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This is Teddi, my new corgi puppy that I got about a month ago: He's four months old now, and has two modes: incredibly chill and in need of naps/snuggles, and incredibly hyper and in need of so much playing. Still working on the whole potty training thing, though, which has largely been an uphill battle except for inside of his kennel (and already has me writing off one of the rugs in my apartment).
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May 22, 2019 02:51
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So Teddi has been running into a recurring case of Giardia. He got it once when he arrived, and we made the assumption he was already infected by it when his breeder handed him over, but now I'm not so sure? My vet is putting him on another anti-parasite for it, but in the long term is this going to be something his immune system eventually builds up a resistance against as he grows older?
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Jun 4, 2019 12:42
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gently caress Giardia.
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Jun 23, 2019 01:16
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Drug resistant giardia is a thing apparently. Just my luck moving to an apartment complex apparently known for that being an issue by the local vets before getting my dog.
MadFriarAvelyn fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jul 12, 2019 |
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Jul 12, 2019 21:18
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Three months in, Giardia still sucks. My vet finally caved and gave Teddi a referral to an internal medicine specialist so hopefully they'll be able to help get rid of this for good.  At least the constant diarrhea hasn't hurt his spirit. He's still as happy and playful as day one. Doesn't quite understand how treats work yet, though.
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Aug 16, 2019 22:47
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Whichever one of you recommended the anal beads shaped dog toy, Teddi love the drat thing. Even though it's as long as he is.
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Aug 30, 2019 02:36
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After three months of poop hell Teddi is finally free of giardia.  All it took was doubling the dosage of Flagyl he was being given for a couple weeks. Something I wish we didn't need to go to a specialist to try, but since the next alternative our primary vet wanted to try was to put him on giardia pills for humans that cost $140/pill, it evened out in the end. So I guess it's time to look for a new primary vet. Anyone have any recommendations in the Boston area?
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Sep 4, 2019 22:44
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Be patient, and don't be surprised if there are regressions! It took until Teddi was seven months old before he started giving signs that he needed to go out instead of trying to sneak off and hide an accident, and even then there were regressions that were fixed via positive reinforcement up until two weeks ago. He'll get it. Speaking of getting things: I've been having some pretty good success teaching Teddi new tricks. He's got shake and lay down pretty well. But in the process I...messed up. During each training session I would run him through drills for each command he knew and now instead of doing sit he just...lays down. It's adorable, and mostly serves the same purpose, but now I'm working on re-training him his very first command and hope I don't have to repeat this every time I teach him a new one. 
MadFriarAvelyn fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Sep 19, 2019 |
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Sep 19, 2019 04:33
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Teddi has grown up so much.  When I got him back in April:  Today:  Bonus back scratching action:  Giardia has reared it's ugly head again. We're continuing a four month long pattern of him getting a test for it, being put on meds, being tested again and declared cured, and then coming down with it again a couple days later. At this point my vet gave us two options: take him off of any meds that would negatively affect his GI flora and let it and his immune system grow and learn to deal with it on it's own, or move away from my current apartment complex where likely every dog here is infected with it, but asymptomatic. So, time to play the waiting game I guess. My vet recommended I start mixing some Bob's Redmill Fiber into his food, and that's helped a ton in bulking him up. Hopefully his immune system can catch up soon, though, because he's been pretty tired otherwise. 
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Oct 12, 2019 00:49
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Teddi will sort of panic and flail around whenever he has a butt dangly in an attempt to fling it out. I will admit I'm pretty impressed when he can fling a foot long turd a meter away when he can't get it out in his normal squat.
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Oct 26, 2019 03:35
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I've had people ask me to give them my dog (usually little kids), but I've run into one weirder. An older woman, slightly senile looking, once stopped her car on the street next to Teddi and I while we were out for a walk, rolled down her window, and told me that she "wants to be my dog." Yes. Be my dog. I asked her to repeat herself and everything. 
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Oct 28, 2019 16:05
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It took an extra couple of months, but Teddi finally built up a resistance to giardia and flushed it out of his system without any medication. Right before the year old mark as scheduled. Just in time to go visiting the folks for Christmas. Going to take him back to my folks home in the country parts of PA and I'm excited to give him a nice big grass yard to run around in for a bit, a nice break from city living. Bonus if it has snow: he saw his first snow over the past couple weeks and absolutely loves romping around in fresh powder. 
