Shannon_C

Vegetables i would immagine.

My dogs have fruit like apples, pears with occasional cooked vegetables (never raw)...they also have dog treats and dental rasks.

[img]http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Fair/1901/sunshine.gif[/img] The picture above is of Sunny who held her head up for this picture, taken ten days after rescue by the Lawrence County Humane Society in Ironton, Ohio. She want's you all to know that she is a very sweet girl who loves and trusts everyone she meets. Sunshine, Sunny as we call her, came to the shelter on August 29, 1999 as an animal abuse case. Sunny is a Golden Retriever, about one year old. When I first saw Sunny she was huddled in a pet carrier with a chain around her neck. Her owner had placed the chain around her neck so tightly that it had grown into her skin. The pictures taken of Sunny on that first day are extremely graphic. It's the worst case of abuse I have ever seen. If you had to turn your head away from the picture above DON'T go HERE TO SEE THE ORIGINAL PICTURES. [url]http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Fair/1901/sunnyneck1.html[/url] Sunshine was in kind of a shocked condition but you could still see that she was pleading for help. She was quickly rushed to a vet. We did not expect to see her return to the shelter. When she did return she was groggy, but in surprisingly good spirits. The wound to her neck was indescribable. It was at least two inches deep and went all the way around her neck. She was also suffering from mange. When she scratched herself it pulled on the wound and hurt her terribly. We vowed to see that Sunny's owner be brought to justice. Debby Scarlotti -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE OCTOBER 15, 1999 The Herald Dispatch has kindly granted permission to reprint their article on this webpage. Go HERE to read the article. [url]http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Fair/1901/newsstory.html[/url] Justice for Sunny ~ Judge O. Clark Collins, Jr. sentenced Homer Friend to 90 days in jail, a $250 fine, $60 court costs, and one year's probation, during which time Mr. Friend is not allowed to have pets. The humane society will be picking up any other pets Mr. Friend has. Thanks to everyone who wrote on Sunny's behalf. Because of all of you, things may be turning around for abused pets in Lawrence County. UPDATE NOVEMBER 6, 1999 Sunny went home to Illinois with her new mom, Jennifer. UPDATE NOVEMBER 7, 1999 Sunny arrived safely in Illinois where she enjoyed romping on two acres of fenced in land, playing frisbee, and sleeping in a bedroom for the first time in her life. But all is not well. Last night Sunny had a seizure and had to be rushed to the vet...Jennifer's vet said this could be a permanent condition caused by lack of oxygen to the brain when her air was cut off by the chain. UPDATE NOVEMBER 12, 1999 Letter from Jennifer: Hi! All is well. Chloe went into the hospital yesterday to begin her heartworm treatment. She received her last shot today. I saw her xrays, and her heart was not enlarged, Thank God, but she did have one artery that was enlarged, probably due to the worms, so we got her in at a good time. UPDATE NOVEMBER 13, 1999 Jennifer wrote "I brought Chloe home tonight. Boy, was she glad to see us! Wagging her tail...very happy girl. I think she feels better already...She still has a lot more to get done..... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE NOVEMBER 27, 1999 Sad news. Sunny continued to have siezures and had to stay at the vets through Thanksgiving. Due to circumstances beyond her control, Jennifer had to give Sunny up to Golden Retriever Rescue in Illinois. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE NOVEMBER 28, 1999 Letter from Golden Opportunities Sunshine officially entered Golden Opportunities' rescue program this morning. Sunshine is now in her foster home which does have other Golden Retrievers, though she will not meet any of them until after she completes her heartworm treatment program which won't be until 12/15 or so. She then will be spayed and microchipped. Once she gets the rest of her medical treatment taken care of, her foster family will begin to very slowly socialize her with very laid back goldens to see how Sunny responds. It is quite possible, and my guess at this point, that Sunny is not dog aggressive, per se, but instead just unaware of how to appropriately play with another dog. Typically very doable for us as a group and this foster home in particular - but we'll wait and see how Sunny tells us she feels. In the meantime, Sunny will be getting a lot of love and attention and she'll begin to learn the basic obedience commmands. I have to tell you when I picked her up today, she was in much better shape than I had expected she would be. And what a delight! She is a sweet little girl, and we will do everything humanly possible to find out who she is and what her perfect home will be made of. I'll try to keep you posted on how she is doing. Beth UPDATE DECEMBER 5, 1999 Just a quick note to update you on little Sunny's progress. First and foremost, she is absolutely ADORED by her foster family which is composed of 2 humans and 6 golden retrievers (3 fosters, 2 fosters that were adopted, and the family's "original" golden). Sunny has met 4 of the goldens she lives with, and seems to have taken a liking to the older males. She even had a very short play session, which did her good, but had to