Quote: Connie Sutherland

Your vet probably takes checks. We require unmarked used bills.

HAHA! I love that!


Yes, he has had aspirin before - he had pano when he was a puppy, so we'd give him a buffered aspirin occassionally for that. But I just had the thought that if I give him aspirin and it feels better, then he'll want to do more! Maybe I should hold off!

Thanks Scott, that makes me feel better!

 Quote: Lori Hall

... Yes, he has had aspirin before - he had pano when he was a puppy, so we'd give him a buffered aspirin occassionally for that. But I just had the thought that if I give him aspirin and it feels better, then he'll want to do more! Maybe I should hold off! ...

Well .... yeah, there's that. But also, constant pain is counterproductive, I think, when you want healing; I don't want the dog to be in depressing pain.

For example, if I thought he would stop resting the injury with pain relief, I'd probably provide it when the dog was going to bed or at a time when he usually napped.

Since you have seen no GI problems with aspirin, I'd feel OK about it.* Still, you know to always watch for any kind of GI reaction, like gut pain or bleeding in the poop, which are (pretty rare) emergencies with short-term NSAIDs (the other NSAID side effects being more related to longer-term protocols).

JMO ... not a health professional.


*Meaning that my level of vigilance might be relaxed a little when I gave an NSAID to a dog who had had it before and suffered no ill effects



Edited by Connie Sutherland (03/04/2010 04:39 PM)
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I used to use T-Touch with that kind of injury. Stimulates the healing process and relaxes the dog.

I should have said Tellington Touch. It saved my dog's life at least once, and possibly my daughter's.

Same thing happened to Tucker two weeks ago.

Went on our walk, played some fetch in the park, walked another 5 blocks then back home. No signs of limping on the walk after fetch in the park.

Get in the house, get him settled then take off for about an hour come back and he's limpin' like an old man. He would put some weight on it, and it was definately worse after he had been asleep and got up. Seemed like if he was moving around it would not be as bad, but when he laid down for a nap it would totally stiffen up on him again.

Kept him low key for about a week and then very gradually ventured back out on our walks and after 2 weeks played some "low key" fetch. And by low key I mean making him sit-stay, i'ld throw the ball then release him once the ball had stopped bouncing. Im not letting him sprint after the ball as soon as I throw it because he has a bad tendency to run full tilt and slam into the ground sliding to get the ball. i figured he had gotten the injury from running and sliding on the hard frozen ground.

I'ld be very gradual about increasing his activity again. I had a horrible time with my other dog and a bad sprain he got when he was older. We definately didn't take the time we should've to let him heal and it was a constant issue with him after that and would always flare up.

Wendys given you the straight poop Lori.

The hard part is a few days after the initial injury. The dog feels better, wants to go full tilt boggy and starts going a little stir crazy because you won't let it happen.

Lots of walks and walking and walking and more walking. I'm going on my third week now from my oldest pulling a muscle in her rear leg. Just starting to let her stretch it out now for short warm ups.....done for today and tomorrow. Day on, day off. Watching closely for any hitch at all.

Lots of walks for awhile Lori.

 Quote: Mariellena Simon

I used to use T-Touch with that kind of injury. Stimulates the healing process and relaxes the dog.

I've used T-Touch many times, but hesitate to recommend it to a newcomer to it, to use on an animal with an undiagnosed probable-soft-tissue injury.

But Linda's little book is very valuable. I have attended one seminar and it was great, too, but I imagine that the value of the seminars would depend on the instructors (I have not had the privilege of actually meeting and learning from Linda Tellington-Jones).