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Thank you. I just called the vet since we haven't heard anything since we dropped Reilly off this morning. The office manager went to ask the vet about Reilly's status, and reported back that they...

Thanks to both of you. The vet says she needs the surgery, so she’s going in tomorrow for that. I hate to put her through all that, but it sounds like it will be best for her in the long run.

We’ve just noticed that Reilly has an aural hematoma. We’ll call the vet to discuss recommendations, but suspect she’ll recommend surgery. We’ve been down this road before with, Lilly, who had...

Thanks to each of you for the suggestions. Reilly is still getting on/off the bed by herself, but she is hesitating each time, and I can tell she's worried about the jump. At 11.5 years old, it won't...

Reilly is almost 12, and is starting to have a harder time getting on and off our bed, which is where she sleeps. We want to get her a ramp to help her get on/off. She's about 85 pounds, and we...

Thank you. These are some good ideas. We're going to need to think about how to minimize her getting up and down. She typically follows my husband everywhere he goes, although if she's hurting/sore...

Our 6 year old lab (probably a mix, rescued as a puppy), Lilly, has a torn ACL, and is having TPLO surgery next Tuesday. The vet says for the surgery to be successful, we will need to keep Lilly...

We have not really considered environmental allergies, as the vet seems to think it is likely a food intollerance, but we are open to the possibility that it could be environmental. We have tried...

Our 4 year old lab is somewhat anxious around other dogs (apart from our 9 year old lab, with whom she is fine), but generally behaves reasonably well anyway. However, when she is on walks and sees...

I haven't posted here in a number of years, and our younger dog, Lilly, is now 4. She has pretty bad issues with itching, especially on her paws, and will lick and chew them to the point where she...

Our 8 month old pup does this too. What works best for her is to completely ignore her when we get home until she calms down. Once she calms down, she can have pats and affection, and by then the...

I just saw Tanya's post after I responded. Thank you for your advice. One question - you said:

"You need to work on your younger dogs confidence. training, consistancy, boundaries. daily. it's...

Thanks so much for the advice. I think I gave the wrong impression about Reilly's behavior. She is not nasty to humans or other animals, including Lilly. In fact, she is extremely sweet and...

Thanks for the advice. I would not feel right about crating Reilly (the 5 yr old) at night. Reilly has slept with us since she was a baby, and I feel like her life has been upended in so many ways...

We have done a terrible job creating good sleep habits in our puppy, and are looking for some ideas on how best to fix it at this point. We have done such a bad job, in fact, that I am somewhat...

Thanks to all for the advice and concern. Reilly still seems to feel fine, but she threw up on our bed again last night (after we had just washed the comforter of course), and I took her to the vet...

She gets 1.5 cups at each of the two meals plus a handful of dog food for snack after her evening walk. She had already been fed this afternoon before I could suggest that we change her schedule, but...

Hmm, just looked it up, and that sounds possible. She eats breakfast early in the morning, around 6:30 am, then eats lunch/dinner when the kids get home from school, about 3:30 pm (she gets this...

Thanks for the advice. I agree that puppies are more vulnerable. We had to take the puppy (Lilly) last month to the emergency animal clinic on a Sunday last month because she started throwing up...

We weren't sure if she ate anything she wasn't supposed to when she first got sick last week, but we thought that was the most likely scenario. And, just to be clear, the vomiting over the last...

We woke up in the wee hours last Thursday morning to our 5 yr old lab, Reilly, throwing up. She threw up a bunch of times over a period of about 8 hours and (obviously) did not seem to feel well. ...

Our 5 year old lab, Reilly, has allergies. She was on Atopica for quite a while, plus medicated shampoo and cream rinse every two weeks. That worked well. At one point, we ran out of Atopica and...

Thanks. We'll try to get a good sample and bring that in for testing. Hopefully that will get us started down the right track to figure out what is going on! I appreciate all the good advice!

Thank you. That makes sense that she may not be emptying her bladder because urination is painful, and also may explain the barking/whimpering on those two occasions when she peed in the house after...

I'm not sure if they did a culture at the beginning. They were supposed to do a follow up culture after the antibiotic, but we failed to follow through on that. The vet gave us a thing to capture...