I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
When my dog became neurologically debilitated, I requested that the vet NOT inject her (age 15) with rabies. We paid the vet and received a Certificate of Rabies.
Sometimes she could not walk, we cared for her every day, often up at night. That was a difficult time for us and the dog, until we had to carry her outside and hold her up at the end. Well, both, literally: Hold her rear end up, as she was near the end.
People say, you will know if it is time to take your dog for that final vet visit.
It is a good sign that Spike can get himself up.
I not only have cookbooks from other countries that I’ve visited but from both the Viking and her mother who always made a banana cake for everyone’s birthday- I have no memory of her as she passed when I was 4
I guess I’ll donate the foreign ones and keep only my favorite ones
I probably won’t do the rabies vaccine. In the past, with Toby & his bad heart, my vet went along with what I wanted and never hassled me on anything and I conceded by agreeing to the rabies vaccine annually but absolutely no other vaccine. I figured with Spike, we could come to a similar agreement but you’ve got me realizing that’s probably a bad idea. Some good friends 16 year old mini poodle died after a well meaning vet tech vaccinated her despite them saying NO the vaccines so ever since then, I have been afraid to give vaccines on my senior pets.
Bernie, my grand puppy was just diagnosed with Cushing’s disease. The vet thought it was diabetes. My daughter is such a good momma to her fur baby.
I fell in love with this dog from day one. They steal our hearts, don’t they?
Sorry about your little pooch. They truly are a part of the family. My grey was wonderful, when he took a turn it nearly killed me.
For a grey to lose bladder control is like a faucet being turned on! It was a lot different than my little schnauzer. Still, we just clean up the mess. It is heartbreaking to see them suffer. They don’t sleep through the night at the end.
The larger dogs have the hip issues at the end. They can’t move about. He was the sweetest dog. All they want is love. They certainly love us.
Please don’t toss the cookbooks. Someone else will cherish them. Donate them.
I have some wonderful "stuff" to sell if I could just find someone to buy it~
My Charlie-girl ( a Chihuahua/Maltese mix) is only 4 1/2 pounds, and she So did Awful with the Rabies shot the last time (3 years ago) , that I refuse to have her vaccinated for it ever again! I swear it nearly killed her, and I was only able to keep her alive by my medical training, keeping her hydrated with Pedialyte by the dropper full, she couldn't eat (I even pre-chewed her "human food" for her to get her to eat a tiny bit), she could barely pee, couldn't bear down enough to produce a BM for over a week, and was in so much pain from head to tail she couldn't walk for about a week.
I honestly knew that if I had taken her in with all her symptoms that she would have died, as she is so incredibly attached to me, and it took my knowing all her little quirks, and my round the clock care, that she even pulled through, plus it was nearly a year before all of the residual neurological symptoms were finally out out her system, just in time for the Vet to want to give her the next Rabies shot, so um NO, Never Again!
Did you know that they give a 4# dog and a 150# dog the same amount of vaccine? Crazy! Our Vet has given authorization that she never ever get one again, thank God, she's mostly a house dog anyways. She's tiny, but she gives us So much Joy!
I'm praying for all of you who are being affected by the Dorian, and all the havoc that it is bringing with it! Take Care Everybody! Animals too!
Though pushing that box did make me feel like a badass. 😛
Stacey, I experienced something similiar with my cat Toby. He was very attached to me (and me to him). He had a bad heart and a couple times a year he would go into these episodes where he was literally dying in front of me, it was like his heart was giving out. I would just give him a strong dose of his heart failure meds and hold him and talk to him and he always bounced back!! If I took him in to the vet, I KNEW he would die!
Needhelp, we really do get attached to these guys don’t we? Our last dog Roxbury, a corgi mix, went through loss of bladder control too. And she started to wander at night only I would find her in the hall way going in circles usually AFTER I stepped in a puddle of pee! It was so heart breaking! It went on for awhile too.
What a shame! Can’t they read? You’re strong. I’m impressed! Where there’s a will there’s a way. You got that 80 pounds out of your neighbor’s way.
Hahaha. We all are getting old! My mom keeps stupid stuff. No value at all. Is that boredom? Who knows? Sometimes I think her entertainment is to drive me nuts.
I have to walk off more and more because there is no reasoning with her once she has an idea in her head.
