First vet visit went very well but we had to wait an hour. (8 weeks old)
Why do they make appointments and put you in the exam room, then expect you to sit there for almost an hour? Am I the only person who's frustrated?
Found this picture from the first day Otis (3mo) came to stay at our house. His foster day brought him by and he took to Hazen (10y) right away. Hazen was a bit iffy, and just wandered into Otis's crate and sat down while Otis explored. As soon as he realized, Otis just went in, sat in the front and instantly became attached at Hazen's hip.
They had several years together before Vice Puppy Otis inherited the throne. Now later this year, he'll get a new Vice Puppy of his own if all goes well.
One of Otis's main vacation past times (and even at home when the weather is nice) is hammock hang time with a person mattress to sit on.
Otis has very little prey drive. Except when he hears the DJI "power on" jingle from the drone. He knows it's GO TIME.
We're at OBX, before the tourist rush, so the beach is often completely empty for miles up here. We love to take the Mini 2 up and run it up and down the beach on sport mode for a few laps, with Goat doing his best ground to air missile impression after it.
Between this and Hammock naps, this is pretty much his vacation and we just get to come along and make sure he's well fed too.
He’s gathered you all today to have an intervention for his feral-like sister to help her work on her personal space issues. It's not working
I never knew much about iggys until I met these two, it took me awhile to open up and warm up to them.
I’ve never experienced such silly, huge emotional beings, they had the best dog mum one could ever imagine and ask for. and when one of them got sick we moved heaven and earth to give the best possible outcome, it broke my partner at the time. She was so strong and brave, even still now.
We lived far away from the city and place where the little one needed to be. I have so many photos, videos and memories of us all just goofing around the home. They ended up having to live with their relatives for medical reasons.
The attitude and energy but softness and warmth they both shared, very resilience in little blue one after loosing her sight due to an autoimmune condition, I hope they’re both still happy and being cheeky with all their relatives 🤣
I recently joined the page to see everyone else’s iggys to share in smiles and laughs and reminiscent in my past of how full of life and love these beautiful creatures brought into my life and others
Never enough time with loved ones, I still pray for olives good health, and ruben and their mother to all be together soon again soaking in the brightness and joy they deserve.
This photo is 2 moments before olive was about to demand some more food with her cheeky tone of voice ❤️
On April 15th at 8:35 my heart stopped!
I lost my soul Howdy my good boy on April 15th at 8:35 AM. Howdy was born in June 4th 2010 and he lived with since the age of 6 months. During last couple of years the vet place him on digestive health food because of the occasional diarrhea and gastrointestinal problems. He loved that food. I think last year I went to the vet about 3 times during the years and last visit was December when she checking and did last and prescribed appetite meds and pain meds gabapentin and some probiotics paste at the time lab was okay except for one slightly elevated liver enzyme. During last year and this year I started cooking for him and everything was going well. He was very much himself walking twice or three times a day, telling stuff with his rffff raaaaa woof
Towards end of the month in March he was having another episode of not wanting to eat so I was thinking another couple of day and he’ll be edging again when he didn’t eat I called the vet and I took him st beginning of April, vet showed me his labs were bad and liver and kidney function where off, she did an ultrasound and notice fluids around his organ la and that his liver was enlarged. She sent me to specialist which took a week to see him. Meanwhile she gave me urgent care food and appetite stimulation to help get hunger and I started giving food with syringe and he was starting to eat a bit and also Gerber baby food which he lock that. We went to specialist on April 14th where he did biopsy of liver, biopsy of fluids around his organ, xrsys more labs and sent us home with more appetite meds and pain meds and told us results would return in a couple of days. I was hopeful that he was going to help him. That evening when we came home he didn’t want to walk so sit on our patio together seeing the sunset, o have give his appetite med and feed him and went to sleep. The next morning around 4 AM he was shaking uncontrollably and he’s bony was so soft and kind of so soft. I hold him in my chest for long time and he lost a stool there but I was thinking perhaps this was a side effects to some of those meds I gave the night before. We went into our living room and I place him on his comfy bed we have for him and comfort him while he do another stool and I was running cleaning hombre and my husband waiting for office to open at 8 AM. We closed our local vet and she said called specialist because they may have an antidote to that medicine, while he’s on the phone with specialist and they are dying bring him- they are about 30 minutes away- as soon as he hang out and we are rushing to leave he starting having bloody stool and I knew that was bad, his little legs were cold, so we rush to get our jackets in bathroom and while I was holding him he was having agonal breathing and in between running with him to the car and the bathroom he died in my hands. I can’t forgive me for thinking that perhaps I should have something better, that I should have know he was dying, that I should have holding him tighter. That pain of loosing is braking my heart . The worst pain is driving to the vet office with him dead in my arms and the last kiss in his forehead before handing him to the vet and living the vet office without him. I can’t get out of bed, eat or do anything. The pain is so deep. He was my one truly love, the first being that showed me unconditional love and the one that helped healed childhood trauma, he was my beacon on light in planet earth.
