Show us your dogs!

[eastyy]

my dog

[PH2]

Three pics of our new Border Collie pup Jack.

Settling in a couple of days after we got him.

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1420/000jackfa7.jpg

Exactly 3 months old.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/1799/00jackrh0.jpg

A couple of weeks later and getting bigger quickly.

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3356/01jackfh5.jpg

We had to have Jack put to sleep yesterday.

For first two years he was in perfect health and was such a happy dog. His run of misfortune started in March 2009 when he jumped of a low bridge and double fractured one of his front legs. Within the week he was operated on by the great people at Davies Veterinary Specialists. He had to stay indoors for a whole two months and then had to stay on the lead for the next four.

He was looking so good and then another nightmare happened in November '09. One Sunday morning me and the missus were just lazing about when we heard some loud banging from upstairs. Jack was fitting on the landing. I phoned the vet and was told to bring him in if it happened again. Anyway, three weeks passed and another fit. We started him on epilepsy drugs (epiphen and epilease, both dog drugs) but through the months all that happened was an increase in drugs and, unfortunately, the seizures, which had turned into cluster seizures. Sometimes he would go three weeks without a problem and then bang, seizure after seizure over a two or three day period. He was at the emergency night vets three times over the space of a month or two because it had got so bad when he had the fits.

Finally in May 2010 we decided to call it a day because quite simply there didn't seem to be any hope. The vet who was on duty (it was a Saturday evening) said he had been doing some reading and said that if we wanted we could try a human epilepsy drug called Keppra which we would have to get from Superdrug or the like. Of course we would do anything for Jack so we gave it a try. He started on the Keppra and was perfectly OK for 125 days before he had a fit. It was quite a bad fit but we got him out of it and upped the does. He lasted another 80 days but then it went downhill again. The fits starting coming quicker again and while not as agressive as before we were of course worried. Then a few days ago he started fitting in the night and we gave him his drugs and he seemed ok. For whatever reason he started fitting again in the morning and he didn't stop. We took him to the vets, they injected him with valium, we tried an increase in medication, but nothing.

Yesterday afternoon we, again, decided to give up. I sensed in his eyes (after what was to bit his last seizure, a bad one) that he had enough. I took him up to the vets and they put him to sleep while I was holding his head in my hands. He was only just over four years old.

RIP Jack.

[Kieran76]

Sorry about your dog mate, I remember the night my old dog, Tiger, had a fit and it was horrible to see. He lasted another 6 months, but was never the same again. Non dog lovers don't realise how hard it is to put your dog down.

[Dogg Thang]

That's really rough. Sorry to hear that. What a beautiful dog. It's so hard, I know.

[PH2]

Thanks guys. Trying to keep my chin up but failing at the mo.

The thing that is hardest for me to take was that he acted and looked just like a normal healthy dog (apart from a little mild sedation because of all the medication he had to take) when he wasn't fitting or getting over the fits.

[Nocturne]

Dog Thread of Who Let the Dogs Out?

Woof, woof, woof, woof.

->Open Spoiler<-

It had to be done, haha.

Your dog, someone else's dog, the dogs from Homeward Bound.

I'll kick things off with my pup who wasn't too happy about his first bath.

[Bort]

https://www.bordersdown.net/showthread.php?44780

[Fader209]

The emotionless robotic link redirect at its best >_>

Cute puppy though! He has to be called Gizmo with ears like that.

[koopatroopa90]

www.bordersdown.net/showthread.php?44780

How come I have never seen this thread, and yet the cat one is often at the top?

[RobRoy]

Dogs are more awesome than cats tbh

Here's mine called Dexter

[Bort]

How come I have never seen this thread, and yet the cat one is often at the top?

Cat owners are shallow and vapid. trollololol

[egparadigm]

How come I have never seen this thread, and yet the cat one is often at the top?

EDDIE M0NS00N!

[koopatroopa90]

This is Blossy on the first day we got her, I'll try find a more recent one and sorry for crappy iphone photo quality!



Edit: Ok you guys asked for it, thumbs so as not to break the thread:

Brulee (Bru):


Digby (Diggers - poor dog, don't have many photos of him!):

More of Blossom (Blossy):

[Kieran76]

Dogs are more awesome than cats tbh

Here's mine called Dexter

I love dogs and that is an ace photo. Seeing a happy dog makes me smile.

[Colin]

Mine, Belushi, after a near 20 mile walk. (I was in an even worse state.............)