I see there are a few of us still here. Anyone mind if we chat about
our dogs here now? Used to be Dogman when after folks and while he may
have meant well, it killd the dog groups best I can tell.

Carol
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On Sun, 01 May 2016 13:48:50 -0500, "cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net> wrote:

I see there are a few of us still here. Anyone mind if we chat about
our dogs here now?

I have no problems with it.

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The joint that time is out of
www.kanyak.com

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On Mon, 02 May 2016 17:48:01 -0500, "cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net> wrote:

When the posts here pretty much stopped, I had Cash (unlikely to be,

Kanyak, our GSD+Dobe mix, died in 2005 at the age of 18+. That left us
at the time with one dog, Urger a "negative" Kangal--he was light
colored where he should have been dark and vice-versa. There are pix
of him here:
http://www.kanyak.com/utd/utd.html

When Kanyak died, my wife took it very hard and said she wanted no
more dogs. That lasted exactly one year--to the very day in fact. That
day while she was out shopping at a local mall she called me up and
asked if I wanted to do a "good deed". I warily said OK and asked what
it was. The good deed it turned out consisted of rescuing a cocker
spaniel puppy from a pet shop at the mall. (I'm skipping over a lot of
details here.) The next day I went to the mall and bought the pup, a
purebred English cocker spaniel with papers no less. It was the first
and only time I paid for a dog I've owned. As I drove into our yard
with the pup in the car Urger ran up and began barking furiously--not
something he was much given to doing. Within an hour however they
looked like this:
http://www.kanyak.com/stash/balim-urger-061215.jpg

Urger died in 2011 at the age of 12. About par for the course I'm told
for this breed. His bowels just stopped working and nothing could be
done.

Balim's doing fine, especially considering that she'll be 10 this
June. We've had her on Hills mobility for close to a year and it's
made a huge difference--she leaps about with all the energy of a young
adult.

I've got lots of Urger stories to tell. Some other time perhaps.

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The joint that time is out of
www.kanyak.com

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Opinicus wrote in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

On Sun, 01 May 2016 13:48:50 -0500, "cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net> wrote:

I see there are a few of us still here. Anyone mind if we chat about
our dogs here now?

I have no problems with it.

Ok! Seems no one minds at all.

When the posts here pretty much stopped, I had Cash (unlikely to be,
but the joke is he looks like a beagle / bull mastiff mix). Age
debatable but vet has him marked as 9 or 10. Since we got him in 2008
as someplace believed to be 1-2yo, seems right still. We had lost Unca
Sammy (black colored heinz57, neighbor died and we took in his dog then believed to be 17 based on 16.5 years of vet records but may have been
a year old then as puppy shots are missing). We had Aunti Mabel, deaf
dog with horrible food allergies.

Aunti Mabel passed at what the vet believes was 20.5, a beagle mix,
it's not actually a record holding age. In fact there was an older
beagle and an older Terrier at the same vet's place later.

Enter stage right, Iowna Link. This group was pretty dead about then
so you never heard of her. I may have posted something on Aunti
Mabel's passing here but not sure. Iowna came to us 3 weeks later.

Iowna is my first purebred dog. I'm not all wrapped around the axle on
that whole issue. A responsible breeder that keeps alive thousands of
years of dog breeding, is fine with me. I'm too cheap to pay for a
purebred though when they are so many mixed free ones looking for homes.

Iowna due to records has an exact birth date of 2 July and she turns 14
this year. She was a show dog with lots of ribbons in agility until
age 8 then she had rapid onset glaucoma which took her sight by age 9.
She was turned into a no kill shelter (In this case, owner was getting
on in years and really could not pay for her treatments so this was the
only way to save her).

I became aware of her when she was 9 when the shelter sent out its rare
missive for money to those of us known to help out. I ended up being
the one who paid to have her right eye removed. When I got her records
2 years later, there was my check (they were careful and account
numbers were cut off). There were several others (also numbers cut
off) and some paypal stuff that were listed as paying for the ablation (Gentamycin) of her left eye.

