[Dailydrool] suggestion needed

[R Groves]

Suggestion???  You need to have him evaluated, and probably get X-rays of
his back.
 
At his age, he could have spondylitis ... generally ... arthritis or
deterioration of the bones in the back ... the X-Rays could be easily
telling if there is any spinal fusion, often this means that the spinal cord
is inflamed and not relaying signals properly.  Usually it causes the
"wobbly basset" or drunken sailor effect but only for the rear legs of a
hound.. 
 
And basset hounds being long low creatures they have a tendency toward back
problems as they get older.. 
 
Anyway.... when the spine is unable to relay signals well.. your boy may not
realize he's even pooping ... before rimadyl, my elder boy Doc had that
happen once in a while.. he would be walking.. I'd see the poop come out..
and he'd be completely oblivious to it.. 
 
As he got even older, and the rimadyl effect wore off easier on him.. there
would be times he would curl (or try to) and not realize he had finished
pooping either... or would have pooped while walking.. then got the urge to
scrunch and have already had most of the business done! .... it was both
funny and sad at times.. knowing there was nothing more I could really do
for him.. there are surgeries available.. but last I checked it was in the 2
to 3 thousand range, and when he was 13 .. I figured that really wouldn't
have done much for his longevity ... of course I had to part with him when
he was 14 1/2 (cancer) and he never showed any real signs of pain... 
 
-Robert

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Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:16 PM
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Subject: [Dailydrool] suggestion needed


i need some thoughts from my fellow droolers....Buddydawg is about 12-13
years old and i have always bragged that his bathroom needs were
minimal...as a point of fact, he almost never asks to go out but did
whatever he had to do when i took him out, which was after breakfast and
dinner, at bedtime, and in the late afternoon on occassion...of late i am
finding him to dump in the house, or pee whenever...doesn't happen often,
but like today, he and i were both napping this afternoon, woke up and
started to prepare his dinner, with him at my side in the kitchen, and
smelled something funny, and right there he had dumped, and in the hall way
to the kitchen...no sound, no ask to go out, no nothing...how can i feed him
right after that?...reward?...i don't think so... and how do i reprimand
him? how do i handle it when walk into the living room and find he had peed
there?...i'm lost...it's been a while since i had to housebreak a dog, and
have had very few occassions to do so with Bud in the 6 years he has lived
with me...your suggestions for how to proceed would be much
appreciated...Rene'e




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