My puppy thinks she is a shark and took a bite out of this sweater. It is brand new and baby alpaca wool and I’m heartbroken. Is there anything that might help with this? or is it a lost cause?
Slightly related question: does anyone want a puppy? 🤣
As usual, I waited until the last minute to fill out my ballot. I’m stuck on deciding the democratic SoS between Amanda Gonzalez and Jessie Danielson. They both seem like really strong candidates. For those who voted for either- what was your reason?
I lost my dog 10 weeks ago. My cat was a year ago January. Both appeared to be a stroke or heart attack. Basically collapse and stopped breathing in my arms and that was it. My dog’s death was particularly cruel because it seemed preceded by a seizure and she very briefly came out of it before collapsing again.
Ever since I’ve been having such extreme symptoms- throwing up regularly and not being able to eat, flashbacks to that night, nightmares, completely rearranging my house to try to avoid reminders, jumping at every little thing with other pets.
It feels utterly absurd to have such a strong reaction. But I know as a therapist that this can happen. Tonight I was thinking of her more and started hyperventilating crying and still so nauseous I imagine I’ll start throwing up at some point.
I know all of the physical symptoms of not being to eat are grief. Drs haven’t been able to really help. I genuinely don’t know what to do. I’ve lost 15lbs in 2 months. I’ve ended up in the ER with severe symptoms twice. Once I was kept overnight. They’ve talked about using a feeding tube at this point.
I can’t let this literally kill me. And yet I’m at such a loss as to what to do. I’ve never had anything destroy me this much. I didn’t know it was possible to hurt this much.
I don’t know what I’m hoping for by posting this. I guess advice or reassurance. I don’t know. Thank you for reading this far.
Tl;Dr: Symptoms of PTSD are literally wrecking my physical health and making it really dangerous. I don’t know what to do.
My puppy is estimated at just shy of 20 weeks. She is a little shark with teething and begun losing some baby teeth. All 4 canines have the adult teeth coming in behind the baby teeth and causing double teeth. I forgot to ask the vet when we saw them on Sunday and wondering if it is another vet visit now? We have another visit scheduled for 6 months for a weight check and heart worm test. I am more than willing to take her in. But I also don’t want to pester them if this is normal. I’ve never had a puppy this young! TY
Info if needed:
Age: 20 estimated weeks (I’ve had her for a month)
Weight 31.1 lbs
Spayed female
DNA test shows Great Pyrenees, Australian cattle dog, lab, golden and GSD.
No vet trips for this but they did see her for my concerns of her breathing last Thursday (she was fine and it was my anxiety)
No medical problems or current meds
She’s had all her shots with last lepto and 4th parvo this past Sunday.
Edit: I don’t know if I did it right but tried to add photo to my profile. https://imgur.com/a/2iHgQ1j[https://imgur.com/a/2iHgQ1j](https://imgur.com/a/2iHgQ1j)
Meet Popcorn! I got an email that results should be back in a week.
Some info about her. She bounces everywhere she goes. She absolutely adores people and other dogs and will whine and whimper when she sees a friend. She does pointing behavior on occasion. And definitely loves walking with her nose to the ground. After trying to bathe her, her coat is really water repellent. She is pure mischief and favorite things are shredding paper and carrying clothes/shoes around the house.
Right now she’s 19 weeks old and weighs 31.1lbs as of yesterday. This is up from 22.82. lbs just shy of a month ago which at the time she looked REALLY underweight. You could see her ribs and hip bones.
I know very little about her first 2.5 months. She somehow found her way to a shelter in Houston and then was transferred to Colorado where she was adopted for 5 days before being returned 😭 and then I adopted her. I’ve will have had her for a month on Wednesday.
Let me know what you think!!
My new puppy has now been diagnosed with Giardia. The vet gave us dewormer and hand waived my concerns that she’s had two rounds of dewormer although they were different medications. When my former dog and I both got Giardia, we were prescribed flagyl. I’m questioning this vet that was from the shelter and wondering if I should take her to the vet we will be using that my other pets use? Or do I wait it out and see how the dewormer goes?
Info
16 week old puppy
Weight: 22lbs
Diagnosed with Giardia 5/11/26 (Stool sample from 5/9/26)
Adopted 5/6/26
Symptoms: Some mild diarrhea the first two days after adoption that largely resolved by the time we did the stool sample.
Medicine: panacur c 3grams for 6 days started just now.
Previously received ponazuril, pyrantel palpate and iverhart at the shelter on 4/26/26. And some variety of heart work and flea prevention on 3/22/26. I do know Giardia is a parasite and so none of those may have impacted it- listing to be thorough.
I adopted this girl yesterday. I kind of like the nickname Ellie but don’t know a full name (yes I know Ellie could be a full name but a friends kid is named that lol). Last pets were Madilyn/Maddy, Riley and Ember. I still have Ember.
Shes supposedly lab mix and has had a chaotic start to life with being passed between 2 shelters in 2 states, a foster home and a failed adoption in the last 6 weeks. No idea where she was the first 9 weeks of her life. She flinches with any sudden movement or me reaching to pet her head which makes me so sad. I hope she grows up to be a confident girl now that she’s with me!
Guys I messed up and my cat ended up peeing on a pile of clean laundry. It’s completely my fault and I can’t be mad at her. Thankfully it’s not a really strong smell. I’m currently soaking the first round. Is there anything I can add to make sure the smell gets out?
I can’t stand the smell of Natures Miracle and I’m not worried about her doing it again. I just don’t want to smell like pee!