I have two boston terriers. One boy and one girl. Mo and Sara. They are 14 and 13 years old. Between them they have had over 6 surgeries and multiple procedures! They have always gotten regular check-ups and all their shots on time. I do love my dogs. However lately it has been more of a love/hate relationship. I mean come on.... how many times can you clean out your dogs crooked tail hole, because yes her tail grew IN instead of OUT, and well it gets infected every now and then. I just wish they would grow up and move out and get their own place where they clean up their own poop and feed themselves... I am OVER IT...over it i tell you. I do love them though.
Both of my dogs have snored for years! YEARS I tell you. IN fact after having given birth to Kya I had to finally kick them both out of my bedroom because they snored LOUDER than my husband. I am not kidding you. Most of Kya's pre- birth video's are where she is rolling around in my tummy have Sara snoring in the back ground. My husband was so pissed I kicked them out of the bedroom he joined them in the living room on a bedroom return strike! Well silly little husband. Once you LEAVE the bedroom on a IF THE DOGS GO I GO strike... weeelllllll "don't let the door knob hit ya where the good sleep I am getting while your gone thank the LORD split ya" yeah so I kicked them ALLLLLLLLLL out of the bedroom. If you snore your OUT! I mean a person can be sleep deprived for only so long ya know!
Anyhow... I really digress....
Lately the two dogs were having a hard time breathing. I thought for sure the wheezing accompanied by a gag and an occasional puke fest were sure signs of heart worm. Of course it WOULD flippin be the first year I opt NOT to get them the heart worm they would get it. SO I loaded them up in the minivan convinced I would be having a HUGE bill for heart disease and god knows what else. The list in my head was LONG!
1. Mo and Sara could barely walk let alone breathe.
If they didn't have heart worm/failure Sara was limping and I thought for sure she had pulled her leg out of socket the day before and would need some kind of surgery. This was the real reason I finally made the appt. I mean they were old and hacking and waddling and limping but they were OLD!
Sooooooo 300.00 later the vet tells me they are just FAT!
FAT....
Thats it they are FAT...
Well I knew that.
I could of told you that.
So I resolved to relieve my husband from the dog feeding duties and I was putting them on a diet. A real diet.
I got the paper work from the vet. Bought the expensive diet food. And well put them on a diet.
Karl says they are old... let them be happy and eat what they want. I say let them loose weight so they can at least breath and give them one treat a day and take them for WALKS.. WALKS make them happier than FOOD!
bahhh humbugggg says the hubby. He has been in charge of feeding them for years. Plus over the last 4 I really have been pregnant and nursing and taking care of kids so the last thing I cared about was how fat the dogs were. Well I figured it was about time I paid attention. So DIET city for them. See I am not prone to feeling sorry for them. They lay around and get attention all day long, if they are hungry they will eat.
Well three weeks later and they are SKINNY! They haven't eaten in three weeks lol... but they are definitely skinny. They look like completely different dogs, and they are acting like puppies again.
but mostly.... They no longer SNORE!
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Both of my dogs have snored for years! YEARS I tell you. IN fact after having given birth to Kya I had to finally kick them both out of my bedroom because they snored LOUDER than my husband. I am not kidding you. Most of Kya's pre- birth video's are where she is rolling around in my tummy have Sara snoring in the back ground. My husband was so pissed I kicked them out of the bedroom he joined them in the living room on a bedroom return strike! Well silly little husband. Once you LEAVE the bedroom on a IF THE DOGS GO I GO strike... weeelllllll "don't let the door knob hit ya where the good sleep I am getting while your gone thank the LORD split ya" yeah so I kicked them ALLLLLLLLLL out of the bedroom. If you snore your OUT! I mean a person can be sleep deprived for only so long ya know!
Anyhow... I really digress....
Lately the two dogs were having a hard time breathing. I thought for sure the wheezing accompanied by a gag and an occasional puke fest were sure signs of heart worm. Of course it WOULD flippin be the first year I opt NOT to get them the heart worm they would get it. SO I loaded them up in the minivan convinced I would be having a HUGE bill for heart disease and god knows what else. The list in my head was LONG!
1. Mo and Sara could barely walk let alone breathe.
If they didn't have heart worm/failure Sara was limping and I thought for sure she had pulled her leg out of socket the day before and would need some kind of surgery. This was the real reason I finally made the appt. I mean they were old and hacking and waddling and limping but they were OLD!
Sooooooo 300.00 later the vet tells me they are just FAT!
FAT....
Thats it they are FAT...
Well I knew that.
I could of told you that.
So I resolved to relieve my husband from the dog feeding duties and I was putting them on a diet. A real diet.
I got the paper work from the vet. Bought the expensive diet food. And well put them on a diet.
Karl says they are old... let them be happy and eat what they want. I say let them loose weight so they can at least breath and give them one treat a day and take them for WALKS.. WALKS make them happier than FOOD!
bahhh humbugggg says the hubby. He has been in charge of feeding them for years. Plus over the last 4 I really have been pregnant and nursing and taking care of kids so the last thing I cared about was how fat the dogs were. Well I figured it was about time I paid attention. So DIET city for them. See I am not prone to feeling sorry for them. They lay around and get attention all day long, if they are hungry they will eat.
Well three weeks later and they are SKINNY! They haven't eaten in three weeks lol... but they are definitely skinny. They look like completely different dogs, and they are acting like puppies again.
but mostly.... They no longer SNORE!
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