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Feb 3, 2012 17:23:27 GMT -5
Post by maryellen on Feb 3, 2012 17:23:27 GMT -5
every day i come home either on lunch or after work and i clean up poop from cheyenne(16 yr old ).. every day she steps in it and poops on the kitchen floor. every day i cover the floor with training pads and every day she kicks them out of the way and poops and then steps in it on the floor... every fucking day.... this has been going on since april 2011... i know she is old, i know she cant hold it which is why i come home every day for lunch and take her out. i make sure she poops before i go to work, every day i come home to a mess, a HUGE mess... she isnt my dog.. my apt stinks like shit every day no matter what, even if i have a dog walker come in she still poops either before or after they leave... and poops for them outside as well... i feel bad for her,i really do.. its not fair to be trampling in your own shit every day when you are old. diapers are out,as that would mean she would be laying in her own shit in a diaper... today she trampled in it so bad its in between ALL her toes on all 4 feet.. i have been using baby wipes to get the shit out and its dried and caked in her feet... she struggles when i try to clean them, i got most of it out but there is still some left which i am going to tackle in a few minutes, along with clean up the huge mess all over my floor.. every day i do this.. i love her, but i need to vent.... but she isnt my dog.. all she does is sleep more and more. she was 45 lbs in october when we took her to the vet, the other night she had to go as she has an eye infection. she is now 40 lbs.... she lost 5 lbs since october. she used to get 2 cups of food a day, but slowly she is refusing to eat the last few bites and now is down to 1 cup a day, and even that she eats most of it but leaves alot behind that she wont finish, and she lives to eat.. its all she thinks about is food, she is constantly begging for food. but if i give her more food she doesnt finish it, so i am at square one...
uggh i just had to vent.. now i am going to spend the next half hour cleaning up all the shit on the floor ..
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Feb 3, 2012 17:49:23 GMT -5
Post by melonie on Feb 3, 2012 17:49:23 GMT -5
Poor old dog. I would say duct tape the pads into a carpet, then duct tape that to the floor. I had to tape them together, but not to the floor. Is there a way to limit the amount of space in the kitchen that she has access to? I've been using an old baby bed rail to block an area off so that the dogs don't bum rush the gate to the hallway which leads to the cat. It is really sad when they get old. I would be willing to guess that she is close to the end stage, and that has to be even harder for her owner. If you have any old scented wall thingies, you can replace the oil w/ essential oil, seen a diy on it. Maybe that would help the smell and utilize a bit of aroma therapy for the dog? holycrickey.tumblr.com/post/7394307755/diy-wallflowers-scented-plugin*yay pinterest* As for the smell of poo in the house, I've found that the glade tough odor solutions w/ oust works freakin' wonders. It kills germs and viruses as well. I make sure there are cans of it in the bathrooms at work. (they're old and nasty even when clean) I don't know if they have an unscented, we just have the citrus at work. If they still make the Oust unscented that would work as well. And, then if you don't want to use that sort of chemical thing, set out a bowl of apple cider vinegar when you leave for work. It may help absorb the odor as it occurs, so it isn't so bad when you get home.
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Feb 3, 2012 18:11:42 GMT -5
Post by maryellen on Feb 3, 2012 18:11:42 GMT -5
she is in a small kitchen, its maybe 3 feet wide by 3 feet long, i just got done from cleaning up the floor from when i posted.. a half hour....i have the wall things everywhere, it doesnt even matter when she poops the stench goes over the oils, even the essential oils dont mask the smell, i feel really bad for her, to me its dignity and quality of life.. her owner understands this, but when she has good moments it throws her owner off kilter (ive been there too so i understand)
no matter how much i gate her off she steps in it, and if i make her area smaller she will really step in her poop, at least now she can step in it then walk away to a clean floor so she doesnt stand/step in it all the time.
i have been watching her go downhill since she got here, its really sad:(
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Feb 3, 2012 18:15:39 GMT -5
Post by adoptapitbull on Feb 3, 2012 18:15:39 GMT -5
I agree that it's probably time for her to have her "perfect day" and then let her cross the bridge.
But, no matter what you or anyone says, her owner has to accept it.
Maybe today should be a day to mention how much you had to clean her up. It's not like you are trying to guilt her into anything, but sometimes it's hard to realize the extent unless you witness it yourself.
Poor old girl...I bet she's so embarrassed.
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Feb 3, 2012 18:18:56 GMT -5
Post by melonie on Feb 3, 2012 18:18:56 GMT -5
I know I wouldn't want to be in that situation... the poo and cleanup doesn't bother me, it's frustrating, but just the making decision part, is what I dread.
