Dog pics

[Jstpssng]

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I don't keep track of how much I spend on vet bills. Aside from the above mentioned 2k; that same year he had a front leg injury, a breathing problem which landed us at the emergency vet 100 miles away, (He eventually coughed up a piece of nylon strap which apparently had been caught in his airway for 6 years) and various other ailments... most of them work related.

 

[MF RED in MT]

Last winter is when Zeke injured his ACL, and the vet wanted to perform surgery on both limbs for a correction and to prevent further injury.

Zeke is the kind of GSD that is either at complete idle, or it's full speed ahead, and there's no in between speed.

I told the vet, unless it's absolutely necessary to perform the surgery, I'd wait until winter and ice is over with so Zeke would have a better chance of healing properly.

The vet also stated that he did not know how his staff would be able to control Zeke after a surgery.

I chose to postpone any surgery because I thought what good is the surgery if Zeke cannot heal properly from it.

Since then his leg has a lot of scar tissue around the injury and what I'm told this helps protect the joint.

Also I've switched vets and the new vets price for the surgery, if needed is almost half the cost.

Here's a pic of Zeke today doing what he likes to do.

KC

 

[Jstpssng]

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Nice looking dog. :thumbsup:

The only way that I know of to keep a dog like him "controlled" is in a crate; for my last dog keeping her in one was a challenge of it's own, and she was nowhere neat as big as Zeke.
Hopefully he won't need the surgery.

 

[goeduck]

2 days ago, my GSD hurt his rear leg again (similar to human's ACL) that has a lot of scar tissue.

Yesterday he was hating life inside the house and not running around.

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Glad to report, today he is not limping around and barely favors his right rear leg while walking.

Going to let him outside today while I'm snowblowing, but will not be throwing his Frisbee for a while for him to catch.

KC

Nice stairs !!!!

 

[MF RED in MT]

^^^^^
Nice looking dog. :thumbsup:

The only way that I know of to keep a dog like him "controlled" is in a crate; for my last dog keeping her in one was a challenge of it's own, and she was nowhere neat as big as Zeke.
Hopefully he won't need the surgery.

Yes, he will tolerate a crate if necessary, but then the problem is letting him out to go #1 and #2.

It would be like the green Christmas tree light at the drag strip and that's not good for healing.

We hopefully think he will not have to have this surgery, he'll be 7 this summer.

KC

 

[MF RED in MT]

Nice stairs !!!!

Yes, we like our flat stairs (bottom of ramp is about 3' from the garages 3' wide entrance door) and you might of noticed the garden wagon staged on the deck loaded with firewood.

The woodshed is built on the backside of the garage with access inside the back wall of the garage.

We have 2 of these garden wagons, we pull them through the garage and into the woodshed, fill'em up with firewood and can pull them into the house and sit next to the wood burning stove.

KC

 

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Last winter is when Zeke injured his ACL, and the vet wanted to perform surgery on both limbs for a correction and to prevent further injury.

Zeke is the kind of GSD that is either at complete idle, or it's full speed ahead, and there's no in between speed.

I told the vet, unless it's absolutely necessary to perform the surgery, I'd wait until winter and ice is over with so Zeke would have a better chance of healing properly.

The vet also stated that he did not know how his staff would be able to control Zeke after a surgery.

I chose to postpone any surgery because I thought what good is the surgery if Zeke cannot heal properly from it.

Since then his leg has a lot of scar tissue around the injury and what I'm told this helps protect the joint.

Also I've switched vets and the new vets price for the surgery, if needed is almost half the cost.

Here's a pic of Zeke today doing what he likes to do.

KC

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Hey, MF, looks like a great cabin. Got any more photos that you’d like to share with us?

 

[goeduck]

Yes, we like our flat stairs (bottom of ramp is about 3' from the garages 3' wide entrance door) and you might of noticed the garden wagon staged on the deck loaded with firewood.

The woodshed is built on the backside of the garage with access inside the back wall of the garage.

We have 2 of these garden wagons, we pull them through the garage and into the woodshed, fill'em up with firewood and can pull them into the house and sit next to the wood burning stove.

KC

I was looking at what I thought were stairs above the dogs head, sleeping on a sofa? Post 2835

But I am sure your other stairs are nice too:thumbsup:

 

[MF RED in MT]

I was looking at what I thought were stairs above the dogs head, sleeping on a sofa? Post 2835

But I am sure your other stairs are nice too:thumbsup:

Sorry you are correct, I guess I was tired and I know I'm old.

The stairs go with the theme of the 2000 sq. ft. log home, there's a loft area, full bedroom and bath (use to be the original master bedroom) upstairs.

Now it's used by me for afternoon naps...

KC

 

[MF RED in MT]

Hey, MF, looks like a great cabin. Got any more photos that you’d like to share with us?

I'll have to take a few pictures (front and back), the picture in your post shows Zeke just in front of the covered front deck and further back (centered) is the wife's greenhouse.

Only pics I have now are below that show the garage with an attached covered breezeway and the rightside of the garage showing the woodshed attached to the rear.

KC

 

[Sigarms]

Had to laugh, coming in the door, I thought to myself I was getting too old for this crap LOL



The two smaller white ones are going back to my in laws today via my wife as we adapoted them out as the last of 9 puppies (FIL was in the hospital and we were taking them in for an extended time till he could get better).

Took one more in from our standard 3 now which is a long story.