be cut short because of her heartworm status. Her exposure to the other dogs has been in short intervals and closely monitored. Sunny is not completely housebroken yet, but she's trying, and as you would expect of a little girl who did not start out having the homelife we expect our goldens to have, she is still investigating many things in her home, and chewing on them whether she should or not! Sunny is not crazy about being in her crate when the family is away and barks quite a bit to voice her displeasure. But she's coming along, and now listens to doggie CD's which seem to help soothe her. She also has goldens keeping her company outside her crate which prevents her from feeling lonely. She is learning the basic obedience commands and I'm sure will make everyone proud with a little more practice. I know so many people care about Sunny - she's stolen the hearts of everyone who has met her and many who have not. She is in great foster hands and we at Golden Opportunities are honored to have been given the chance to help her on her journey to a perfect life. Beth UPDATE DECEMBER 23, 1999 Sunny is doing fine. We had her spayed last weekend, and she came through the spay just fine. She did seizure again several days before her spay, so the vets did a special procedure when they spayed her to make it easier on her. She was back in her foster home that same evening. Sunny is playing ok with some of the other dogs in her foster home, and is more comfortable in her crate. She is not housebroken, we have discovered, and so that will keep her fostered a little longer while we try to get her housebroken. She is doing very well in her foster home...Sunny is not ready to be adopted out yet - we aren't even sure she's on the right dosage of phenobarbitol yet, since she's had a couple of seizures. We are going to run whatever tests we need to and will foster her as long as necessary until we feel we can give her adoptive family a complete medical picture of her. Beth UPDATE ~ JANUARY 18, 2000 Reba (Sunny) should hit our webpage this week. We thought that Reba was ready to be adopted to the right family now and started going through our applicaitons to see if anyone could provide her what we are looking for when just yesterday, out of the clear blue, she had three seizures in a 12 hour period of time. Her 3rd seizure last night took her 20 minutes to recover from. She is now at the vets and they are monitoring her and taking more blood samples to see if she is on the right dosage of pheno. Her foster family expects to bring her home tomorrow night. She hadn't seizured for us in almost a month so we were hoping she was on the correct dosage of pheno, but perhaps not. We also talked about doing an MRI on her - our thoughts are that there was neurological damage done to her when she went through all of her abuse. Her foster parents have noticed that after she seizes, she completely forgets everything she's learned for quite a period of time. Unfortunately the vets explained that when MRI's are done, they very seldom give very useful information - so we probably won't do one. Because she seized again and they were pretty severe, we are going to plan on fostering her for at least another month. She is doing much better with other dogs in her foster home - I saw her on Sunday morning - she was playing with an 18 month old female and an 18 month old male. Anyway, she'll be with us for awhile longer and we'll keep working on trying to figure out the seizures. In the meantime she is well loved and cared for. Beth UPDATE ~ FEBRUARY 4, 2000 Sunny (Reba) goes to the University of Illinois for testing at the end of February. We are also currently trying some new anti-seizure medications to see if we have better luck. She is doing very well with the other goldens in her foster home - she LOVES playtime!! I saw her about two weeks ago and I don't think you'd recognize the confident little wiggle-butt she has become. She is soooo happy all of the time. she is gojng to make some family very happy - once we get the seizures under control. Beth UPDATE ~ March 6, 2000 Reba's MRI came back normal, so there was no apparent physical neurological damage done as a result of her abuse. So bottom line is she is epileptic, and may need one more heartworm treatment, but other than that, there are no medical needs we are aware of. Reba's foster mom is diligently working on housebreaking, which Reba is NOT picking up on very quickly (even though it's already been 4 months). Reba is not a quick study, but she is in the best foster home she could possibly be in and is having a blast playing with the other dogs. I see her regularly and she is just a very happy pup. We think she is experiencing now, at 18 months, what she should have experienced much earlier in her life but probably didn't. There is no need to worry about her - we will find a perfect permanent home for her - it will just take awhile. But time is not an issue for us, and we learn more about her everyday. If Reba is still with her foster family come June, she will begin formal obedience training. In the meantime her foster mom is working on the basics whenever she can. Reba also is hypothyroid, a very common medical condition, so she started her meds for that this week. Rest assured, Reba is safe with us until her perfect permanent home is found! Beth -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE ~ Sunny has finally been adopted. She has been seizure free for over a year.

