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Date Posted: 12:54:09 05/14/07 Mon
Author: Mack and Lulu's mean, mean Mom
Author Host/IP: 1Cust218.tnt21.sfo8.da.uu.net / 63.42.148.218
Subject: GRRRRR - Just have to vent

We have several nice places to walk dogs adjacent to the place we live. However you have to go through a gate (manned by a guard from 9 - 6). There are 3 of these fellows, all very nice, friendly and good to our dogs.
One fellow..........is making me crazy!! I can't get through the gate (coming and going) without him giving the dogs a treat. He just keeps escalating it, from 1 small one to 5-6 small ones to bigger ones. This morning he had one of those breakfast pancake-sandwich-thingies from McDonalds. He wanted to give Mack 1/2 and Lulu 1/2. I tried to be nice and said "well, OK, but just a small bite...." He gave each of them 1/2!! This is right after they had a breakfast of kibble, oatmeal with dried blueberries and a dollop of yogurt.
I walked away trying to laugh about it but was fuming on my walk. The whole way I was practicing my "lecture". As we came through the gate again, being offered more treats I asked Joe if I could help him understand why I'm so paranoid about the dogs, what they eat and their weight....Lulu 101.
I explained how Lulu has no 'elbow' joints - it's bone on bone, supported by a heavy build up of arthritic changes. Her wrists turn out like a duck and take the brunt of supporting her front weight - they are also fused with arthritis. If I lift her foot to remove a sticker - I can hear the joint grinding in there. Her entired spine is full of more arthritic bridging (spondylosis). Not to mention the hip displaysia.......
I told him how I prepare homemade food for them, measure everything and spend a fortune on supplements as well as daily pain med for Lulu and Mack when he needs it. Stressed that the pain they have is FROM arthritis and we work hard to keep their weight down as well as give moderate exercise to build muscle to support their aching joints.
He was sympathetic and when I explained "one would not put a hiking pack on this dog, fill it with weights and take her for a walk...........would one?" I also tried to make him see it's not the "food" they love so much as the attention, the pets they get along with and schmoozing with hooman beans.
He listened and said he understood (the man is wracked w/arthritis and probably 100 lbs overweight). He told me how he loved them.....and I know he does - let's just try to not show it with food but rather affection and attention.
Ok.......guess I feel better after my rant.

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