My wonderful crazy loveable heart dog Ernie is now 11 and such a wonderful moment for me. I was told he would never be
an old dog and a miracle if he reached 8. Eleven....if that isn't an old dog what is. But to Erns and I he isn't old. When
I see that glint in his eye and I know today is going to be a good day. There are not as many good days as there used to be.
I miss this, but also know over the years we have a bond better than I ever expected from Mr Erns.
His hips and gut issues have caused me a great deal of concern. In late 2012 the vet and I decided his hips were needing
more treatment than his gut which now had been stable for a few years. We decided to take him off Pred. Something I had wanted
for so long. We slowly started him on Nebuton....spell....to see if he gut tolerated it. A month later we started weaning
him off the Pred which wasn't much now.
Then we started Imugram for his gut. After a couple of months we found this to be good and took hom off the Pred starting
Previcox. During this time he ate a kebab stick inlcuded and his gut became unstable. Luckily for us the surgeon was able
to remove it with endoscope and the surgery we so dreaded was avoided.
We took him off the Previcox which was working well for his hips, but not his gut. He didn't really improve much, so
tried half a dose. Still vomitting which caused concern. The vet then gave me Romadyl which I wasn't happy about. The vomitting
continued until one night it was blood so the only meds he had was the imuran and Neub.....He was doing very wll and I had
n o doubt we would fly through winter. Sadly this was not to be as the knee we hoped would not tear did.
The vomitting had stopped, but the new worry was the knee.
