Dog Blog

I finally started her on PPA to help her urinary incontinence. Our vet also suggested giving her Tramadol in addition to Rimadyl to help her get more mobile. Just started both today so it will take a few days to see if the additional medications make any difference.

Fingers and paws crossed here.

She has been getting unsteady on her rear legs lately. I have started massaging her legs and hips with a vibrating heat massager. She sure seems to enjoy it and it is helping her.

I had hoped that her weight loss would make her better, but age is catching up with her. At least she is no doubt doing better without the additional weight. I have only been massaging her legs for several days and I hope that she will continue to do better over a longer period of time.

She is such a sweet old girl.

Sorry for the bad joke. Annie has started to lead urine, so we put Depends on her most of the time. It sure helps keep her bed dry and she doesn’t seem to mind them at all. Will get her into the vet soon and perhaps try PPA (phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride) or something else to try [...]

Annie is our grand old girl who is about 13 ½ years old if memory serves me correctly. She is as far as I know, the only Bouvier des Flandres with an implanted pacemaker. We had it put in several years ago when we discovered that she had an abnormally low heart rate due to [...]

I guess most dogs are when it comes to food and treats. I have pigs ears to all the pups last night. Annie started to chew it and I went to the kitchen to work on dinner. A short time later, Annie comes into the kitchen without her pigs ear. I went and checked on [...]