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He collapsed at 4:30am this morning.  It's the same thing he had last time.

He's been pumped full of drugs by the vet, but if he hasn't improved in the
next couple of days then I have to face the inevitable.   The vet discovered
testicular cancer, but wasn't too concerned about it.

I know a lot of you are thinking "time to let him go", but he isn't in pain and
the vet was amazed at his condition for his age and how young looking he is.
To look at him you'd think he was about 10 not 17  <<  vets words not mine.

And to prove it, I took this pic last week.

Please keep your fingers crossed for him and me.

 ;goodluck;

All the best
xxx

All the best Trace, fingers crossed for Murphy.

Fingers crossed :)

And fingers crossed from me.

And me too

Thanks guys.

xxx

It's not looking good.

 :'(

he's goergeous!!!!!!!
whats happening now trace? i do hope everything is okay

mad

He won't get up unless I force him to.

He wont eat his meat with his medicine in it.

If he does get up and move he's still falling over.

I'm not holding out any hope for a recovery this time.

I'm gutted.

Hope everything works out. I lost my cat last week in a very similar way :(

:( Sorry to hear that Trace

Very sad news Trace.

I am dreading the day it happens to my Golden Retriever Cassie.

She is 14/15 yrs old now, and her back legs have started to give way when she walks :(

Sad sad day it will be :( :(

My sympathy is with you xx

Paul

Murphy is on Metacam for his dodgy back legs - get Cassie to the vets, the Metacam has done wonders for him.




I went to bed last night in tears, fearing the worst as there really wasn't much improvement yesterday, got up this morning to be greeted by a bright eyed bushy waggy tailed dog who is still a little wobbly on his legs, but MUCH improved from when I left him last night.  He'd eaten his food and willingly took his tablets off me. 

Them upstairs seem to have decided to let me keep him a little longer, and I'm grateful.  I now know he won't see the year out, and I'm going to have to face it, but by the looks of things not just yet.

Thanks everyone for your support.

xx

fingers still crossed for you, Trace & Murphy

all the best trace

Just seen this thread.   I hope things improve.  Metecam is good stuff, my dog used to have that for his stiff legs and we gave it too him in bits of tunneled out cheese.  He hated the taste, cheese was the only thing we could trick him with

Glad to hear he is ok again for now Trace.

My Wolfhoun turned 9 yesterday, i have never heard of a Wolfhound living that long before. I hope i get as much time with him as you have with Murph!

It is the same with other large boned dogs,  it is sad that they don't seem to live as long.  My Lurcher was large as well, but he lived until 13. 

Yeah, wolfhounds are so big that they have problems as they get older. They are not a natural breed and as such do not have as healthy a life. Most of them suffer from back and heart problems.

Alsatians legs go as well when they get to about 8 or 9.  My dog Lurch ( The Lurcher )  was exactly the same age as an Alsatian called Ceasar who worked as a  guard dog at the local garage.  For 13 years they walked past each other and muttered at each other.  I think it was all an act and they actually quite liked each other  :D.    They always remined me of two old men who had known each other  their whole lives, but pretended they didn't like each others company.  If they had actually had a proper chat, they would probably discover they had a lot in common  :D

Dogs have such great personalities and every one is an individual.  It annoys me when people say all dogs are the same.   Dogs are such amazing people

glad to hear Murphy is on the mend Trace.  take care x

Hi Trace, I've just read this thread, and was rooting for Murphy at the start. Glad his feeling better; when the time comes, for your own piece of mind,try not to listen to to people who say "let him go". keep him where he's used to being, get the vet give him pain killers if needed.
You can then be with him at the end and help him go gracefully.
Good luck.

Hiya

Thanks for this.  It is actually on my notes that when the time comes the vet and a nurse will come to me at home to do it.  Murph gets so stressed when I take him to the vets that I dont want his last "memories" being of strange smells and stress.  I know it will cost a fortune, but I dont care.  He's my baby and worth every penny ever spent on him.  I'm hoping they will let me hold him till the end, will crucify me, but be better for him.


The Metacam that Murph is on is in liquid form and has to be given with food.  Murph has dried food in his dish all day long, he picks at it as and when he wants, and cos the Metacam has to be eaten, Ive had to buy tins of meat and I mix it with a third of a tin, he wolfs it down.  lol

As for the tablets he is now on, I actually have to push them into a piece of the meat to get him to take them.  I could give him them without, but it gets a bit slimey. lol

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He came wobbling at speed to greet me when I got home from work today, and is following me around like my shadow, I don't think he's going to make a full recovery, but hopefully enough to satisfy the vet.  I feel so cruel as I have to shout at him to get him to lie down and stay still, I dont want him following me cos it will only tire him out and make him dizzier.

I feel a bit daft posting all of this on here, but I dont know what I woulda done without it.  I'm grateful to all of you for putting up with me.  Thanks guys.

xx

trace, brad strider here, our collie is on metacam and pills, iput the pill in between two spoons and crush it to powder, then put it in the middle of food, the metacam he is on is honey tasting so he wolfs it down, good  luck

I thew bits of cheese with the metacam inside it.  He used to open his mouth bite and by that time it was too late, he had already swallowed.   We used this technique for ages and he never once figured out we were tricking him  :D

Yeah thats how we always do it aswell.

brad strider, i cant believe you are calling sammie a male!! she will be upset.

glad murph is on the mend. just give him a bit of time

mad

So sry

My border collie died at 17

We put her down because she looked miserable, was starving herself, couldn't walk or go to the toilet, and was having fits.

Easy decision really, but very tough to undertake.

Snoops, when he gets that bad, I will do it, I swear i will.

I will never forget the night before we put her down.

I went to say my goodbyes and I could tell that she knew exactly what was going on.

It is sad when you have to do that,  I had an exam the same morning and my Dad was taking my dog to the vet.  All I could think of all day was what was happening.   

We had a Nederlands herder for 15 years ,thats a smaller version of a german shepherd. Around about the 13th year we thought we were going to lose her,she had travelled the world with us and really loved planes cars and trains and hated ships. It was a stroke and the Vet gave us some medication it was granules I think. After a couple of days she recovered from the stroke and started the treatment the stuff was very expensive but it knocked 5 years of her age,.

We had a Nederlands herder for 15 years ,thats a smaller version of a german shepherd. Around about the 13th year we thought we were going to lose her,she had travelled the world with us and really loved planes cars and trains and hated ships. It was a stroke and the Vet gave us some medication it was granules I think. After a couple of days she recovered from the stroke and started the treatment the stuff was very expensive but it knocked 5 years of her age,.                                            She went on to live a good life for another 2 years when sadly she had another stroke and cerebal  Heamorage, that was 7 years ago and we still miss her            I will try and get the name of the granules my wifes away at the moment and she will remember what they were called. I do remember giong into the vets to ask for them for the 2nd time and he refused to prescribe them without seeing Jalma When i said we had had them before he still insisted on a consultation.    He said that it was a dangerous drug  and I might be wanting it to Bump of the wife.  Its always a very sad time part of your life  dissappears for ever no more warm bed , no more walks 5 kilo increase in weight to name just 2. :(