Old dog leaving calling cards
Our 12 1/2 year old spayed, female Bichon mix, Pogo, has started occasionally leaving one little piece of poo around the house. They are about the size of a grape. This is new behavior that has be...
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We're not there yet (with the calling cards) but feel we may be shortly. Our thirteen year old dachshund has gotten so that he occasionally alerts us too late that he has to go. Sometimes it's just one or two barks, and if you take too long getting him out the door (at home or on the road) you have a "Cleanup on aisle five." I've learned to not dawdle in getting the slippers on and getting him out the door.
The DVM has mentioned maybe the beginnings of a little cognitive dysfunction as a cause for this or it just may be due to his history of spine problems. We've got a few other things to try to sort out before we try any medication for that though.
He's had a rough life but has never complained and is always happy. The tail never stops. He had mostly successful spine surgery for IVDD at age four. Only we knew he still had a little deficit in the left rear as he'd look like a hook and ladder truck with no one at the tiller running downhill (sometimes the back caught up with the front).
He's been treated with Vetoryl for Cushings disease for over three years now. It was largely under control but only recently his ACTH numbers went up and we've had to increase his dose. Along with that increase in his ACTH has come an increase in some liver values especially alkphosphate and ALT. We HOPE upon hope that increasing the Vetoryl and getting the Cushings back under control will bring these down.
He's a poster child for genetic defects in dachshunds and also has worsening hip dysplasia and the beginning of luxating patellas.
The DVM has mentioned maybe the beginnings of a little cognitive dysfunction as a cause for this or it just may be due to his history of spine problems. We've got a few other things to try to sort out before we try any medication for that though.
He's had a rough life but has never complained and is always happy. The tail never stops. He had mostly successful spine surgery for IVDD at age four. Only we knew he still had a little deficit in the left rear as he'd look like a hook and ladder truck with no one at the tiller running downhill (sometimes the back caught up with the front).
He's been treated with Vetoryl for Cushings disease for over three years now. It was largely under control but only recently his ACTH numbers went up and we've had to increase his dose. Along with that increase in his ACTH has come an increase in some liver values especially alkphosphate and ALT. We HOPE upon hope that increasing the Vetoryl and getting the Cushings back under control will bring these down.
He's a poster child for genetic defects in dachshunds and also has worsening hip dysplasia and the beginning of luxating patellas.