Her latest thing is holding onto things that don’t fit. She can’t possibly wear it. Would fall off of her but she keeps it! Her clothes are baggy. My clothes are baggy. She doesn’t eat much. Nor do I.
She wants to stay stick thin. Why? She’s almost 94 but vain! I can’t eat due to stress and depression. People complain about being overweight but it’s no fun being asked if I am sick because I am thin.
Needhelp isn’t it something the way our old folks get these ideas in their heads and the things they latch on to? The only reasoning I can come up with is that at this point in life, their world is so small and these things-like you mom wanting to stay stick thin-become a big importance to them because there’s really not much else going on for them! I don’t think I worded that right, I am trying to say that things like that may seem petty and silly to us younger folks because we have other priorities and things we want to do, but for our elders, this is their life? My husbands best friends parents are 83 and it is beyond time for them to downsize and liquidate some of their properties and get rid of stuff and they refuse! They’ve got condos full of their PARENTS furniture! Again they are 83 LOL and the stuff has just sat for years and years! His mom is always replacing carpet, remodeling a bathroom and getting new window coverings! They don’t even have a trust or living wills or anything yet! And of course they could live another 20 years but dad has symptoms of dementia most of their assets are in his name only! In a twist of fate, he was adding our friends name to the feed of their Florida house and he checked the wrong box and our friends name was added but his dads name was taken OFF! I told him, well that’s a good thing because if something happens to your dad, that’s at least one asset that won’t be included in probate! Probate fees will easily be in the hundreds of thousands! Anyway he complains about his mom doing all this stuff and I tell him, this is her life now. All her friends are dead or in nursing homes (sad but true).
Oh my word! Geeeeez. Yes, it really does boggle my mind at times. I’m constantly telling my girls if I get crazy when I am old to take me out back and shoot me! Hahaha
Spike slept through the night last night! Woo hoo! He stayed out in the living room with me until around 10:30. He was restless and kept asking for treats. I gave him half a treat (those little milk bone soft filet mignon flavored things) each time. By 10:30 he was scratching at the bedroom door so I let him in there. Hubby got annoyed and said he wasn’t going to tolerate the shenanigans we had the night before. Spike went right to bed and didn’t get up until around 6:30 this morning! Funny enough after he went to bed, I started researching anxiety and restlessness in senior dogs, and CBD oil for dogs. He does have some of the symptoms of doggy dementia but not all. And his symptoms are normal in old dogs. There is a medication the vet can prescribe but it is expensive! Chewy.com sells it for $84!!!!! That is out of the question, my husband would flip a lid if I spent that much on a prescription!
I am hoping that keeping him up later (he usually goes to bed with hubby at 9:30, last night he chose to stay out with me) and letting him do his thing, is why he slept all night. Maybe the fact I didn’t given him as many treats helped too? I’m gonna pick up some calming dog treats at PetSmart later today.
LOL Needhelp! The thought of getting old and losing my marbles scares me too! Spike has displayed a lot of anxious behavior toward my daughter (probably because she is the one who feeds him) and she got upset because he was anxious and trying to get her attention yesterday. As a result we had some talk of “broken brains” as I told her his brain isn’t working right anymore because he’s so old. I told her when I’m old and my brain is broken, just let me go. Don’t let me suffer.
Sigh.
I like the idea of finding out if a dealer is interested before lugging boxes of books to the car and over to a shop.
One of the potential dealers I contacted was more interested in going through everything, "helping" me decide what to keep and what not to keep, but balked when I asked about specifics, including rates and whether or not they had someone on staff knowledgeable about non-antiques, i.e., woodworking tools.
That place didn't buy anything outright; they arranged for an auction, managed it, then gave a small percentage to the seller. One of my friends did this; she got about 1% of the value of her father's possessions that were sold.
For that, I'd rather ask the good neighbors to help and pay them.
I'm adding your suggestions to my "auctioneer" section of estate management!
Start with, I don't know, something like: "this 'ere lawn we both want to keep in order, what's the best way to go about it do you think?"
The trouble with inter-boundary things like this is that misunderstandings and honest oversights (or cluelessness - my SO was perfectly capable of coating ALL of my drying laundry with grass clippings without the least idea he'd done wrong) can fester.