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In this situation I think the duty of care lies with you. You should check with the other owner before letting your dog approach theirs. This comes with a big warning, pretty much all dogs will fight and there's always a first time! The other problem is that many owners are in denial of their dogs temperament.
This makes me sound heartless, I'm not and am sorry that your dog got bitten, but I am a realist.
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Dog sitting this beautiful girl this weekend. She’s the goodest.
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68% of dog owners surveyed by Yougov are worried about affording vet and dog food bills over the next year. 30% very worried.
https://www.dogstrust.org.uk/latest/2022/dogs-trust-cost-of-living
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Think our boy had a stroke last night. He can’t stand, doesn’t want to eat and is looking very panicked
At the vets right now
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It is a stroke in the balance region of the brain. Possibly treatable.
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@dancing james So sorry to hear this - fingers crossed for a good recovery
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It was a vestibular stroke so is affecting his balance and causing him to feel continually dizzy and nauseous. Poor boy can’t stop drooling because he is feeling so sick, have offered him a canine hydration drink (it smells like stock but is isotonic) but he is repelled by the smell of food. Currently anti emetics are not resolving this, he is on another medication to help stimulate blood supply to the brain.
Right now it feels like I am watching him drool to death and we might have some horrible decisions coming soon if he doesn’t start eating again.
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Sounds rough, hopefully he perks up a bit.
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Friday morning I noticed Benny had gone from chasing the ball at 100mph the day before to watch it land then sit there then reluctantly go get it over night. then he started to limp ever so slightly.
He had been at the groomers on tuesday and they trimmed all the hair and he was doing a fair bit of licking in all the crevices and nooks hitherto unreachable before but about 2pm I noticed he's been licking between the toes on that back paw like crazy and when i gently prised the toes apart there was a dark red line that could have been irritation or a cut but he was being too protective of it to let me get a full look. by 4pm his foot was almost twice the size it was in the morning and very tender to the touch. call the vets and by some miracle manage to swing an emergency lite appt for 6.20pm to have it looked at. if it had to be after 7pm the appt price jumps from £82 to £175 apparently.
Vet says "oh yeah that's super infected" and then proceeds to squeeze a whole bunch of gunk out of the paw and then whisks him off out the back with a nurse where they cut it open and clean it out before wrapping him up and sending him home.
poor guy has been completely out of sorts, all the comfy places are up high and there's two sets of stairs so I ended up putting my back out constantly bending over to pick him up and putting him down again gently.
took the dressing off today to check it was ok and then put fresh bandages on and found an errant sock from our friends 3yo when they last visited with dinosaurs on that fits perfectly over the bandage and stays held up nicely so he doesnt fuss at it.
took him down the park at the end of the road to quickly do his business on the corner by the entrance and despite him clearly limping and having a bright green dinosaur sock on his leg some moron brings their hyperactive puppy right up to us to run circles around us while benny tries to fend off his playful advances spinning around on his lead and generally showing he's not into it at all, completely ripping his dressings off in the process to the point I had to carry him home to remove the tape which was now stuck in his fur and re apply everything but now instead of gently using his foot on the floor like he was this morning he's carrying it in the air again to stop it touching the floor because he's obviously hurt it again.
can we please normalise punching oblivious dickhead owners in the face when they let their dog act like pricks?
the icing on the cake... while I'm struggling trying to get him to lay still to reapply his bandage my mum texts me to say she has covid and because she came and picked us up in her car to take him to the vets and run us back I probably have it too... yay
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he loves making a nest in among the cushions on the day bed in my little study. those cushion inserts were my attempt at making sure I have enough to sit comfortably myself when he's perched atop the whole lot snoring away but the covers haven't even arrived for them yet and he's already claimed them for his own as well.
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Glad he is getting better, I hate it when our dogs are in distress.
After four days with barely eating or drinking the boy bounced back at the weekend. Suddenly recovered appetite and is now back to normal exercise and tomorrow will revert from boiled rice and chicken to normal raw diet. It’s a huge relief. Am assuming the vesitublar condition left him unbalanced dizzy and nauseous and it had to recede before he could eat and drink.
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That's good news!
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Tbh I appreciate the other point of view! I've been working on the assumption that if someone is playing fetch with a dog in an open field near another person playing fetch with a dog, their dog is okay to be approached by another, and I guess that's not quite enough.