13 doggy years

After a tough week fighting an infection, we lost our best buddy today — Pixel. He's been with me and my partner for more than 6 years.

He was about 12 years old, although he could have been older, as he was found after being thrown out of a car. We then adopted him from the charity foundation that had rescued him.

We would love to see some other pups to help us deal with the loss ❤️

This guy wandered out of the bushes yesterday limping and with some open sores. After some coaxing and food bribes I was able to get him in my truck and delivered to the local humane society.

Its my little Luna-Beans 1st birthday!! Share your puppy birthday pics 🫶🏻

Bailey and Juniper besties forever ❤️

Taz!!!

We’ve had our almost 9 year old chihuahua rat terrier since she was about 12 weeks old. Shes always been a happy healthy sweet girl. Over the years, she’s slowed down and started having bad skin episodes. Itching, smelling so bad regardless of medicated baths, hair falling out etc.

We’ve gone to countless vet visits, gotten her on apoquel, antibiotics etc. It started off about 1x per year and the vet said it was most likely environmental. We were on top of her flea meds and did an antibiotic. The infection came back worse, and started to occur about 3-4x per year. Vets would always put her on apoquel and antibiotics. It would work but came back all the time. I had asked if it could be her food. She was on hills science chicken food, chicken wet food, treats etc. Vet said it’s mostly never food allergies and just had her on the same routine of antibiotics and apoquel.

After so many expensive visits, special shampoos and medication, I didn’t know what else to do. I felt so helpless. She was always chewing her limbs, licking herself, scratching and always had wounds on her. At one point, her neck was red and raw and oozing, and smelled like a dead body. I finally decided to try to see if it was her food.

I switched her to just kibble. It was super hard to find something with no chicken. I found this great salmon option on Amazon. It’s been 3 weeks and our girl seems like she’s back to her old self. She’s playful again, her hair is growing back on her bald spots, and even on her chest which she hasn’t had in years, she seems more comfortable and she doesn’t smell bad anymore. I’m truly hoping this is the answer to our issues.

I’m now wondering if the vet just wanted to keep us coming back for medication. I will be continuing this as I know it takes up to 12 weeks for chicken to get out of dogs system. But overall I’m hopeful that we found an easy solution to our zombie girls problem.

TLDR: dog with years of skin issues was put on a chicken free diet and after 3 weeks it’s done more than years of medication.

When she was a puppy, she used to climb onto my desk all the time, sometimes sneaking right under my hands and falling asleep as if she had stepped into a "creative triangle" while I was sketching and working on concepts.

Even now, she occasionally tries to do the same thing. But she’s not a puppy anymore and completely takes up all the space. When that happens, she completely puts my work on hold, of course, but I just take a break and pet her, remembering those exact moments from her puppyhood.

Here are some of my favorite pictures of him.

Got this sweet boy so my current ESA Wanda can retire. Even at 4 months old he is so smart. I can't wait to get his DNA tested and let him pick out more toys!

14 years and it doesn’t feel like nearly long enough.

Greetings from Argentina, and you?

I'm not sure where else to post this. I live remote, vets are closed till Tuesday and there's no emerg in the area. My dog has randomly got a large bald spot missing from his tail. At first I thought maybe our other dog bit him but it is solidly bald. It doesn't seem to hurt him, I havent noticed him being overly itchy or biting his tail. He's a corgi. Any insight? I'm so worried. There is a scabby spot where hair is still growing through it. He didn't appear to have this spot yesterday.

Hi! Wondering if anyone can tell me how old this dog is? Ive been trying to figure it out but cant quite tell...she doesnt have THE most energy but she still enjoys walks. She usually gets pretty tired after a 30 minute walk and is ready to take a nap. She comes from an unknown background so she might not have had the best teeth care. Also wondering what type of mixed breed she might be? Our strongest guess is a long haired chihuahua mix with jack Russell. But your guess is as good as ours!

Thank you so much in advance!

He was not happy with the photo shoot. There were so sooo so many bribes involved…

My 8 yo golden retriever went for a teeth cleaning last week. They noticed a small mass on her lower gum that we never noticed and did an excision. Found out today that it was a really aggressive melanoma. The vet called today and said that she has 3-6 months to live. We have a goals of care visit planned for next week and I can’t believe it. She is totally normal right now, but I guess based on the histology it was a really aggressive cancer that they think has already metastasized. Heartbroken and can’t believe it

Need some weighing in here (this is not my dog, technically my sister’s bf’s dog). My sister loves him so he stays with us most times but bf does his maintenance.

I’ve been asking for weeks, when is this dog getting his nails trimmed. My sister will dutifully bring it up to him and he swears the dog doesn’t need his nails cut. To the point where it’s causing a huge fight where he says he’s going to send a vet friend over to our place to confirm he doesn’t need his nails cut.

To me this is obvious, becoming actually neglectful, and he needs at least every outside nail and his dewclaws trimmed.

I took some photos, he has nails that are starting to curl under his paw pads and some are badly cracked.

What does the dog community say? Are we being crazy helicopter dog moms or does this dog need his nails cut?

About 13 days ago, I posted here because I had a little dog about to have puppies. We rescued her w/o knowledge of the pregnancy. My wife nor myself have ever had a pregnant dog. I was asking for advice.
This is an update: she had 6 puppies, one at home and 5 in the ER vets office. The first one came at 8:24. At 10:23 she hadn’t had another puppy so we took her in. 2 dose’s of oxytocin and we left at 2am with 6 healthy puppies one exhausted mama dog, and a much lighter bank account. Here’s the pic.