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What is your vets opinion about the dogs current condition?

>>2297314
My folks say they don't trust the opinions of the vets here in town. I don't blame them though because we have had some shit experiences with them. We boarded her about a year ago, and the vet that was on site there said she probably had less than a year.

>>2297317
Well, if the vet has record of your dog it's worth a phone call consultation.
Sorry to hear that anon.

Is ur cairn terrier docile?

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>>2297179
He's actually a yorkie. And with us he is, but he's pretty much autistic and senile and he has snapped at others before.

Pic related.

>>2297183
all terriers is da same. gud pic tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ltIma_0o0Q

Thank you, I have not seen this one but it isn't the one I'm looking for, the one I saw was not from a beach and showed many buildings and boats being washed away, and oil fires starting on top of the water
Thank you though!

>>2296976
i might know the one you mean? does it start out at sea level and they go somewhere higher?

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Here's the layout of my apartment. The neighbors and I share the entrance gate and the laundry room. They have their own gate to their yard but they rarely ever close it.

your neighbor isn't responsible for your dog

you can see if your neighbor wants to work with you and become friends with your dog, but if not you will need to keep it under control because your yard is not really your yard and it's unsecured

Piss in a cup and splash it on your neighbor's gate, and the door to the laundry room and the shared gate. This will mark your territory and when the neighbor smells it he will start being conditioned to stay on his own side of the apartment.

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Thanks in advance!

>>2296927
How interesting.

try spinning, that's a good trick

kick it in the face and throat. any plan that involves moving your hands close to the dog's mouth is retarded.

>>2296889

Why is the dog attacking you?

the scratch at it and it tears the tiny fibers and makes it fuzzy

keep your cat inside, it doesn't need a collar and the outside doesn't need your cat

>>2296945
This.

Get a collar made of different material if it bothers you.

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>>2296945
that's stupid advice. if it's a grown cat used to running around, it kind of needs to go outside. nevermind that my last cat was an indoors-cat.

buy better collars, I guess? i've seen cats around my area with (bitch to desrcribe) non-scratchable collars like picrelated.
my guess is, the collar in OP smells, or takes on smells really good, which the cat doesn't like, which is why it scratches, which is why the collars get fucked. ever had one of those festival wristbands on for a long time? no matter if you shower regularly, if you work hard and sweat, it'll start smelling after a while. being damp doesn't help it.

>>2296775
Dog balls are not for cutting.

>>2296794
Liberal scum

>>2296794
Your dog is not your child, it's puppies are not your grandchildren

>>2296724
You could start by not letting her leave the fucking house you irresponsible twat. Outdoor cat owners need to be castrated.

You could have sex with her to give her some sexual satisfaction maybe then she won't be so aggressive!

>>2296739
i doubt that'd help the problem in any way, but i'd still say it'd be a good idea for op to rub her pussy from time to time just because it's nice

>Mexican pet owners

Literally every time.

>>2296712
>si alquien sabe que es ayuden
Good fucking luck getting your cat diagnosed here. Stick to local vets.

>>2296752
You think brown people are going to do a good job? They have been cutting open puppies and stuffing them with heroin to smuggle into the United States.

>>2296588
Cows in my opinion are actually not the best yield for what the require. They need a ton of food, a lot of good, flat land that could be put to better use. They need a large shelter and a lot of water. Generally for small scale (one family) homesteading, goats are the go to because they can use the shitty land, you can just keep them on a tether if needed, don't eat or drink as much as a cow, don't need as much care and are hardy. It's also much easier to sell a single or a few goats rather than a single cow

>>2296605

The biggest issue with goats is that they're some of the most difficult livestock to keep contained. They're curious jumpers and climbers who will test each and every bit of their boundary. And, if something in their pen can be destroyed, it will be.

I second them for a great bang-for-your-buck animal, along with rabbits and chickens, as well as having great personalities and being more fun to watch than your standard grazers. But, if you're going to keep them, make sure you read up very well.

>>2296588
/out/ homegrowman thread is better for this

>>2296386
Insane? No, sounds like a nice project though I wonder how long it'd actually take to get something that looks good.

If you give up you could always just give them away on craigslist or something.

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>>2296386
>Am I insane
No, but you'll have to be patient.
>>2296393
It will take several years for it to look like a real bonsai.

It won't last long indoors.

>>2296321
Not long term, only like 2 weeks, but it makes them drink more and pee more. Expect accidents, and don't get mad at them. My poor girl was pissing herself while running down the stairs to get outside.

How bad is the muscle wasting? How long does he need to be on pred?

correction I **WOULDN'T do anything without talking to the vet first. She's been absolutely amazing through all of this. I guess you can actually find good vets these days

>>2296325
>drinking/peeing
Yeah we saw this pretty much immediately, he's had two accidents before we got on a new schedule of taking him out more frequently and he's been fine since. I honestly feel guilty because I know he must have felt horrible about peeing on the floor. He hasn't done that in about 9 years.

>how bad is the muscle wasting
It's almost exclusively in his back legs/rump. I can see the outline of his leg bones and little bumps on the top of his butt from the hip/pelvis bones. I'm just worried it will get worse though. Right now he still seems to be trying around okay when he gets up, but he's also on tramydol so he is spending a lot of his time sleeping when he isn't peeing/eating/drinking

>how long
Vet estimated that if he keeps progressing the way he is that he would be on this same dosage for a month, then after that tapering his dosage down and seeing if his feet flair up again

I just feel so bad. I love him so much, I don't want to make him slowly suffer

>>2296321
It may depend on the dosage. Taking over or equal to 1mg/kg prednisone for a long time will bring some troubles like pancreatitis or Cushing's syndrome you know, but of course all vets know it well.
You can also check ALP(ALKP) by blood test, which gets increased easily during predni treatment, if you worry about it.

> How did you lessen the muscle wasting side effect?
I also want to know it.
I hope she will get well soon.

Sometimes. in my experience baked treats don't keep very well, and all the recipes I find yield a huge amount of biscuits since I cut them so tiny.

More often I make little ice cream treats for my dog. A big scoop of Greek yogurt, a big scoop of puréed pumpkin or a whole banana, and some powdered peanut butter in the blender. I freeze the stuff in an ice cube tray.

There's a recipe out there for biscuits with parsley in it. Don't make it--found out the hard way it gives my dog the rocket shits.

>>2296317
I just use cut up pieces of hot dog or lunch meat.

>>2296317

My dog likes vegetables so we usually share a carrot or some broccoli. She likes dehydrated bananas too, so we'll eat them whilst walking. Of course we also make beef jerky and she gets some (a small amount of sodium for hers)

>>2296185
to get to the other side

>>2296185
Infection or cancer. Either way not healthy. Probably should be put out of it's misery and taken out of the gene pool

>>2296185
That it's utters, moran