Am I the only one that feels really guilty over things I have to do to or make my dogs do that is for their own good but they don´t like? Right now there is a week untill Bailie is due to deliver and I have made her a little nest by my bed and shut it off with a gate because I am afraid she might hurt herself jumping on or off the bed or even fall of the bed. My bed is really high. She is not complaining but she gives me this really sorry look and sighs when she lays down and I feel so bad. I also don´t want to crate her just in case she goes into early labour, I need to have good and fast access to her. Am I a really mean doggie mommy?
Ooooh it's like human kids sometimes, you do the best you can n' it's all you can do sometimes. I dunno perhaps a compromise might be a sleeping bag or some way for you to sleep down at her level for awhile?
I feel guilty every time I have to force Pereg's jaws open and hold them closed after popping her medication in her mouth until she swallows. After three years of taking her pills wrapped in a piece of cheese with no problems at all, for the last eight or nine months I have to force her take them - five times a day. As for Bailie and sleeping arrangements - I always made a whelping pen beside my couch and slept on the couch for the last week before any of my girls were due - also slept on it for the first week after they whelped. Good luck Dagbjört - I hope everything goes smoothly for little Bailie.
I spent nearly a year on an awful guilt trip after Georgina developed severe entropion at 4 months old. To get her sight back to normal meant taking her every 6 weeks or so to the vet for an operation under general anaesthetic, followed by weekly check ups, and in between times administering drops in her eyes 4 times a day. How to you explain to a dog that you're only doing it to make her better? It was such a relief when in July this year she was finally given the all clear, but I still look back on the time with a sense of guilt.
I would but than I wouldn´t get up in the morning. I did switch sides in my bed though and sleep with my hand off the bed so she can feel me there. I slept with Destiny on the floor first when she came to me but there I had carped/t (?) so that worked. Now I have hardwood floors. Oh that has to be a horrible thing to do but such an evil necessity for Pereg. My heart really goes out to the both of you and you are so strong to stand be her like that. Not everyone would. I don´t want to keep her pen in the living room because I know she is going to need alot of privacy first after whelping and I want to be able to keep the other dogs away from her and her pups. That is a little hard in my living room. Later I will have a puppy pen set up for her and the pups in the living room. Wow that must have been a real ordeal for the both of you and I am so happy for you that she got better. I understand that you would feel bad for her.
I felt so bad every night when I had to wake Rita up for her meds. Here was this little dog warm and cozy in her heated bed and the monster comes along to wake her up to eat something she didn't even ask for.
Thank you for asking and thinking of my girl After a very nerve wrenching weekend of vets and people around me telling me that she needed to be taken in for a c section right away and my gut feeling telling me to hold off I finally got a hold of my own vet today and got Bailie checked out. She is just fine and the puppy is good as well but the pup is too big for her to whelp him but because he is just one, he is not giving her enough hormones to get full on labour going. By the sonogram, the vet wants to wait untill tomorrow since she might not be more than 58 days carrying. Thankfully I waited since every day can matter for the puppy and I knew with everything in my gut that Bailie was just fine and the puppy has gotten the nickname "Jackie Chan" from his severe kicking everytime I tap her belly. So tomorrow morning at 9.30, we will go in again and than if everything goes as planned Bailie will go into surgery to get the puppy. I will give more news tomorrow.
You must feel so drained. What bad luck! I hope all goes well with Baillie tomorrow, and you are posting better news soon.
Thought I'd let you know. Exactly the same thing happened to me with one of my girls. One puppy, too big. Had the surgery done and all went well. When the pup was delivered my vet brought her out for me to see and said, "she looks like a fat, brown dumpling.", and that became her name. Dumplin'.
Thank you. We go in about an hour and my tummy is a bit knotted. Thank you. It helps to hear positives stories like this
Wonderful news Dagbjört! I have answered you on your new thread! Somehow I think that folk who have not had toy dogs do not realise how tiny the pups are when born - but 90g is a good weight. Oh well done Bailie and congratulations to you again! xxx
