Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[MROO]

It needs to be dry and not smelly. Did you use low VOX paint?
Mary

Hmmmm .... guess I'll have to go check. Wouldn't THAT bite - to get it all done and then realize we used the wrong stuff?!

EDIT to Add:
YES! We DID! It's "LOW VOC!" I'd like to say we planned it that way ... but I'd be fibbing ...

 

[Folly's place]

It will be fine when it's not smelly/ outgassing. I would try to use the safer choice though.
I do use 'oops stain out there myself, all water based.
Mary

 

[MROO]

Hmmmm .... guess I'll have to go check. Wouldn't THAT bite - to get it all done and then realize we used the wrong stuff?!

YES! We DID! I'd like to say we planned it that way ... but I'd be fibbing ...

So - Whaddaya think? Can they go back in tonight,
or should we wait til tomorrow? Or next week? Or a year from next Thursday?

 

[Folly's place]

I'd want them back out there tonight too!
Mary

 

[MROO]

I'd want them back out there tonight too!
Mary

They were in an open pen, last night - really just a sectioned off piece of the bachelors' run. Something set them off, this morning, about an hour after the 4:30 organic alarm clock routine. All five "Big Girls" and their bantam rooster started alarm squawking - which, of course set off EVERYONE else ... and REALLY upset a neighbor up the road a bit (They were LOUD!)
I'm thinking that the egg factory needs to move back to their regular digs tonight, before it ends up getting us all in trouble. I'm also thinking of calling their unnamed coop "The Blind Side," because not only does it keep them from seeing all the potential chicken-eating dangers of the world (like plastic bags and clothes lines and dogs three yards over) but it allows my neighbors to turn a blind eye to the fact that I have multiple roosters - a practice somewhat frowned upon around here!

 

[rosemarythyme]

I used to want to be a vet when I was younger until I realized you had to put animals down

Decided no way could I do that.

My sister in law finally finished vet school and then decided to go back through more training, to specialize in dermatology. It takes a lot longer to specialize but her reasoning is that dermatology doesn't get sudden emergency cases (she had worked at an emergency clinic, and had enough of dogs with gunshot or auto accident wounds at 3 AM) and that you generally end up with a fully recovered, happy patient.

I get when it’ll harm the animal more than it’ll do good. I refused seizure treatment for my puggle and went homeopathic with treatment.

I also opted to not put my last dog through chemo, as she had cancer up both mammary chains and into the lungs. The vet pushed me to see a specialist but I knew even with treatment it was unlikely we'd extend her life by much. To be miserably driven 2-3 times a week to see a specialist, take medication that would probably make her feel even worse, all to extend her life by 6 months? Not worth it. We opted to keep her at home and as comfortable as possible until she let us know she was done.

 

[Folly's place]

I've done chemo with two special dogs of mine, and radiation therapy also for one of them, and it was worth it both times. One dog had only a three week remission, lousy, but it's impossible to know how it will go at the start. My other dog had over eleven happy pain free months, a good outcome for him.
Chemo and radiation for animals is NOT done as it is for people! The goal is good quality of life throughout the process, not how miserable to make the patient!!!
Everyone won't get the same level of care here either, depending on the problem, and most of our critters failed with untreatable things anyway, so it's not even an option for so many things that can go wrong!
Mary

 

[MROO]

Another Covid Moment ... DD is sitting behind me, finishing up her online entries for the Virtual County Fair and listening to her favorite country station. Scotty McCreary's "Five More Minutes" came on and her constant chatter suddenly stopped. I turned around to see what had her stumped, and she looked up, with her eyes filling and said, "I've always liked this song, but now I get it. It means so much more, now. I wish I had five more minutes with Melee (the favorite cow she lost recently) or on the tennis court, or with Marching Band, or with my friends in the hallway..." Then she got really, really quiet. She starts college in a couple of months. She'll never get that back. It's so sad. I love my girl!

 

[rosemarythyme]

I've done chemo with two special dogs of mine, and radiation therapy also for one of them, and it was worth it both times. One dog had only a three week remission, lousy, but it's impossible to know how it will go at the start. My other dog had over eleven happy pain free months, a good outcome for him.
Chemo and radiation for animals is NOT done as it is for people! The goal is good quality of life throughout the process, not how miserable to make the patient!!!

Glad you got good results for your pups, but in my case, I still feel we made the right decision due to other factors. When we had one of the mammary chains removed and biopsied, the stitches were put in too tight and the entire incision split and became infected, so my dog was needing bandage changes every other day for over a month and was in a lot of discomfort. She was nearly 100 lbs and being driven in my tiny 2 seater car... the thought of having to also drive her some 40 miles to see the specialist for chemo multiple times a week was too much, which is why I mentioned a miserable drive being a factor.

Also once it was confirmed to have spread to the lungs, the vet confirmed it was pretty much an unrecoverable situation at that point.

 

[Folly's place]

Yes, everything can't be fixed, or even improved, and then it's just time. You know when 'enough' is 'enough' and make the right decision, hard as it is.
My dog with lymphoma, who had three weeks, was long ago, and treatments are better now. But it's still a bad thing! Best outcome ever, one of our veterinarian's dogs developed lymphoma, was treated, and has been in remission for about ten years! She's an outlier in the other direction!
Mary