I used a seresto collar on my old dog and he was fine. I recently adopted another dog and I’ve noticed a couple times he has scratched at it, I was thinking it may be bothering him. What do you all use for flea and tick prevention for your dog?
Hello, I adopted a 4 year old Great Dane Pitbull mix who was found as a stray and at the shelter for 10 weeks. He is not house trained at all. I had him in the crate for the first time while I was at work and just went home on break and he pooped all on the mat. I had the divider in the crate set up so he wouldn’t have much room and thought they wouldn’t go where they sleep but that seems not right. Any advice on how to get him not to do that?
Getting a new dog and the shelter suggests crating him while I house train him. Where do you usually keep the crate for them? I was thinking my bedroom but wasn’t sure if downstairs may be a better place?
Looking for something maybe more uplifting, not sure if they do sativa drinks or anything. I’m new to these and just looking for some suggestions.
I was wondering if anyone who lost a dog and got a new one, if they used the stuff they had like bed, leash, harness, toys and other stuff like that.
I was wondering if anyone who lost a dog and got a new one, if they used the stuff they had like bed, leash, harness, toys and other stuff like that.
I lost my dog 8 days ago. Someone showed me a posting of a dog at a humane society who looks like my boy. He was found as a stray and has been at the shelter for 9 weeks. I feel guilty already considering getting him, but I know he needs a home and love and I have that both to give. How soon after losing a pet did you get a new one?
I had to put my boy down last Thursday and a dog at the humane society is speaking to my heart. I feel guilty like I am moving on or something from my boy.
My 12 1/2 year old boy was given peace last Thursday unexpectedly. I had him for over 10 years. He was my best, and really only friend. He was cremated. I’ve been carrying his ashes and putting the urn in some of his favorite spots like his chairs, his bed, the window seal where he would look out for hours. I keep it on his chair while I’m at work. Will put it in bed with me. I talk to him like he still here. Will acting like he is still here and can hear me when I talk to him, will that make it harder for me, or is this a part of grief?
It’s been eating at my since I decided to do it. Like, could I have done more, could the vet have done more. She recommended it as what she would do in this matter as she didn’t believe he was going to make it with the other options. I feel like I did it to early or something I hate myself for it right now.
The day after my dog passed I was gathering up his toys and putting them on his bed and chair by the window for him. I’m not sure why I did this, a sort of maybe if I get all of his toys together I can feel his presence type of thing. Now I wish I would have left them where they were so I could see and remember spots he left them. I feel terrible.
I left for work yesterday and put my dogs urn on the seat he would always be on when I’d go to work. My mother came down to drop something off while I was at work. When I came home and went to pick up my dogs ashes it felt lighter. The bottom plug thing looked a little loose. Maybe I’m just going crazy right now due to the loss. When I asked her she got emotionally defensive which makes me think she did and didn’t think I’d notice.
I just put my boy down on Thursday. When I found him in the bathroom I knew that was it and started screaming no no no and crying. My world started spinning and I became detached. The whole vet experience was just so surreal feeling. I felt like my whole body was numb it’s hard to explain. I cried so much that night and the next day. Yesterday I definitely had my trigger outbursts here and there. I went back to work today and did have a few moments. I still feel very disassociated and like sped up just kind of numb to the world. I figured I would have a dark depressed sad feeling constantly and not even want to move, but I feel in a way I never felt.
I have an R2D2 dog bone that I got for my boy Artu before I adopted him and it lasted all the way, even the squeakers. It was like he knew that was a special one. I was thinking of getting it tattooed over my heart. Has anyone gotten a memorial tattoo for their lost friend?
Just recently put my dog down and a friend is telling me that I need to get a new pet to help me out. I feel like it’s too soon. Some friends I have spoken to who put their dog down and got a new dog a few months later don’t seem to be having the perfect time.
I had to put my 12 1/2 year old pitbull mix boy down Thursday night. I came home and he was fine, cooking dinner, I went upstairs to get something and didn’t see him in his two usual spots, he was in the bathroom laying on the floor which he never has done and just panting like crazy, he looked like he was about to die right then. He wouldn’t/couldnt get up even when I shook a bag of treats. I took him to the vet immediately and they said he was under severe respiratory stress and they gave him oxygen. They thought hear failure but ran a test and it was no, they ran some other test and it was a no. They said live enzymes were slightly elevated and spleen was slightly enlarged. They said they couldn’t get good X-rays on certain spots because he would go into distress when they’d move him. They said their ultrasound sucks and wouldn’t really see anything so they didn’t do that. The vet gave me the option to either take it two two distant animal er and see if they could even take me and keep him on oxygen for a few days and see if he recovers or consider euthanasia. I asked what she would do and she said consider quality of life, if he even recovers from what is happening and that he generally didn’t look good because of what he was going through. I put him down. I’m not even sure what could have happened to my boy. She said he must have just reached a tipping point.
I just picked up my boys ashes this afternoon and I have them next to me in bed with his collar around the urn. I think I may sleep with it next to me on a pillow. Is that strange or has anyone done that?
Being there with my boy about to put him down had me feeling like I was in a dream. I was just on the floor holding him telling him I loved him. I didn’t even think to remove it. The vet nor the crematory removed it so he took it with him. I feel like I let him down and myself down for not noticing that and taking it. I do have his regular collar as he wasn’t wearing it at the time. I feel awful
Being there with my boy about to put him down had me feeling like I was in a dream. I was just on the floor holding him telling him I loved him. I didn’t even think to remove it. The vet nor the crematory removed it so he took it with him. I feel like I let him down and myself down for not noticing that and taking it. I do have his regular collar as he wasn’t wearing it at the time. I feel awful
It was his flea collar that was a typo. Being there with my boy about to put him down had me feeling like I was in a dream. I was just on the floor holding him telling him I loved him. I didn’t even think to remove it. The vet nor the crematory removed it so he took it with him. I feel like I let him down and myself down for not noticing that and taking it. I do have his regular collar as he wasn’t wearing it at the time. I feel awful.