SIGH

[sholio]

I went out for a pleasant evening of touring the First Friday art events in town. I came home to discover the following ...

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

oh geez. poor elderly dog and poor you.

was the art any good at least?

[sholio]

It was! I had fun, anyway, and did a bit of artist networking too.

[cornerofmadness]

well that's good

[ellenmillion]

Poor ED! I have to admit to a few giggles between pangs of sympathy!

[sholio]

Oh, I don't blame you; I was actually laughing too, because it was just such an absolutely ridiculous scene. It's the sort of thing where you have to laugh or cry ...

[love_82]

The part about your neurotic dog running in circles made me giggle. Sorry. Poor dog. And poor you. I can sympathize. My dog that I had, when he got older his hips and legs got like that. He would just fall over sometimes and would have a hard time getting back up. Sometimes he would let me help him up and sometimes he would snap at me. I had to get a hold of him a certain way near his back end so if he turned around to snap at me he couldn't get me.

And because he couldn't bend right when he pooped sometimes it would get on his fur. He was a Border Collie mix and had long fur. Cleaning him was fun because he did not like to be touched back there and he hated baths period. He especially hated me trying to pour water from a glass back there to clean him. This always resulted in him stressing himself out. But he did have fun running through the place and drying himself off on the sofas and the bedspread. :)

Some of the joys of pet ownership. :)

[leesa_perrie]

Oh dear, not what anyone would want to come back to! Though your description of the neurotic dog made me smile - and reminded me of a book I had as a child (and believe still have somewhere) called How to Live with a Neurotic Dog by Stephen Baker (still in print, apparently). Might have to find that out again, see if it's as funny as I remember (possibly not, child humour is rarely the same as adult humour)!

[kodiak_bear]

Been there and done that. Our elderly dog has dementia and has non-cortisol cushings, hypertension, hypothryoidism, and has the wasting away in his hind quarters. We have to carry him down the deck stairs and back up (90% of the time) so he doesn't hurt himself. He's going blind, doesn't hear well

[sholio]

Sedation is not a bad idea. I think the worst thing about it at this point is that we've had to do SO many unpleasant things to her over the last couple of years (such as regularly washing/cutting poop out of her fur) that it's pretty clear she's come to associate humans with distress and pain rather than love and comfort. She doesn't like us or want to be around us anymore. This has resulted in a number of probably quite hilarious slow-motion chases around the living room for things like claw trimmings, because she can't move very fast, but she makes up for it with sheer stubborn inertia.