Thanks Gigishiba!

Yes Otomax is safe to use once a week but if the ear as a lot of wax then they will need cleaning once a day!

Hi Julie. Just recently my Bullmastiff got this problem which tends to be gunged either in the corners or across his one eye, however i haven't thought it necessary enough to take him to the vet..because when i have cleaned them, they are back to normal again. I find this only happens when he as woken from his nap, so im thinking it could be sleep! However a friend as been told that his Bullmastiff as (DRY EYE) which means his tear ducts aren't producing enough fluid to keep his eyes moist so they get quite gooey! Hes on eye drops in the morning and a lubricant in the evening and so far it seems to be doing the trick, but he'll have to have this treatment the rest of his life....just like my dog as to have his ears cleaned for the rest of his!

Charlie as ear infections quite often, the breed is prone to this condition because the ears hang. I clean them with a Saline Solution prescribed by my vet (this softens the wax) twice every other day. I put a little just inside his ear then wrap a piece of cotton wool round a cotton bud so that its easier to clean just inside the ear-canal....i gently clean and lift the wax out....then i squeeze some Otomax Ear Drops along the ear lobe then massage it in well!

Coomba it sounds like your dog is constipated. A change of diet or going to the toilet more often might well be appropriate but whatever the reason, take her to your vet immediately! Please let us know what the problem is! Good Luck!

While we are on the subject of Bones.....i would just like to say that RAWHIDE bones/chews are dangerous to dogs.....they become very soggy once the dog as had a good chew which causes them to get lodged down there throat. I had this happen to my 3 year old Bullmastiff a couple of years ago while he was in the room with me....i watched him happily chewing away then all of a sudden he started to cough at the same time pawing at his mouth, i used the word (DROP IT) like i usually do but i could see there was a problem so i went over to him opened his mouth wide and there it was.....(trying to stay calm) i pulled the half that was just inside his mouth out followed by the rest that was down his throat.....after doing this i threw it straight in the bin and none of my dogs have had them since. A few months later i read in one of my Dog Magazines that another Bullmastiff had choked after he was given rawhide to go to bed with.....his owners found him the next morning gasping for breath but by the time they could do anything for the dog, he TRAGICALLY AND SADLY died! SO PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE DOGS SAKE...DON'T GIVE RAWHIDE, IT ONLY TAKES A SECOND FOR THE DOG TO SWALLOW IT WHOLE....WHETHER IN THE ROOM OR NOT WITH YOUR DOG! IT MIGHT NOT HAPPEN THE FIRST COUPLE OF TIMES BUT IT IS A BIG RISK TO TAKE...AS I AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO LOST THERE BELOVED BULLMASTIFF FOUND OUT!!!!!

I had to take Penny to the vet this afternoon.....she had a tiny spot at the bottom of her eye lid which i thought was a mole, just recently it had doubled in size and got me very worried so i took her in to see the vet who had a look and told me it was a cyst (well that put my mind at rest, thinking it was cancerous). I watched him squeeze the cyst at the back and gently rub it between his fingers then pull it off, Penny didnt flinch a bit....but her eye was pouring with blood which made me feel sick.....the nurse held some tissue against her eye to soak the blood up while the vet put some ointment on a clean piece to stop any infection getting in and then he put some eye drops in, she had to have an injection also. She as got to have Fucithalmic viscous eye drops applied to her eye twice daily across her eye. If there is any sign of redness or the cyst comes back within a week..she as got to go back and have an operation! WISH ME LUCK FOLKS!!!

Exactly! Just like when someone says, "I can't remember if she's spayed or not".......CAN'T REMEMBER!?! Geez![/quote] I can remember when Penny was spayed and Patch and Charlie being castrated...also my 3 cats being spayed! Hek! These people must be in a world of there own :lol: (How Sad)

How can you not know that your puppy hasn't been vaccinated.....you get a card for good sake, that gives the name and date the pup had his first shot, then you get a reminder through the post for the next one due...some people are so stupid. Why are they wanting to give them away i wonder with a price! They already have 2 other dogs plus there puppies, which they will be making money from and then i suppose when they have had enough and those dogs come of age, they will be sold on.....honestly this world we live in gets worse :x

What gets up my nose is when Penny my Border Collie/Springer Spaniel is outside in the garden, she will go and toilet then she will come straight back to the door (the patio) and stand there looking in, (sometimes she doesn't notice me sitting there because we have a voile up the patio doors)I have noticed that if i ignore her she will suddenly start scratching and then stop to see if i am watching her....then start again....there isn't any problems with her skin, she doesnt have fleas...she is very healthy but she does have this attention seeking habit of scratching herself when she becomes bored.....it doesnt matter how many times you play ball with her (favourite) she keeps doing it...and it gets to the point where i have to tell her off which i dont like to.

