The Dog Pic Thread

[Jenny]

Good to hear

 

[Mel]

Thanks for the update, and hoping for a good outcome for you

 

[ilovepugs]

My emotional support pug came to work with me today. He sticks to me like a little tumor. I love him completely.

 

[LiquidFeet]

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My emotional support pug came to work with me today. He sticks to me like a little tumor. I love him completely.

Is his gray hair color something he's had since he was born? Or does the gray mean he's showing his age? I've always wondered.

 

[ilovepugs]

Is his gray hair color something he's had since he was born? Or does the gray mean he's showing his age? I've always wondered.

It’s a mixture. He is brindle-colored, but his face has gotten very grey over the years. He just turned 8 in June.

As a baby:

 

[LiquidFeet]

Such a cutie.

 

[coskigirl]

Thanks for the healing thoughts. Miss Remy pulled through the critical 48 hours where the doctor said she had a 50% chance of survival. I’ve been staying at a hotel 2 minutes down the street in case things went bad fast. Her kidney function is slowly improving (creatinine 4.7 —> 2.8) and her platelet count has gone from 20k up to 100k. Her liver function is declining and they don’t know why, and the prognosis is still very uncertain if she’ll walk out of there. But now language about “diagnosis” is being used by the internal medicine specialist more often than “difficult decisions”

She walked to our visits under her own power today and planted her claws when they tried to take her back. Here she is enjoying a nap with her favorite toy (Dino the Eldest). It is loud and bright and chaotic where she is, so the receptionist gave us a blanket and dimmed the lights and she flopped and started snoring immediately.

Any Remy updates?

 

[coskigirl]

It took her a few days to forgive me for leaving her for 9 days but I think she finally has.

 

[zircon]

Any Remy updates?

The internal medicine specialist called this morning!

When I talked to them last night, her creatinine was down to 1.7, her platelets were low normal, and her bilirubin was down from a high of 8.5 to 6.9 so liver function was slowly improving. She was walking pretty confidently and tried to take the nurse out the front door instead of going back inside. They were able to drain the infected fluid pocket at her elbow and her leg is back down to muscles and tendons and not a water balloon. Last night was the first time I heard the internal medicine doc say she was happy (multiple times!) with results and her progress.

This morning, her creatinine is normal and her platelets are low normal. Bilirubin is 3.7 (other liver enzymes still elevated) but they like the trend. She ate enthusiastically for them without harassment or even stopping to sniff, and also took cheese and little chicken sausage treats from me when I visited just now. I don't want to get my hopes up, but she's bright and attentive, getting a little cranky about strangers again, and the specialist thinks if she continues like this she can come home tomorrow afternoon and continue care at home instead of in the ICU.

Contemplating whether she can get at the bag of chicken sausages without getting out of her nice warm blanket cocoon.

CHOMP

 

[coskigirl]

Such good news! I look forward to tomorrow's pupdate!

 

[Jenny]

Great news!

 

[Bad Bob]

Great news; keeping fingers crossed.

 

[Mel]

Rufus got steak and a birthday cookie for his 6th birthday today! Such a spoiled pup

 

[ilovepugs]

Happy birthday Rufus! As they say: “I work hard to give my dog a better life!”

 

[Coach13]

My 14 month old grandson with his pups.

 

[zircon]

Not to monopolize this thread but… LOOK WHO I FOUND!

About 6 pounds too skinny, wobbly on her feet, and on a list of meds a mile long, but still deploying her signature “no take only throw” glare on demand.

 

[skiki]

Yay, she's home again!

 

[ilovepugs]

Yay welcome home Remy!!!

 

[fatport]

 

[Snowfan]

Bluto pillow...she is my huckleberry.