Posted by headachequeen on October 11, 2004, at 17:59:48
In reply to Re: medications, posted by stressed on October 11, 2004, at 17:09:09
> Lar, are you a veteranarian? I'm trying to figure out why you are so well educated about animals?....and Kat, I cried when I read your last post. I can go on and on about my beloved dog, whom I cannot even type his name and not get teary eyed. Isn't that crazy? My friends think I'm abnormal because I watch Dog Shows on TV, pick up strays and take my dog everywhere. We were meant to be here, that's for sure. I will talk to my vet about the prozac, I don't think the clomipramine is working as well as it should. It has curtaled the licking, but spinning is in full swing. I don't know what type of like he had before us, but I think he was abused. He used to cowar when we would come near, and it was heartbreaking. Thanks for the info. -L
Dr. Bob may not think this belongs here, but I disagree... no one can ever understand the emotional and mental disruption that comes from the loss of a pet until he or she has experienced it.
We always make it a point to be available to our puppy buyers when their dogs become older and close to that time or if the dog develops some disease or if some disaster befalls the dog...
we KNOW how hard it is...
at the moment one of our clients is in total stress... they own or owned two dogs from our breeding... one died a while back of cancer and another was stolen a few weeks ago...
the couple is still dealing with the death of the one and now is reeling from the loss of the other...
and seeing a family therapist as the entire family is topsy turvy emotionally...Heavens, I still burst into tears about the dog that died back in 1989... and there was the one that died when I was in high school... and and and...
these are a part of us, a part of our lives, of our families...
I love the ones who tell us it was only a dog, get over it...
what do they know???
I have spent over thirty years doing research and study about my breed, nutrition, training, and all the rest of it..
these dogs go everywhere with me... they sleep in the bedroom with me, they go to work with me, they do therapy work, they are everything to me...
and one or two are more important than others...
I lost one that was slowly becoming the next special boy to me... he turned a year a few weeks ago and died of a heart problem that our vet missed when he was born... not the vet's fault it was not something in our line... and not to be expected and hard to detect... I do not blame him... but just as I am putting a lot of my life back together, I lost my boy...
and I am hardly able to speak again... back to the voice pathologist for more therapy as my vocal cords are swollen and grating on one another from the stress and tension...
I did not end up in hospital this time...
but it is not over yet either...
suddenly I discover I have kindred spirits here...
strange isn't it?
we all need topomax for one reason or another and we have so many other things in common...Yes we were meant to be here -- we are here to help each other...
not sure if that is why Doctor Bob planned it...
but it is how it seems to work...by the way another trick you might try to calm your corgi is to give him a raw marrow bone to chew on and lick out... a raw bone is safe; cooked bones are dangerous... the licking of the bone will calm him... and the marrow will interest him...
when the bone is empty, fill it with peanut butter and he can start all over again...
or fill a Kong with peanut butter although I prefer the bones as the Kongs get rather dirty and yucky and the bones are a little more nutritious...
they are calming and give the dog something to do rather than spin around and lick and chew at himself...
wish I could find something like that for myself on the bad days... suppose people would look at me strangely if I sat there licking at a raw bone
kat
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