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  1. To eat you ham click on 'booty' on the small menu bar that runs across the top of the screen, then click on your ham, then click on 'eat it'.

     

    Most of the weapons can't be used yet, along with the monkey, parrots and treasure maps. But apparently boobytraps with dynamite is coming soon.

  2. Oh Billy, I'm sorry. :flowers:

     

    But I am pretty sure the tumour removed from my MiL's dog's mouth was a mast cell tumour, and it had no real effect on him at all. It didn't bother him when it was there, or when it was removed, and he lived for years afterwards.

  3. hope things improve for him soon

     

    :GroupHug:

     

    Thank you :flowers: he is much better today, the vet cleaned him up and he has started his antibiotics. He ate all his dinner tonight for the first time in days. :biggrin:

     

    Might be worth trying adding a cod liver oil capsule to his dinner each day - good for the skin and coat, joints etc. Joyces back legs (she'd tend to drag a little and at times stumble / fall) & coat were not good even after she'd been in rescue a few months & gained some strength (she'd arrived at Rosedene rescue with sarcoptic mange & barely able to stand) but a chicken diet, cod liver oil & gently building up exercise really made a difference to her - after 10 days she'd begun to run - all be it slowly at first - & she has improved more since.

     

    He gets tinned pilchards and sardines to get his fish oil, he has Nutradyl supplements every day, Rimadyl when he needs it (which unfortunately is most of the time at the moment) and Cartrophen every 3 months. His food also has joint supplements in it. I thought cod liver oil wasn't too good for dogs though, because of the high Vitamin A content.

  4. My MiL's dog had a huge growth on his mouth (though it didn't grow fast like the one you describe). That also turned out to be cancer, he had it removed and that was the end of it. He lived another 5 years or so afterwards and died of old age when he was about 15.

     

    So even if it is the worst case scenario, it's not the end of the world. :flowers:

  5. He wore boots for a while after the last one, but because he doesn't pick his feet up properly they trip him up. The vet was undecided whether he would ever learn to walk in them (he trips over his own feet sometimes too) and because falls are really bad for his hips, we stopped using the boots.

  6. He drags his feet because his legs and hips are screwed :( A combination of poor breeding and the behaviour of his previous owners.

     

    I do wash his feet and legs with hibiscrub. He often bites his legs and feet when he is nervous, stressed, tired, etc. it's an old habit, which has improved a bit, but it's proving hard to stop completely. If I don't clean them he gets skin infections. It doesn't seem to help with these problems though, because the infection is on the inside.

     

    Now it is open the vet will pull the hair follicle out, give him antibiotics and I will hibiscrub it everyday. I just wish I could stop it before we reached this stage :(

  7. Sully has sort of false pads on his feet, where he drags his back legs, and sometimes he gets ingrowing hairs in them. That turns into an infection, and eventually it splits open. It's just happened again tonight. Unfortunately he doesn't give any obvious sign that they are sore before it reaches that stage. He bites his feet a lot anyway, so that's not helpful, and he was off his food the last 24 hours, but I thought he had toothache! (He had hurt his tooth, that wasn't just a random guess)!

     

    He isn't bothering it now it has split, he ate some sardines and rice tonight, and is looking a lot more comfortable. We are off to the vet tomorrow morning for antibiotics, etc.

     

    It's definitely the 2nd time this has happend (and possibly the 3rd, but one may have been misdiagnosed as a glass cut).

     

    Does anyone else's dog suffers with this? Is there anything I can do to prevent it? The pads (and his feet in general) are very tough and calloused, so you can't tell that there is an infection inside, it doesn't show on the outside. I have been using paw wax to try and soften his feet, but it doesnt seem to make much difference, and he hates having it on. Is there anything else I can do?

  8. With the loss of the no excess option :mecry: how will it work in future for a dog already insured with them?

     

    I mean, Sully's monthly medication is well over £100 for his arthritis, would I have to pay an excess, as it's already an ongoing claim? Or would I pay it just once, and then future claims would be covered, or would I have to pay it every month, or every check-up or every year or something?

     

    I don't understand :unsure:

     

     

    I don't think you can beat the NFU. x

     

     

    I have also heard some really good things about NFU, and the policy seems excellent as well. They don't seem to be very well known amongst pet owners, but definitely worth considering if you are looking to change.

  9. I kept trying and trying this morning to send 1 drink to all my friends, but it kept coming up with an error page, so I gave in. Then I got a drink back, so it looks like I've sent about a million out and they *did* go through. :laugh:

     

    :mad: I thought you were trying to get me drunk cos I am special, I didn't realise you were doing that to everyone! :mecry:

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