[Dailydrool] panting, lip licking, gas and hot stuff

[Swartz]

Wendell W. Bottom, congratulations on the birth of your new sister. Teach 
her well of the ways of hound and OEBE.

Colt the food vacuum here. Brudder Elwood, a little bite of advice. My momma 
make this stuff called Chickie enchilada soup. Momma says it warm the soul, 
and burn out the yuckies in a person.  All I know it burn a hound all the 
way down & flames shoot out your butt. Ice Cream the key to the hot stuff, 
eat ice cream before the hot stuff to help cool the hot stuff on the way 
down and help it to slide on through. Also eat ice cream after to cool the 
inards back down.  Ice Cream put out that fire in your butt hole and take 
the scream out of you.  It good stuff that ice cream is.

And now at the paw board the Momma:
panting, licking lips and eating: Colt did this about a month or so ago. He 
had been fine, ate his dinner and was snoozing on the couch when he started 
panting & seemed to be in some sort of stress. (he was laying under the AC 
vent so he was not hot) then he got up licking lips, tried to lay down, 
couldn't get comfy. Honestly I thought that he was bloating and started 
looking up signs and symptoms of bloat, got my stethoscope out to listen for 
tummy sounds and there was none. Now I am  panicking, it is Sunday night and 
that means trip to the Emergency Vet. AGH!  Then I saw on my ipod that it 
could be gas, and to give gas-x and watch carefully for a few hours and take 
them to the vet if symptoms don't improve or if they get worse. I gave the 
gas-x tablet, and because I was in my PJ's, went to put clothes on to run to 
vet if needed. When I came back he was laying in the kitchen floor. Normally 
he would have followed me. So I take out the stethoscope again to listen for 
tummy sounds...praying for tummy sounds, hear this awful rumbling, (sweet 
music actually) and then PPPPPLLLLLLFFFFFFFTTTTT yeppers a huge basset gas 
bomb that would have made Elder Clara proud of my boy.  Momma was relieved! 
And never did a fart smell so foul but yet so sweet. After that Colt jumped 
up on the couch and went to sleep as I sat their eyeballs on him watching 
for any signs of bloat and kept sticking that cold stethoscope on his belly 
to listen to the gentle sounds of belly music for the next 2 hours.

Becky, If you are stressed then Morse is probably stressed to. Our hounds 
are a reflection of us, their emotional selves feed off of our energy. And 
if we are sick or stressed then it is like feeding them a
bad diet. There is a wiccan belief, and it may sound crazy to non wiccans, 
but dogs love their humans so much that they try to pull the negative energy 
out of their humans and take it onto themselves to keep
their humans well.  Wiccans believe that this is why a dog or other caring 
type pets live such short lives. No matter how bad your day is don't you 
always feel better as soon as you see Morse's smooshy little
face?  Feel even better when you collapse on the couch and snuggle up with 
him, and even giggle when he gives you a big ol' wet slurrpie? AHHH the 
power of a hound...magical isn't it?

Momma to the Bad A** Basset Brothers
Colt "in the words of Shrek, Better out than in"
Ruger "GAS, GAS, GAS"