Help - doggy second childhood?

candygirl

elsien wrote: »

Thanks - she's back to normal today (well, normal for her), as if yesterday never happened.
And she's been doing the chair thing for a while now, along with the "my poor old bones" grumble - loved your piccy.
Probably a good thing we've got the vet tomorrow - the walks are now non-existent, as she's hurt the pad so every time we set foot out of doors it starts bleeding again and is slowly getting worse. My poor carpets will never be the same again.

Awwww bless her.I put aloe vera gel on my two mutts paws when they cut them:o

WolfSong2000

Sounds like my boys - the middle one (age wise) has adopted the sofa as he's gotten older, and if the pillows on the sofa aren't "just right", he'll either sit and stare at you, or bark to get your attention until you go sort them, at which point he'll happily jump on and settle down. lol.

Our eldest, who's now about 18 (rescue, so don't know exact age) has his days...some days he can barely walk (back legs are going), and he's very much the old man...other days, legs are okay and he's jumping around like a puppy, full of the joys of life. He's now doubly incontinent (very pleasant - not), but at the moment, his good days are still outweighing the bad ones.

trudij

My setter (who seems to be having a starring role in my pet answers lately!!) went like this when he turned 11, we took him to the vets and were sent off with a bag of hills BD (brain diet) which had not long gone on the market, and was designed to help them (dont know how it works-and im not sure it made much difference!) with senile type things....

we were torn between loving that he looked to be having so much fun while he was being daft, and being very sad that he was like it because he was ill rather than just full of the joys.

elsien

Just been to the vet - never got round to discussing mutts behaviour as her foot has now leapt to the top of the list of concerns.
Could be a granuloma (we hope) as the other possibility is another mast cell tumour.
Either way, it's no walks other than down the road to do her business and wearing a padded sock (which I'm about to try and make) when she's out, as the hard surfaces keep making it break open. I don't have a grassed garden for her to go in which would be the best option.
I've got 3 weeks to try to get it to heal otherwise it's another operation which the vet only wants to do as a last resort or if it does turn out to be a mast, due to the position on the foot and the the problems we're likely to have afterwards.
Which with mutts usual impeccable timing brings me to just before I'm off to Greece for 2 weeks. I don't think the kennels will have her if her foot's still bad due to the risk of infection (and I wouldn't be too happy leaving her in that situation), I don't know anyone else who could have her and I can't see my insurance paying up if I have to cancel. (Jumping the gun a bit, I know, but I first noticed there was a problem last Wednesday, and the amount of blood seems to be getting worse by the day.)
So any help with the current dilemma would be appreciated.
If I'm not walking her she's going to be bouncing off the walls. And even though my house is carpetted, when she has a mad 5 minutes that's enough to set the foot off bleeding again. My kitchen is too small to keep her permanently contained in there. And the vet doesn't want the foot bandaged unless we absolutely have to. So other than large doses of tranquilisers (for me as well as her), can anyone think of anything else I can do which will keep it from bleeding and promote quicker healing? Any supplements of any sort?
At the moment all I've got is fuciderm cream and trying to keep her calm, and I'm feeling a bit dispirited.

The only positive note is that the urine infection is gone, although there is protein in her urine so I'm under orders to consider a higher protein diet, so mutt will be a happy pooch as it involves chicken and fish.

cally6008

what area of uk ? maybe another mse-er could dog sit for you ?

edit to add - could the vets take her for a week ?

elsien

I don't think the vets offer that sort of service, and with the greatest respect to MSE'ers I'd want to know someone fairly well before I inflicted my mutt on them!
Plan B is praying very hard indeed.

trudij

You might be suprised if you asked at the vets - depending on the space they have for patients, if mutt has a wound that is bleeding a lot and requires regular treatment, they might well keep her there??

completely understand the other - but my offer is there