The Used Dog's Misadventure

[BuddhaKat]

now you understand dogs.

I dunno, I don't think I'll ever understand Groundie.

 

[056kid]

LOL, I called that technique Rapid Fire. The secret was, give them a treat they like, but give it as fast as they can swallow and open their mouth again. If you give them time to think about it, they'll spit it out every time.

Most dogs will swallow anything in order to not miss the next treat coming at them. I'd just wrap the pill up in some bread, but in my dog's case, I could have used cat poop. He'd eat anything. Yech! Wasn't hard to tell when he'd been into the 'kitty candy'.

HAHAHA, my Mom has a yellow lab that loves to indulge in the poo poo platter. She can be seen "grazing" inthe back yard quite often. When ever i catch her at it i go and tell her she is nasty. She does it any way. . . .

 

[slowp]

Well, the Used Dog was begging me to throw the ball. I didn't. He is in good shape. The "Boys" were at each other a little bit. I had both doors to the shop open so the Grapple Cat came out for a walk about. He was rubbing on my legs and then hissing and lunging at the Used Dog to keep him away. The Grapple Cat also chased the Used Dog away from the cat food. I definitely got a cat with attitude. I had to keep thing calm as I didn't want a claw to open up the stitching job. Bad Kitty! Now if he'll do the same to mice.

 

[RCR 3 EVER]

No rimadyl, no rimadyl,no rimadyl,caution

Glad he is on the rebound. My dog just had her rear leg operated on a few days ago. those bullys have so much muscle and often not enough bone & tendon so they end up trashing their hind ends. so 4400 bucks later, she has bionic rear legs like the now old lab chow mix that we have. Give the used dog some rimadyl, it should ease his pain.

Give the dog a pain reliever anyhing, not Tylenol. PLEASE DO NOT USE RIMADYL UNLESS DIRECTED TO DO SO BY YOUR VET AND THEN AT LOWEST DOSE POSSIBLE. Have blood work done prior to giving Rimdyl, so when the dogs may have bad reaction to the medic. The vet has something to go by for treatments with pre testing. Our 10 yr old Golden was on Rimadyl for 50 doses when she had a routine blood test done required by OUR vet for any of his patients on the stuff before any refills. Her platelets had dropped down to 35,000 from a norm of 170,000-400,000. Her next test went down to 16,000 and Red blood cell count was decreasing,anemic, Liver enlarged. WBC count down, kidneys enlarged. The vet said she had a few weeks. WE took her to property where she ate a bunch of mushrooms which she never did before.
The next Dr visit her levels were better but she was still anemic and liver was decreasing in size. Off to the property again for more magic mushrooms.

At this time and $1500 later she still need monthly tests as her levels fluctuate and she is on constant vitamins and prednisone. Her levels for platelets for clotting are floating near 60,000, they should be minimum 170,000 and she tends to be anemic so we have to check her gums all the time.

Here are some websites if you do not believe me:
http://www.vetinfo.com/deffect.html

http://www.srdogs.com/Pages/rimadyl.html

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[RCR 3 EVER]

Glad your dog is getting better and sorry for ranting about Rimadyl but I felt it necesary to voice the dangers of the drug. Especially since our current Golden reacted very bad and almost died. We had no idea of the consequnces some dogs had with this drug since our previous Golden Retriever was on the stuff for years and no problems, he was also numerous epileptic meds. We are all very attached to our dogs and cats and will do anything to keep them healthy.

 

[slowp]

Rimadyll varies from dog to dog. My Golden, now deceased, took it for her last few years, no problem.

My current boy only has to take it while healing up. Which he thinks he is now and it has become very hard to get pills in him. Being a peaceful resistance dog, he simply will not open his mouth now. I'm going to try the rapid fire method this morning. Giving him good treats, one after the other then sticking a pill in.

I thought about taking him to work with me yesterday, but didn't because I feared he'd rip it open again. He's healing, there's no seepage, I think the vet sewed him up really well.

 

[Hddnis]

We used to have to hide the pills in cheese to get the dogs to take them. A couple of them got wise to that and you had to force their mouth open and use a cattle pill popper. They don't seem to understand that it is for their own good. lol




Mr. HE

 

[BuddhaKat]

We used to have to hide the pills in cheese to get the dogs to take them. A couple of them got wise to that and you had to force their mouth open and use a cattle pill popper. They don't seem to understand that it is for their own good. lol




Mr. HE

That's the purpose of the rapid fire method. Train them to get excited about treats and to catch them when you throw them. Throw a treat, let them enjoy the taste for a sec, then throw another, then another right away. You'll see the dog will swallow instantly in order to make room for the next one. They need that mouth to catch the treat, but they won't let the last one get away.

What was actually hilarious was the time I was doing rapid fire and decided just to toss the raw pill. It was out and on the ground in the blink of an eye. It's tough when you have a dog that's smarter than you are.

 

[Hddnis]

Most dogs are smarter than most people I've met and I get along with them better too. lol







Mr. HE

 

[madhatte]

the used dog went to work and stayed in the office all day. He's ready to be an 'ologist now. He is working on his map reading and coffee drinking.:greenchainsaw:

hey

 

[slowp]

hey

Yadder Hey.