The specialist called a day after Howdy died and said that little Howdy had an rapidly aggressive cancer Big cell lymphoma stage 5 and that developed within a month or so and they even if had caught a month early survival rate with chemotherapy and test was about 2-6 months because of his age almost 16 and that there is no cure for that.
I’m devastated, forgive me Howdy for not having known this was what you were having, forgive not holding you harder and for not knowing that was your last day with me.
Wait for me my boy, run fast and free with sunshine in your face like you love.
We are super excited!
He's 1yo and 12 pounds
Right now, we are leaning towards naming him Jude
We have his harness special ordered, his flea/tick prevention, and we've got 2 crates (one for bedroom, one for main room), his food that he's been eating, some beds, some belly bands... and I'm taking following 6 days off of work.
We are looking for temporary harness solutions that we can get at Petsmart, Petco, or Chewy (no Amazon please) and our entire apt is already covered in rugs as we already have 2 sighthounds.
Any other recommendations of what to get?
Hi everyone! Wondering if anyone has experienced something similar.
Our iggy is 1.5 years old - several months ago he started having random mornings where he’d wake up with his stomach making loud gurgling noises and refuse to eat. First 2 times it happened he threw up a bit (stomach acid) and was fine by the evening. Since then he’s never thrown up, but now it’s happening a couple times per week where he wakes up, his stomach seems to be gurgling a bit, and he’s not interested in food. He acts normal otherwise (maybe a little sleepy but he’s always sleepy in the mornings). He will always eat by midday, dinner at the latest. No throwing up, no changes in stool, and is otherwise very healthy.
Our vet suggested bilious vomiting syndrome so we’ve tried splitting his dinner and giving him half portion shortly before bed to ensure he doesn’t go too many hours without food, but that hasn’t changed anything. We feed him raw and have been adding a probiotic to his food.
We’re going to give a stool sample for parasites, but are stumped otherwise! Any thoughts would be appreciated!
I have my couch fenced off, I'm worried about him jumping off it. I feel like the longer it goes without a break the less likely a break is? I rolled up my rugs so its just regular linoleum floors. what are your thoughts? i feel like I'm being over protective of my dude.
This is Ezekiel
Pekoe’s got double teeth in some spots! I’ve been doing reading and apparently this is common in small dogs, so I’m not overly concerned about it. She’s got an appointment to get fixed on May 1st, so I’ll ask the vet to look at them then and she’ll advise on if we should remove them or wait a little longer to see if she’ll spring em loose. In the meantime, I actually think it’s pretty neat! And because I know people will ask, no, it doesn’t seem to be causing her any pain at all, she doesn’t fuss with her mouth and she lets me touch them without wincing, no redness around her gums.
These pictures are screen grabs from a video of me playing with her (annoying her lol) to get her to open her mouth, you can’t see them in the first picture but she looked so goofy I had to include it. You can see them on the bottom row of teeth in the second two pictures though!
Anyone else had this with their iggies?
Okay— hubby and I stumbled upon the most gorgeous Iggy.
We can afford to care for another one. We have the space. We have the time. Work from home.
We already have one who is 6 years old, trained, and perfect.
He likes other dogs but when he met the spazzy little pup he understandly was overwhelmed. Our boy didnt bark but he did snarl a bit. Nothing crazy but it made me pause.
Do we get the second dog?! I cried walking away from him…
So many dos and donts. Let me know your thoughts!