As posted here before about chaining dogs up, i would not do it to my dogs even if we didn't have a fence. I would simply have a run built so that they would have free exercise just like they would if they were lose in the garden. I do not believe in it, its unbelievably cruel......many dogs end up having injuries, usually because the collar or choker, (which many use) has rubbed the skin on the dogs neck red-raw due to all the pulling of the dog. they also (like someone mentioned here) get there legs caught up in the rope or chain which can also cause serious injury. Either a 6ft paneled fence or a run is best!

:lol: Aroura...nice name!

Thats good news Aroura.....i' m sure this will make Tessa very happy. In the meantime would it be possible for you to take her out somewhere away from all the shouting and screaming, perhaps a friends house or maybe in your bedroom (as mentioned) with the radio or tv slightly high to shut out the noise of your mom screaming. Dogs ears are not like humans, they can hear noises 100 times more than us. What sounds quiet to humans sounds louder in dogs! Hope things improve :D

Aroura as she always been like this ? It sounds like she is more sensitive to noise than the other dogs, going by what you say about your mom always being angry and screaming etc. She obviously thinks that she is being told off for no reason and this is whats upsetting her. When raising a voice or screaming around animals especially dogs, they seem to think its at them. No matter what you do or say later you wont get a response because the dog is so confused to whats going on. Look at it from the dogs point of view. One minute its quiet the next its noisy, then it is quiet again, the dog gets a cuddle because you know something is wrong, (your dog is probably thinking one minute there shouting at me and the next there all over me). She is no doubt confused and very distressed in all of this. Is there a way that you could change things in your household....talk to your mom perhaps and tell her that all the shouting and screaming is frightening Tessa, and it must stop for your dogs sake....because unless it does, Tessa is always going to be a frightened little dog which is upsetting you. I went through this with my mom, my dog was a nervous wreck he would not play or run round excited....but would just shake so bad that i would have to take him out to calm down, then some days he would run off all day then return late at night sitting on the doorstep, i would have no idea where he went but i was frantically worried that i would never see my dog again, well enough was enough i didnt want him to go through any more distress so i decided to leave home with him and i can tell you my dog as a new lease of life now...no more worries of mother arguing and ranting on...just a quiet relaxed place to live in, he as never been so happy and is so full of life.

Lovely breeds Wild. We want to see some pictures :D :D :D :D

Hiya Wildbunch. Welcome!! I have three lovable dogs too :D one being a Bullmastiff and the other two cross mixes!

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[quote name='sashagirl']Still trying to get Frank to go for the Bullmastiff thing!!! I REALLY want one. He said "maybe" on the Bullmastiff. He said we would talk about it when we got a house. But he said if not then i could FOR SURE get a english bull!!! :D I still want the Bullmastiff, but the english bull is my second choice. :D[/quote] Sashagirl. I have decided to get a rescue Bullmastiff in the near future, which might be when we get a much BIGGER house too, but who knows what might happen within the next few years. My fiance is chuffed about it as it would be great to give an unwanted Bully a new home, we have also kept to the idea of having a puppy from a breeder, we might decide on a male pup and a female rescue...but it depends how things go in terms of which rescue Bully we choose! I hope you do decide to have a Bullmastiff, but at the end of the day its your decision :D

I don't really understand what you mean by someone stealing a dog's "pedigree". I have 5 generation pedigrees for my dogs on their website You have misunderstood what i said. I didnt even mention Pedigree papers being stolen, i was refering to the breeds being stolen, they are the ones that seem to go missing than (crossbreeds) more and more everyday. As for Microchips being taken you never know what sick people are capable of doing in this world to try and steal or destroy the dog if found to have a chip. I think all dogs should be chipped without anyone knowing, then if they were to go missing and found by someone...that person would take the lost dog to a rescue, police station or vet where they can scan the dog for a chip and then taken back to his owners. I dont trust anyone but i know everyone as different ideas on this forum. So let it be.

Thankyou for putting a light on that Roo. Inbreeding should not be done too often as it can cause big problems in the breed. I know it requires great knowledge, skill, and experience and should not be attempted by novices. It is done to set certain characteristics found in the parents and other relatives. Since it brings out both good and the bad! Just immagine if us humans were allowed to go with parents, sisters and brothers etc.....i hate to think what the outcome would be.

[quote name='K']http://www.spotsociety.org/fatedog.html This is so sad yet so undeniably true to life :cry:[/quote] Oh that is sad..'tears are streaming'', poor Albert...only 2 years old!

Do your visiters respond to her actions or ignore her ?....it sounds like she is attention seeking. What you could do when she is barking or jumping up at them, is get your visitor to give your dog a biscuit only when she as stopped. When all paws are on the floor and she as stopped barking, then can she have the treat. It will take time and patience but it will be worth it! GOOD LUCK!