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Feb 3, 2012 18:39:51 GMT -5
Post by maryellen on Feb 3, 2012 18:39:51 GMT -5
i told him how much it was today, and every time it happens too as he asks before he gets home from work how she is doing, yeah i dont want to be in his shoes, he has never had to make this decision before, so its the first time for him which is gonna suck even more. he is always apologizing to me about coming home to a mess,which i appreciate as he is sincere. and when he is here if she poops during the night (she has free roam at night ) then he cleans it up, any time she has any accidents when he is here he quickly cleans it up . he spends anything for her, any time we go to the vet (he uses my vet since its closer) he always pays for her visits and meds and anything else she needs. her back end is giving out, we did cold laser treatments which helped alot, but she is slowly reaching the end which really sucks . he has already asked me what i think, and i basically said it boils down to dignity and quality of life.... as i wont get involved in the decision he has to make
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Feb 3, 2012 18:50:21 GMT -5
Post by maryellen on Feb 3, 2012 18:50:21 GMT -5
oh and dont get me wrong, i dont mind cleaning up after her, i just had to vent
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Feb 3, 2012 18:51:03 GMT -5
Post by bubsy on Feb 3, 2012 18:51:03 GMT -5
I'm sorry...tough situation since she isn't your dog, but you are left with the responsibility of caring for her. I don't think I could deal with the constant cleaning of poop everyday. The other day Murphy stepped in some outside and tracked it all over the house...I didn't realize what he did until I stepped in a spot with my bare foot :-( Then I had to clean it out from his nails...caked in there :-( I couldn't do that daily. I'm sorry, no dog wants to do that on a daily basis...I hope her owner considers that :-(
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Feb 3, 2012 18:57:18 GMT -5
Post by suziriot on Feb 3, 2012 18:57:18 GMT -5
I'm so sorry ME, for you and your roommate. Sounds a lot like our situation with Nine, and everyone here knows how much we regret not having made the decision to let her go sooner.
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Feb 3, 2012 19:03:11 GMT -5
Post by maryellen on Feb 3, 2012 19:03:11 GMT -5
he had asked me not long ago if she was my dog what would i do, and i told him dont ask me questions as you might not like the answer you hear , and he asked again so i told him very nicely if she was my dog i would have let her go... even though she had some spring in her step i look at it dignity/quality ... he said he understood, but he wasnt ready then. i know he isnt ready now, but he has been thinking more and more about her quality of life. now she has an eye infection and has to wear a cone 24/7 as she keeps itching her eye and making it worse. i feel so bad for this dog its not even funny..
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Feb 4, 2012 20:27:08 GMT -5
Post by maryellen on Feb 4, 2012 20:27:08 GMT -5
tonight cheyenne refused her dinner. so roommate put mozzarella cheese on it to get her to eat. she ate a little more then half of her kibble with the cheese. her eye is still partially closed, it opens and closes (closes when we put the meds in it) and now her cheek next to her eye is all swollen. she goes back to the vet tuesday night for a check up of her eye. she is still walking around, when she stops her back end sloooowly goes to the ground, last night i had to help her up twice as i heard her struggling on the floor (no one was home but me).
roommate knows what refusing to eat her food means..
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Feb 4, 2012 21:01:25 GMT -5
Post by fureverywhere on Feb 4, 2012 21:01:25 GMT -5
And like cleaning up after human children, we have to vent over the frustration of the mess. But love is why we do clean it up...Chii isn't terribly elderly...she's just obnoxious. She's a purebred "Munchkin", having to share her living space with a family of common housecats and...gasp A DOG has never helped her attitude.
I'm weekly scrubbing the living room carpet because of her, sometimes daily.The weewee pads might be an idea, never thought of that. I put essential oils in the dried flowers through the house ( lavender and clove cancel out alot of other smells).
I feel for you though having to make the choice of when to say goodbye, it takes time to get there
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Feb 4, 2012 21:21:26 GMT -5
Post by melonie on Feb 4, 2012 21:21:26 GMT -5
It is so hard watching them age. Hopefully your roommate can come to terms with the end, and do what needs to be done. It is so hard.
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Post by susan on Feb 6, 2012 9:30:43 GMT -5
I had a german shepherd same situation. He would walk to door and poop would just come out. he acted like he didnt even no it happened. He was 14, the next steps was his back end started going out. It was so hard but yes it was time R.I.P. COTY
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Post by RealPitBull on Feb 6, 2012 9:35:01 GMT -5
ME I'm so sorry. I know EXACTLY what you are going through. I'm in a similar situation with Luca right now, although not as extreme. HUGS to you.
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Feb 6, 2012 11:08:46 GMT -5
Post by lovemybully76 on Feb 6, 2012 11:08:46 GMT -5
It's obvious this is hard on you too as you care for this old girl as well. It's ok to vent, it helps us cope. I hope everything goes well for her.
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Feb 6, 2012 11:15:13 GMT -5
Post by sugar on Feb 6, 2012 11:15:13 GMT -5
Its so sad when you have to make these kinds of decisions. I can only hope for peace for everyone involved.
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Feb 6, 2012 17:40:51 GMT -5
Post by maryellen on Feb 6, 2012 17:40:51 GMT -5
she will only eat her food if i put mozz cheese in it, which is what i am doing now. she isnt eating all of her food, but she is eating some of it, and yes she just walks and poops and doesnt even realize its coming out of her.. i had a talk with the roommate he asked me my opinion so i told him "it comes down to dignity and quality of life" he agreed she has no quality of life left, and that her dignity is slowly coming to an end too, its just he has to make the decision for when not me.. not my dog so i will only be involved so much. at least he realizes its going to be time soon.. oh no mary i am so sorry to hear that.. you know what, i would rather euth a HA dog that is super human aggressive with bad genetics then a sick older dog, i dont know why, but it is just easier for a wired screwed up people biting dog then an old sick dog for me for some reason...
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