Posted on 06/15/2013 4:07:06 PM PDT by TexasTransplant
Excellent movie. Hard to find. Of course, Edmund Gwen makes it great, he’s so wonderful just as he was the perfect Santa. Love the Bull Terrier (not American) in this and it’s really neat to see some representation of the dog-fighting underworld.
Actually my GS has been declared the most allergic dog ever, all her life, and she does not smell. Never has, even before the prescribed weekly medicated baths. I think it’s a male thing. My sister (RIP) had 2 male GS in succession, both had bad allergies, both stank.
My previous GS had mild seasonal allergies, never stank. Female.
Another reason to like girl dogs better!
Nonsense. Never had half acre - closest is now with .4 but back yard is only .3 or so - and never had a problem with my GS. Even lived with my most beloved in apartments the last year of her life after living her whole life at my parents’ nice suburban home. My sister too - never had more than I do now.
The big dog/big property thing is overrated.
Taylor was the breeder’s girl in the original Lassie movie.
I’m recording them now, so maybe my son will be interested in watching good clean old shows. He loves Roy Rogers, maybe I can get him to appreciate more!
Now I give her a 50 MG Atopeka every day. That is a powerful med and may do her harm down the road but it is either that or put her down. She also gets a bath every 4 days.
The other stinky dog that was finally put down because they could do nothing for her (about 20 years ago) was a female Golden Retriever.
I was about four when I saw Wizard of Oz. I said then that one day I would have a Cairn, too. What amazed me about Toto wasn’t his tricks or scruffy look but his courage. He wasn’t afraid of the flying monkeys or the witch even when they were so much bigger than him. As a small child, that type of courage amazed me. About seven years ago, I got my Cairn... a wheaten colored one that we named Kenny. Courageous he was, too. Not afraid of anything but thunderstorms. Killer of mice and flies, lover of children and my constant companion. His courage was tested about a year ago when he was diagnosed with diabetes. He didn’t mind the two injections a day or even when he went blind. Last week, MY courage was tested when he became ketotic and the vet felt he had also developed Cushings disease. I faced the flying monkeys and the witch of my childhood and made the decision not to have my courageous little Cairn suffer anymore. Joe 6 pack and Salamander got me through all my crying jags and for that... I will always love them. This Wednesday, we will venture to a breeder of Cairns. We’ll meet a little boy Cairn about 14 weeks old that is defined as “courageous, loving and not afraid of anything”. I think till the Good Lord calls me home, I will always have a Cairn.
My dog was prescribed Atopica about 6 years ago. She was so bad St. Bernard doses every day for months - far beyond what Atopica said was supposed to be used - did not help her and the vet gave up in about a year with that. ;-). All she got was vomiting and diarrhea a lot, poor thing.
I have no idea why some dogs stink. Maybe it’s just random, and it would be interesting to see if any breeders keep track of who their stinky dogs are, even when they’re not diseased at all.
If it shortens her life I will be sad but at least she doesn't scratch herself bloody when she takes it.
The only other thing that stops the itching is a cortisone shot and she can't have more than 2 a year of those and it only last less than a month when she gets one.
If you read the Atopica info, you will see there is a high prevalence of diarrhea and vomiting when the dog starts the med. Normal dogs progress to just 1 pill for their size every 3 weeks within a couple months. My dog is far from normal, had oversized pills every day for monypths on end. Not a big surprise she was so sick from it. Not an indictment of Atopica, just that she was medicated far above normal levels so reacted to it where a better dog can adjust to it.
We gave her 150 mg, using a 100 as well as 50. A GS is only supposed to need 100.
Every day, just like Tara. Has she done this long?
It was the same with the allergy shots but I did them for 2 years without any success. I have given her a half a Zyrtec in the morning and half a Benedryl at night with the occasional cortizone shot.
Now it is a daily Atopica and frequent baths. You really have to love a dog to go through all this.
Yes it is hard to find, remembered it from long ago. And you’re right, not American Bull Terrier. This and “Hardtimes” with Bronson were “do not miss” movies even if it meant 11pm on a school night!
You forgot to add prepare to have your heart broken when your Golden dies at 12, 13, 14, or 15. I lost mine this February, and I’m still looking around the house for him.
And you CAN get a great Golden through a Golden Rescue Group. You still have to go to doggie school and put in the rest of the time, but most of them just want to please you.
My Dog Skip and Red Dog
My latest retriever was a rescue dog from a puppy mill. She had both hips repaired from severe dysplasia; they cut the ball of the femur and put it on the pelvis with ligitures. She has run down rabbits and the vet said she probably won’t even have arthritis when she gets up there. No real issues today other than her infernal crying everytime we come home from anywhere longer than 30 minutes. We overcome the habit by making her sit and stay. concentration seems to break the thought and then we love her up. OK in every other respect now, too.
Good luck with your son and the good clean old shows - I used to love the old Saturday morning radio programs for kids, like “Let’s Pretend”, and had some cassette recordings of some of the old transcriptions - once tried playing them for my five year old niece - she was up and out of the room in about three minutes - not enough excitement and stimulation for today’s entertainment pampered kids I’m sure - maybe the added visual element in the movies will provide needed attraction and involvement......
Clearly its Chuck the Border Collie from UP THE CREEK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0iXyk49IyU
: )
The book was infinitely better than the movie.
But, that was a good quote.
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