10-11-2009, 11:15 AM
Hi everyone.... I know I havent posted in a while, we have been crazy busy. I have still been reading posts just not posting myself....
George and Duncan are doing very well. Duncan is getting more loveable and floppier all the time. He seems to get prettier and prettier as each day passes. I promise to get a pic of him on here soon.
The advice I am looking for is about my dog Lady. She is a 10 1/2 year old cocker spaniel. She has alway been a fear biter so we have always had to be careful with her. There are a couple problems I am not sure how to handle other then isolating her
The first is her bladder. She seems to wet herself sometimes and not even realize it. At times she is just laying in it. She has always been the dog who will pee when you pet her but his is different. No infections has recently been checked by the vet. Because of this she has to be confined to the kitchen area with tile. She is also losing her hearing. Most times she seems to hear nothing but occasionally we think she might still hear a bit. The problem is she has snapped at the cats sometimes when they go by her. I know it is because she dosent hear them but it worries us so we have begun using a crate for her again. She has always had a crate as her "own space" so she really dosent mind it. So now we have to keep her in the kitchen and / or in the crate often. Now my concern is the other day when my daughter went to put her in the crate she bit my daughter. Now it wasnt a hearing thing she was looking right at her. I was really surprised. Over the past year she is snapping more and more. We can not brush her often cause she always tries to bite us. It used to be my 14 year old daughter who would mostly brush her but now she is afraid to.
I really do not like to isolate her and keep her in her crate but I dont know what else I can do??? I know these issues are probably due to age. ugh...just dont know what to do...
George and Duncan are doing very well. Duncan is getting more loveable and floppier all the time. He seems to get prettier and prettier as each day passes. I promise to get a pic of him on here soon.
The advice I am looking for is about my dog Lady. She is a 10 1/2 year old cocker spaniel. She has alway been a fear biter so we have always had to be careful with her. There are a couple problems I am not sure how to handle other then isolating her
The first is her bladder. She seems to wet herself sometimes and not even realize it. At times she is just laying in it. She has always been the dog who will pee when you pet her but his is different. No infections has recently been checked by the vet. Because of this she has to be confined to the kitchen area with tile. She is also losing her hearing. Most times she seems to hear nothing but occasionally we think she might still hear a bit. The problem is she has snapped at the cats sometimes when they go by her. I know it is because she dosent hear them but it worries us so we have begun using a crate for her again. She has always had a crate as her "own space" so she really dosent mind it. So now we have to keep her in the kitchen and / or in the crate often. Now my concern is the other day when my daughter went to put her in the crate she bit my daughter. Now it wasnt a hearing thing she was looking right at her. I was really surprised. Over the past year she is snapping more and more. We can not brush her often cause she always tries to bite us. It used to be my 14 year old daughter who would mostly brush her but now she is afraid to.I really do not like to isolate her and keep her in her crate but I dont know what else I can do??? I know these issues are probably due to age. ugh...just dont know what to do...