Thursday, July 19, 2007

LTD and FLD

Rob has always had a good sense of humour when it comes to the pets in our house. He didn't cringe, not once, when Aimee brought Hunny home. He just nicknamed her FLD for "f*cking little dog" It stuck and to him that's who she will always be.

Rob loves our animals. He is an animal loving kind of guy. He loves his girl Kilo. That's our pitbull.
Kilo has been in the family 12 years now and she's starting to show signs of her age. In the last year or so:
  1. She's gotten more white in her coat....a doggy form of graying I do believe
  2. She' sleeping a whole lot more
  3. She's gotten really lazy and doesn't move too fast for anything anymore unless she's going for a car ride to head out to some creek to play with Rob then she displays signs of her once long ago youth.
This past week she's developed a new sign that she's getting old and we have officially nicknamed her LTD.

Apparently, as our female canine pets get older they suffer from a depletion of the hormone estrogen. Did you know that estrogen assists in the control of your urinary function? Well if you are a dog....this is so.
As Kilo lay sleeping/sunning herself on the porch at brunch this weekend we noted that she seemed to be forming a small puddle near her backside.

This is what I read on the Internet about this problem:

More than 20% of spayed females are affected with urinary incontinence. Both male and female dogs can be affected, with medium to large breeds being more prone for the problem. The number of cases is likely to increase with the growing number of older dogs, advances in geriatric veterinary care and significant amount of time pets spend indoors. Urethral Sphincter Mechanism Incompetence is the most commonly diagnosed cause of urinary incontinence: 81% of incontinent adult females and 57% of all dogs with involuntary urine loss. Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) is the most frequently dispensed medication for this type of incontinence.

http://www.medi-vet.com/UrinaryIncontinence.html

Kilo's new name "Leaky Twat Dog"

3 Comments:

Blogger Aimee said...

AH hahaha hahaha

I love how you left that till the end. Priceles..

1:59 pm  
Blogger MP said...

I love that they get along so well! I'm sad we're not getting a doggy now :-(

I'm happy that someone else uses the term twat..I used to until my hubby looked at me like I had 59 heads. For me the tampon was the "twat stuffer"

9:51 am  
Blogger Beware: Social Worker on the edge said...

Oh can't wait for Dancer to get this.

Poor kilo...she needs the little pantie liner that are used by women who pee a little when they sneeze.

9:34 am  

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