Originally posted by ButterCloudandNoriko+Nov 20 2004, 12:53 AM-->
@Nov 19 2004, 05:35 PM
Yeah I think you are spending too much time with the dog and obsessing. Get out of the house! Seriously, I have noticed with myself that if there are other stresses in life I will get very neurotic about the dogs...like if I find one knot in the hair I am thinking I am not grooming properly or afew weeks ago I thought Freddy had a hernia..cause I felt a "bump" further investigation proved I was feeling the end of a rib and I musta been squishing him real hard to find him cause he is well filled out and not skin and bones.
Unless you notice other digestive problems I wouldn't worry on this one.
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Cloud worries me alot. Part of me feels like he's not going to hold up well in the next few years or something because S**T keeps happening to him--bad knee, growling, ear infections after ear infections, tear staining...etc. I don't have to worry have as much with Noriko as I do with him (I'm also partial to him but that's not the point). He has more issues than Noriko.
I just need to get outta the stinkin house more!
Gotta tell you I totally understand the emotions behind what you said.I have 2 Maltese...frankly...both are healthy but I do "worry" more about one than the other.In my case I think that it is just that Boris has had more vet visits, mostly because of allergies...but..I am well aware that allergies are attached to immunity problems...and though all is very under control..I still worry. I also know know that the worry is based on 2 things..one is..I have allergies so I am transferring whatever worries I have about myself in this area on to the dog AND Boris has a much more vunerable personality than my other Maltese Freddy. Freddy just puts out that invincible spirit and Boris t docile one...just seems to need more protection (in my Mind) in some way I can't define so I translate that in to being more prone to shelp him to the vet for every little thing. I sound insightful, right! Bulll...I know these things and still my behavior is without any insight.
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