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my buddy keeps nudging his bowl, whines, then barks?

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#1 ·
Okay, so my golden is 14 years old and arthritis. As of this point we don't know anything else but he has been kind of lazy these days and lays down a often.

We were feeding him beneful for awhile, then he did what he does in this video. We switched over to canned wet food, now he does it for that. Any ideas why he would do this?? After awhile though he will eventually force himself to eat it... if he goes too long not eating sometimes I'll just give him table scraps.

Buddy and his bowl?? - YouTube
 
#108 ·
Sending prayers for sweet Buddy, hope he has a good weekend.
 
#110 ·
these days so busy with school 4x a week, have been studying hard!

my retriever is doing remarkable. he made the local newspaper where my brother lives now! EastBayRI.com « Photos: Sandy’s moon tidal surge floods Bristol

there are i think 2 or 3 pictures of my cute golden haha! i went to see him about two days ago. i need to get him a bed of his own which i plan to get this week because their kitchen which he likes to lay on a lot is tile. he must like the coolness or something.

he has had spunk, his wag is definately there too as well as by brother's girlfriends female retriever Lea. she's kind of a chub, really fat because thyroid or something, but they just chill together. i get the feeling that its good he's around another of his kind, just some sense of a friend or something on top of my brother being there most of the day.

he's back on eating the diet food and his tramadol. i think in a week or a little over i will bring him back for blood work. my brother forgot to take the azodyl so next time he comes here i need to give him it for buddy.

for some reason i have high hopes...i know the tramadol is just a pain reliever and doesn't fix the problem causing pain. it is def making him happy and act like his old puppy energetic self!
 
#111 ·
You are doing your best for your Buddy. He is not alone in the house and has a friend of his own. Hope he continues to do so well, those photos are great. Pain free, surrounded with love and care, your Buddy knows you love him and understands that you are busy at school. Keep up good work. Sending hugs to sweet Buddy.
 
#114 ·
Just to give an update on buddy, he is doing pretty wonderful. He is living with my brother who has an overweight female golden as well because of her thyroid. I think its a good idea to be around her just so he has some company when people go to work, etc.

He has been bought a bed and he is allowed to roam through the entire house. As far as his health is concerned, the tramadol really makes his wag come back like it used to be when he was a lil pup. My brother gives him the meds morning and night, although he was half a day late telling me that he had ran out. I guess when he ran out, he noticed buddy was hiding (going under the bed, isolating himself in corners with his nose facing the wall, etc.). As soon as he told me I got tramadols on the street within hours then called the vet for a refill. I guess he can take human ones too, they work fine. I made sure there was no aspirin in them as well by looking the imprint online.

He has been taking the azodyl for about a week, I don't see him enough to notice a change. Once a few more weeks go by, I want to bring him back to the vet for more blood work so I can see if his kidney levels went up or down. I hope they get better, I know he's 14, but for his age I really think he's doing better than I've seen others..

His shoulders are thinning though...and his hips are too. It seems like he is getting so skinny but his diet does not allow a lot of protein. He isn't fat at all, pretty lean. I'll get some new photos when I can go see him this week. Its gotta be the arthritis. The tramadol won't fix the problem, but it will make it seem like it isn't bothering him. Thats my only worry... there is no way to reverse it for him.

Its my dream that his kidneys come back and I can get him on metacam or something. I love him ;(
 
#115 ·
Thanks for the update, hugs to sweet Buddy.
 
#116 ·
Cameron

Thanks so much for the update on Buddy and so glad that Buddy is living inside with your brother and has a female friend!!

I wouldn't take or give any pill you bought on the street! How dangerous!

Praying for Buddy as always!! You can tell how much you love him!!
 
#120 ·


he reminds me of an old man :(

i'm thankful that he is still here, and without the tramadol, i don't think he'd even be around anymore. he gets so much love, and he's in a good place where he's been at. whenever my brother leaves the house, he still has the other female retriever Lea who is there with him. when my car gets fixed i'm going to try to take some videos.
 
#123 ·
Buddy



Buddy looks so beautiful and I am SO HAPPY for him that he has Lea and that your brother is taking such loving care of him!! It would be great if you can take videos some time, or pics are just fine, too. Your love for Buddy is SO SPECIAL and I know he feels it!!
 
