Let's See Your Dogs!!

Dealing with that right now. My last lab shredded each and every stick in his path, but always made a pile. This one swallows the sticks. They usually come up at 3 am ruining the rest of the nights sleep. I really hope this phase is short lived. He also will eat dirt. The other day, he crapped a sand castle.

 

Mines pooped out almost nothing but rocks once. The worst was an entire sock(still whole) after he broke out of his crate when he was home alone. Like yours sticks and dirt are almost standard diet for my pup.

 

Anybody here not happy with VCA Animal Hospitals? Been trying to get hold of the vet who saw Riley a couple weeks ago. Apparently, we saw the relief vet. Who knew? Anyway, his regular vet left but no one bothered to say anything about that either. So when I finally did get a call back it was from a third to say she wouldn’t be there tomorrow but i could talk to a fourth.

The quality of care is good, just hard to get anyone to call back and when they do, it’s just another reading of the “treatment plan”...

Thinking about looking around but everywhere I look, it’s a VCA hospital.

 

i can only speek from my own experiance.Went to the same vet from when i was a kid same vet great care,he got older,hired a younger vet,old vet retires,new vet takes on VCA care turned to sh1t.Another vet down the street went VCA spoke to people there,care went to sh1t and prices went up.

 

What's VCA??

 

Nationwide chain

 

Vet Centers of America. They’ve been around for a while. Basically, they’ve streamlined vet care and use size for efficiencies. They also use software to sell- you go in for shots, they propose shots and all sorts of other stuff you may or may not need. Practices are measured by upsells.

If you know that, and you understand, it’s easier. Their vets are usually recently graduated or owners of the practice who’ve sold out.

My vet is pretty good and the quality of care generally good. Just frustrating lately.

Think of it as going to an auto dealership for car repair but with more sophistication. Even the paperwork is the same.

 

Baloo sits on Buffy every chance he gets. Not sure what that's about but she is a little saint for putting up with him. He constantly follows her around biting at her face and ears. She mostly puts up with it but when she has had enough she will jump on top of him. She still outweighs him by 10 lbs but that won't last long.



His favorite toys. A bunny, a duck and my shoe. He is an expert at untying my shoes wearing them or not.

 

She isn’t happy in this pic because I’m taking her picture, and not throwing the ball... lol
We spent at least an hour out there, and I quit on her (I was cold!). Pups are the best, but I gotta work on my stamina for her sake.

 

Road Tripping with my buddy

 

Found a new window sticker for my Tacoma

 

Get a tennis racquet . Makes it easier and no dirty hands from the slobbery ball

 

Or one of those tennisball flingers, they work great. with a tennis racquet you still have to pick up the slimy ball and flip it into the air to smack it. with the balll flinger, you just pick up the ball right off the ground with the flinger, and fling away. and they really can lob a tennis ball darn far.

 

Chukit.

 

yeah, that! don't get the short one, get the full size one.

ooof, looked them up, and they are trying to game you with different ball sizes, be sure to get one of the "M" models, that takes tennis balls in addition to their own odd size balls.

$9 Chuckit Classic 26M Dog Ball Launcher, 26" Length, Includes Medium Ball (2.5") For Dogs 20-60 Pounds, Made in USA

https://www.amazon.com/Chuckit-Classic-Launcher-Colors-Vary/dp/B00006IX59

 

No, you don't.... flip it onto the racquet, bounce it, smack it!!!! Did it for years and never had to touch the slimey balls - was throwing for 2 ball nuts pups.

 

That is the "I'm cold, can I go in the house now" look. When we had the test done, we didn't really care for her. She put on a good show for the adoption, but became a BITCH after. Looking back it is funny, but it was a rough 6 months after. She's "4" now, and has gone through quite a few phases. She lunged at car headlights for a few weeks once. A little scary walking her during the dark. She destroys sticks, but mostly spits them out. And during the warmer months, despite our efforts, dirt, rabbit shit and deer turds are part of her diet. She came to us at 1 year, so only she knows what she went through. As I said before, wouldn't trade her, or the experience for anything.

 

hah. our sweet as anything, would drop dead on command because she loves us, yellow labrador still eats goat berries every chance she gets. and happily digs up gopher runs in the goat field.

 

My son and Pepper