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Dec 15, 2019 00:24
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That's a drat good dog sweater.
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Dec 30, 2019 04:41
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Behavioral question. My 1 1/4 year old corgi Teddi and I have had a pretty regular walking routine for a while now, almost since I got him. We walk 3-4 miles a day over the course of four walks. However over the past three days or so he's been absolutely resisting going back into my apartment complex at the end of a walk. I'll redirect his facing forward when it happens, but we'll move a few feet and then he'll turn around and try and lunge backwards as far as his leash will let him. Once we manage to get inside of the apartment complex, if I let go of his leash he'll run straight for the exit. This behavior persists up until we get to the elevator, at which point he...goes back to being his usual cheerful self? I'm at a loss at what could be causing this behavior, and was wondering if anyone had something similar happen with their dog and any suggestions for how to resolve the issue? If it's related, he isn't neutered yet (something that had to be delayed thanks to COVID-19 and a related pay cut), but that's next on my list of to-dos for when I have the funds available.
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May 18, 2020 23:13
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Did something bad happen to him in the recent past in the lobby? Definitely sounds like he’s equating a bad experience with going inside. I guess it could also be that he just doesn’t want to go home yet but it’s weird for that to crop up repeatedly out of nowhere. Nothing recently (he did have a bad run in with a dog around there a year ago, but the dog and the dog's owner moved out a while back so that isn't an issue anymore), but maybe it is an issue with the lobby? There's a side entrance I can use to get in the building, I can give that a shot with the next walk to see how it goes.
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May 19, 2020 00:59
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Bundy posted:Don't avoid, deal. If you start avoiding the lobby you'll reinforce that the dog should. It's normal to go through the lobby so make sure you're as calm as possible when returning. Don't push on through returning home until the dog is calm at the threshold to the lobby, then you walk in. If pooch kicks off as you go to walk in, repeat. The message is that progression (and treats) occur when calm pup is calm and trusting the leader (you). Update on this, I've been going this direction with the lobby issue, and he's back to walking happily through the front door of the building again.  Thanks!
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May 28, 2020 06:14
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Stringent posted:Dog help me, but I've joined the Corgi Club. Old Swerdlow posted:Get ready for the daily shedding. The above is not a joke. But congrats, give that little cutie lots of love.
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Jun 7, 2020 16:32
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 Splooting doesn't stop for anyone.
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Aug 3, 2020 05:18
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My vet also recommended waiting until Teddi was a year old before neutering him, and I only just got him neutered a few weeks ago at about 1.5 years old (delayed a bit due to COVID-19 and all).
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Sep 25, 2020 21:49
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.Z. posted:Yep, corgi. Don't let your new corgi learn how to dismantle your sofa. 
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Sep 27, 2020 23:59
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A week back my dog Teddi started limping pretty bad after playing outside at the dog park. A week, two emergency vet visits and a round of x-rays later it turns out he's got a bad case of hip dysplasia at all of two years old. I knew corgis were prone to it, but I didn't think he'd develop it this early.  So now I'm on a quest to make my apartment a bit more comfortable for him. He loved jumping up and down from the couch before (and in hindsight that probably didn't help with this matter), would anyone be able to recommend a dog ramp for helping him get up and down without him having to jump? Half of the ones I'm seeing on Amazon/Chewy include reviews such as "Barely supports my 20 lb dog." and "Fell apart after first use and injured my dog." so I'm all ears if anyone has any recommendations.
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Feb 18, 2021 00:53
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Instant Jellyfish posted:It makes me sad that breeders are producing dogs like this by not doing health testing of their breeding stock. I know that it can have environmental factors too but severe hip dysplasia at 2 has to have a genetic basis It bums me out too. I thought I had lucked out with the breeder I chose but, uh, I guess not. Walking issues aside, he's still the same lovable dog he always has been, always happy to see other people and dogs in the apartment complex, even if he can't move very fast to go say hi to them now. I'm going to do everything I can to treat him and to make his life more comfortable given the circumstances.
