The Dog Thread

[David.]

My dog keeps peeing the bed.it's new a big issue

 

[Man Called X]

Dave you just need to find that dog a good home and stop abusing the poor thing.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Bonus: Case of Game of Thrones beer in the background.

 

[Jack Brickman]

 

[Jack Brickman]

This was my dogs' response to me being a complete waste of human space yesterday while hungover from New Year's:

 

[Cavsfan1985]

Just found out my 6 year old beagle went blind. I guess it is called SARDS. Feel bad for the girl, keeps running into everything, but still knows where the couch and bed are as she finds away to jump on them. Those pictures of the mountains are beautiful. She used to love to go hiking in mountains in Utah, not sure how it will work now. Sad day.

 

[MikeOC33]

Just found out my 6 year old beagle went blind. I guess it is called SARDS. Feel bad for the girl, keeps running into everything, but still knows where the couch and bed are as she finds away to jump on them. Those pictures of the mountains are beautiful. She used to love to go hiking in mountains in Utah, not sure how it will work now. Sad day.

That sucks. Sorry to hear this. If it makes you feel any better....

we had a Keeshound that went blind from diabetes, which we had no idea she had... we just thought she was getting old- she was probably 11 or 12 at the time. And knowing that, we felt doubly bad because insulin shots would've prevented her from going blind... again, we had no idea.

But, she was a good doggie, so we gave her insulin shots 2x a day, and didn't move any furniture around, build a ramp to cover the stairs out to the yard, blocked off the stairs to the basement, and did anything else we could to help her learn and cope. And she did. She did very well in fact. Of course there was no more chasing balls, but she would play tug, or I'd sit on the floor and I'd hand wrestle with her.... things like that. She had no problem finding her food, or water, or bed... she went in and out very well, knew where the yard perimeter was and where she "went", etc.

In fact, one of the really cool things was this. We have a good size back yard. The wife was working back in the corner of the yard in the garden. It was nice out so I went out to the deck, took the dog with me. She was laying next to my lounge chair and she picked up a scent. She's got her nose in the air, and she is sniffing away. She slowly, and in a sorta crooked line, sorta straight line, followed the faint scent on my wife all the way across the yard. It probably took her a full minute, minute +.... but the light wind must've been blowing towards the house, and she followed the scent thru the yard, into the garden, until she bumped into the back of my wife's leg. She was happy, but more so because she had a herding sense where she always wanted to know where everyone was... and she found "the mommy", and that was all she needed to do.

Your dog will do fine. They cope amazingly. Barring complications, your buddy will be around a long time. Both of you have to adjust, but don't stop hiking. Her nose and hearing work fine. She will learn to follow your cues, so don't stop trying to work with her and do stuff. Doggies are great.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Just found out my 6 year old beagle went blind. I guess it is called SARDS. Feel bad for the girl, keeps running into everything, but still knows where the couch and bed are as she finds away to jump on them. Those pictures of the mountains are beautiful. She used to love to go hiking in mountains in Utah, not sure how it will work now. Sad day.

Yeah, that sucks man. But Mike is right. Dogs cope very well with things like blindness and deafness. I'm sure you'll still be able to take her hiking once she gets used to moving about without her sight. You'll just have to monitor her a little more closely and move a bit slower so she can keep her bearings.

 

[David.]

Madison's dogs stomach is turning black. What's happening

 

[Andrew]

My little dude...

4 years later, he still acts like a puppy...

 

[Jack Brickman]

So the fire alarm in my apartment building went off late last night. It was about ten degrees out and I had no intention of getting dressed to go outside, so I holed up in the bathroom where the alarm noise is loud but not deafening. My German Shepherd was not amused.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5bC6KJD6l8&list=UUP6G8XRi0gsStFSFz6XLyAw


I was not aware he could howl before this happened. He'd never done it before.

 

[Jack Brickman]

We had a Boxer party at the brewery next door last night during the snowstorm (that ended up being about two inches of snow). I was holding up a snowball, which is what has them so attentive.

The one on the left lives down the hall from me. The one in the middle is his brother and lives in the apartment complex next door. Mine is the one on the right.

And then after the brewery closed we took the party to a friend's apartment and Loki stole her pug's bed.

 

[MikeOC33]

He didn't steal the bed.... it was his to begin with. You'all just didn't know it.

Just like my shoes and my dog. He only allows me to wear them. He will walk right past me, grab a shoe, walk right past me again and then strut around like he is a master fu cking shoemaker with the shoe hanging from his mouth.

He doesn't chew them, just let's me know my shoes aren't really mine. But he will bring whatever shoe is in his mouth to me when he knows we are going for a walk.

 

[Jack Brickman]

He didn't steal the bed.... it was his to begin with. You'all just didn't know it.

You're not wrong. He stole a table at the brewery earlier tonight:

Luckily he's a regular at Sycamore, and all the bartenders love him. Makes it easier when he does his thing. They let me let him off leash when they're not busy. He mostly just chills behind the bar when that happens.

 

[The Oi]

Since we had my son, my dogs like to be around/under anything he's laying in at all times. They're really gentle with him too and they're wild with everyone else.

Really cool watching them grow up with him.