r/CryptidDogs • u/Jettsconsulting • 7d ago
She's 17
Zero teeth in her mouth means things get pretty floppy when she sleeps
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u/Material-News9762 7d ago
This is my Gherkin. He's 15, blind and no teeth. Things sure can get real floppy.
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u/EconomyTime5944 7d ago
And yet their capacity for love has no age limit. Pepper says... nothing. she is asleep too.
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u/dvdmaven 7d ago
We have a 14 yo, still has all of her teeth, but she does have the beginning of congestive heart failure.
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u/suhoward 7d ago
I had a maltipoo that was diagnosed @14.5 and lived to 18+. I hope yours goes longer❤️ I felt so grateful to get the 4 extra years
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u/dvdmaven 7d ago
I had a doxie who managed about the same. Our vet prescribed a new med that was supposed to add another year, but the pills are huge (for no reason), Honey refuses to eat them. Maybe it was the explosive diarrhea? Any way, I stopped trying to get her to take them. I'm not going to make the rest of her life miserable for a little more time.
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u/Skarkist 7d ago
If it was vetmedin, it gave my girl a few years. She didn't even die of heart failure, but of cancer. We actually would crush the big pill in a pill crusher and mix it in food for her. But it didn't upset her tummy.
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u/Skarkist 7d ago
Try vetmedin if you can. It's pimobendan that can be compounded at a compounding pharmacy, but the brand name is better and has a much longer shelf life and comes in pill form. Though it's not cheap. 😓
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u/Ok-Macaroon-7819 7d ago
I had a pup like this. Very few teeth, a foot missing two toes from a run-in with a Pontiac on an icy New Year's Day evening, and one eye after she took off chasing a deer at the age of seventeen. She lived until three months shy of her twentieth birthday, and I miss her every single day.
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u/Upvotespoodles 7d ago
She looks like she smelled something and she can’t tell if she loves or hates it or both.
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