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Xguard86 posted:We have a pair of 5 year old ex-racers just adopted 2 weeks ago. They've been excellent dogs but I have 1 concern around bedtime. I haven't gotten a solid night's sleep in weeks b/c the dogs just move around so drat much. Not like running around or anything overtly disruptive just little shifts and sighs and roll-overs that add up. I tried baby-gating them in the living room but 1 of girl cried almost all night and one of them (not sure which) had a pee accident. Oh, he totally sleeps in the room with me. It took me a couple months to start getting used to the little noises. You'll be ok  I have a wire crate and it's actually noisier than just letting him hang out in the room so watch out for that.
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Xguard86 posted:What do y'all do with your dogs at night? My whippet sleeps in bed with me (lol I said I would never let that happen when she was a puppy) and she wakes me up several times a night because she wants to be on top of the covers, then under, then on top. I'm so used to this now that I barely even wake up to do it. She snuffles and dream-jitters and snorts and reverse sneezes and licks my leg under the covers but I got completely used to it, you will too I'm sure!
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Jun 5, 2016 05:40
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It has gotten better. I think the dogs are more still too because no growl fests after someone steps on or nudges someone else. I did put the crates in the room and leave the doors open. The dogs move in and out of them and one is them, I think, has spent an entire night in one.
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Jun 6, 2016 03:07
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I've always been a light sleeper, so I wake up all the time with my two. I only sleep well when they're boarded so when we're on vacation or we have things we need to do late at night. My husband acclimated to them in about a week, but we're two years in and I wake up at least 5 times a night. Edit: spelling
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Jun 11, 2016 02:27
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I used to be a fairly light sleeper, but since moving to a city apartment I've simply adjusted to the noise, and unless Remy starts whining directly at me I'll sleep through any noises. I also have a couple inherited antique clocks , and adjusting their sound has probably helped quite a bit.
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Jun 11, 2016 07:57
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industrial earplugs are the best thing ever invented for dogs who wriggle in the night...
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Jun 11, 2016 09:46
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I think I've adjusted, unless I'm waking up and not remembering it. One of the beasts does like to wake up about 5 and rub her back on the bed. So, I have a fair number of earthquake nightmares.
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Jun 11, 2016 15:02
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Kluliss posted:industrial earplugs are the best thing ever invented for dogs who wriggle in the night... I use a white noise machine bit that was even before I got Abby
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Jun 11, 2016 16:24
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Xguard86 posted:What do y'all do with your dogs at night? This is my first night with our new burgerdog and he is currently stretched out on our bedroom floor slowly gassing me to death
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Jun 13, 2016 05:46
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Speaking of burgers, Casey's birthday came around last week, which meant our dogs shared a burg.   
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Jun 13, 2016 06:47
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Level with me: how bad are the post burger toots?
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Jun 13, 2016 07:11
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I know that routine  <sniff> <sniff> . . . <YOMP>
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Jun 13, 2016 13:54
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Tree Goat posted:Level with me: how bad are the post burger toots? Rancid death clouds. So not any worse than normal.
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Jun 13, 2016 19:11
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Certainly not as bad as what I witnessed and smelled when I got home from work, following Abby stealing some of my pizza the previous evening. Let's just say the carpet has been replaced.
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Jun 13, 2016 20:55
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  Help name this dog! This cool dude is coming home with me on Saturday! His racing name was Mohican Rico Ron, but my partner and I aren't too fond of the name"Rico". It is pretty good, but we'd love some help coming up with cooler names. Club house leader is currently "Pablo" Will post more pictures in the future!
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Jun 16, 2016 03:22
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Dude he's orange. "Taco". Bonus: You can feed him his namesake on his birthday.
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Jun 16, 2016 03:31
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Horace-Noah posted:Club house leader is currently "Pablo" Name him Pablo Picasso and be sure to call him an rear end in a top hat when he acts like an rear end in a top hat.
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Jun 16, 2016 04:01
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Can't believe I haven't seen this thread yet. My girlfriend breeds and shows whippets. The first time I went over to her house, I saw Jimmy. I thought the same thing as the thread title and had never seen a whippet before. Fast forward two years and we have a house, Jimmy's daughter Dixie and his son Ben living here. They are awesome dogs. Living in a rural area with plenty of space allows them to really open up. It always amazes me how quick they can run and how much they love to play. Ben is a dwarf. He is 12 lbs of pure terror. He growls at ghosts in his crate, don't know what's up with that. But yeah, whippets are amazing. We are getting another one soon, probably, and going to eventually breed together. I've shown one time and it was difficult. I would do it again!