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Feb 18, 2021 02:36
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Instant Jellyfish posted:I have this ramp for my old dog. He's 76 lbs and it's still going strong after a year. I did follow some of the review's suggestion to add carpet to it but honestly part of the carpet has fallen off and the original grip isn't causing any issues. It's kind of clunky for when I need to use it to get him into/out of the car but a corgi is probably a lot easier to just pick up for car rides. Stringent posted:Hey, I'm a huge Teddi fan so post some pics/vids of whatever you get set up. So, follow-up from this, we got the above ramp and it's super sturdy and looks like it would be a pretty good support for a dog easily several times the weight that Teddi is (hell it supports my weight). The problem is he's absolutely terrified of the thing (I even left his favorite treats on it and he won't go near it) so, uh, back to the drawing board. After a few weeks he's starting to recover from his recent injury and is putting weight back on his rear left leg again. At the prompt of an ex-neighbor I added glucosamine supplements to his diet but I have no idea if those are actually helping or not. That said we also just tackled a move which was really stressful for him, it's his first move ever, but once he got access back to his bed and toys he's been super content at the new place.  Huge props to our movers who saw he was stressed out and unpacked his stuff before they let us into our new apartment (COVID restrictions and all). Since then he's been introducing himself to the dogs of the building and the new staff and has otherwise been adapting well while he's been recovering.
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Feb 26, 2021 03:13
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Poor little Savannah (10 weeks) has had giardia since she came home from the breeder at 8 weeks. Frozen-yogurt poops from day 1. We just finished 5 days of medication and the poop never changed at all; hopefully the medication itself was upsetting her tummy and she'll have her first ever solid poop soon? Yorkshire Pudding posted:Gobi had Giardia from the breeder when I brought him home at 12 weeks. Vet noticed because he had a little mucus in his stool. Never noticed any other symptoms but vet put him on some medicine. MF_James posted:Willie had giardia basically right when we got him, forget if it was immediate or if he maybe caught it after we brought him home, there were like 3-4 other ppl on the block that got dogs at the same time we did; this was in the before times, don't even want to think of how many new owners we would have run into had we gotten him last year. GoGoGadgetChris posted:Yeah giardia is super annoying but on the plus side, it's a war of attrition and once her adult immune system kicks in, those little protozoa are toast. Giardia is awful and it took a full year before Teddi was able to fight it off on his own. Our primary vet at the time spent the entire time milking my wallet for antibiotics and other medicine to try and treat it (eventually trying to prescribe him with literally thousands of dollars of human grade giardia medicine to treat it, which my pharmacy said "Yeah no your vet is a quack") until I eventually threw my hands in the air and took him to a specialist at the local emergency vet, had some blood tests run to verify there wasn't anything else wrong with him, and got told "lol yeah giardia sucks, just suck it up and wait it out, here's a $1500 bill for the blood work." Best of luck to anyone dealing with that poo poo because it sucks. I still keep a weeks worth of fenbendazole at the ready whenever Teddi so much as shows a sign of diarrhea just in case it's another recurrence, but for the life of you don't let your vet milk you on it, you can buy that poo poo on Amazon for half the cost. Do that and keep some psyllium powder to add to their food to help firm up their stool again and you'll be golden.
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Mar 19, 2021 00:37
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MF_James posted:The powder is what really helped Willie, is that just a stool hardener? Thought it was the medicine. Yeah, psyllium powder is great for firming up your dog's stools, same stuff they use in metamucil. I buy a bag of it, add a teaspoon or two to my dog's food and it really helps, even when he isn't sick. The fenbendazole is a dewormer that vets will recommend to treat giardia, but it's not a silver bullet for it and resistant strains of giardia just shrug it off until your dog's immune system catches up. I keep enough for six doses and whenever Teddi shows any unexpected diarrhea I'll start adding it to his food daily until things calm down as a just-in-case.
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Mar 20, 2021 16:32
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Verman posted:Giardia is a bitch. Preach it. Took Teddi until he was a year old to handle the constant reinfections well. So glad we moved out of that area. Psyllium powder is another option for firming up poops for a giardia prone puppy. You can buy em in bags for cheap on Amazon. Works great with a teaspoon or so in each of their meals.
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May 6, 2021 03:09
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I remember one Christmas Teddi was gifted a rubber chicken and he promptly tore off one of its feet. We, however, could not find it. Imagine our surprise when it came out of his rear end whole and intact the next day.
