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Grooch | Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 07:55 am     TK, is your cat an inside or outside cat? Mine is an inside only cat so I can get away without the heartworm medicine or flea medicine. Just the regular shots once a year. Since my puupy is new, I have only bought the monthly medicine once in a 6 month increment. I have since found out that I can buy the same stuff at the local pet store about $12 cheaper. I think you can also buy it over the internet also. It would be worth it to compare prices. But you do have a multidog discount, so that may make up for the difference in prices. maybe not. Also, what about the humane society or rescue groups? A lot of places around here (even the pet store) offer very cheap prices for shots, etc. Because this is a large city with a lot of poor people, it is worth it for them to do this and keep the numbers of unwanted pets down. The lady who takes care of the wild cats at work just got the mother spayed for $13 because she got the "over 55" discount. Not to shabby. |
Juju2bigdog | Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 08:30 am     Grooch, have I mentioned about fleas and South Florida and how I learned from the Miami Herald Action Line how to not have fleas in South Florida? Get 20 Mule Team Borax and sprinkle it around on your carpet, let it sit for a while, vacuum it up. It really works!!! Then you don't have to be giving your poor animal pills or flea dipping him all the time. We had two cats and a fluffy dog and big time flea problems until the Miami Herald saved our lives. |
Grooch | Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 09:02 am     Juju, I tried that for cockroaches in the 1st apartment I lived in <huge shudder> when I first moved down here and it didn't work. The roaches laughed at me. Wouldn't the puppy or cat try to eat it or lick it up? I think the borax is great advice but I'll stick with the advantage. It is a tiny bit of gel that you put on the dog's shoulder blades once a month. It really is nothing. And it is a godsend. But I wonder if the borax would work if I sprinkled it around the property borders to keep the buffo toads out? Juju, what did you do for them? I let the puppy out yesterday morning and he found his first one. A little baby one and Rocky went for it. I grabbed him so fast and washed his mouth out. Not easy to do on a pug. Now I worry when every day when the sun goes down. |
Fruitbat | Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 09:18 am     Thanks for the tip Juju. I will try that. We haven't a flea problem in years but in New England certain weather circumstances bring them on in a big way. |
Tksoard | Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 09:39 am     Grooch, I use Bio-Spot, which is a flea and tick liquid you put on them between the shoulders and base of the tail. It works good, but with them being outside until bedtime, they pick up all the bugs on our land. That is why the yard spray doesn't work here. Also, the Brewers Yeast w/garlic is really good for ticks. I started them on that when they were puppys. It worked good but not perfect so I tried not giving it to them for a couple days, and WOW!! Talk about infested with ticks!! and in just a couple days without B.Y.!! They are all on it full time now, and their coats are so shiny!! I guess I'm wanting a "No more bugs on my dogs solution", and I know that's not possible. My cat Ebony, is inside most of the time, but likes to go outside to sun herself on nice days. She gets Bio=Spot, too, but hers is once every 3 months. She doesn't get heartworm medicine. I don't think she's outside enough to have that problem. The B.S. works good on her fleas and ticks. No problem with them on her. As far as going for the cheap shots, I would do that, except for the check-up and attentions our Vet gives every dog at the same time as their yearly shots. I guess I shouldn't complain then, right? How is Rocky doing now? I just love Pugs!! When I was a little girl, my neighbor had a pug named Bita. For the Memorial Day Parade, I dressed him in a pair of my little brothers blue jeans with the tail hole cut out and his cute curly tail sticking out. Also a blue and black striped turtle-neck top. We won !st prize!! I was so excited. Oh Yes!! And he Danced in front of the judges. I think that's what put him over the top. I held up a bickie, and he jumped around in circles on his back legs. TOO CUTE!! Anyway, thanks for the advice. I guess I'm doing the most I can for my kids short of keeping them locked in the house 24/7.  |
Grooch | Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 09:57 am     TK, it sounds like you are doing all that can with them so I'm sorry that I am out of advice. But your pooches sound very lucky. I guess I am lucky, I don't seem to have a tick problem on him (knock on wood.) Have you given them a lyme's disease shot? I don't know if you have that problem yet or how safe the shot is. Lyme disease (from ticks) is a huge problem back home and it seems to be slowly making its way across the country. I haven't gotten one for Rocky yet, since I haven't heard about it being a problem down here and he is only in my back yard for a little bit or walked on a leash. Pugs are an indoor dog. Oh, and pugs rule!  |
Tksoard | Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 10:59 am     Grooch, I don't know if they get a Lyme Disease shot. I just tell the dr. to give them ALL the shot possible. He said he gets it all in 2 shots so they don't hurt so much. My neighbor (human man) got Lyme disease, and the Dr. don't know what to do for him. That was a year ago, and he is still suffering. They keep doing different things and nothing is working. I feel so sorry for him. I also have an outside cat, a Beautiful Long haired Calico with the most beautiful petite face. I tried to make her an inside cat since her daddy has been gone (last May) but she will only come in to visit with the dogs for a minute. She knows Ebony is in the house and Ebony hates Everyone, except me. After her dad was missing, she wouldn't come to me at all, so she didn't get her yearly shots until Nov. I don't know why, but now she comes to me all the time. She could win a cat show 1st prize, I'm sure. I know my kids are really lucky!! I also know that no one could ever love them like me. I always wanted human kids, but couldn't, so they ARE my kids. I could go on for six days straight talking about them, but I'm sure I've bored you enough, and my keys are sticking and I'm getting frustrated so I will go now. Thanks for listening! MUTTS RULE!! PUGS RULE!! CATS RULE!!
