One of the dogs we had, Merlin, was a street puppy. Here's what I mean by that; someone took a litter of puppies and dropped them off on the street next to ours in a cardboard box. It sounds completely horrible--but the pups were two months old when dropped, which means he wanted to give them some kind of chance. (And they were dropped off in a wealthy neighborhood with lots of children.
Have you got that right. My Dalmatian loved drywall. He ate a hole in my bathroom wall big enough to step through.
Well, let's see. Could it possibly be muscle pains because your center of balance is off?
Looks like they'll be doing it in there either way, why not keep the damage down and let them have a litter box?
Remember the James Herriot books about his life as a country vet? I'm pretty sure I recall a story or two about that happening, but I could be wrong.
You think maybe the cold weather, in conjunction with all the furniture crammed into the house, might be causing problems?
That song is great!
been in bed most the day and the kitty's have been cuddling up to me making me feel better x
Yeah, I'm sure she didn't get that dog spayed. Clearly, money was more important. Too many people do that now a days. It's like no one is even taking the breed into consideration or trying to learn how they can better it. I can assure you, if she was a real breeder and she noticed that her dog gave birth to puppies with the genetic mutation my dog now has, that dog wouldn't be allowed to breed again. There aren't health risk associated with it but it's undesirable amoung breeders of the breeds that it's common in. And I know this because I've spoken to several and done enough research to know.
I would say extremely possible, since mastitis happens to nursing mothers. I was fortunate to never get it, but it can happen any time a human mother is nursing, and often antibiotics are needed. Part of the remedy though is continuing to nurse because getting the milk out flushes the system and the baby doesn't get sick from it. Maybe it's nature's way of building the baby's immune system? But back on topic, I could easily see mastitis occurring during a sudden weaning and it being worsened by the milk staying in there instead of getting flushed out.
When you do get notifications, have you ever notice that the notification says that there may be other posts after the one you're being notified of? This is because you have to actually visit the thread before you'll get any more notifications, possibly you have to either post in the thread or purraise someone so the site knows you've visited (I'm not sure about that part).
I think more likely the latter as I'm not even getting notifications after visiting here. But I think it stopped when Firefox for whatever reason started blocking all notifications from all sites unless I specifically jumped through their hoops to allow notifications. Since most of the time I couldn't figure out how to do that a lot of threads from all forums I'm on stopped notifying me. Most of the threads though, once I replied again after the block the sites started sending me notifications again. Since that was happening automatically I have no idea how to manually turn it back on for the threads that don't auto-add.
I think that your cousin must be thinking of mastitis, an inflammation of the mammary glands that can occur in any mammal. Actual "milk fever" occurs in cows when the sudden onslaught of milk production strips the body of calcium, and if untreated can result in death. It can occur in dogs and cats, as well. Dunno about horses, and have never heard of it in humans. HOWEVER...some new moms experience chills and low-grade fever when their milk first comes in, and that has been referred to as "milk fever" by some people.
Unless you're talking about what happens in livestock. I only have experience with horses, cows and goats.
You can say that again!
You couldn't have; humans don't go into heat.
And hidden ovulation, so you never are quite sure if it's safe to have fun.
I got the Depo shot. You can't have an oops with that. It stops not only ovulation but also cycling. I didn't have a period for over 10 years. Had to stop it though, menopause took over and that was just too much estrogen in my system. Still haven't had one. It's been nice.