When Aunti Mabel passed, Cash took an immediate dive, stopping eating
his full dinner (very odd for a Beagle). So, I went looking and found
with shock that this adorable little lady was still there! She'd had
one attempted adoption but was taken back because the other person said
she wasn't happy (single person, no other pets, worked long hours
outside the home).

She's happy here but I can tell for her own good, she may have to be
let go sooner than I would like. It's a close call and working with
the vets on pain management. She wasn' just used for agility, she was
also used to demo it for people paying to learn how to teach it so she
sorta got a double dose. Her arthritis is quite bad in her back legs
and 'turning paw'. She gets 50mg tramadol a day (split in 4 portions)
and can have up to another 25mg if she has winter issues.

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m617/cshenk/Iowna-Link-smiling-as-al ways.jpg

Picture taken this past fall.

Carol

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Opinicus wrote in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

On Mon, 02 May 2016 17:48:01 -0500, "cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net> wrote:

When the posts here pretty much stopped, I had Cash (unlikely to be,

Kanyak, our GSD+Dobe mix, died in 2005 at the age of 18+. That left us
at the time with one dog, Urger a "negative" Kangal--he was light
colored where he should have been dark and vice-versa. There are pix
of him here:
http://www.kanyak.com/utd/utd.html

Lovely fellow! Lovely home too, I don't make that much money to have
anything like that. I mean it's comfy, but not that.

If you could imagine him in a solid ink black, it's pretty close to
'Unca Sammy' who was about the same age when it was time to go.

When Kanyak died, my wife took it very hard and said she wanted no
more dogs. That lasted exactly one year--to the very day in fact. That
day while she was out shopping at a local mall she called me up and
asked if I wanted to do a "good deed". I warily said OK and asked what
it was. The good deed it turned out consisted of rescuing a cocker
spaniel puppy from a pet shop at the mall. (I'm skipping over a lot of details here.) The next day I went to the mall and bought the pup, a
purebred English cocker spaniel with papers no less. It was the first
and only time I paid for a dog I've owned. As I drove into our yard
with the pup in the car Urger ran up and began barking furiously--not something he was much given to doing. Within an hour however they
looked like this:
http://www.kanyak.com/stash/balim-urger-061215.jpg

Sweet!

Urger died in 2011 at the age of 12. About par for the course I'm told
for this breed. His bowels just stopped working and nothing could be
done.

Balim's doing fine, especially considering that she'll be 10 this
June. We've had her on Hills mobility for close to a year and it's
made a huge difference--she leaps about with all the energy of a young
adult.

Another thing to consider adding (if there isn't a medical reason not
to) is organic coconut oil to her diet. At this age it can help with
cognitive issues. No one really knows why but the only thing they can
tell is whatever is special about it, is preserved with the processing
method used for organic versions. 1 - 2 TS a day.

Iowna is on all the supplements for joint issues now but there is only
so much they can do.

I've got lots of Urger stories to tell. Some other time perhaps.

I'll be semi patient ;-)

Carol


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"cshenk" wrote in message news:X4idnRmtieW3S7bKnZ2dnUU7-THNnZ2d@giganews.com...

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I'll be semi patient ;-)

I have been away for a long time, but recently had a question for another newsgroup (comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc), and I see that there is still some (perhaps renewed) activity. So, apparently my arch nemeses Dogman and Janet Boss have left the group, and maybe it can be a kinder, gentler experience.

I sent Muttley to the Rainbow Bridge on November 9, 2015, after about a year
of slow decline, mostly limited and painful movement from arthritis, but
more seriously a rather fast loss of weight, blood in stool, and a large abdominal mass. Rather than go through the expense and trauma of exploratory surgery and possible further painful operations with questionable outcomes,
I decided to perform the final act of unconditional love that dogs give, and have a right to expect.

Mostly, I have been active in a forum that formed after the dissolution of a Cesar Millan forum,
http://www.dogsnharmony.com/community/

I'm also somewhat active on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peschoen

I am now hopefully done with most of my needed orthopedic surgeries, hip replacement in 2013, cervical spine in 2015, and lumbar spine in June of
this year. All went well and I am getting back to being more physically
active. I got a cat (Skeeter, Maine Coon mix) in December, and I am ready to get a dog again, but not looking too hard. I'm not a pit bull guy, and
that's about all that are easily available at the shelters. I like GSDs and
GRs and Labs, but they usually need a lot of activity - so maybe a senior
dog or a smaller one might be suitable.