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Squaredsc | Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 11:19 am     if anyone in the maryland area would like a lovable female rottweiler who is 8 months old, i am giving mine away free to a good home. she is very lovable but i can't handle her anymore, she is about 70lbs at last vet visit on march 4th. she gets along ok with older kids but she dominates my youngest son who is 9yrs old and is a string bean and she just pushes him around. i also have a 2yr old bichon frise male who she pushes around. so if you don't have other pets or small kids please send me an email at: squaredsc1@comcast.net thanks---p.s. she was supposed to be my husbands dog but he now says he made a mistake, we also don't have a fenced yard and its hard to hold on to a 70lb dog on a leash. |
Juju2bigdog | Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 05:45 pm     To Grooch, re: Borax - the cats/dogs don't eat it because you vacuum it up. You sprinkle it on your carpet and let it sit a while and then vacuum it. Some of it remains in the carpet. It works by interrupting the life cycle of the flea. The eggs drop off the animal to hatch in the carpet. The Borax in the carpet acts as a dessicant (drying agent) and the eggs dry up and don't hatch. No hatchees, no fleas. You never notice the small amount of borax that remains in the carpet after vacuuming. To Grooch re: bufo toads - I think we were just lucky on that count. Either we didn't have them (we lived on a canal; maybe the gators ate them?) or the dog didn't mess with them. |
Riviere | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 12:15 am     Sad news this week, my beloved 10 yo Greyhound Shaq was diagnosed with bone cancer... I learned his mama died of the same thing at age 10.. He's a big white & brindle beauty who was a stakes racer and kept at the track until retirement age 5, then a rescue group put him with the worst new family possible: a hubby & wife who worked 9 hrs daily and left him alone in their house.. They returned him 6 wks later with a whole page of his 'sins' like chewing furniture and messing indoors which IMHO poor Shaq was never properly adapted to petlife after all his life in the racing kennels. They beat him, locked him in a bathroom, you name it, the morons even admitted it, that was their way of punishing him while trying to cure his bad habits.. Grrrrr.. Nobody else wanted him since he'd become a 'problem child' very shy and scared of his own shadow. Tada, me to the rescue!!! I don't think there are bad dogs, just stupid owners who don't deserve a pet rock.. Within 4 months he was happy, trusting, affectionate, and a perfect housedog, only had 2 accidents early on.. Makes it all the sadder knowing he won't be with us too much longer, but he's had 5 very happy years with us, sometimes that's all you get, it's a happy 5 years that Shaq wouldn't have had otherwise.. My vet gave me the usual 3 options: amputate affected foreled, go straight to chemo, or let it ride the course with pain management.. The first 2 might just buy some time, but I don't want to put Shaq through that, at his age, with his past.. So we opted for pain management, right now he's on the basic nonsteroid arthritis pills as the cancer was detected so early, but when it worsens he'll need real pain pills. When he stops being happy or he shows other signs, it will be time to help him to Rainbow Bridge.. I've luckily owned so many very wonderful pets & horses I'd never selfishly see an animal I love suffer, but Shag will be very much missed by us and his 2 'adopted' Greyhound bros.. For now it's the stage to prepare for that loss, give him extra TLC, take more photos, just keep him happy and as healthy as we can.. My Mom died of cancer in Nov after just a 9 month fight, she was days shy of her 60th birthday. In the end she died at home with her nurse and our cousin who is a nurse, very peacefully.. I'll be with Shaq when it's his time, same as I was there for him when he needed me 5 years ago and nobody wanted him.. We know your thoughts go out to him and personally I thank you! Don't want to be all maudlin & teary, though, just writing to say when you face losing a pet, what can you really say?? Doc says Shaq's so healthy otherwise, he might last all summer, which would be wonderful!!! Oh, about ex racing Greyhounds and small children, I advise against that for the kids & hounds alike, they're so much like kids themselves! Groups get a lot of returns due to family births which is so sad. You'd have to know Greys and totally trust a particluar dog with kiddie exp, even then, few of the groups let folks with kids under age 6 adopt. My gentle beta hound (last one I'd expect) met my infant grandson and was way too interested to ever trust being in the same room! My alpha hound just gets annoyed with small kids, another non trusted situation, and old Shaq just hides when they visit since all kids make him nervous.. Wanting a couch potato is good, having a fenced yard is great, but really you have to consider what's best, and since