The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[007Sean]

I got my MRI results, my spine is a mess. Pretty torn up about it because i really need to give up heavy lifting. So how do i deal with feed?

As Penny suggested to me put the feed in a pull cart. I know that doesn't confront the taking out of the car and putting it away but might be easier to haul feed around on your place.

 

[ShrekDawg]

That's crazy! I am not moving anywhere where there are any restrictions on what I can and can't do on my land. Even some lifestyle sections here have minimum house sizes (ie. big) you have to build or restrictions around what you can and can't plant. No thank you!

I used to be the fill in Nanny for a family who had a Doberman. She was an absolute sweetheart. Staffordshire Bull Terriers are gorgeous dogs too, if brought up correctly. I've known some sweeties.

Agreed! Exactly why I could never move somewhere with a homeowner’s association. Some of them you even have to paint the house exactly the same color, have to have the same fence (or even some, have to have a fence even if you don’t want one), have to call about replacing a window, etc. sounds like a real pain. I even knew of one that you weren’t allowed to have decals on the car or else had to cover it up. Huge pain lol and big fees just to be told what to do!! No way. This one was an apartment though so you don’t own it so they can have lots of restrictions and breed and size restrictions are extremely common. Also, even if you do own, a lot of homeowner’s insurance won’t cover you if you have certain breeds.

Agreed. Most of the breeds on those lists are sooo sweet.

I found this about declawing dogs. It's banned in many countries because it is cruel. https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/02/21/declawing-dogs-not-a-good-thing/

I think it should definitely be banned. Definitely cruel. Some countries have banned tail docking and ear cropping too.

For a brief period of time when we lived in north FL, a pit adopted us. What a great dog, loved people. He joined the mail ladies family when we moved to WY and they loved that dog to bits.

Pits can be awesome dogs in the right hands.

When I used to walk a lot, I would run into a lady with her pit bull. When she got to the grass she unhooked his leash. My stomach tightened up, I was about to chew her out when the dog ran over to me. It was love at first sight. He was doing circles around me, and I would hug him every chance I got. That was WOLFGANG. My very favorite dog.

After that whenever they were out he would cry as soon as he saw me. She would tell me to cross the street to their side, so he wouldn't run in front of cars. Then she would let him loose. If I was riding the bus, I'd make the driver stop and let me out.

I think sometimes owners are very close to their dogs but, don't really notice things. One day I asked if he was on a diet. She said he was as fat as ever. But, he wasn't, he looked
absolutely gaunt and was straining to pee a drop at a time. That wasn't like him at all.
I mentioned going to the vet, and she said he was fine and went home.

Didn't ever see him again. One day she was out with a sweet but BIG and rowdy pit.
I asked about Wolfgang. She said they took him to the vet one day, and while on the table, his stomach ruptured and he died on the spot. She said she didn't want another big dog but, her husband ran out and got one. New dog was too hard to control,so he vanished.

That’s terrible they sound like irresponsible owners.

Any dog can be made to be mean, just like humans, depends on how they were raised.

Agreed!

Some people just should not be allowed to have animals.

Or kids.

X2.

Very true!

Yup

 

[DigMyChicks]

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Very sad!

@Blooie, have you ever considered acupuncture ? I have a nephew who suffered from chronic pain after a major automobile accident. X rays, MRI's, whatever did not definitively indicate what the problem so the consensus was, "It must all be in his head." He eventually ended up at a acupuncturist who resolved the 'non existent' pain.

I have a friend who just turned 50 and she has macular degeneration in one eye and its starting in the other. She just recently went to Arkansas for accupuncture to help with her eyes. She said her eyes were better when she left.

 

[Blooie]

@Blooie, have you ever considered acupuncture ? I have a nephew who suffered from chronic pain after a major automobile accident. X rays, MRI's, whatever did not definitively indicate what the problem so the consensus was, "It must all be in his head." He eventually ended up at a acupuncturist who resolved the 'non existent' pain.

I guess I could look into it, if our insurance will cover it. The MRI did show that every segment from L1 down to S1 has degenerative disease and bulging disks but we already knew that. And they had all increased in severity from my previous MRI, except for L3-4. That one has all the issues of the others but was “unchanged”. But three CT scans showed spinal cord compression and the MRI definitively said “no compression” so I don’t know what to believe now.

Very sad!

I have a friend who just turned 50 and she has macular degeneration in one eye and its starting in the other. She just recently went to Arkansas for accupuncture to help with her eyes. She said her eyes were better when she left.

I’m not even sure if it’s worth Pershing, though. With this report, insurance is likely to chalk it up to old age and decide it’s not worth paying for.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Some good dew claw videos

 

[CapricornFarm]

As Penny suggested to me put the feed in a pull cart. I know that doesn't confront the taking out of the car and putting it way but might be easier to haul feed around on your place.

I use the Mule to move heavy stuff to the coops, but it still needs to go from the truck into the Mule and then from the Mule to the storage drums.

 

[007Sean]

I use the Mule to move heavy stuff to the coops, but it still needs to go from the truck into the Mule and then from the Mule to the storage drums.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Could you transfer it in 5 gal buckets, from truck to mule, then mule to drums. Alot more work but lighter.

 

[JaeG]

@KDOGG331 it's amazing the difference that little claw makes. Thanks for the videos. Love the name Twylah (2nd video).

 

[ShrekDawg]

@KDOGG331 it's amazing the difference that little claw makes. Thanks for the videos. Love the name Twylah (2nd video).

It really is amazing, isn’t it!? I first saw that video a couple years ago and I couldn’t believe the difference! After that vid, I decided all my future dogs will have dew claws. Not many breeders leave them though. And I love that name too!! Also, I must admit I was a bit concerned for the 15 year old one at first!! But then she just pulled herself out like it was nothing lol

 

[Blooie]

I won’t leave dew claws on. They are easily hidden in fur and I’ve been in on one two many surgeries where a hidden dew claw curved so much and got so long that it grew back into the leg, requiring a messy surgical removal that a puppy at a few days old wouldn’t have even felt being done as it was clipped off. There is no bone in a dew claw in tiny puppies; as they grow a little that soft cartilage becomes bone. I’ve treated the massive bleeding from dew claws in house dogs that have snagged and pulled out getting on or off furniture. Nope.

So despite all the videos in the world, and all the advice to “just keep them trimmed”, I find them virtually unnecessary in 99.9% of domesticated dogs. So I get rid of them if that makes me cruel and sadistic to other animal lovers, so be it.