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Jun 16, 2016 04:47
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Horace-Noah posted:
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Jun 16, 2016 08:16
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Chipotle
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Jun 16, 2016 09:14
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Horace-Noah posted:
Mohawk, or real meta, name him Snake because the leader of the tribe in last of the mohican's name translates to big snake and also videogames
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Jun 16, 2016 14:22
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Bread Set Jettison posted:Mohawk, Seconding Mo Also keep in mind that whatever you name him is not gonna be his name for long because you will twist it into the most ridiculous nick names and forget what his original name even was
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Jun 16, 2016 14:52
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Lagomorphic posted:Name him Pablo Picasso and be sure to call him an rear end in a top hat when he acts like an rear end in a top hat. Exactly. ps. keep those good names coming! St Evan Echoes posted:Archie Can't do this one because I have red hair, freckles and a loose idea of commited relationships are* *not true, we're engaged*
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Jun 16, 2016 15:43
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Hawkeye because the last of the Mohicans (their half native bro) and also because Hawkeye from M*A*S*H*. Regardless, he is very handsome and I can't wait to see more pics.
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Jun 17, 2016 03:43
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I'm loving beside myself right now. We adopted our first greyhound and he came home with us last Sunday. In a week's time he's learned the stairs, gotten comfortable with the crate, and been pretty successful with housebreaking. He threw up yesterday evening and it looked a bit funny- foamy with a little blood- so we took him to the e-vet, since it was a Sunday evening. It's now 1:30 am and I'm waiting to hear from the e-vet if an emergency ultrasound confirms a potential diagnosis of a splenic torsion. 1 loving week of having this dog in my life, we've bonded so quickly...I'm just numb. This all went down two days before his first vet visit. We were going to get him pet insurance this week. Surgery will destroy our finances, but we'll do it anyway if we need to because we are already attached. We'll figure it out. I just can't believe it. "Extremely rare" said the e-vet. Not what I wanted to hear after losing 2 of my 3 ferrets this year to lymphoma. This dog, this awesome boy who adores us already and who we love right back, was the best thing we've had happen to us in a while amidst too much bad news. And now...gently caress, I don't know. I just want him to live. I want to go back to last Sunday. I want things to be okay again. e: looks like it'll be an after-hours splenectomy. No sleep tonight. e2: swollen spleen is out and the stomach was stitched to the abdominal cavity wall to prevent the future risk of torsion/bloat. Surgeon said it must have been causing him distress and could have rapidly devolved into a life threatening circumstance. He's got two days of telemetry and hospital observation. Hope we get to give this guy a nice full life. 
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Jun 20, 2016 06:52
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 You've done the right thing. He's very fortunate to end up with you as his owner. I hope he has a speedy (ha) recovery.And look at it this way: now you won't have to ever worry about him getting bloat or hemorrhagic splenic tumors.
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Jun 20, 2016 13:16
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Maybe I'm a cynic, but what's the rescue's take?
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SUPER HASSLER posted:Maybe I'm a cynic, but what's the rescue's take? Don't worry about cynicism, it's healthy and the wife and I have had plenty of time to bat around hypotheses over the last 14 hours. We feel the rescue cares well for its dogs; ours has a half-tail from a distal tail amputation, but the rescue did not want a full amputation - only the ulcerated part of the tail. They allowed us to visit multiple times because we were waiting for the summer to bring the dog home and properly care for it and adjust it to our lives. He had diarrhea at the shelter during our visits, but it was during a temporary switch in foods and that could've been concomitant with the symptoms of what was happening. We only just notified the rescue. The person running the rescue never heard of splenic torsion before but gave us a huge caution about bloat prior to adoption. They seem to have more experiential knowledge rather than clinical knowledge, and even the e-vet and surgeon remarked at how rare this circumstance was in greys. The rescue runner is pretty shocked and I'm sure this will be something they'll make sure to be aware of in the future. The problem is that symptoms aren't obvious - our dog is a bit anxious to begin with and he's been eating grass and having an upset stomach, and we could have chalked that up to a change in his environment. He had a small streak of blood in his stool from time to time, which might have been attributable to an anal fissure. The prompt for us to take him to the e-vet was a white, foamy vomit yesterday evening with a light streak of blood in it. The e-vet initially chalked it up to an esophageal abrasion, and the only reason we caught this was because we went paranoid and got x-rays. Thankfully, having multiple ferrets has gotten us used to the whole "ounce of caution" approach. So, we can't really find it in us to assign much blame anywhere - they clearly care for their dogs and were concerned to hear about this. They want us to show his radiology results to another e-vet that they use frequently and trust (even though they did say ours was good) just to see if these procedures were necessary and to (maybe) seek leverage for a refund on procedures, but a second opinion after the fact doesn't really seem to change things in our mind. His pulse went from 50 to 150 under anesthesia during the splenectomy, and the spleen was swollen and causing the stomach to begin torsing. It needed to be done, and money is money. He's recovering, so fingers are still crossed. ElectricSheep fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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Jun 20, 2016 17:14
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I can't believe you got your greyhound stomach staples
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Jun 21, 2016 01:41
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Wasn't exactly presented as a choice. The surgeon and vet both said that spleen removal would make stomach torsion potentially more likely. As far as the gastropexy goes they're claiming it won't restrict mobility in the future or limit his physical activities. I hope so. I'm just exhausted and looking at every bright spot I can find right now. e: hopefully he'll be released tomorrow. Luckily we have the whole summer off and we'll be able to focus on him. ElectricSheep fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Jun 21, 2016 |
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Jun 21, 2016 02:21
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I have a hard time seeing the pexy as anything other than a good thing. Plenty of owners of deep-chested breeds get it done as a preventative measure long before any sign of a torsion even happens. I toyed with the idea of getting it done on Rory because the practice I worked at offered laparoscopic gastropexies.
