. Mostly it has been some 'naughty' teenage stuff and all that and occasionally a brief, promising moment of adult like way of thinking..
Moment ago.. our older one was lounging about on floor, not interested of doing anything, not even chewing her treat that was lying on floor untouched. That on its own is something that would not have happened before. Not because the disinterest from her behalf but younger one is a gannet and more often than not I have to hold her back for not gobbling down more than her share of chews/treats...and older one just lets her get away with it.

So....this time younger one picked one of the two chews on the floor and placed it on the floor on front of the older one's nose!!! What!?
Though she did pick to give away the one that she already had teeny nibble of and kept the untouched one for herself.... but still....friendly gesture to share 'her' food!!!!?? Well well....there is still hope to have a 'civilized' creature our of that wild 'child'
Now I feel like I might have done something right...as a doggy 'mum' that is

 

[Hemlock]

Flippin' 'eck - that is really impressive!

 

[Finsky]

Last night I was surprised by scene of my older one doing some problem solving. I don't know why I was surprised as I know neither are totally mad mutts and have shown that they have working brains..but still..

So, what happened..
An hour earlier both dogs had been in garden and done their 'things', so when I was stirred from my half-sleep stage by the older one, trotting towards back door and standing there, waiting to be let out..and then pacing around. I knew she wasn't in bodily need to go out but this was 'wanting go out hunting' stuff.
But I wasn't prepared to get out of my warm bed and younger one was fast sleep around my ankles...snug as a bug.
I decided to ignore the pacing and see if she will give up and settle down again.... (should have know better....)

After while Iida stopped her pacing and stood still like a statue in the middle room...you could see she was doing some problem solving...her brain was literally ticking ...
And then she 'woke' into action..looking around and then picked one of the younger one's half eaten chews...went to wake her up by dropping the chew on her face! Younger one immediately picked the chew, jumped up and jumped on top of me pushing the chew on my face..( that is how she normally lets me know that she is in dire need to go out..if I don't react quickly, we have wet accident on its way!)
So of course I immediately got up and let both of them out

Now I wonder...she must have known that I was wake as she didn't wake me up with her usual method by giving gentle little lick on tip of my nose. She must have come to conclusion that different form of action was needed as I being the 'stubborn one'

So the older one got what she wanted...she had good rummage in garden in the middle of the night, making sure there wasn't anything roaming around that needs removing (there wasn't) and after half an hour both dogs were in and happily back on their blankets....and now I was wide awake again..

 

[JudyN]

My son & his fiancee came over this afternoon for a socially distanced lunch in the garden - the first time we've seen them since the start of the lockdown. (They brought their own food & drink - I'll use any excuse to get out of making food). They came through the side gate, and down the passage to where we have a bit of fence into the rest of the garden.

Jasper was funny - he barked when he heard someone come down the side of the house as people aren't meant to appear there, stopped once he saw who it was, and then was a strange mix of being delighted to see them and desperate to get to them... and a bit of a raised lip and growl too They didn't come straight in but said their helloes through the fence to give him a chance to sort his brain out, and then he was absolutely fine. I can only assume that his brain was ping-ponging between 'The PUPPIES, I love the puppies, let me get to you, puppies!!' (Yes, we sometimes refer to them as the puppies ) and 'Aaargh, INTRUDER ALERT, people aren't allowed to sneak up that way, they should ring the bell!' and it took a while for the table tennis ball in his brain to stop ping-ponging and return to what counts as normality for him.

 

[Hemlock]

I thought my coffee tasted funny this morning. I'd put yoghurt in by accident.

Not recommended.

 

[JudyN]

Blergh, Hemlock!!!