Yesterday we took four of our dogs to the vet! Ginger,Squirt,Sparky and Tuppence.We chose to go to a different vet,as ours really had no idea what was going on with Ginger or Squirt..Ginger still continued excessive drooling,panting and appeared in pain. Squirt had started having spasms,not sure what else to call them really. He suddenly goes rigid in his neck and screams with pain if touched,it doesn't last for too long,maybe 10 minutes.He has been on two courses of cortisone,whilst on it ,he doesn't get it,but as soon as we stop, he starts again.
We travelled a little further to see the other vet,but it was worth it. 

First he looked at Tuppence,I had found a couple of lumps on her belly,but he has assured us they are just fatty lumps,so nothing to worry about there!

Then he looked at Sparky,he gave him a complete going over,and he has severe athritis in his hips and spine,our poor little boy. He is taking Rimadyl for that and it appears to be working quite well.He has his new help em up harness coming soon,so that should help as well.

Next was Squirt,the vet also examined Squirt very thoroughly,bent him,twisted him,I had to look away more than once,but he never made a peep. So typical! He has to have an xray next. He thinks he could have a herniated disc in his neck. If the xray shows nothing then its a MRI or CAT scan! Squirt is overweight and I am sure this doesn't help,but he is so greedy,is very difficuklt to keep him on a diet! Even if anything  gets dropped on the floor,he is always the first there!

Now poor old Ginger,he had to be sedated to be examined as usual,he had a good look in his mouth and found a further two rotten teeth that our vet had missed.So they put him under anethestic and removed them,they also did a blood test to see if his liver was OK,as prolonged use of Luminale can cause liver damage,but thankfully that was fine. So hopefully we have now go to the bottom of Gingers complaint,oh I do hope so!

Until the next time

Val X

A little note to say a very big thank you to those of you that helped Sparky get his new harness.And also helping to get his medicine that he needs for his arthritis. I have today ordered his new harness and it was posted straigh away,so hopefully it will be with us next week. Once we have it I will post a photograph of him wearing it.

Thank you once again XX

Our dear little Sparky is not coping too well on his three legs.You might remember Sparky had a rear leg amputated in April 2012,due to osteosarcoma (bone cancer),he has a great deal of arthritis and finds it very difficult to get up. I need to raise £70 to buy him a "helpemup" harness,from Orthopets. We had already bought him a ruffwear harness,but its not helping him much ,I think it might be more for a front leg amputee,as there is not much support at the back end!

This is an appeal to raise the funds we need to buy this harness. Please can anyone help,then we can go ahead and get one of these,I am sure it will make such a difference to Sparky. If you can spare a little,please just hit the donation button. Thank you so much,Val xx

Happy Easter to all our friends old and new !

For some time now Ginger has had a sore mouth,he drools a fair amount and pants quite a bit. The vet took a look at him,as we are not able to do anything with Ginger,he has always been the same,as does not like to be touched too much,and decided it was his teeth. So under sedation he removed two teeth and cleaned up the others.But he still continues to drool. We have been back with him,but as he is still eating well,and seems reasonably fit,the vet decided to leave him as he is.He seems fine in himself..

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