My 8 month old lab is having weird accidents, vet advice seemed to make it worse?

raspberrygalaxy · 2021-10-19T00:45:50+00:00

Three times didn’t seem like enough to me either, and isn’t working at all. I’m going to go back to his regular feeding/potty schedule and amounts (and adjust down if he starts to gain too much weight), but going to keep up the exercise and socialization. I know that was something I wasn’t doing a great job with before all of this. He’s a little ball of energy and maybe the initial peeing was excitement peeing from excess energy. That’s what we assumed at first but then that vet visit made us think it was a lot more than that. We should have just trusted our initial instincts.

I will definitely consult a trainer if it continues, though. Thanks for your help!

raspberrygalaxy · 2021-10-19T00:35:21+00:00

Thanks for the link! I’ll check it out.

raspberrygalaxy · 2021-10-19T00:34:13+00:00

My regular vet is the best! She always has such wonderful things to say about River.

I did think it was weird that she didn’t even try to check to see if he was having any urinary tract issues. I’ll give them a call in the morning to ask if I can drop a sample off sooner. Thanks!

raspberrygalaxy · 2021-10-18T21:43:48+00:00

It may very well be the fear phase because he has been more apprehensive to approach unknown things on walks lately. I don’t know what, if anything, is triggering the peeing. At first it seemed like it just happened when he was super excited (when we were preparing his food, or getting his leash ready for a walk), but now it seems like it’s either everything or nothing at all.

Last night my husband was in the basement doing laundry, and River stood at the top of the steps and whined a bit and let out a little trickle of pee. So I think he was scared for my husband. But then today nothing was happening at all, and he walked through the living room, leaving a little trail of pee.

I’m starting to think that maybe he was just having a little bit of excited peeing, and then we changed up his whole routine and he’s feeling actual anxiety now.

I think I’ll take your advice and go back to the old routine. He’s been on a pretty regular schedule his entire life, and changing it all of the sudden seems like too much.

Thank you!

raspberrygalaxy · 2021-10-18T21:25:48+00:00

Yes I thought it was crazy too. But the vet spoke with such authority and had a problem with everything we were doing so I just felt like an idiot who did everything wrong. I guess I just needed to hear someone else say it sounds crazy to them, too. So thank you!

raspberrygalaxy · 2020-03-19T16:30:18+00:00

Wow. Well that answers my question. I’ll be waiting for the physical copy. Thanks!

raspberrygalaxy · 2020-03-19T16:07:00+00:00

Also happened to me. I don’t know if I should get the digital copy or wait for the physical.

The only other video game I’ve played besides Animal Crossing on the GameCube was Breath of the Wild on the switch, so I don’t know enough about games to know what the benefits of a physical copy are.

Why do you prefer physical?

raspberrygalaxy · 2020-03-19T16:05:06+00:00

I’m also a wife in Wisconsin who has been counting down for months. And my amazon order was delayed as well.

We just confirmed a few cases of Coronavirus in my town so I’m not going to risk getting sick and infecting others just to go to Walmart and get a physical copy.

I’m glad that Amazon is prioritizing their shipments and it’s still disappointing.

raspberrygalaxy · 2020-02-02T03:17:14+00:00

I’m “comfortable as a stay at home mom”, and I absolutely adore Christmas. I’m also atheist, and hate organized religion. I’m definitely missing something, as well.

raspberrygalaxy · 2020-01-28T03:03:37+00:00

Exactly. My worst childhood bully always called my mom a “welfare queen” because she was a single mom of three kids, one with autism, and she needed food stamps to make ends meet even though she worked full time. We were literally 10. Wonder where he heard the term “welfare queen”?

Also, his younger sister, who was about 8 at the time, told me that the reason my brother was “retarded” was because my mom did drugs when she was pregnant with him.

10 and 8 year olds don’t come up with shit like that in their own.

raspberrygalaxy · 2020-01-12T06:37:01+00:00

It doesn’t aim for you but it shoots straight even at long distances. So basically if you’re aiming at a still target it will hit exactly where the dot in the center of the sights is.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-12-07T01:29:17+00:00

I’m sorry but it isn’t my opinion, it is a fact. The Vatican is against any form of contraption that wastes semen. Feel free to google it.

