DualvansMommy
09-09-2013, 09:19 PM
So I posted about my dog's diarrhea the other day on my rug in the den. Thanks to all of the tips, the rug is good as new!!!
However, I'm really at my wits end and never felt that ever with dogs I've had as a pet over the years until now. I really need to vent as DH doesn't want to hear it since he just have had it with the dogs and only tolerating them for my sake.
The poop incident was only just the beginning! There's been many of that, and countless incidents of either my female or male Boxer chewing things in our house. It started off by having our fire logs chewed, newspapers to books. So we gotten to the habit of clearing every surface off in our den and gate them off to roam in den & kitchen areas only, while having access to their bed and water bowl.
My elderly male boxer (12) was diagnosed having irritable bowel syndrome. After countless tests, bloodwork, X-rays etc which cost us several thousands in vet bills, we finally got him cleared off parasites and on a special diet. However , he was still losing a lot of weight, he's now about 60 lbs (maybe 58) with increasing eccentric behavior. He would eat ANYTHING now!!! The other day 2 weeks ago, I came back home from 2 hour errand to find used razors on our bathroom floor, all eaten up!
That caused him to bleed anally, so another round of vet treatment for him and he's just about healed from that. We all went to a festival on Saturday from 4-8pm and as usual, we gated the dogs in den & kitchen to only come home and found another messy diarrhea accident on our just cleaned rug?!?!? And one of dogs was nowhere to be found, but I heard barking from upstairs so boomer managed to CHEW the wooden gate (yet again!!!!) to make a hole to get out and went upstairs.
I found him in our DS brand new bedroom with his new bed that just delivered that morning.... Half of DS's books/ few toys all chewed up, and the entire bottom portion of window blinds tore off & chewed!!!! He also ate a tube of A &D ointment, which caused him to have the diarrhea. It was at that point that I stopped defending him to DH like I always have in the past by saying he's old, or he's sick. I was so so angry at that dog and still am.
Today.... I had to go for my OB's appointment and was only gone for almost 2 hours. I defrosted pork tenderloin planned for tonight's dinner on the counter, still in store bought wrapping. I left the kitchen cleared of everything and gated the areas as usual with a new gate. Well , guess what? He ate it!!! the whole frigging tenderloin!! or maybe both dogs! I only would have known cuz they left little pieces of foil on the floor!
And the new gate was chewed AGAAIN!! I had all doors upstairs closed off as a precaution and still he or Brooklyn managed to jump on the couch in living room to reach for an empty water can to chew it!!
Sorry it's so long and venty! But I'm really at my wit ends and very nervous how ill handle them along with DS and the newborn in Jan. as it is, I spend so much time, energy, and prep every single time I need to step out of the house, and still come back to a mess 95% of the time!!!!! I feel like I can't even go out for an hour without coming home to something nowadays. Tired of dreading coming home to find what's in store for me... And honestly I feel like my DS is so much well behaved that he is be oping an after thought in this household, which isn't fair to him! DS has been taking to yelling at the dogs saying sit down!! Copying my tone of voice very clearly which is scary and sad for me because I do.not.want to be like that.
The dogs were adopted from a rescue organization that only take boxers and already have emailed them for solutions earlier tonight.
I know it's my bitch on this forum, but would like to hear from anyone who had situations like mine? Any btdt? Thanks for reading this long if you managed to!
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However, I'm really at my wits end and never felt that ever with dogs I've had as a pet over the years until now. I really need to vent as DH doesn't want to hear it since he just have had it with the dogs and only tolerating them for my sake.
The poop incident was only just the beginning! There's been many of that, and countless incidents of either my female or male Boxer chewing things in our house. It started off by having our fire logs chewed, newspapers to books. So we gotten to the habit of clearing every surface off in our den and gate them off to roam in den & kitchen areas only, while having access to their bed and water bowl.
My elderly male boxer (12) was diagnosed having irritable bowel syndrome. After countless tests, bloodwork, X-rays etc which cost us several thousands in vet bills, we finally got him cleared off parasites and on a special diet. However , he was still losing a lot of weight, he's now about 60 lbs (maybe 58) with increasing eccentric behavior. He would eat ANYTHING now!!! The other day 2 weeks ago, I came back home from 2 hour errand to find used razors on our bathroom floor, all eaten up!
That caused him to bleed anally, so another round of vet treatment for him and he's just about healed from that. We all went to a festival on Saturday from 4-8pm and as usual, we gated the dogs in den & kitchen to only come home and found another messy diarrhea accident on our just cleaned rug?!?!? And one of dogs was nowhere to be found, but I heard barking from upstairs so boomer managed to CHEW the wooden gate (yet again!!!!) to make a hole to get out and went upstairs.
I found him in our DS brand new bedroom with his new bed that just delivered that morning.... Half of DS's books/ few toys all chewed up, and the entire bottom portion of window blinds tore off & chewed!!!! He also ate a tube of A &D ointment, which caused him to have the diarrhea. It was at that point that I stopped defending him to DH like I always have in the past by saying he's old, or he's sick. I was so so angry at that dog and still am.
Today.... I had to go for my OB's appointment and was only gone for almost 2 hours. I defrosted pork tenderloin planned for tonight's dinner on the counter, still in store bought wrapping. I left the kitchen cleared of everything and gated the areas as usual with a new gate. Well , guess what? He ate it!!! the whole frigging tenderloin!! or maybe both dogs! I only would have known cuz they left little pieces of foil on the floor!
And the new gate was chewed AGAAIN!! I had all doors upstairs closed off as a precaution and still he or Brooklyn managed to jump on the couch in living room to reach for an empty water can to chew it!!
Sorry it's so long and venty! But I'm really at my wit ends and very nervous how ill handle them along with DS and the newborn in Jan. as it is, I spend so much time, energy, and prep every single time I need to step out of the house, and still come back to a mess 95% of the time!!!!! I feel like I can't even go out for an hour without coming home to something nowadays. Tired of dreading coming home to find what's in store for me... And honestly I feel like my DS is so much well behaved that he is be oping an after thought in this household, which isn't fair to him! DS has been taking to yelling at the dogs saying sit down!! Copying my tone of voice very clearly which is scary and sad for me because I do.not.want to be like that.
The dogs were adopted from a rescue organization that only take boxers and already have emailed them for solutions earlier tonight.
I know it's my bitch on this forum, but would like to hear from anyone who had situations like mine? Any btdt? Thanks for reading this long if you managed to!
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