Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
Here is the logic of health issues in dogs – an acute problem likely has an acute cause. Doesn’t it make sense that a disease progressive in nature would have a progressive onset? Some conditions can wax and vane with a dog having some good day and some bad days. But what if the dog is perfectly fine one minute…
Regardless of the problem at hand, if your dog’s treatment isn’t working, there are two possible reasons. Either the diagnosis is wrong, or the approach to fixing it is. Either way it means going back to the drawing board. Cookie’s story It all started when Cookie had a run-in with an electric horse fence. We thought her leg was sore…
The other weekend, Cookie got acquainted with the electric fence around the horse run. She was not impressed! There are several runs at the horse farm. The horses stay in one or another based on the season. Most of the year, the horses are at the back of the property. The runs up front are empty, and the fences are…
Through their lives, our dogs hurt themselves and became lame enough times. Cookie was just recovering from her own limp when JD hurt his leg. When I called for a vet appointment for JD’s hind left leg lameness, the receptionist jokingly asked, whether JD was having sympathy pains. Cookie’s footsie saga continued into the last week, when, after presumed all…
What to do when you’re supposed to soak your freshly adopted dog’s foot but they don’t cooperate? The day after we adopted her, Cookie became lame on her hind leg. The veterinarian determined she had an infection of sorts between her toes. For her unhappy foot, Cookie got antibiotics and we were to do 20-minute foot soaks in Epsom salt,…