my first childhood puppy was a black Lab, well! I worked as an adoption rep a couple years and flat turned down a woman with a toddler, no fence, and she first lied on her application because when she called me she was 8 months pg never mentioned it! She went to another rep I luckily knew, comparing notes, between the 2 of us we warned all Greyhound adoption groups in the area to watch out for the gal. I couldn't let someone like that risk kids & a dog alike, Greyhounds are great but not for just everyone. Sometimes you have to just say no even if folks have good intentions.. Another wannabe adopter asked if a Greyound could sleep in a barn with her 2 Labs and a Aussie Shepherd, free to run their 100 acre farm! Ummm, yeah, as if... While Greyhounds are and remain my breed of choice, I'm always honest about them.. |
Whoami | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 02:27 am     {{{{Riviere}}}} and {{{{{{Shaq}}}}}} Sorry, Shaq gets the bigger hug. But I bet you understand! It's so hard to lose a pet. Many years ago, my kittie was diagnosed with kidney disease. He wasn't expeceted to last but a few months. But he actually lasted two years. I had those whole two years to "prepare." But I'll have to admit it still wasn't enough. It's been over 10 years, and I still miss him dearly. I've lost many more through the years, one kittie who disapeared (we were bringing in groceries, and she slipped out of the house) and showed up dead in our neighbors yard a week later, and three other kitties who passed away on my lap (it got to the day I knew they were going to give up, I took them and they curled up on my lap for the final sleep. Sometimes it took hours. But my lap was their favorite spot, and I know they were where they wanted to be). Three dogs we had to put down, and another one who died in his sleep. I thank God every day for blessing our lives with these beautiful creatures. I figure our family must be doing something right in His eyes to be sending us such wonderful souls to share our lives with. |
Webkitty | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 07:03 am     {{{Riviere}}} and {{{Shaq}}} Riviere, I've been there myself and know exactly what your going through. xxxooo Please pass these kisses and hugs onto Shaq for me. The life you give these beautiful Greyhounds is priceless. Whoami, ~cats slipping out of the house while bringing in groceries~ (and what can happen to them if they do) One of my biggest fears. {{{Whoami}}} It sounds like TVCH has some incredible and caring friends of animals. I see it all over this board time and time again. {{{group hug}}} My sympathy goes out to each and every one of you who's heart is aching. (Magik, thinking of you, hang in there kid-o, I know its not easy) |
Kstme | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 07:42 am     Riviere...I am so sorry to hear of Shaq's diagnosis! As you know, all you "can" do is make his life as comfortable as possible for as long as possible and "know" you are doing what's right for him. So much easier said than done! When we lost my cocker in late August, I thought I would never get over it! He was my "rescue" "baby" and so very special. Our other rescue cocker mourned along with all of us. Getting Ollie this Feb. has helped me out tremendously, but he doesn't replace Roman. Each animal is "it's own being" and the impressions they leave on our lives is everlasting! My heart goes out to you and your family! |
Wink | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 08:16 am     Riviere thank goodness Shaq has had many years with you to know how much he was loved. |
Moondance | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 12:35 pm     Me and ALL my kitties send you love & light! (((Riviere))) & (((Shaq))) |
Backhome | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 04:38 pm     Hugs to you both, Riviere. Sometimes life just stinks, doesn't it. There used to be a thread on "Losing a pet" but it may have been lost to the archives. It it's still accessible, there was a lot of sharing that went on that helped all of us who have been where you and Magik are now. Take care of each other and know that there are people here who will listen and empathize whenever you need them. |
Riviere | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 04:43 am     Thanks for all of your thoughts and love for Shaq, I wish I could tell him how much people care about him!!! He'll have the best life to the end, count on that.. We love all of you very wonderful caring pet owners, thanks for making a hard time easier... |
Whoami | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 09:26 am     Riviere, all you have to do is talk to Shaq and tell him how so many people are thinking of him! I firmly believe they understand a lot more than they let on! It's a doggie conspiracy, we aren't supposed to know they are as smart as they are! When my boys are bad, and I mention it somewhere here, I always tell them I talked about them on the internet. They actually do clean up their act! |
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