#122 ·
Those pictures you posted are great, thanks for sharing. Hugs to sweet Buddy.
 
#124 ·
well im kind of stuck right now about something, my brother texted me just now to tell me "i think buddy is messed up", i said what happend and he says "i had him groomed and he can't move".

im absolutely furious right now, for one i have no clue why he would just "drop" this dog off being the condition he is in and that he has a tumor on his testicle and some mass near his tummy/liver! all i keep thinking is the groomer didn't know this and probably applied pressure there.. oh god im feeling sad :(

im waiting for him to tell me when i can go see him . i told him to give him an extra half tramadol if he seems like hes in a load of pain. i just don't get why why why he says he loves him but forgets the most obvious!
 
#126 ·
been very busy with holidays. i like updating this because the thread has almost turned into a journal of my doggys health lol.

he was messed up from a groomer last week. after his er visit, the ultrasound confirmed that he had no internal bleeding which was great news. they did his blood work and faxed it to my local vet. my brother has been in contact with them and i should be seeing him tomorrow to hear if anything changed. they said something about kidney something is 25 percent and should be 35 percent, or maybe they said in reverse he told me a couple days ago.

he seems to function the same now, his muscles were just very sore. all i could think was the groomer was mean to him or something. bud's 15 years old he has to be taken care of!

he hasn't been displaying any signs of additional pain. on xmas eve i guess he ran out of medication and nobody had done anything about it so i bought some human tramadol off the street for him and got him a refill the next day. he was walking around and like, his back legs were misaligned. he couldn't walk straight.. all i could think was oh my god hes in withdrawal. we had the food out on the table and everyone keeps saying "oh he is such a good dog, hes not begging for food.".. i clearly could tell something was wrong because he was NOT at the table as he always was. he was just laying on the floor eyes wide open and kept shifting positions.

i feel he is growing tolerant to the medication. within the next few weeks i want to have another follow-up exam done at the regular vet and see if anything new has came up. i still do need to find out about the recent blood work that was drawn at the ER.
 
#127 ·
Cameron

Cameron

Thanks for the update on Buddy. What happened to him at the Groomer?
I would never buy any drugs off the street. Always get them from his vet.
 
#128 ·
Sending hugs and prayers for sweet Buddy.
 
#130 ·
well... since the start of this thread, buddy was originally abour 70 pounds. we brought him in to the vet yesterday because his weight has been dropping so rapidly.. he is now 60lbs.

his condition has not seemed to have phased him mentally, but the vet said that the renal failure is taking control. he was talking about some level being at 67, and that he will eventually start vomitting more often and sleeping. the next stage after that is he'd experience seizures then eventually slip into a coma and die.

it was really hard to hear this, but at this point he's made is to 15 years old. i can't believe hes been around this long to begin with! i really wish i knew where his kids were so I could buy one after he goes because they'd look just like him :(

i'm going to get some more azodyl overnighted and just hope for the best. like i said it doesn't seem to even phase buddy, he's still wagging his tail and walking around.

its so hard to know he's going to go soon. the vet didn't give us an eta either.. i will take some photos of him before and after when i get the chance, you can definiately see the weight loss
 
#132 ·
i contracted an upper respiratory viral infection within the last week, still getting better. my brother sent me this picture of him. he was blinking because of the flash so his eyes looking shut isnt because of anything bad.



my brother gives him another supplement in addition to the azodyl now, it begins with an e, when i can check i will make another post about what it is. i do know that we are both doing what we can for him at best. if he gets worse to the point of what the vet was saying... or if he starts telling us he is hurting, then we will do the right thing and allow him to go.

i am due to go see him in a couple days since i won't be sick anymore. the last time i saw buddy was about 2 weeks ago and something i noticed was for a few seconds he almost didn't know who i was and i was like oh my god.. then boom the wag started and he got excited :)

on another sad note though, Lea that lives with him too (whom is a 9yr old female golden) was just diagnosed with cancer throughout her whole body.. i wish retrievers could live
forever, they so deserve it.

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i added this after: i cant remember if i mentioned anything about the groomer situation, but he basically was sore as hell. the vet provided gabapentin and it just sedated him and kept making him sleep so buddy only took it once or twice. he came back to his normal self in a couple days and was moving around again thank god!
 
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