Let's See Your Dogs!!

I have an older yellow lab, her tail won't stop wagging unless A) they are scared of something, or B) they are dead.

 

Mini me

 

Picture of Henry, my silver lab.

 

Shadow pup

 

This is Zora (aka Goose) she's addicted to my adventurous lifestyle and loves to travel!

 

So as a birthday present to myself today, Remi and I hiked Pikes Peak. ~14 miles round trip. It was 24 degrees when we left the trailhead at 0730. She did awesome. Her first 14er!!

 

Here are our 2 rescued dogs, Duke and Daisy, on a road trip to Lake Quinalt Lodge in WA.

 

very cool!

 

That prednisone is some nasty ass shit. I had a Chesapeake that acquired an autoimmune disease called Masticatory muscle myositis (MMM). Prescribed prednisone. Big dose, then weened off after a few months. I have no actual evidence, but I believe it is why he passed away of heart failure at only 9 1/2 years of age. He was in good shape. The drugs beat back the disease o.k., and saved his life. But I think it played hard on his heart. My mom had rheumatoid arthritis real bad. She took prednisone, as well. Heart failure.

As for the tail waging; My current Chessie is sick (kennel cough) right now, but it does not stop the tail wag. A little less vocal, but that's coming back as he recovers. He's 11 1/2 years young.

This is a picture of them both before Jake passed away 5 years ago. He's on the left. You can see how the MMM attacked his jaw muscles. His head lost some of the squared shape Chessies are known for.

 

Ya shes weaned off to about 6-7% of the initial dose now. Just enough to mimic the actual amount her body produces, which now she doesnt because she took it so long. When she weaned lower then 6-7% she got really really bad so because shes old (15 now) we just keep her on it because its all about quality of life for her and not really the long term because she really wont be around too much longer. The tail wagging is weird though. Its like she looks depressed but she doesnt act it. She still greets you and stuff and cares but its weird. Doing good for now though so we let her be. She eats like a complete beast too

 

Also she needed it because she developed IMT which is similar to MMM just attacked her platelets and she was as close to death as possible until she took it

 

Hello Don5352, I had two chessies that both died of pulmonary disease. Here's a pic of them, Ally is the smaller one and Breaker, her son, is the larger one. They both lived 11 years. Neither had any other health issues and passed soon after we noticed the symptoms. As I'm sure you know, nothing was going to harm my son when they were around. I also added a pic of my current chessie, Hiccup looks allot like your two

 

I took my dog to go get her nails trimmed up at petsmart over the weekend. as usual, she was excited to get in the truck and go for a ride, she was excited walking into the store, but not so much going to the grooming area. i dont know why, she is there for 3-4 minutes tops while they grind her nails back. i always get her some sort of treat while we are there. she was being ridiculous on the way home though. the whole way back she kept flipping my arm up with her nose. she had her butt on the back seat, front paws on the floor and rode like this for the first half of the trip back.


then she realized there was a treat on the front seat for her


then she was happy


looking at these pics, shes getting so much white in her face. it makes me sad my pup is getting older lol

 

Got my first Chesapeake in 1976. I will have one until the day I die. Best damned dogs, ever!

 

I'll always have a Chessie, but since I got this dog, I may also always have a GSP. Here she is checking out her big brother Chessie, Bear.

 

Love this boy. We take him everywhere with us LOL

 

Jen and I love our furbaby who sprinkles his happy hairs all over the house

Jax 2 by Marc Mayer, on Flickr

Jax by Marc Mayer, on Flickr

 

hahaahahah, yellow lab as a furbaby. yeah, they shed enough to make a sweater once a month.

 

And then there are GSD's...