[Dailydrool] Senior Dental

[Kelly Epley]

I foster and only free feed.  I have 2 eight year old bassets that have no
weight issues.

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Tom Hickcox <cometkazie1 at cox.net> wrote:

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> At 22:47 1/31/2010, Cheryl Medlin wrote:
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>  I was rightly concerned about the risks of cleaning for my senior Basset.
>> When he had to be put down in August, the sedation shot collapsed his veins
>> and it was  a bad experience. They had a hard time getting the shot into a
>> vein to euthanize him. Bad circumstanes made worse. My point; I wouldn't
>> risk it for a cleaning.I think a cleaning would have been the end of my
>> baby.
>>
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> My Maggie Lou was slow to get over the effects of the anesthesia.  Two
> months later she was dead from liver cancer six weeks shy of thirteen years.
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> This certainly did not hasten her end, but it was the first sign.  The next
> sign several weeks later was she was finicky about eating her food,
> certainly a danger sign in the bassets I have known.
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> That raises a question:  My daughter leaves kibble down for my grandpups
> and they eat when they are ready.  When the basset brigade is in town, we
> have to put the food up as they will eat what is available.  Does anyone
> have a basset that eats only when it is hungry and you leave food down?
>  Mine take what is down and then lick the other's bowl.
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> Tommy in Baton Rouge
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Kelly Epley
Hounds Have Basset Rescue
(913) 707-2064
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