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class=262570512-01032009>Suggestion??? </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=262570512-01032009>You need to have him evaluated,
and probably get X-rays of his back.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=262570512-01032009>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.. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=262570512-01032009>And basset hounds being long low creatures they have a
tendency toward back problems as they get older.. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=262570512-01032009>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.. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=262570512-01032009>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... </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=262570512-01032009>-Robert</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> dailydrool-bounces@dailydrool.org
[mailto:dailydrool-bounces@dailydrool.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>RGeyer5165@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:16
PM<BR><B>To:</B> dailydrool@dailydrool.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Dailydrool]
suggestion needed<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 color=#800000 size=5
face=Basque PTSIZE="18"><B>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<BR><BR></B></FONT><BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>You're
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