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Jun 21, 2016 12:11
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It was meant to be a joke about greyhounds tiny tummies, sorry :] He's a good dog and you're good owners!
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Jun 21, 2016 18:37
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ElectricSheep posted:Surgery will destroy our finances, but we'll do it anyway if we need to because we are already attached. We'll figure it out. Thank you for being a good owner, and I hope you and your grey are happy together for a long time. If it helps, you can think of the cost of the surgery as a donation to the rescue, since they'd have had to cough up the money if you hadn't adopted him when you did. Or, maybe they just wouldn't have noticed at all, and he would have died from it.
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Jun 21, 2016 20:35
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Abby at Greyfest, down to a mere 25 mph in her old age 
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skoolmunkee posted:It was meant to be a joke about greyhounds tiny tummies, sorry :] Thanks - and no harm, no foul so don't worry about feeling the need to apologize. I don't parse intent well on 2 hours of sleep, and I was already feeling a bit lovely about how quickly everything progressed from "oh, maybe he's just stressed" to major surgery so that probably bled through in my own tone. We got to visit him twice post-op; the first time he was scared of us and shied away from everything, eventually warming back up to us and laying down. It was sucky, but I understood that 12 hours after surgery he was probably zonked out on meds. A nurse was watching his telemetry from the back and said she noticed his heart rate go down for the first time since pre-op. We went back 6 hours later to visit again and talk to his vet, and according to the office staff he calmed down after that second visit and stayed that way until today when we picked him up.  Second visit yesterday, you can see the wrap with all his telemetry gear. The look is a combination of "get me out of here" and "i need pee". one of those wishes came true 2 seconds later  Cone of shame, I laughed for like a solid minute because I'm an rear end in a top hat  His current state. He was super happy to see me bring his bed downstairs from where he normally sleeps with us, and crashed in an instant. So far all's well that ends well. Now it's tons of medication and monitoring. I feel like I've had this dog for years, but it's only been 9 days. He's pretty cool 
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ElectricSheep posted:
I'm so glad it seems to be going okay. Have you considered sleeping downstairs with him? Our older dog can't handle stairs at all any more, so we alternate sleeping downstairs on a mattress or the couch so he doesn't have to be alone at night (he's kind of clingy). It also means it's easier for him to wake someone up if his old-man bladder needs some relief at 3:00 AM.
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Jun 22, 2016 05:11
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We're in shifts, wife's on the couch tonight. He's restless, mainly because he loathes the e-collar; we put it on him when we're sleeping because we can't monitor him. Stalker factor is also in full effect, as he has gone looking for me several times when I go upstairs. I might have to relent and just sleep downstairs too, but we'll see how the rest of the night goes. I could use a bed.
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Jun 22, 2016 06:50
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Some of that may still be dysphoria from the anesthesia combined with the fact that he's basically in a brand new place. Anxiety even without the medical aspect is pretty much a given. I'd like to re-emphasize how extremely lucky he is that you noticed something was up and were able to get him help. Torsions of any kind can go south extremely quickly (sometimes irreversibly so.  ) I've seen dogs with bloat whose owners notice the problem at 2 am, arrive at the ER at 2:30, prepped for surgery by 330, and still arrest before the surgeon can make the first incision. That, to me, would be the biggest plus to this whole thing. You'll never have to leave him with a dog sitter and worry about that happening while you're away.
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Jun 22, 2016 14:12
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Every morning Remy begins to go towards the elevators to my car and I have to stop him and turn him to the side exit to go to work. He always has such a hurt expression right at the moment I turn away from the possibility of a car ride.
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Lhet posted:Every morning Remy begins to go towards the elevators to my car and I have to stop him and turn him to the side exit to go to work. He always has such a hurt expression right at the moment I turn away from the possibility of a car ride. OMG I know those eyes. "Noooooo pls pls"
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