Puppy Central

i have decided to port the journal i kept during bohdan's two ACL correction surgeries. These will be showing up as back dated journal entries. Bohdan has his first surgery in 2002 and the other knee was repaired in 2004.

we are headed to the vets in a week, it looks like there is an issue with the more recent leg. He isn't as stable on it as he should be and he seems to be in some pain.

I am in the process of upgrading puppycentral. I am working on making this site more of a community and place to share information on dog, dogs training, diet etc.

It will probably take a couple week for me to pull it all together but keep checking back. Content and links will also be refreshed with this upgrade.

well it has been a very long time since i have posted. we have just been going along with our lives. walking now and then when it hasn't been raining too hard and trying to come up with ways for bohdan to get more exercise meet more dogs and behave himself. talk about a challenge.

on new years day we took a short stroll through the neighborhood. when we were a block or so from our home, we hit a 4 way intersection with two big dogs
barking at eachother from opposite corners and us on a third.

i didn't take him today and it looks like i should have, we will walk a bit and see if he will loosen up.

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it looks like he needs to go back, something in his hip or low back is bugging him, but I am not sure if I should wait to see if it will work itself out. his muslces are tense and a bit knotted not sure if I should take him this week or not.

thinking i will wait another week, just to see.

well we went to the chiro today and it was a painful visit.
he growled at her as she adjusted his low back and his right shoulder corresponding to the foot that hurts, she agreed that the problem is probably nerve. he is walking better but sore. we went on a short walk before getting into the car and going home. hopefully we will make it 4 weeks before going back.

we have been alternating with the e-collar and a bandae over the past few days, he seems to be walking better but is still wanting to chew on it whenever he can get to it. the sore is getting better, and he is putting weight on it. someone on one of my lists suggested that it might be from nerve pain so i am giving him arnica and hypericum to help deal with that. we also have an appointment with the chiropractor, but not until next week.

i have upped his vitamin c's

oh and he is wanting to go on his walks again, but i am not ready for him to be doing that.

bohdan has been chewing on his foot. i thought it was just a little itchiness, but
it has turned out to be an obsession. he has a huge hole in his foot, and he wont put weight on it. there is nothing stuck in it. i have decided to bandage his foot to keep it clean and him from chewing on it more.

not sure what the vet will tell me, so we aren't going. i have done all that they will do. still i am worried.

whoop! there he is. going back in the kitchen.

what could possibly be happening in the kitchen to get bohdan's attention away from the big-ass marrow bone he's chewing on in the living room?

well karine is in there, and she opened up the thing of hotdog buns. she tried to keep it quiet but it made a rustly noise and bohdan came running - as he always does for the sound of bread.