let's start with my favorite subject, my lucky puppy.
lucky has been going well. she is healthy and happy. this past january she turned 9 years old. she had a little birthday party that left her in some kind of coma or from our stand point, hangover land. her best bud's helped celebrate and from what i could read on her fb wall it was a smash. yes i looked. don't judge either because you know you would look too.
she got some nice gifts from her auntie shawnda too. now we have another ball in the house that if we touch you need to take cover. she will jump on you and fight for it. it seems anything auntie shawnda gives her is not touchable by anyone else. it makes her happy so that makes me happy too.
as each day goes by, i do worry about my baby. her face it getting whiter, her eyelashes are grayer, some days she moves slowly, some very fast. i have also noticed that she may be getting a little arthritis in her back legs. when she goes to jump up on the bed, her couch or chair she may miss it. i understand that this does happen to dogs her age but it's hard for me to watch. we have this big deck in the yard that she leaps off of. she has no problems doing that but when it's time to come back in, she sometimes misses a step.
it scares me when this happens.
lately i have noticed my baby has gotten a little lumpier too. i know they are just fatty deposits and they come and go but i worry about them turning into something more.
ace has noticed them too and like me, not sure if we should have them removed or not. we know that they don't hurt her. i hate the idea of putting her through something she doesn't have to. i would do anything for her but am i being selfish not doing anything or doing something because i want her to be around forever?
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lucky has the smallest bladder on earth. lucky if you ever read this, i am sorry but you do.
she does have a problem and will let that bladder loose, mostly on my back rug. just recently she was on a snow eating marathon since we got 24 inches dumped on us this winter. to make matters worse, since it's been raining for 40 days and nights she has been licking everything in site so that bladder fills as fast as she let's it loose.
her new thing is to hold her bowels until she has no choice to let it go too. funny thing that is on the beige part of the carpet. some days i think she does it out of spite others for the lack of day time care. is this normal? does other dogs do this or do i just have the strangest one in the world??
Happy up, Lucky's gonna be with you a long, long time!
ReplyDeleteYou could have just described Mr. Mutt, minus the bowel and bladder issues. In place of those, Mutt likes to refuse to eat. I can't tell if he does it because he knows it annoys me (he stands there smiling and wags his tail as I threaten him) or because he's not hungry. He still eats, but not like he used to. And while he still jumps up in bed sometimes, I had to get him stairs to get up there. He seems to prefer to use them.
Mr. Mutt has the same fatty tumors, as you know. I have them biopsied as the vet recommends, and so far (and always will be!) just fat. I'm sure Lucky's doc knows her well; my doc's opinion is to leave them unless they effect movement. I don't like the idea of putting him through anything he doesn't have to go through, either. My old shepherd, Buster, had them all over his body, great big fat lumps, and he had them for years before I lost him. I only ever had one huge one on his chest taken off.
It is WAY too early to wonder if you're selfish doing/not doing something for Lucky, she sounds in pretty good health, right? I worry about those things too! But, to me it sounds like she has a long way to go before decisions like that come into play. Right? Right! Mr. Mutt still has shiny eyeballs and his tail still wags; as long as Lucky's fighting over balls and throwing parties, she won't be going anywhere for.. quite.. some.. time :)
P.S. Have you tried pee pads? When Miss Savannah refuses to go out in the rain, I throw a couple of those down and she (tries) to pee on those.
thank you!! that helped a lot. she has one lump on her chest but it's been there for a year now. it doesn't hurt her nor does it affect her. i am seriously thinking of puppy pads esp since this whole week has been a break in her normal routine and it's been puppy gone pee wild here.
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