Duncan & Dowser Doing well

Seems the Penicillin I was using to treat Dowser was usless, but since changing him to Amoxicillin like Duncan both are recovering nicely. Duncan destroyed his cone on day 2 away from the vet, but has made no attempt to scratch at his ears or his castration stitches.
Looks like his ears will heal with hardly any deformities.
Poor Duncan was so stressed at having to go to work with me all last week and be chained up in the shipping warehouse. I think it was worse than the injury and vets on him. He is not a people dog like Dowser is and could not stay with me as I performed my daily routines Luckily my EX GF works as the purchasing agent and has her office in the warehouse and could help to keep him calm. She is one of 3 people that he will allow to get near him.

 

Nice looking dog. Dont you just love those cones !!!! I had to use one on one of mine a while ago, she jumped up to look out of the window and when she jumped down the chord from the blinds caught on the cone and the entire window blinds got ripped off the wall....'and then proceeded to chase her all around the living room'. :shock: ...at least I think thats what she thought. The landlord wasnt too impressed.

 

I can't believe how easily he busted his up. I had him in the truck and went in the store. I came out and it looked like he had a wing tied over his back. He must have smashed it on the steering wheel. God it must hurt to smash that hard plastic into the shoulder and neck muscles.
When he would come up the back yard stairs he would hit it on at least 4 steps coming up, for the first couple of times. After that he learned to keep his head high and bolted up using only 3 or 4 steps of 15 like usual.
And yes he cleaned off the coffee table a few times and knocked over the end table as well.

 

Like you said it has to hurt when they ram the edges of the plastic into themselves....did you experience it slammed into the backs of your legs ?? :shock:
For future reference which of course I hope you wont need this tip but when you are walking them, especially up stairs, what I do is have the leash so its attached to the collar but inside the cone coming out from the top/front part, that helps to position the cone and keep it up from the floor. (Hope that made sense, its not as easy to describe it as it is to show someone.)

 

Now which dog is in the picture?? He does NOT look happy--LOL!

 

I am glad they are doing better! They remind me of my old dog Sentry, she was half lab, and half pitbull and chow. But I thin she was alot smaller then Duncan and Dowser Here she is on dogster: http://www.dogster.com/pet_page.php?i=29426&n=40569
The pic isn't so good bc it is a pic of a pic.

 

That is Duncan @ 1.5 years old. He looked exactly like Dowser does now. But he now looks far more like a chow than a rott. He was really pissed about the camera and gave me that perfect get on with it look you see there.

 

Sentry looks just like Dowser @ a year old. Duncan and Dowser look much larger than they are, the heads are very large so it is decieving. Both are about the size of a small Rott or large Chow and 70LBs each.

 

Yes I just had Precious in one of those cones...for her front leg... BTW it's doing much better and a poultice recipe I got for it has worked GREAT...

ANYHOO she's just a pup and going through a bit of that fear stuff...mostly just with stairs...I just got her going back up them recently but with this cone on her head...NO WAY was she going to attempt it...the FIRST time she hit that cone on a step she backed right back down them... We'd get stuck in her crate... She'd hit the top of that cone on the top of that crate and just keep pushing... I'd have to practically GET IN with her to get her back out... NOT to mention the items in the house that she'd bang into and knock over... We also have a shed out back...a door is missing and the dog food is in there among some other junk... Anyways regardless of her cone...she'd head STRAIGHT into that shed...clanging ang banging around... Had to keep an eye on her outside for fear that she'd knock something over on herself and make it all WORSE than ever! WHAT a nut... It lasted for a good 24 hours before she ripped it off and ate a bit... My pits do SOOOO much better with those cones than the Boerboels do it seems... EEEEEK!

I can picture being chased by the blinds...I had to laugh out loud... It'll be nice to know about the leash trick for climbing stairs... GREAT advice!

Thanks for the laugh...glad your big boys are doing well!!!

 

haha, I can just picture beng chased by blinds! Jake just ended from wering his cone for almost 2 months but now heis all from his reoccuring hot spot.


those of you who have dogs with big heads/necks: Jake is the same way. he has the huge neck and the cone to fit his neck is is just way to big oeverall, but he needs the width to go around his neck. So I cut about 5" off, down to where his nose starts and its enough he cant scratch. you should see how he mes</es to get thru our 15" dog door

 

I usually use a regular collar to thread through the loops on the elizabethan collars as they stay on better (most vets will just thread gauze through them) so attach the leash to the collar but instead of it being on the outside thread it through so that the leash is inbetween the inside of the cone and the dogs head. If you need the leash for walking/control or if your indoors I'll just add one of those nylon loop leashes (like the ones used at most animal hospitaly/boarding kennels) and just loop it around the dogs neck inside the cone, its just so you can lift the cone a bit...so its not hitting the ground or stairs when the dog is walking. Even if the dog is sniffing the ground outside you can still keep it up a bit and it stops the plastic from ramming into their necks.

 

Dowser back on antibiotics.

Friday after work Dowser came up to me and set his head in my lap. So I petted him and asked what and he actually held his leg up to me and it was really swollen up again. I felf around on his leg and he warned me by putting his mouth around my hand so I knew it was reall sore. So I went and got more hotdogs (chicken kind) and a straw to core the franks out. and set him back on 1,000Mg per day. He has responded well and I will still run a 10 day course on him to make sure it is all gone. Also he was showing signs (discharge) of an UTI so the antibiotics might be a good thing.

Duncan is doing very well and is still more peppy than he ever was before, but it's a good thing. A person can hardly tell his ear was split in half now.

 

Sorry to hear about that
Im not sure what you meant when you said you cored the franks out. Do you give the pill in the meat or the skin part?
If you use hotdogs dont leave the skin on as it will wrap around the pill and then the pill wont be as effective as it should be.

Apologies if I misunderstood and your already doing that

 

In the meat.
I take the straw and run it down the middle of a regular ole hotdog and it cores out a small pill sized tube in the weiner. Then insert the pills and give to dogs.
No real skin on these type of hotdogs, but I will double check.