I'll probably check back once in a while. I hope everyone is doing OK!

Paul

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P E Schoen wrote in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

"cshenk" wrote in message news:X4idnRmtieW3S7bKnZ2dnUU7-THNnZ2d@giganews.com...

[big snip]

I'll be semi patient ;-)

I have been away for a long time, but recently had a question for
another newsgroup (comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc), and I see that
there is still some (perhaps renewed) activity. So, apparently my
arch nemeses Dogman and Janet Boss have left the group, and maybe it
can be a kinder, gentler experience.

I sent Muttley to the Rainbow Bridge on November 9, 2015, after about
a year of slow decline, mostly limited and painful movement from
arthritis, but more seriously a rather fast loss of weight, blood in
stool, and a large abdominal mass. Rather than go through the expense
and trauma of exploratory surgery and possible further painful
operations with questionable outcomes, I decided to perform the final
act of unconditional love that dogs give, and have a right to expect.

Mostly, I have been active in a forum that formed after the
dissolution of a Cesar Millan forum,
http://www.dogsnharmony.com/community/

I'm also somewhat active on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/peschoen

I am now hopefully done with most of my needed orthopedic surgeries,
hip replacement in 2013, cervical spine in 2015, and lumbar spine in
June of this year. All went well and I am getting back to being more physically active. I got a cat (Skeeter, Maine Coon mix) in December,
and I am ready to get a dog again, but not looking too hard. I'm not
a pit bull guy, and that's about all that are easily available at the shelters. I like GSDs and GRs and Labs, but they usually need a lot
of activity - so maybe a senior dog or a smaller one might be
suitable.

I'll probably check back once in a while. I hope everyone is doing OK!

Paul

Hi Paul, Dogman is gone. I don't really recall Janet because it's been
many years. There are a small handful left and some spammers selling
'puppies' that I killfile right away.

I agree on the pitbulls, not that they are a bad breed, but that they
take a good bit of training and time that my life doesn't have.

I am sorry on Muttley but he got a good run with you that he'd not have
had. Last I heard from you, I had Cash (still do, hes beaten the vets
odds and is now 9), Daisy-chan (the feral cat, now probably 16) and now
RB, Aunti Mabel (the deaf one we paid for a tainer for as we didnt know
what to do as best for her).

Enter quietly, using the disability ramp, Iowna (I-Own-A) since last
you and I typoed to one another. Iowna was a chamion show dog in
agility then she started going blind from glaucoma age 9. Fully blind
with one eye removed and the other treated with ablation, we adopted
her age 11. She turned 14 on 2 July. She has serious arthritis and is
on Tramadol at 50mg a day (split to 4 portions). Like Muttley, she's
on a careful watch for QOL. Each individual joint could be fixed, but
the vet and I agree since it's both back legs and her turning paw, that
it's too much for her to recover from at her age. She simply doesnt
have the rugged raw health that Aunti Mabel had (mixed, Iowna is
purebred). She is however healthy enogh that it is almost sure we will
have to have it done with vet assist, unlike Unca Sammy.

Oh, now I remember, wasn't Janet the one who insisted Sammy never lived
because I didnt post pictures of him? Solid black dog and only my
hi-def camera could work and all of us were in the pictures with too
much photo-quality to be safe to post.

Anyways, when ready, I highly advise adopting an elderly dog. Nothing
too big. I suspect a bassett might suit well, even if not as
'exciting' as Muttley. They tend to be pretty happy-go-lucky and work
well with cats. They like walks but not all that much into running.
They also tend to like the same temps you do, so won't want to run
around outside when it's too hot for you. They are more cold resilient
than the coat looks like so they are ok for a leashed walk in low snow
for 30 minutes.

BTW, check and see if your area has and elder to elder free adoption.
We do here.

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