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We still haven't identified what's causing Neige's mystery infrequent limp, and the more days I go without seeing it, the less I feel like making that neurologist appointment to check for things like slipped disks. It's so weird and non-typical of ANYTHING that I almost feel like I'm depriving a specialist of a puzzle to figure out, but my wallet is happier with ignorance. We will probably get this done, but the more days between incidence, the more we're able to keep rebuilding our financial safety net post-house purchase.
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After spending a day working with other people's dogs and dealing with their behavior problems, I rarely feel motivated to teach Neige anything new. As a result, she knows a handful of cues really really well, but only a handful, and I've let her forget some of the more complicated and interesting ones (like weaving around my legs). That said, I'm super proud of her "wait" cue at the food bowl. The other day, after thawing her dinner, I put her on a down-wait for it, then started making my own dinner. 5 minutes later, I remembered she was still there, eyes huge, a puddle of drool under her chin. She got some extra goodies for that one.
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Nov 29, 2012 18:55
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notsowelp posted:
Thiiiiis, all this. Neige still has infrequent limping, the vets don't know wtf, I'd planned to do agility with her, and now I'm hesitant to even take board-and-train clients because I don't want her doing something stupid and making whatever it is worse. My husband doesn't want to shell out for things like MRI's either, so we're at a smidge of an impasse as far as diagnosis goes, and it's still infrequent enough that it's so tempting to just say "gently caress it" and not explore further. That said, it's been about a week since she last limped, so maybe I can continue crossing fingers, supplementing with glucosamine, and praying it just goes away since she's not in enough pain to stop tearing around like an idiot.
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Dec 5, 2012 22:44
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don't tempt me.
. Hopefully we'll be able to get poo poo fixed up, though, and she'll still have an active future ahead.
'. So yes, there is my overly defensive update on Mouse's health issues 
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I give my dog table scraps and Doritos and bits of ham (I cooked a 20 lb ham for Christmas and I will let Neigé eat as much as she wants if it means less ham in my fridge) and I do not care because I can feel all her ribs and she gets raw patties with extra fish oil for regular meals. Sometimes I don't even make her work for them.
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Jan 1, 2013 05:56
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Rixatrix posted:Yes, many of the people I allow into my home hate my dogs and tend to get violent with them Preeeeeeetty sure that was a joke and that no one is gauging anyone else's skill and value as a pet owner by a post in a thread entitled "Forgive me catladies, I have sinned: PI confession thread."
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Feb 14, 2013 18:13
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DLAO posted:mommy Is this what you're confessing to PI, that you're one of those creepy "furbabby" people?
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Oct 25, 2013 06:28
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