Thanks for the suggestion. Hopefully I can go online and find out how much the gift card is for to see if it’s even worth it…
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Slipped in dog barf on my way to the bathroom this morning and fell hard on the concrete floor. Nothing broken, but man am I going to be sore.
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Big complaint. Sorry Doggo threw up, etc.
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Thanks. Was another rough night for him, which means he threw up more than 20 times, which is why we missed that one. It mostly happens at night and sometimes soothing stops the heaves cycle. I’m starting to think part of it is anxiety/fear. He knows he’s less capable of handling any damn thing that might come at him than he used to be.
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That is heartbreaking. <3
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Poor guy 
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Our old man has always had some separation anxiety. Having another dog helped to some degree. Now he is the only dog but I am with him all day. He does seem to search the house, even when we are in the same room with him, and barks at us if we aren’t in the room he wants us in. Spouse thinks he is looking for the dog that died in May when he searches. Now I say he is taking roll call.
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Thanks. We have to solve this because the new anti inflammatory is working so well he’s getting around like he did five years ago and he’s noticeably happy when not heaving and not wiped out from lack of sleep (then he’s napping). But this is definitely making a big impact on his quality of life (and ours).
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It’s been a year and a half since we lost his little girl (who wasn’t little, also a Great Dane), but this hasn’t been going on that long. We also observing the barking recently, usually right after dark. Hmm.
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Our old man is now partly deaf, and probably cannot see as well. I think that factors in to his anxiety since he isn’t getting clear noise or visual signals. But it is all a guess.
Have you tried Cerenia or other anti-vomiting drugs. Cerenia is expensive - girl dog was on it due to chemo drug. She was small so we could get a higher dose pill and split in half.
There are also anti-anxiety drugs. But it sucks to end up with a bunch of drugs. I think there are plug-in diffusers for anxiety.
Old Dog must be exhausted, and you all as well.
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He was on remadyl at night until side effects got out of hand (restlessness and hyperactivity - he was wearing himself out). We may need to add back in a nighttime anti nausea again. We’d hoped Prilosec would do it, but it has been three weeks now.
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Our girl was also getting Pepcid AC (generic from Costco) to help avoid stomach upset from the chemo. I really don’t know if it helped - we were on several drugs almost immediately, so hard to parse out what worked, and it didn’t make sense to take her off of a cheap drug.
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Yes, I understand that. We have a fair little cocktail going over here too. He was on pepcid until three weeks ago when our vet switched us to Prilosec in hopes it would be more helpful. We do have some carafate to use as needed, but it’s hard to decide when because it’s really needed most of the time.
Calling the vet back and meanwhile planning to try to get us all some sleep with Benadryl tonight.
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AH POOP. My license expires this year, which means I need to get a new one (and I have to anyway for the new airline regulations, unless I don’t fly ever), but if I follow through on my plan to move I will only have the new one for like… 3 months. I can’t NOT renew my license. Such a waste of money. Blah.
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Husband dislocated his shoulder again. Worried he’ll need another surgery on it.
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that is NOT a tiny complaint!
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I use my passport to fly anyway since Oregon licenses are so sketchy in other states (they put a sticker on them when you move and it looks fake). So you can always just use your passport/passport card (for domestic, not intl).
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This is both adorable and sad and makes me miss my old lady, even though she suffered from dementia pretty badly in the end. The separation anxiety thing is really, really hard.
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Well, that would be an option but my passport expired in 2018 (oops). 
it is something I need to rectify, but it probably won’t happen before my license expires (and I still need it to, like, drive. At least it is only like $25? And I think I can do it online since I have never renewed here before. Small victories, I guess.)
(They are actually replacing peoples’ licenses here to be the updated ones, at no cost. Unless yours expires before October, in which case you have to just renew as normal (and pay as normal) and hope no TSA agent is an asshole before then (which they shouldn’t be but…
). At least mine is soon…)
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Ha! It probably says something that I need my passport far more than I need my driver’s license. I fly and/or leave the country most months, I haven’t driven in like…10 or 11 years.
Oh, Oregon is charging us for the new IDs and we’re not going to be in Real ID compliance as a state until AFTER it’s supposed to be enforced in airports.
I have pre-check so I don’t actually have to show my ID to get through security most of the time anymore. They use facial rec at many airports.
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