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Offline Dessie

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« on: December 03, 2003, 11:59:42 AM »
Act like a dying swan  :cry:  :roll: .....  I mean act like they are really poorly and you can't find a thing wrong with them, even go as far as taking them to the Vet and they can't find anything either and the dog acts perfectly normal at the Vet's  :wink:

Well after his evening walk last night Sebastian (running around after rabbits and chasing Douglas across the beach) is playing the dying swan routine ... and is hobbling around with one paw up ....

Of course I have checked it to make sure everything is ok and can't find anything wrong with it.  And he is putting weight on it and can walk on it but insists that it is hurting him :wink:  :wink:   He even managed to rush into the kitchen and have a chicken wing as soon as he heard the bag being opened  :wink:   His Dad took pity on him last night and let him sleep on the bed and honestly you should of seen him, hobbling around the bed trying to keep his paw up  :wink:  and then flopping back down again  :wink:

Just interested to see if there are any other Oscar Winning Cocker Actors out there  :wink:                    
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« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2003, 01:07:13 PM »
i had a newfie several years ago who decided to limp every time I wanted to enter her in a show  :?:  of course I thought something was wrong with her and we always let her stay at home. The third or fourth time in a row I decided to bring her to the show anyway, limping or not.  Of course she limped around the ring.... BUT afterwards when we walked out to put her in the car and drive home, there was no limping at all..............  :evil: She was never shown again :!:                    
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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2003, 06:11:54 PM »
Millie does this Dessie!
She's been "hobbling" on one of her front paws ( I'm not sure which, as when I get down to watch her walk she thinks I'm there to give her a love!). I got her up on the chair the other day and throughly squeezed, poked, flexed and wiggled her paws and legs joints, but nothing made her flinch or cry out ... yet she'll still hobble past the living room door whilst you're watching Tv, stop to look at you, and then hobble on by, in quite a pathetic manner ....  :twisted:  :D  :lol:                    
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« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2003, 06:19:47 PM »
LOL Kelly, the little actress.  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:



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« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2003, 06:21:14 PM »
Vegas has done this before. I shut his foot in the door(ooooops) so of course, I was grovelling apologies and giving him loads of kisses and he walked it off. I gave him some Metacam that night just in case. But, my God, did that dog milk it :roll: The thing that gave him away was his lack of consistency...when he though nobody was watching him, he'd be walking fine :lol: Of course, when he really did injure his shoulder about 7 months ago, I didn't take him into work straight away as they think I'm neurotic enough and I wasn't having him make a fool of me. Mind you, felt a bit stupid when he had to get x-rays sent off to an orthopeadic specialist a week later :oops: Of course, the first question I got asked was why I hadn't brought him in sooner :roll:

Dallas is no better. He's a little wuss anyway but Vegas got him just below his eye when they were squabbling and, my god, he screamed for about 3 minutes :shock: He then proceeded to walk around like he'd been blinded :roll:  I had a check, also took him into work so they could have a check, and there was the tiniest little wound, so tiny you could barely see it let alone do anything with it. If he'd carried on much longer, I was going to make a little eye patch for him 8)                    
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« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2003, 07:13:16 PM »
What are they like  :wink:

When I came home from work Sebastian was running around back to normal, even went out for a walk and no hobbling around or anything now.  So I think he obviously new Mummy wasn't taken in by his antics as he was still playing Pat up earlier before he went to work  :wink:                    
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« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2003, 06:51:53 PM »
I have back to front dogs.  Holly looks like she is dying all the time but is fine and Chloe has been close to death a few times and still manages to look ok.   :lol:  :lol:   The vets tell me that she is one of the few dogs that can be really ill and still pluck up enough interest to eat.  The last discussion I had with the vet about Chloe she was telling me that all dogs that survive AIHA do so because they have something to live for, be it play, owners, love.  She seriously thinks that with Chloe it is food.  A chip off the old block then.!! :D                    
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« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2003, 06:45:15 PM »
My Emma is a great diva, I think she should be awarded an Oscar for her acts.
Case 1. I don't let her sleep on my bed. She starts shivering and shaking all over, "look mum im so cold, please let me sleep with you". If this doesn't work she starts coughing as she was to vomit soon. Next she does the "dying swan", she lays on her side and shivers and shakes madly and looks at me with those sad eyes of hers "oh mum you're sooo cruel, can't you see how cold i am"
Case 2. It's muddy, rainy and cold outside. Emma dislikes this very much. She starts limping. Once we get home, she's ok.
Case 3. I accidentaly step on her paw. She creams and yell as if she was dying, and looks at me as if I was Cruella De Vici
Case 4. On the trimming table she starts the shivering act all over  :roll:  :D                    
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