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Dec 25, 2023 21:09
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Clowner posted:Alright, time for Coco's problem of the week (currently ten months old): I think my feeding changes for Teddi ended up being: 1) Teddi arrived with a bag of kibble he was fed before arriving, to help with the transition to whatever kibble I had for him 2) We slowly transitioned the kibble and he stopped eating 3) Started mixing wet food into kibble, he would eat, but it was inconsistent 4) Eventually moved to full wet food, again he would eat, but it was inconsistent 5) Started feeding frozen "human-grade" food from Chewy with some rice, something like $120/month in food. It was hard on the wallet but Teddi would eat it. 6) Pandemic started and said food became unavailable entirely because of supply chain issues, so back to kibble. He wouldn't eat it. 7) Started mixing a single slice of deli ham torn up into his kibble and he would devour every bite of it. If buying an extra $3/week of deli meet keeps my dog eating his food consistently so be it.  Please give Coco some belly rubs they look like a very good corgi that Teddi would love to be friends with.
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Jan 1, 2024 01:48
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One issue I've been running into recently with Teddi: on property we have a restaurant where a staff member there, who really, really likes dogs, keeps popping out and giving treats to any dog that passes by. This has, unfortunately, gotten Teddi's attention and every time we go for a walk, he will try to drag me there, regardless of if even the restaurant is even open, or if I let said staff give him treats (thankfully they are respectful when you say "Thanks, but no treats."). I have been working on reinforcing two commands with him to solve this: "heel", "leave-it" and positive reinforcement + treats. However he always tries to drag me there and will not budge until it's clear nobody is in the restaurant to give him treats or said staff comes out with treats for him. Worse: if the place isn't closed and he gets no treats, or if I don't let him get treats, etc, he enters passive aggressive corgi mode, where for the remainder of his walk he will take two steps, sniff the ground for 30 seconds, and then turn around and stare at the restaurant for another 30 seconds before taking another two steps and repeating the process. This changes what should be a 30 minute walk take over an hour unless I force him to move, which I try to avoid doing unless absolutely necessary (crossing the road with a car incoming to keep him out of danger, etc). Anyone have any suggestions for resolving this or is keeping the reinforcement training going the right way to go?
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Jan 1, 2024 02:04
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an egg posted:today is a blessed day
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Jan 30, 2024 03:01
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HootTheOwl posted:When we moved (twice) Brisket was the same way. He kept expecting us to eventually go home, not really understanding that this was his new home. I've moved twice since I got Teddi. He'd be stressed out during the move itself but once he saw his bed unpacked at the new place he settled in pretty well.  He usually spends about a week trying to take us back to our old apartment during walks before he realizes he needs to scope out his new stomping grounds.
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Feb 23, 2024 16:06
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 Teddi gets 2/3rd a cup of food a day (plus whatever scraps I share with him) and he's still ~4 lbs overweight (~34 lbs total, not a very active corgi). Still paying off that weight debt after he got neutered. I didn't adjust his food intake until a vet visit revealed I was feeding him too much following the instructions on the bag. He ended up being 10 lbs overweight and we had to put him on a diet.
MadFriarAvelyn fucked around with this message at 01:51 on May 2, 2024 |
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May 2, 2024 01:45
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Teddi got bit by another dog during our morning walk today. He's up-to-date on his rabies vaccine and so was the dog that bit him. I was only able to find one puncture wound on his neck, buried under a lot of fur, where there's been some light bleeding. I've cleaned the wound, disinfected it, and applied soft pressure until the bleeding stopped, so I feel like I've done all I can myself. Is this the sort of situation I should get him to a vet for or am I sweating the small stuff on this one? This is the first time he's actually gotten hurt in a scuffle with another dog, and his vet isn't going to be open until monday.
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May 11, 2024 19:19
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MarcusSA posted:Since there was a puncture and bleeding yeah you probably wanna get to the vet. My dog got bit twice and both times it was strongly recommended to bring her in for antibiotics (she needed stitches one time though). Ragnar Gunvald posted:When this happened to our dog, the vet tutted and implied it was a waste of our time. Apparently only something like 20% of dog bites become more complicated and you just need to clean them. Follow-up to this: it was absolutely the right call to take him to the vet. They shaved the side of his face to get a better look at it and found out the wound goes significantly deeper than we originally thought it did and the risk of infection is so much higher. So now he's scheduled for a procedure on Wednesday to clean it out and close it up, got a prescription for a round of antibiotics and pain meds to take and got a rabies booster as a just-in-case. He's being a little trooper though and is still all smiles. Crossing my fingers he has a quick and easy recovery.
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May 13, 2024 22:30
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