HI Bob,

On Mon 2038-Apr-05 07:35, Bob Ackley (1:300/3) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW> Schotze will sort of grab at my arm, and tell me she wants
 RW> to play and roughhouse a bit.

BA> Stormy, a black lab mix and mother of most of the dogs still here,
BA> used to grab my hand and pull me over to the driver's side door of
BA> the car. The first time she did it I had no idea what the heck she
BA> was doing. Of course, she wanted to go for a ride - she LOVED to
BA> ride in cars and pickup trucks.

CAn believe that one, seen similar.  Schotze likes to go for a ride still.

BA> Had her neutered after the pups were weaned (one litter is enough).
BA> The night after the surgery she chewed out the stitches and gave
BA> herself a massive infection we couldn't control.  2 weeks (and
BA> nearly $700) later she died.

YEp, sounds like you needed one of those cone shaped things
they put on a dog to keep them from worrying at such a
wound, but I've only seem them used on the little lap dog
breeds at vet's offices.

Roxy had a real bad infection in a left rear leg, vet wanted to do surgery
on it, but meanwhile Kathy and I were trying
other treatments, and that meant wrapping the wound with
some gauze, etc after treating it with antibiotic ointment.
It was always a wound because she'd be worrying at it
constantly.  After a couple months of this, and a move out
of inner city NEw ORleans it cleared up though.


A big part of that was keeping her from worrying out it, and just the gauze
wrap did that.  WE wrapped it so that it was
difficult for her to get at, and after a few days she just
quit trying.  She didn't like us wrapping it, but she
understood she didn't have a choice, I'd hold her head and
keep her calm while Kathy wrapped the wound.

Funny thing was there for awhile I'd come home from work and we'd have all
sorts of medical stuff to do, Kathy's foot had been surgified and I was
repacking and wrapping it every
night, and about twice a week we'd end up rewrapping the
dog's leg.

Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+