Just needed to be heard for a little while

Waves_and_Smiles

Dog dog looks so elegant! I love greyhounds, one of my favourites! She looks so comfortable there, as is if she is calmly surveying the room.

whitewing

Could you talk to your GP or psychiatrist about liver failure, WaS? They may be able to reassure you far better than we can, as, apart from anything else, they will have your medical records. They could for instance (this is medical ignorance not medical advice) tell you that if you turn yellow, you need to make an appointment with the GP within 2 days (or whatever is actual medical advice), and until that point there is no need to worry.

You could maybe go through a 'pain plan' with the GP. Have a drawing of yourself and have points where there may be pain highlighted with a plan of action to take for each spot. So foot pain may be take pain killer and if not gone in two days then GP appointment, head ache may be something and head stabbing pain something else. Think of the different types of pain you have experienced and build up some templates. You could get copies of the drawing and log the pains each day for a month to see if there are patterns. You don't have to have a perfect version, maybe do this as something ongoing. And no Dr Google!

Pyxis

Dog dog reminds me of Merle Oberon!

I love the name Merle! it means blackbird.

lostinrates

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Dog dog looks so elegant! I love greyhounds, one of my favourites! She looks so comfortable there, as is if she is calmly surveying the room.

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The great thing about dog breeds is there is a perfect one for every one. Or more than one. I love lots of them. I was brought up in sight hounds so know them well. She's probably my dog of a life time though, my first grey, and probably my last. I cannot help feeling any grey after her could not fill her footsteps. I had her from a fat wriggly puppy though, she's not ex rescue. There are too many of these dogs treated far too badly.

She is INSANELY clever. I just wish she had not developed this very defensive streak in her middle age. .

oldestgnome

Hard to imagine her as a wriggly pup when she is looking so queenly in her reign from her thrown

lostinrates

oldestgnome wrote: »

Hard to imagine her as a wriggly pup when she is looking so queenly in her reign from her thrown

I don't have any puppy pictures access able ( that computer fried)

But this might help show her sense of humour ( I know they look photoshopped on, but its just cos they are clean and everything else in the room was dingy and dark ( super embarrassing) ). She thought they were brilliant.

elsien

A clever dog? All the better to run rings round you, my dear!
I suppose being defensive of you at least you can see the rationale behind it. And have an inkling as to when it's likely to happen instead of the triggers being all over the place.

I think mutt was my "one." Much as Gitdog has wormed his way in to my affections, even now I still look at him at times and think lovely though he is, he's not mutt.

He did behave impeccably tonight and managed a gold standard down stay. All we need now is to generalise it to outside of the 4 walls of the training room......

Edit - that is such a great picture. I love the expression on her face, she's looking insanely pleased with herself.

Pyxis

Haha! Merle Oberon never had red antlers!





P.s. Love the rug!

lostinrates

elsien wrote: »

A clever dog? All the better to run rings round you, my dear!
I suppose being defensive of you at least you can see the rationale behind it. And have an inkling as to when it's likely to happen instead of the triggers being all over the place.

I think mutt was my "one." Much as Gitdog has wormed his way in to my affections, even now I still look at him at times and think lovely though he is, he's not mutt.

He did behave impeccably tonight and managed a gold standard down stay. All we need now is to generalise it to outside of the 4 walls of the training room......

Yep, just one trigger.

Well done git dog!!

Obedience is just harder for some dogs. Its a hoot with sight hounds, and the little 'un. Bizarrely my terrier is ace and sit/stay but its really his best thing.

This week we have been doing some target practice and he's been ok but its interesting.

I need really to focus on what I want to teach him next. I am think I might try and teach him to bring me a pair of shoes on command, but it will take ages. It might be more useful to teach him to put his toys away.

lostinrates

Pyxis wrote: »

Haha! Merle Oberon never had red antlers!





P.s. Love the rug!

Thanks! That rug the kiwi ate, it was a casa pupo rug I'd had in storage for YEARS and finally got it out and then the ruddy puppy ate it. He went round for months with a green moustache of wool, then this summer we finally took it to the tip. . We just have a concrete floor in our kitchen now.

Very stylish, eh?