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Re: Determining a dogs age
dturm wrote: It's pretty easy to tell up to about 1-2 years. Permanent Teeth have a pretty "fixed" eruption date, though it does vary a little. Adult teeth are all in and fully grown by a year. Wear starts at that point and varies greatly by diet and chewing habits. General health, diet genetics and habits cause so much variation that any guess at that point is just that - a guess. Doug, DVM Thanks, Dr. Doug. My DH will be thrilled to be vindicated, LOL. And I am happy because we might be able to enjoy this little doggy for longer than we thought.581Views0likes0CommentsRe: Determining a dogs age
Deb and Ed M wrote: Aren't poodles and Bichons breeds that tend to live longer? My Aussiepoo is 11 and still silly and playful in spite of losing his sight to diabetes (he still insists on playing fetch!) And having a white muzzle - you don't see the graying that tends to give away some dogs' ages. Clearly, you've done a great job of rehabbing your dog!! I think little dogs generally do live longer. Some Bichons live well into their mid-to-late teens. And with them being white, you just don't see them graying.580Views0likes0CommentsRe: Determining a dogs age
Big Katuna wrote: We had two black Standard Poodles. Sadie lived to almost seventeen and her boy almost fifteen. They never turned gray and looked like they did when they were five right up to about a year or two before they died. They age quickly and start losing weight when it’s time. Our last dog was an 80-lb black Standard Poodle. Smartest dog in the world, so regal and stately. Sadly, he only lived to 11yrs old. As you said, when they start aging it can escalate quickly. He was frail for about a year and had multiple injuries due to arthritic joints. And then one day, he just started failing. We propped him up with meds and IV fluids a couple times, but within the week it was clear his time was up.580Views0likes0CommentsRe: Got bad news
I agree with the others. If you can still camp, but can't drive, the answer is to set it up at a campground and visit it as often as you can. Five years ago, DH and I decided we could no longer tow, due to health. We found a campground that would let us store our rig when we weren't there. They brought it out and set it on a site whenever we liked. We found that we actually camped MORE this way. Go figure! DH can no longer drive at all and his health is poor, but he has the best attitude. He says, "I can be sick in the city or in the mountains. I choose the mountains." Now we live in in it full-time at the campground.549Views0likes0CommentsDetermining a dogs age
We've had our little Bichon-poodle, Tiki, for 6 years. We rescued him from a kill shelter and almost literally raised him from the dead. Some intensive nursing on our part brought him back to life. At the time, the vet estimated that he was about 5yrs old, based on his teeth. Now, my DH is questioning whether he is indeed an 11yr old dog. Tiki doesn't have the "look" of an elderly dog at all.He's not frail, has all of his teeth, is very healthy. But then again, Bichons look like teddy bears until they are well into their teens. I tend to agree with the vet, that he was probably about 5 when we got him and 6 years later he would be 11. DH thinks his birthdate is off by 4-5 years (yes, I realize that would make Tiki a newborn when we got him, but there's no reasoning with this man!) Sooo, how does a vet determine a dog's age?2.2KViews0likes14CommentsRe: Advice for first time RV rental and experience
ascanio1 wrote: LOL! I loved the compassion for the Gerbil! Did it get a full funeral back at home? LOL, we actually did. You have to get the whole picture, though. My 14yo daughter had raised gerbils from the age of 5. She made little clothes for them. They wore Barbie crowns and rode around in the Barbie car. When we went on our 60-day tour of the US, we couldn't find anyone willing to take the 9 gerbils, so we packed them into two cages, Boys Dorm and Girls Dorm, and transported them around the country in the shower tub. When Devereaux died unexpectedly, Daughter was devastated. Her dad so compassionately dug a hole right there in the Grand Tetons, to which my daughter was completely horrified--No way was she putting her precious gerbil in the ground for wolves to dig up! So, I ended up wrapping him up in plastic and storing him next to the popsicles. For YEARS the joke in our family was "Don't eat anything in Mom's freezer!" We buried him in our "gerbil graveyard" when we got home.1KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Advice for first time RV rental and experience
ascanio1 wrote: The RV part must be perfect and flawless so that we can then repeat the experience and improve on the holiday aspects that were not perfect (Park access, long waits, bad food, bad attractions, etc.). Bwahahahaha. "RV" "privacy" and "perfect/flawless" do not belong in the same sentence. RVing is all about adventures, the ones you planned and the ones you hadn't planned. Half the fun of RVing is the little (and sometimes big) situations that inevitably arise. If everyone can remain flexible, resilient, kind, cool, and friendly you'll have a great time. If one or more of you are high maintenance, I foresee an uncomfortable experience. As for privacy, divest yourselves of that notion. There is NO privacy aboard an RV. Make peace with hearing, seeing, and smelling your friends' every pee, poop, fart, kiss, cuddle, and disagreement. If you can go along and pretend that these things are not happening within 20-feet of where you're sitting, you'll be fine. Cultivate a very broad sense of humor for this trip, cuz you're gonna need it. ETA: Here are some highlights of our years of RVing: *Ear infection, burst eardrum *Hit a building, tore off half the roof ($3,000) *Ran out of diapers in Yellowstone *Gerbil died in Grand Tetons, transported home in the freezer *Vomiting & diarrhea x 2 days *Cornea abrasion *Bashed the front of the camper ($6,000) *Nearly ran out of gas in the desert *Got lost in the Big Horn Mountains *Buffalo peed on our campsite (5-ft in diameter pool of pee!) *Lightning strike 10 feet from the camper, made our ears ring *Life-threatening pneumonia *Wind tore off the awning ($1,000) *Rolled our rig & tow vehicle183Views0likes0CommentsRe: New to RV'ing, many questions
Chargenrse wrote: Thanks again for the info, as for being to the west coast I have lived in Northern California and Aspen Colorado when I was a teen, so I know how large the area is, my family though, especially my husband has never been west. I wanted to show them what I love about the West coast, but after reading everything I realize I was living a fantasy dream lol. I am interested in maybe flying to the west coast and then renting an RV once there to just go up the west coast. Any other info and ideas would be great. Also I would actually like to do this trip right before summer in the spring actually. This is how we do it now. We have done the 6,000 mile cross-country RV trip with two kids, 12 & 14. It took us 6 weeks and it was the highlight of our life! The thought of trying to pack it all into 2-3 weeks is daunting. I'm just not into driving flat-out for days on end, seeing America from the front seat of my rig. We spent 2 weeks in Washington last fall. We toyed with the idea of making it a cross-country CAR trip (we have a Prius.) But in the end, neither of us felt interested in driving for several weeks. Instead, we flew to Seattle, rented a car, and then drove to all the places we wanted to see. It was a great way to see the PNW and when we returned to Georgia we weren't worn out from all the driving.455Views0likes0CommentsRe: Moving TT from GA to FL
Thanks for the suggestions. We're not planning to move household goods.The little bit we need to keep will fit in a 10x10 storage unit. Everything else has gone or will go to Salvation Army. It's been eye-opening as we've culled our stuff. It's amazing how much **** we've been holding on to!248Views0likes0Comments
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