Beloved LGD has to have surgery next week... :(

[ksalvagno]

Isn't it great when your animals are healing very well and doing well with everything?

Here's to continued recovery.

 

[BorderKelpie]

What an awesome dog. Could you give him a hug for me. I would so love to just bury my face in his fur, but, I would like to live. lol
I wouldn't mind one of him as a couch potato, though. He's gorgeous!

 

[cmjust0]

Ivan says thanks.

He's starting to 'get his bark on' again.. Like, if the other dogs start making a bunch of racket in the house, you'll hear this big, booming 'BOOOOOOOOOOOOOWOOWOOWOOWOO" come from his little holding cell kennel stall space area place.



He's still barely eating, though.. Yesterday...maybe 2 cups of kibble. He'll eat sliced turkey...he'll even pick little pieces of sliced turkey out of his kibble if you try to lure him into eating his kibble by throwing in little pieces of sliced turkey.

He just won't really eat the kibble. Not much, anyway.

It's a little frustrating...kinda worrisome...but my wife and I are both aware that he's prone to ration himself according to his own body condition and level of activity.. We know that. We've seen that from him before, even when he wasn't injured.

Still...it hurts the heart a little to set a bowl of food down and watch a hurt dog ignore it.

He'll eat when he's hungry...He'll eat when he's hungry...He'll eat when he's hungry...He'll eat when he's hungry...He'll eat when he's hungry...

Just gotta keep telling ourselves that... :/

 

[cmjust0]

I wouldn't mind one of him as a couch potato, though. He's gorgeous!

My wife and I have noted before that Ivan would actually have made an EXCELLENT home guardian, as he's not the type of dog that 'bonds' to livestock or who has to think he's a member of the herd to do his job.

I'm 99.9% certain that if you got one as a pup, raised it in your home, and didn't work really hard to socialize it to strangers, what you'd end up with is a big sweet furball shadowing your every move and being the bestest big fluffy wuffy puppy ever....until someone tried to disturb the peace.

I truly, truly pity the fool who sneaks through the window of a house where one of these dogs live.



We've actually already discussed the possibility that, should we still have any of Ivan's bloodline around when our housedogs are all gone....we may indeed import one from the barnyard to the living room.

 

[Roll farms]

Take it from someone w/ a Newfie in the house....Big dogs, and I mean HUGE big dogs, not labs or sheperds, etc.....ain't such a good idea....especially when they're HAIRY big dogs.

I am not a bit afraid of hair or mud or fur or anything, as far as being grossed out...but it's a constant battle to keep lint filters, air cleaners in furnaces, furniture, refrigerator coils, computers, etc. free of that FUR....

We brush him outside in winter, and in summer trim his coat to the skin...and still, there's fur everywhere.

(And that's forgiving the 1st couch, kitchen table legs, chair legs, boots and even eyeglasses he 'ate' as a pup....he'd break out of ANY crate and damage whatever he saw first....)

I love our "Boogerman" but he will be the last big hair machine ever in this house...

 

[cmjust0]

Speaking of table legs and whatnot, Ivan's starting to 'crib' a little bit.. I pretty much built a 2x4/plywood wall to section off part of a mudroom, and he's chomping around on it. Boredom....we knew it was coming, so the area's built pretty well. I don't really care if he destroys it, so long as it holds him at least another 3 weeks.

See, four weeks 'quiet time' is the minimum...today marks one week. If in three weeks we no longer contain him where he is now, he gets a new confinement system.

Half a decades-old steel 7x16' cattle trailer. Like, one of the old heavy ones..

Like to see him chew through that.


Roll...it's absolutely hilarious to me that you call your Newfie 'Boogerman'.. Ivan has an eerily similar nickname.. We'd always pet on him down in the barn and say "He's a good boy, yes he is..he's a good boy..." etc in the typical ridiculous I'm-talking-to-a-dog voice. Well, that eventually became "He's a g'boy" which somehow morphed into "He's a goobie." Then he somehow became Goobie, so it's "C'mere, Goobie." Then it got shortened somehow..."C'mere, Goob."..

Somehow, some way, one of his many nicknames became -- you guessed it -- "Gooberman."

How's that for exactly the same, yet totally opposite.

 

[cmjust0]

Cephalexin/Ace&Rompum shot: $60.60
Cruciate Ligament "tightrope" surgery: $1,150.00
Anesthetic, 1st 30mins: $60.00
Anesthetic, after 30mins: $42.00
Torbugesic: $19.54
Ketofen: $10.00
Pill Pockets: $10.24 ( )
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total cost: $1,352.38


Not as bad as I figured, actually..

 

[DonnaBelle]

Well, you beat me CM.

Annie's bill for OSU Vet Hospital was $856.05.

That's boarding, all shots, tests, etc. Plus enough Draxxen for a month.

So, I guess we love these animals way too much.

DonnaBelle

 

[cmjust0]

Well, you beat me CM.

Annie's bill for OSU Vet Hospital was $856.05.

That's boarding, all shots, tests, etc. Plus enough Draxxen for a month.

So, I guess we love these animals way too much.

DonnaBelle

That's a record for a goat, I think. I went somewhere around $300 for a case of UC in a $40 mixed breed scrub buck and everybody around here thought I was NUTS.

Thing is...I know a lot more about to do for UC now, and they don't.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Cephalexin/Ace&Rompum shot: $60.60
Cruciate Ligament "tightrope" surgery: $1,150.00
Anesthetic, 1st 30mins: $60.00
Anesthetic, after 30mins: $42.00
Torbugesic: $19.54
Ketofen: $10.00
Pill Pockets: $10.24 ( )
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total cost: $1,352.38


Not as bad as I figured, actually..

You forgot to add: "Fixing the leg of your best boy: Priceless"