u/MotherMacha

Which of these three should we get? It’ll be my homeschool printer. My daughter’s classes need printed daily.

Sorry for spamming you all so much lol. But I wanted to introduce Macy’s “sister”. This is Maddy. Macy and Maddy were both rescued from a puppy mill. They never knew if they were actual sisters or not, but they were a bonded pair. At the groomers, if Maddy gets put in a kennel by herself, she looses it. Maddy was debarked, likely using a rubber band, so she has a funny little bark. I love it. You can always hear her and it’s funny because she acts like she has a big huge bark.

That little brown spot on her face was actually caused by a tooth rubbing. When they got their dental this year, they pulled it. She still has some teeth but prefers to be fed by a spoon lol.

Also, side note, Maddy is chewing on a collagen chew, not rawhide.

Has anyone dealt with anxiety in their pup? Luca has taken to chewing on his tail. I will be calling Monday to go see the vet, but I was just hoping someone could tell me what to expect. Thank you. Here’s a photo as tax. ♥️

I just took this today. She’s been sick and we finally got into the vet Monday. She’s feeling so much better cuz she’s cuddling again.

Edit to add - Thank you so much everyone for your concern about me. I didn’t think about how that might come up. Just a quick overview, I have a bunch of chronic illnesses and one of them is fighting the way my nervous system controls my breathing, so I have to wear oxygen. It’s not awful, the worst part is dragging it around the house. So thank you so much for asking. I’m doing ok. ♥️

Please excuse my awkward face, but I have a confession. I didn’t realize that Macy was feeling so bad. I just attributed everything to her age. She was loosing her desire to be cuddled, she had stopped giving very many kisses, she was slow and just dimming basically. Today is day four after the vet, and it’s all back. I don’t know how to add a video here, but Macy just gave me a kiss!! I haven’t had one in a week!! She sat on my lap, with my leg crossed and her little self perched on my crossed leg. (Photographic evidence attached from several weeks ago).

I’m gonna go give her a warm little bath to continue to soothe her skin. Again, thank you so much, to all of you. The love you show her, the kindness to me, it makes my day. I want the whole world to experience the love of Macy Moo. Thank you.

(Oh yes, nasal cannula. I have a whole laundry list of issues and one of them happens to be Autonomic Dysfunction. My body thinks it is a foreign invader, so it attacks my nervous system. I’m alive, I have my pup back, my family and now a whole bunch of redditors who care. I’ll be ok.)

Edited to change how many days it’s been since the vet. Ahh my aging mind lol.

Macy has allergic dermatitis. :(( I noticed that she was matting on her belly so we started to shave off the mats and bam, sores. Macy is VERY low slung. She’s the shortest dachshund I’ve ever owned. So they gave her some shots and sent us home with allergy meds and pain meds. We go back in two weeks. Thank you everyone who helped me with seeing she was hurting. If anyone has suggestions with how to make her comfortable even quicker, I’m all ears. Here’s some photos of her. ♥️♥️(the white and brown one is her “sister”. We don’t know if they’re related but they were bonded when they were rescued so of course we had to take them both.)

Please ignore the nasty carpet. We are getting it replaced.

But, I made my lovely girly a little pearl necklace. Brother had to be in the photo too cuz he also needs a cookie to sit pretty.

I’m sorry, about my last post. Thank you everyone who was kind and told me the warning. I appreciate that. We will be going to the vet.

Here’s toothless baby Macy, chewing on sister Maddy’s collagen chewie. Sorry, my camera sucks.

The toothless Queen comes back with her newly acquired butt lift. She lays down and just forgets her hind end I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

My elderly lady Macy has no teeth left. The dentist pulled them all. She’s a rescue and she had such bad teeth. We’ve been babying them along trying to give her a chance with teeth, but alas, they’re gone.

Personally, I think this is the cutest thing. When she tries to give kisses, that tongue is all over the place. She’s such a sweet girl.

This is my sweetest boy, Luca. He will be 5 on Dec 24th. He is a rescue from a hoarder, but man has he turned out to be a great dog. He’s been raised with dachshunds so he thinks he’s small. He’ll climb up in your lap and lay back like a baby and fall asleep. He’s just so well tempered.

We are finally on the other side of it but about 5 weeks ago, he suddenly started itching. It was awful. As per his vet, we were giving him diphenhydramine along with his normal flea meds and even upped his dates with the groomer. Even with all of this, I’d wake up to clumps of his hair on the floor. Come to find out, he was biting the hair off of his tail (as pictured). These photos are how it looks now after he finally started healing. We have cream from the vet that we put on it and he’s finally looking better and not itching as much.

We didn’t take him to the doggy dermatologist because he did finally stop but does anyone have any experience with this? We considered anxiety meds but nothing in his life has changed. We didn’t move, he’s eating the same food, he doesn’t get table scraps (although he does counter surf if something is left out but we know better). His tail just seemed to be the part he focused on and bit clumps out of. Has anything like this happened with your pup? Is it possibly the weather? Are we looking at possibly something neurological? Like I said, nothing has changed. Thankfully I’m not waking up to hair clumps anymore and he was just at the groomers last week and she said his itchy spots looked so much better.

I’m just so confused about what could have caused this.

Luca, our Aussie, is 4. We’ve had him since he was 7 months old. He’s always been such an amazing dog, walks off lead, trains well etc.

About six months ago, we left to go somewhere and he found the trash can. He destroyed the insides. Since then, if left alone, he always tries to find something to eat that he isn’t supposed to. He’s rarely alone, the longest is when we go to the grocery store. We tried a regular wire kennel but he broke out. He hates kenneling so much that he even freaks out at the groomers. (We have changed groomers now to a kennel free one).

I’m just at such a loss. I don’t know why he started doing this and now I can’t seem to break it.