Category: basset

Got me home with stairs

Got new home we lived in a flat previously but now it’s a home with stairs and our basset likes to come up stairs to sleep Am I better letting him sleep downstairs and limit stair use ? I know they aren’t supposed to climb stairs and I’m scared he will fall down one day

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From Hills to Pro Plan, having issues

Anyone else have issues when switching from science diet to Pro Plan?

Pup has been on it for about a week now (mixing new with old) and has the Shits bad. I understand digestive issues etc, especially when switching to a new food, but he hasn’t had a solid poo in awhile and is going alot more frequently (2-3 times after bedtime alone).

Just wondering if I should just eat the money and switch him back to science diet or wait it out.

Switched purely because I get more food for the same price.

Didn’t have this issue when switching him from Blue Buffalo to Hills

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I still feel terrible!!!

On May 21, 2021, I had to make the gut wrenching decision to put Lucy down. She was 11.5 years old, and she could barely walk, she couldn’t lift her tail, and every time I picked her up to put her back in the truck (I was a truck driver) she YELPED. The vet had told me that her last labs were not good, and she had just had a large mass removed. She had had lumps/cysts removed before, but the vet had told me that this last one was deep inside of her, and she wasn’t sure she got all of it. It was a malignant tumor. Within 3 weeks, the wound had not healed, and was looking worse. This was the point that she couldn’t lift her tail, and yelped. It was then that I realized she was in a lot of pain, and it was time to let her cross the rainbow bridge.

But when the vet injected her to put her to sleep, she let out three YELP YELP YELP!!! And then she laid down calmly, and slowly fell asleep 😭

I stood there holding her, crying harder than I’ve ever cried in my life, until her lungs deflated.

To this day, I wonder if I made the right decision. I wonder if there is more I could’ve done. I didn’t have much money then, so chemo was not an option. I just feel so guilty. 🥺

Help!

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