Trip to the vet was uneventful. She is starting to drink and eat now so that is good. She acts more normal, and will go out on a leash any...
We are of to the vet this afternoon, to have her belly wrap removed and the IV line removed. They don't usually leave an IV line in, but they...
We went through something similar with Cooper. She would start to complain after going out early in the morning. My wife let her come up on the...
She is still pretty groggy. The surgery prep was more difficult than expected, and the surgery took quite a while. Because she is so skittish...
We took Cooper in to be spayed this morning. I'll be worrying all day, but I expect she will do fine. I'm a little worried about her behavior...
Be sure not to feed raw salmon, at least not the Pacific varieties. They can carry a fatal bug (parasite??) which will be killed by either...
An update to my earlier post. The dog that was attacked was a Bernese Mtn Dog (Big) and it suffered significant injuries. He/she spent several...
We went to a huge off leash dog park on Sunday. It is called 1000 acres and is just above the confluence of the Sandy and Columbia Rivers. The...
Last week, in Multnomah Village (Neighborhood in Portland) a loose pit bull attacked another dog who was being walked by his/her owner on a leash....
Regular Kongs are almost indestructible. We have a large and xtra large Black and an xtra large Red that have been around a long time. The Blue...
Cooper is 85# and pretty trim. She is taller than the U.S. breed standard. I don't think I could pick her up without some sort of sling. We...
I don't think most owners could ever run far enough or fast enough to cause a problem for most reasonably fit Labs. When we run, they just sort...
We never really restricted our pups access to stairs. When Tilly and Cooper were small pups we would carry them down stairs and back up,...
Back before we knew that grapes were bad, our first lab Ginger used to eat them off the vine in our neighborhood. She never got a lot of them though.
Tilly has recurrent yeast infections in her ears. We can mostly keep them under control with cleaners and anti fungals, but she does not like...
