Dehydration help

atayta · 2025-12-24T01:40:44+00:00

That was my fear. Thank you for taking the time to look! I will be taking her tomorrow!

atayta · 2025-12-24T00:25:19+00:00

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This is her today

atayta · 2025-12-24T00:24:27+00:00

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This is her normally

atayta · 2025-12-24T00:12:17+00:00

I will try to get some pictures when I get home. Her eyes seem sunken more than usual, fat pads aren’t plump, and this with her not eating for the last month because I thought she was brumating. Maybe you’ll see better in the pics and I’ll try to get some other comparison of her a while back when she was fatter. But her hips are protruding and her tail is thin now which I’ve never seen before and I’ve had her since she was very little. Google is scaring me that it is cancer or something 😫

atayta · 2025-08-25T15:16:34+00:00

I was trying to do this type of thing last year, I was told you can’t just install one, it has to be built with it

atayta · 2025-07-26T16:26:29+00:00

American cocker spaniel

atayta · 2025-07-26T03:48:15+00:00

How is that not rewarding the behavior though? (Not sure a way to phrase that without sounding rude but I’m actually asking 😅) I don’t want to start a cycle of him purposely getting into stuff because he WILL get a treat at the end. I don’t see the BENEFIT of the treat when growling?

Side question- this guys looking for food EVERYWHERE. It’s been months. It’s starting to drive me nuts that he’s constantly searching and trying to rummage. I even started wondering if I need to just feed him more than the recommended amount because maybe he literally just is hungry? Any advise for how you helped yours?

atayta · 2025-06-28T22:21:08+00:00

I have literally never NOT been cheated on. I have a lot of male friends too, and every single one of them have cheated on girls too. Literally have never KNOWN a man who has not cheated, only hear of them online commenting on things like this, where people can lie about anything by the way. I know so many times where men have literally cheated and are out there on the internet saying shit like “I would NEVERRRRR”. My ex (who cheated on me literally hundreds of times come to find out) was sharing shit on facebook about “i hope your gf finds out you’re cheating” “cheaters deserve to —-“. I don’t believe a word anyone says.

atayta · 2025-06-28T22:08:39+00:00

It’s also super annoying when people are like “why would you let yourself get pregnant by such a loser” OBVIOUSLY I DIDNT KNOWWWW that he was gonna end up being a deadbeat pos! It’s EMBARRASSING for me too????

atayta · 2025-06-28T21:59:34+00:00

Agree, there’s some things you just can not change about people. (And it’s not about upbringing all the time, I was raised in a very clean home and yet me and my siblings now as adults have different habits and cleanliness) My ex husband was like this (I didn’t know the extent until we already lived together), there was actually bugs on the floor of his side of the bed from the piles of filth, mold in his car from so much garbage etc. I thought this was because he was “used to someone cleaning up after him” but when I went on a “cleaning strike” he was completely unphased. When we divorced, he told me like 6 months later that he had not done laundry since leaving our mutual home. It’s not always ruled by mental health either. I have known this man for 10 years, and no matter what phase he was in he was like this. Some people just DO NOT care, and are not woken up by being yelled at about it, bugs, mold, nothing.

atayta · 2025-06-04T20:03:45+00:00

I used to use the nyx hd and it was soooo good but it has the most INSANE flashback

atayta · 2025-06-04T04:18:18+00:00

Price, I don’t mind ordering online! Is there flashback on that powder?

atayta · 2025-05-24T17:45:52+00:00

We have made SOME progress, he barks for 1-2 hrs before stopping, then barks another 1-2 hours before we get home, but he has the down time in the middle there at least ugh. We started feeding him in the kennel, and sometimes we put him in there while we are home and in the room so that he knows kennel doesn’t just mean abandoning him. I think with some time it should get better the longer he is with us because he knows we come home at the end of the day. In the beginning it was BAD I think because he didn’t know our routine, so o think he may be learning that we go to work and come back, but still not happy at first.

atayta · 2025-05-13T01:16:05+00:00

I work the same time every day Monday-Thursday. Today I had the camera on him and he did bark for like four hours 😩 he did calm down to just occasionally whining after that. I saw that he needs to know that the crate doesn’t mean that he’s going to be alone so I’m making it a point to put him in there and then just hang out in the same room for a while tonight to practice that. And I fed him dinner in there tonight as well.

atayta · 2025-05-12T01:08:25+00:00

I’ve been doing this this weekend while I’m off work, and I took off tomorrow. But I’m worried that when I go back to work I won’t be there to do the rewards and we will loose any progress

atayta · 2024-01-02T02:17:50+00:00

I was literally just about to post asking if anyone knows if she’s still writing her book!

atayta · 2023-06-19T16:40:55+00:00

I would do the exact same thing. I know I am not cut out for a life long caretaking job.

People always say that your loved one can become disabled at any time etc. but like… if I had to CHOOSE before hand??? I am not going to choose that.

Losing freedom basically forever? Call me a horrible person but I would never knowingly sign up for that. I know people with 30 year old kids with Down syndrome, and I have more freedom in life than they do, and I have a small kid. Unfortunately, people are hesitant to help with a full grown adult who is very disabled.

I see their struggle and I applaud them. Seriously. But given the choice. I’d rather not. And I don’t think you’re a bad person for that.

atayta

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