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Oh Lynda, you are so kind and so brave. It is all too soon that you are going through this again, but how wonderful of you and Consuelo to home another little soul who needs you. I know Mabel is going to have a happy life with you, and I am glad Dora has another friend. It is heartbreaking indeed to see them mourn. My Mable also thinks you have made a very wise choice ;)
Loads of love,
Mary and Mable (who is only called Mable and not Mabel because her daft owner didn’t know the correct spelling) x
Hi Lynda
Oh, you two are just the kindest people in the world. Dora & Mabel will be very happy together & I know what you mean about them being lonely – I can’t bear to see them like that either. Mabel deserves a loving home after such an awful start in life.
Love Sheena, Worzel & Ollie (who says lurchers are GREAT!) xxxxx
Jen, the exercise you are doing with the walking is just fine. You are doing everything perfectly. It’s when they run around like loonies, over-stretching & straining, you need to stop them going too mad. I had a hell of a job stopping you-know-who when he started to get a bit better because he loves to run really fast!
Sheena, You-know-who & Lazy bones xxxxx
Lynda,
I am sending my hopes that Shona has just something minor. Good that you are taking a friend to the clinic seeing it has bad memories there for you. I still can not even drive near to the place where Sunny was treated last.
Interestingly I have been also reading that ticks are on the move and the vets and dr’s have to change their ideas.
My family does have a new sweet puppy named Teddy. He is good for healing for sure and it makes me happy to see my daughter smile and play with him. I talk to Sunny everyday because she was my angel girl and I need her to know I will never ever forget her beautiful soul.
I wish you all continued healing and good times .
Write soon,
Maura
Oh Jen
Poor Maggie really has had a lot going on, bless her. And you are certainly not rambling, just worrying like the rest of us do!
My personal experience with heart murmurs in dogs is that they often get a very fast heartbeat (Worzel’s was up to a worrying 200 beats per minute) and they are panicky, shaky & clingy. They can also have fainting attacks, which happened to our lovely boy. He was very scared. Worzel did not have a cough, but that can be a symptom too, although it can also mean other things.
I think it’s far more likely to be the pred side effects causing the weight gain & heavy, faster, noisy breathing. That was pretty much how it affected Worzel & most of the dogs on here.
https://www.secondchanceaihadogs.com/AIHA_Terms/prednisone/
It will pass when you can start slowly lowering the dose & you will be amazed at how quickly they bounce back! I am crossing everything for a rise in HCT – that would be a weight off your mind. And if your vet is not particularly concerned about the murmur, that’s good news. You would never believe Worzel has had all these problems when he runs like the wind up the garden with a big grin on his face – he’s 14 at least.
You wrote except sizing – is that auto-correct for exercising? If so, exercise should be severely restricted. They suffer from a side effect of the pred called muscular atrophy (shrinkage) & can do themselves some real damage such as tendon & ligament injury if they over exert themselves. Exercise can be resumed when they regain their muscle mass. The anaemia also means they don’t have as much oxygen going around their system as they should (hence the panting as they try to get more air) & again, just let them potter around a bit – nice & gently does it!
Let us know how Maggie’s cyst biopsy turns out – fingers crossed it will be benign & nothing to worry about. In the meantime, give Maggie a huge cuddle from us
Love Sheena & the murmur boys! xxxxx
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