EmCHammer

he he me and Jan are combining a session with our dogs. I hope mine don't show us up ! Another vote for ttouch.

Looking at the weather, it might be a tornado of the weather kind.... as mentioned we are also going camping for a night in shropshire, its ours and Teknos first night out for 8 weeks and RAIN is forecast.... All we want is one night to drink cider, have a bonfire and bbq Although last bbq we had someone stole the steak when my back was tuned lol! Hope your weather holds.

Where was the camp site, looks lovely and dog friendly. looks like a good time was had by all and glad to see the bar was well stocked! The essential part of any camping weekend. Me and tekno would have deffo been in the norty corner, he thinks all bbq is HIS and other dogs get a telling off for thinking they might be entitled to any. p.s. one of the dogs isn't playing ball in that piccy....

I can recommend TTouch too.... It did help alot with my dogs fireworks phobias and with their aggression (my two tend to resort to becoming reactive when somethings up). We had just started again before teknos accident, as pudding was being quite snappy and ending up in a couple of fights with other dogs who didn't like being snapped at.... this also started tekno off thinking he was needed as backup and it was quite chaotic at times and my nerves were shot. This was all in the months after pudding broke her toe, and the ttouch really helped, she is much more reliable now and if someone gets told off its cos they deserve it.. and its a telling off and it stops there..... I guess I have also relaxed tho, without the fear the teknos going to race over and join in. Now teknos allowed out on little walks I have to hide away, because he is not good on the lead with other dogs approaching him (he is fine on the lead around dogs as long as they don't directly come up to him) but of course all his friends are going to want to say hello to him.. so I am sure we will use ttouch to help him along with this and get back in the swing of doggie life again and remind him he doesn't need to use aggression. Just to add as well, both different practitioners have used have come to my house.

Tekno recently had to have his claws done - he is generally a happy go lucky wouldn't harm a fly staff character... we thought food would do the trick (bearing in mind that when we had to catherterise him he didn't bat an eyelid as long as food was being shovelled in the front end) but we couldn't do it without the treats. I didn't want to stress him at the vets, he wouldn't let the hydro groomer do them (we thought this might be causing him stress after being at hydro if tired so gave up on that one). In the end my friends dog groomer did them at home, we tried to make it unstressful. It wasn't very nice, he had to be muzzled and didn't like it at all. At least the only consolation was that it was at home, and she did it as quickly and professionally as possible and cost about a third of what it would have done at the vets. Where he hadn't been walked his claws were quite long and where he dragged his feet they looked bruised too so can only assume they were painful too. Again because he is dragging his feet at the mo, we are trying to walk on grass/ get booties for him so may face the same problem again, so am just working on touching his feet when we are having fun/ where food is about..... although he will let me touch them the most, as soon as he thinks its something official, he will rumble at me. Even so not sure if I could clip them myself! Sorry not much help there!

Hello! Nice to meet you the other week - looks like you had a good week off, if not a bit of a damp one. Em.

Staffies or staffie x's for me. And as there are so many of different shapes, sex, age, size, tempraments (well actually they generally all have lovely tempraments but I am biased) I dont think there would ever be a shortage to choose from.

Glad he was able to come home, and hugs to you all.

I will be there, to ensure there is some terrier presence there too.

Thinking of you and hoping the vets can help you out - sounds like there may possibly be some things they can suggest to help ? Good luck and hugs to you all in the mean time.

I think he was going to get put on a Rieki list by the kind people on here? I will be going on Sunday with Pudding, even if its for just a bit..... (OH pretended to mind for a bit but secretly glad as he can sit in with tekno and play x-box for hours without me nagging him ). Its about two minutes from my house so dead easy to get too.

Hello everyone Just to say a big thank you from us all for all your good wishes and healing thoughts. Tekno went to the specialist yesterday and the vet was really pleased with his progress and said he had done very well, as did the physio. The vet nurses had him a cuppa tea ready and he even tried to run towards them (not very well, almost like when someone on a home made flying machine runs off the edge of something, the motion keeps them going for a bit before they crash to the floor!). He has to do 'supported stands' now, i.e. standing with all four paws on the ground with us taking most of his weight. His back legs are much stronger and co-ordinated than his front, which means he keeps trying to propell himself forwards and falling over. He does tend to go over on his knuckles on his front paws particularly his left one but the physio seemed hopeful. And she told him theres no wheels been designed for front legs so he has to try harder. They recon he will be standing un assisted within a few weeks and may be able to start hydro soon. He does try to air run with is front legs if you lift him up too. His legs don't yet work in co-ordination with eachother either yet. He won't sit up cos I think his front legs are so weak. I was going to say he has been a lucky boy - one disc higher and he probably wouldn't be here as so close to where the skull joins the spine and the leaking fluid could have done alot more damage.... but he hasn't really been very lucky on the other hand He might have a urine infection as he will hold on for 24hours + before he wee's and they think it might be causing him pain to go - can be a common side effect of catheterising.... we have to catherterise him once a day now (I can do it with my eyes closed now ) and he is on anti-biotics till the sample results come back... talking of which in order to catch the lab run, I had to send the sample by taxi to the vets, disguised as a package not resembling a pot of dog wee. I felt really paranoid giving it to the driver as if he knew I haven't really been catching up on everyones news, I know a few of you also out there have had poorly dogs so please also accept my good thoughts and hugs. Here's a picture. I haven't taken any more since the last time so its about a week old, of him chilling out. He looks quite sad, but I don't think he is any more.

Lovely pictures, glad to see he was enjoying himself (well and that you and your mum had a nice time of course!) despite being poorly.

I hope he is soon better, at least can start to get the right treatment now and you can rule out the neighbours doing anything dodgy. Get well soon thoughts on their way. We find all sorts on our lawn - the other week was two big cooking apples in the middle of the lawn. And a childs action figure? And then a porn DVD lol! (now someone tell me that was the foxes!)

Was going to do a proper one later as he is at physio and consultant this afternoon with OH and our friend who is going to be the 'ears' - you know how it is when you leave the vets and can't remember a word they told you lol! I feel all nervous and fluttery about him going, even tho he is much better than the last time they saw him. He managed to sleep through the night last night (normally cries cos needs the loo, or has fallen off his cushion or just wants a bit of fuss and comes to the edge of his pen and rattles his cage for a bit of a fuss. I have a list of questions for the OH to ask the vets, i.e. he only does one monster wee a day and I don't know if its good for him, but if we catherterise him forever, it brings risk of infection and apparently doesn't teach him to go on his own again. Anyway no need to reply as hi-jacked your post will update properly later, although they won't be back till half sixish and I am taking pud for a nice long walk after work.