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Indeed. We are, slowly but surely, making progress.
I honestly wouldn't mind if he was less interested. He gets quite excited about people coming in and it gets difficult managing him and Stella. My brother seems to bring out the worst in Si and I'm not sure why. He gets very mouthy and pushy with him.
Me either. Not a bad thing, but it was surprising.
People tend to think GSDs are bigger than they are. We do tend to breed for bigger dogs too. In America, there tends to be a "bigger is better" mindset. So it's getting more common to find 90lb+ GSDs. There are even "giant" Alaskan malamutes which are already big dogs! My cousins have a massive GSD. Very fat too though. I couldn't believe how fat he'd gotten last time I saw him. If what they said was true, then he must've been around 160lbs or more at that point. He was 140lbs and still overweight, but even at a good weight I'm guessing he'd 110-120lbs. I think Si must've noticed I was getting my hopes up. I kind of had a feeling he'd start throwing up again after coming off the Pepcid, but he went so long I was thinking maybe he wouldn't after all. Yes, those ghost cats. They get into our dishes sometimes too. Scared everyone yesterday because something fell. I was expecting a cat to be the culprit, but they were all in the living room with us and just as startled!
Lol. Yeah, they're all good-lucking dogs. Si is still one of the tallest dogs I've met though! The only ones taller than him that I personally have met are my cousins' GSD and three great danes.
Well, the vet is hoping it is her thyroid because he knows how to treat that. If it isn't then we're kind of stuck because he doesn't know what else could cause this. I'm not sure how I feel about it though. There's medication for it, but the problem is they usually need a higher dose after three or four years and the higher dose causes side effects. Then you end up a cat that's sick from the medication. It isn't much of a problem with senior cats because they're at the end of their life span anyway, but Ember is so young that she'd still have several good years ahead of her. There's a treatment that's 90% successful as a cure so she wouldn't need any medications, but it's expensive.
I honestly wouldn't mind if he was less interested. He gets quite excited about people coming in and it gets difficult managing him and Stella. My brother seems to bring out the worst in Si and I'm not sure why. He gets very mouthy and pushy with him.
Me either. Not a bad thing, but it was surprising.
People tend to think GSDs are bigger than they are. We do tend to breed for bigger dogs too. In America, there tends to be a "bigger is better" mindset. So it's getting more common to find 90lb+ GSDs. There are even "giant" Alaskan malamutes which are already big dogs! My cousins have a massive GSD. Very fat too though. I couldn't believe how fat he'd gotten last time I saw him. If what they said was true, then he must've been around 160lbs or more at that point. He was 140lbs and still overweight, but even at a good weight I'm guessing he'd 110-120lbs. I think Si must've noticed I was getting my hopes up. I kind of had a feeling he'd start throwing up again after coming off the Pepcid, but he went so long I was thinking maybe he wouldn't after all. Yes, those ghost cats. They get into our dishes sometimes too. Scared everyone yesterday because something fell. I was expecting a cat to be the culprit, but they were all in the living room with us and just as startled!
Lol. Yeah, they're all good-lucking dogs. Si is still one of the tallest dogs I've met though! The only ones taller than him that I personally have met are my cousins' GSD and three great danes.
Well, the vet is hoping it is her thyroid because he knows how to treat that. If it isn't then we're kind of stuck because he doesn't know what else could cause this. I'm not sure how I feel about it though. There's medication for it, but the problem is they usually need a higher dose after three or four years and the higher dose causes side effects. Then you end up a cat that's sick from the medication. It isn't much of a problem with senior cats because they're at the end of their life span anyway, but Ember is so young that she'd still have several good years ahead of her. There's a treatment that's 90% successful as a cure so she wouldn't need any medications, but it's expensive.