I killed my dogs with love and ignorance.

[magicre]

Isn't uni sea urchin roe? asian delicacy that tastes like piss? Thats what I was referring to, no I eat everything else, aembi ebi is my favorite (sweet shrimp) with the heads.

Off to work I go.............

right you are.....unfortunately, they didn't have uni...my other restaurant has that one......or i would relish it....and i always get the names mixed up..

is sweet shrimp the same as crystal shrimp?

[stajbs]

Octopus..flying fish...I am missing something. Time to climb out of my bubble!! lol Sushi, I can take it or leave it. I need to work on refining our old palates apparently. My hubby has periodontal disease too, but I never researched it as you have. When he wakes up from his siesta I will have to discuss this with him. Just one more thing to make him nuts. Geez, I will soon be in divorce court. Poor poor man......

Thanks for the info on periodontal disease too magicre!!

[magicre]

Octopus..flying fish...I am missing something. Time to climb out of my bubble!! lol Sushi, I can take it or leave it. I need to work on refining our old palates apparently. My hubby has periodontal disease too, but I never researched it as you have. When he wakes up from his siesta I will have to discuss this with him. Just one more thing to make him nuts. Geez, I will soon be in divorce court. Poor poor man......

Thanks for the info on periodontal disease too magicre!!

we're trying to save his teeth...without spending the requisite 20k....

i am a little OCD....so researching is something i do automatically. i am learning that i have to shoulder the responsibility of learning what is needed to be my own advocate, my dogs' advocate....

so learning about the relationship between food and health is, to me, as necessary, as breathing...

if i had known then what i know now....i might have, and i don't know for sure, because genetics do play a part...but i would not have contributed to the disease, thereby making it worse and eventually killing her....

for humans, there is a condition called SBE....it stands for sub acute bacterio endocarditis and it cripples those who survive it....it's not as uncommon as people think and it is one of the things that people get and dogs can get......as a complication of periodontal disease...

not to mention kidney, liver, and pancreatic involvement...

so, if my vet doesn't go there, someone has to....and i guess it's going to be me....and you and i can stand at divorce court together, because i like my guy and this is preventable if taken care of.

[stajbs]

magicre,

I am far from OCD, which my husband is. I am however, an input junkie with a hang up. In the past 5 years I am off to research anything regarding dogs, but I have this hang-up about investigating human health issues. Bites me in the behind on occasion. I knew this could be a problem for humans, and a serious one at that, but in this case I have been letting him just deal with it, sad to say. His sitution is pretty much resolved now.

I work as a medical social worker with a non-profit foster care agency and I am quick to research what is needed at work to help children, but I am shamelessly stupid about doing it for us. Probably paranoia, or maybe there is another diagnosis for my issue.

[stajbs]

Whoops, I should say I like my guy and hope to keep him around for a while too. He has had most of the work completed and they have begun work on new choppers for him now. Hopefully with your info and some investigating I did today we can save his remaining teeth.

With respect to the dogs I have noticed overall improvement in their teeth since switching to THK, even Blaze has improved it's just two of them at this point, but I will be discussing his dental issues more thoroughly with the vet now that I am better informed. For this reason I am grateful for this thread, but remain sad for the reasons you had to start it.

Take care!!

[PAID BY FORD]

I am so sorry to hear of your loss, please accept my deepest sympathies having lost a dog before when i was young i truly feel your sadness. At least there was something learned in your tragedy and you can use it as a positive learning experience. Again I am truly sorry

[magicre]

Whoops, I should say I like my guy and hope to keep him around for a while too. He has had most of the work completed and they have begun work on new choppers for him now. Hopefully with your info and some investigating I did today we can save his remaining teeth.

With respect to the dogs I have noticed overall improvement in their teeth since switching to THK, even Blaze has improved it's just two of them at this point, but I will be discussing his dental issues more thoroughly with the vet now that I am better informed. For this reason I am grateful for this thread, but remain sad for the reasons you had to start it.

Take care!!

i'm not really ocd, but i used to be a practising psychiatrist, so i do bandy words about...and then forget that others don't have my gallows humour.

i didn't make the connection either on periodontal disease and nutrition....until recently...

i had a three credit course in nutrition in medical school...woeful, i know....but during my residency in psychiatry, there was a five year old boy in a locked ward, restrained much of the time, because he continually tried to murder his mother, usually with a knife and a rage so terrible that unless you saw it, it cannot be imagined.

at one point, the doctor who turned out to be my mentor, had a round table discussion with his residents and fellows...and it was a wild shot but someone suggested testing for allergies...know that in any psychiatric situation, testing is usually or should be performed to rule out physical conditions, such as brain tumours.

as the world turns, it turns out the child was allergic to oranges and the manifestation was behavioural.

he was taken off orange juice, returned to being a normal five year old and thus began my study of nutrition and the relationship between physiology and behaviour and humans...

would that i had extended it to dogs...but now i will....

i wish the best for your husband and i guess these things do come up for a reason....not too late for your hubby or mine....and maybe, just maybe, there's the glimmer.

[magicre]

magicre,

I am far from OCD, which my husband is. I am however, an input junkie with a hang up. In the past 5 years I am off to research anything regarding dogs, but I have this hang-up about investigating human health issues. Bites me in the behind on occasion. I knew this could be a problem for humans, and a serious one at that, but in this case I have been letting him just deal with it, sad to say. His sitution is pretty much resolved now.

I work as a medical social worker with a non-profit foster care agency and I am quick to research what is needed at work to help children, but I am shamelessly stupid about doing it for us. Probably paranoia, or maybe there is another diagnosis for my issue.

wow. a medical social worker....for children no less...kudos...for real.

[stajbs]

No kudos, just lots of stress. I however am feeling more inclined to be careful of any future persoanlity weaknesses I divulge to you. No more talk about my hang ups and paranoia. Soon you will have an official diagnosis for me. lol

Kudos to you really!! That is a lot of work education and dedication. I'm often after the psychiatrist at work for meds.....he says if I'm worried about my sanity then I must be sane. Shucks!!

Seriously, it is the dogs and other family who keep me sane and trucking along through life. I did learn a long time ago to not beat myself up too much for decisions I have made in the past. Plus despite our difficult year we had one bright spot....we have a new family member. A grandson, soon to be one year old, born 6 weeks premature last September. He is just the coolest, neatest thing that has ever happened to us, next to the rush of driving a sled hooked to 4 or 5 siberians of course.

Life has changed, we are dog people, just on a smaller scale, and when I finally kick, the legacy I want to leave behind for our grandson is related to his having positive experriences with dogs and perhaps gardening and playing in the soil. He loves the dogs and surprisingly the dogs do well with him. They are very tolerant, but of course they are never left unsupervised, nor will they ever be.

I have enjoyed getting to know you and learning from you and the rest of the folks in this and other threads.

Be good to yourselves!! I love th epic of your pup by the way, what face!! Priceless!