 

[ArlyA]

Out for two skis today. Only one seen here. More can be seen on da dogs blog.

 

[goeduck]

Had to laugh, coming in the door, I thought to myself I was getting too old for this crap LOL

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The two smaller white ones are going back to my in laws today via my wife as we adapoted them out as the last of 9 puppies (FIL was in the hospital and we were taking them in for an extended time till he could get better).

Took one more in from our standard 3 now which is a long story.

Looks like a large greeting contingent !

 

[Dftodd]

2 days ago, my GSD hurt his rear leg again (similar to human's ACL) that has a lot of scar tissue.

Yesterday he was hating life inside the house and not running around.

View attachment 635724

Glad to report, today he is not limping around and barely favors his right rear leg while walking.

Going to let him outside today while I'm snowblowing, but will not be throwing his Frisbee for a while for him to catch.

KC

Or shepherd slipped in some soft ground last year and did some deep tissue damage in her hip. She was on light duty for about 4 to 5 months before we able to get her off the anti inflammatory pills.

Shes better now. Lots of walks instead of chasing the ball outside.

 

[Dftodd]

She was really happy last night to have her boys over

 

[MF RED in MT]

Or shepherd slipped in some soft ground last year and did some deep tissue damage in her hip. She was on light duty for about 4 to 5 months before we able to get her off the anti inflammatory pills.

Shes better now. Lots of walks instead of chasing the ball outside.

Glad to hear your GSD is doing much better, my GSD gave me a flashback last night, trying to put little or no weight on his right rear leg.

Have been giving him the usual pain/anti inflammatory pills except for the last couple of days as he was doing ok outside.

I'm probably going to restrict him to "no play" with the neighbors dog, refill his prescription, and do this for about 3 weeks, again.

As long as he shows signs of improvement I'll go forward like the last time, and if he does not improve then it's off to the vet.

KC

 

[MF RED in MT]

She was really happy last night to have her boys over

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Happy dog and happy boys !!

Your GSD reminds me of our very first GSD over 30 years ago, Abby, now we are going on our 5th GSD, Zeke.

We usually get an additional younger GSD when they reach 6-8 years old to help keep the older one more active.

Zeke will be 7 this summer and has not shown any signs of slowing down...

KC

 

[Dftodd]

Glad to hear your GSD is doing much better, my GSD gave me a flashback last night, trying to put little or no weight on his right rear leg.

Have been giving him the usual pain/anti inflammatory pills except for the last couple of days as he was doing ok outside.

I'm probably going to restrict him to "no play" with the neighbors dog, refill his prescription, and do this for about 3 weeks, again.

As long as he shows signs of improvement I'll go forward like the last time, and if he does not improve then it's off to the vet.

KC

Ours was having a similar issue with the same leg. She is a one pet only in the household. She does get a long with large dogs. But if the dog doesn't listen to commands or I get annoyed she will jump in for the correction.

She doesn't have any tolerance for small dogs after the neighbors yorkie and chihuahua would constantly go after her when we would go for a walk. With a small dog, she will just walk up to them and snatch them by their throat. We found out from the breeder that her momma was the same way with small dogs.

Cats, rabbits and other critters are snacks as far as shes concerned.

 

[MF RED in MT]

Ours was having a similar issue with the same leg. She is a one pet only in the household. She does get a long with large dogs. But if the dog doesn't listen to commands or I get annoyed she will jump in for the correction.

She doesn't have any tolerance for small dogs after the neighbors yorkie and chihuahua would constantly go after her when we would go for a walk. With a small dog, she will just walk up to them and snatch them by their throat. We found out from the breeder that her momma was the same way with small dogs.

Cats, rabbits and other critters are snacks as far as shes concerned.

Zeke is the same way with other dogs, but the neighbors dog is almost the same age and they played together since they were pups.

funny story about walks and small dogs, reminds me of our 2nd GSD, Jessie, a longhair from England and Great Grandparent was a Grand Champion.

She did have poor eyesight, but made up with her nose that she used as good or better than any Bloodhound.

I had to remove a few different small yapping dogs from her mouth, they would just run in front of her and she would just reach down and pick up the dog.

Each small dog only did this once and yelped and ran to their owner that had let the dog run unleashed in the front yard.

Also Jessie had a very deep throated bark that would scare people while sitting in their car at the same traffic light that I was at.

KC

 

[Dftodd]

Zeke is the same way with other dogs, but the neighbors dog is almost the same age and they played together since they were pups.

funny story about walks and small dogs, reminds me of our 2nd GSD, Jessie, a longhair from England and Great Grandparent was a Grand Champion.

She did have poor eyesight, but made up with her nose that she used as good or better than any Bloodhound.

I had to remove a few different small yapping dogs from her mouth, they would just run in front of her and she would just reach down and pick up the dog.

Each small dog only did this once and yelped and ran to their owner that had let the dog run unleashed in the front yard.

Also Jessie had a very deep throated bark that would scare people while sitting in their car at the same traffic light that I was at.

KC

Neighbors yorkie would run up under her and go for what ever she could reach. I would hold gypsy's head up by her collar so she couldn't get a hold of it. Then sweep my foot and tap the dog. Dog would yip and take off.

Last time she ran up on the attack I missed her when I swept with my left foot. I then stepped forward and swept with my right. Knocked the yorkie into the ditch which was half full of water. That sure took the fight out of it. Won't come after us anymore either. If I had known that was all it took, I would have punted it into the ditch a couple years ago.