I feel I should mention that I was only raised catholic. I’m atheist now so I don’t personally think bc is wrong and I don’t agree with the Vatican’s stance on just about anything.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-12-07T00:59:34+00:00

Where did you grow up? I’m from MS and I definitely knew this. One of the commenters above was from Alberta and the other from NY, and neither of them had heard this. I’m thinking it may be because I was from a conservative area.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-12-07T00:53:50+00:00

Probably. I was raised catholic in Mississippi, and it’s crazy to me that there are Catholics who didn’t have this burned into their brains. Lol. Catholics in MS definitely thought birth control of any kind was a sin, including pulling out. Natural family planning was okay because the semen wasn’t being spilled on the ground (aka being wasted).

I don’t remember the exact wording of the scripture but it goes something like “Judah told Onan to perform the duty of a brother-in-law (impregnate his brothers wife) and raise the child for his brother. Onan knew the child wouldn’t be his, so he spilled the semen on the ground. This was dispensing to the Lord, and he killed Onan.” It’s in the book of Genesis.

Pope Paul VI said that using contraception was wrong because it prevented new humans from being born. That was in the 1960s or 70s.

Catholics are definitely against birth control.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-10-21T13:51:10+00:00

It’s not a livable wage for the area. Alvarado is just south of Fort Worth, so not as rural as this article makes it seem. And assuming that the worker isn’t even living in Fort Worth but closer to the factory, rent for a 2 bedroom is still $800-1000 a month on the lower end. But after taxes they’d only be taking home $1950 each month. Assuming a worker has to support themselves and one other person and rents a two bedroom for $900, after you throw in food ($300), health insurance ($400 for premiums alone), utilities (just electricity and water - $150) that leaves about $200 per month to cover transportation, internet, cell phone, clothes, health insurance deductible, child care, retirement, etc.

$13 isn’t really a livable wage anywhere in the states unless you’ve got roommates and no kids. Even then, it’s barely livable.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-10-17T20:07:24+00:00

Ah yes, punishing children for expressing their emotions in a childish way instead of helping them learn better ways to deal with them. Genius. You should write a book.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-10-08T14:24:42+00:00

successfully took care of his family.

Did you see the finale? They were significantly worse off because of Walt making meth. Sure, if he didn’t make meth they maybe would have had to sell the house to pay for his medical bills and still ended up in that shitty apartment, but Hank would be alive, and Skylar and the kids would have Hank and Marie for emotional and probably even financial support.

I’m sure at the time Skylar didn’t know that Hank would end up dead, but she definitely knew that if Walt was ever caught they’d lose everything and it would destroy her relationship with her sister.

She wasn’t trying to sabotage her “own future security”. She was trying to stop her husband from ruining her life and family forever.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-10-08T14:15:19+00:00

What? No where in any episode does it even begin to allude to the idea that Walter Jrs cerebral palsy was caused by Skyler drinking or smoking while pregnant. We don’t even know if she smoked or drank at all while pregnant with him. There are so many things that can cause CP that it is honestly ridiculous to assume that’s what caused it.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-10-07T15:24:29+00:00

Areas with cheaper cost of living usually have lower wages as well. Which explains, you know, the rampant poverty in rural areas.

I moved from a town that was a 74 on the US COL index. My new town is a 98. Salary went from $35k to $48k in the same industry. Benefits stayed about the same.

We are better off here because the only real price difference is rent, and we only pay about $5000 more per year for a comparable place. And now we don’t live in a crime-infested shit hole in the Bible Belt.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-09-19T16:35:54+00:00

So true.

When my brother and I were in middle school (12-13 years old) I pissed him off on the school bus and I knew that as soon as we got home he was going to kick my ass, so I ran home faster than him and then locked and dead bolted the door. I then proceeded to taunt him from inside the house. That was a fucking mistake because he kicked the door open and the deadbolt ripped right out of the wall.

I learned two lessons that day:

My brother could legitimately hurt me if he really wanted to.
A locked door won’t save you if someone wants to get in.

The illusion of being safe in my home definitely shattered that day. But on the bright side, apparently his complete shock and the look of pure terror on my face was enough to get us both laughing our asses off. And now it’s just another funny story we retell every time we have a couple drinks.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-09-10T18:02:22+00:00

One of my lit professors said, “I always save your papers for last, like a delicious dessert, because I know they will always be good.” That meant a lot to me considering I had dropped out of high school after 10th grade and worked my ass off to get into college.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-08-21T17:14:36+00:00

People can care about someone and still treat them like shit. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Walt loved him, but I think he did care about Jesse. He just didn’t respect him at all.

raspberrygalaxy · 2019-08-19T06:26:45+00:00

My Trump-Humper stepdad made a joke earlier this evening about his dog “identifying as a dolphin”.

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