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Jun. 26th, 2006 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elgreyMy dog Fay is finally speaking to me again. She had to have some teeth out on Friday and feels it was a horrible betrayal on my part to leave her at the vets where people performed entirely unnecessary operations on her in her opinion. In vain have I been reminding her over the weekend that she was feeling really crappy before the operation and is now feeling a lot better, she was unconvinced. Anyway, she is finally speaking to me again now and I am allowed to stop holding her paw and slink back to my computer.
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Date: 2006-06-26 01:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-06-26 07:25 pm (UTC)I hope she's not too sore. I know my dog moped for days after having some dental work done (but, then again, he's a real wuss).
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Date: 2006-06-26 09:32 pm (UTC)Me too on the loving dogs thing. She's an Italian Greyhound aka the World's Least Practical Breed, but she is a very nice person. She's very sweet natured and cuddly usually which is why I particularly felt the sting of her disapproval. *g*
I hope she's not too sore. I know my dog moped for days after having some dental work done (but, then again, he's a real wuss).
What kind of dog do you have? Do you have a pic? I think it's still a bit sore but already much better than it was and she's eating very well, and seems a lot happier. She had three teeth out on Friday so I imagine it's going to be another week or so before her mouth isn't so tender.
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Date: 2006-06-26 10:33 pm (UTC)We have a 9 year old Weimeraner. He's absolutely *nuts*. He's very loyal, loves human companionship, and is very very smart (too smart), but is unequivocably insane. Neurotic. Mind you, that last is probably in part due to the brain tunmour (at least, it's postulated that's what is wrong with him -- he's got a degenerative neurological problem of some sort, but we can't afford the cost of an MRI to pin down exactly what is wrong).
As to having a pic... well *g*, sort of. Go here to see him: http://www.omnifera.com/misc/shadowbellshello.jpg
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Date: 2006-06-26 11:18 pm (UTC)You have all my sympathy with your dog - the nutsiness and the tumours. I know that kind of crazy neurotic so well. It's so hard to explain to people when your dog isn't just the fun kind of crazy but the totally insane kind, and what a strain that is every day, especially when they have an ongoing health problem. I'm so sorry. Especially as the crazy ones seem to be so wonderful in so many ways and really get a place in your heart.
My first ever dog was completely nuts and as well as having to have an operation to correct a heart defect had to be on medication for his craziness. He was a crossbreed German Shepherd x Welsh ColliexLabrador. He had a hole in the heart, hip dysplasia and some strange brain abnormality that meant he had a very low control threshold, only instead of having epileptic fits when the control threshold was crossed, he would have fits where he would 'sing' in this high pitched whine and latch onto you with his - luckily quite blunt - teeth. We had a whole list of things that we couldn't do or use when he was around like any aerosol spray, metal objects that scraped, anything that made a high pitched noise, wine bottles, sellotape, and a dozen others. He was incredibly jealous to the point where I could never pat another dog without him wanting to kill it, and was always convinced that he knew best about everything and especially about what was dangerous to us and what we had to be protected from - like the very dangerous sellotape - and yet was also so wonderful and loving and clever and good natured and cuddly too. The tablets he was on did help a bit but he was never entirely sane.
Later I had a Groenendael (Belgian Shepherd Dog), Raksha, who was also nuts, although in a different way. She was a complete bundle of nerves the whole time. So wonderful with children and small animals but frightened of everything, couldn't bear to be indoors unless she could chew on something the whole time, but seemed to get agoraphobic if she went out. She used to worry herself into tumours about everything. She had several in her mammary glands that had to be removed, one after the other. She would have a few months of blessed peace when she was only ordinarily neurotic and not completely climbing up the walls crazy, the way she got when she had a tumour, and then I think she would just worry up another one, poor dog. She was so incredibly beautiful and yet almost incapable of enjoying life at all. The deerhound, Jane, we had at the same time was the complete opposite - totally laid back about everything, amazingly lazy *g*, just really wanted to lie around in the sun during the summer and by the fire in the winter and never worried about anything except having her nails cut - which she hated and was a complete baby about.
As to having a pic... well *g*, sort of. Go here to see him: http://www.omnifera.com/misc/shadowbellshello.jpg
Oh goodness, that is *totally* adorable. What a beautiful colour Weimeraners are, and he looks particularly wonderful. Please give him a cuddle from me.
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Date: 2006-06-27 01:22 am (UTC)He's not as neurotic as some of the things you've described. And really, he was pretty 'normal' (if there is such a thing) until all this stuff with his head started. Weims are notorious for their desire to be with someone -- he's always waited outside the bathroom door for us to come out, for example -- and the neurotic behaviours he's exhibiting now involve hyperaccentuation of basically typical traits, such as not being able to settle down in a room unless someone is in there with him, and sometimes he wants to go outside every 10 minutes for no apparent reason, while other times you can't get him to go out even to eat or if his bladder is bursting.
In addition to this dog, we've had a Rhodesian Ridgeback / Lab cross, a Great Dane, and a German Shepherd. It's been vey sad indeed when they've all come to the end, and yes, this is no exception. Thanks for your expressions of concern. Shadow is deteriorating; for reasons unknown to our vet, he's losing weight steadily no matter how much / what he is fed, and is now skeleton thin. He has short-term, intermittent periods of neurological dysfunction, where he circles and is unable to straighten his neck. Plus his hind end is very unstable at times, and as mentioned, some of his behaviour is not entirely rational. Mind you, he's waaay up there on the sanity scale compared to our first dog, who was never the same after having been kicked in the head by my horse, the poor dear.
Your dogs are beautiful. Madge looks very delicate and sensitive, and it looks from that picture that Berry might be quite an up-front kinda guy *g*. Hmmm; if Jack O'Neill were a dog... *g*.
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Date: 2006-06-28 09:39 pm (UTC)