Our pound puppy rescue - Page 3

**SenorPepe** · 12-06-2011, 04:36 PM

Holy crap! Cracked that dog is beautiful! (Not that yours aren't cute lgilmore but labs just make me smile.)

**cracked1** · 12-06-2011, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by pointerDixie214

Man. Awesome thread. Just what I needed.

Thank you for doing what you did. I love the pic of them snuggling. Dogs are the best. Do you happen to know what conference he is presenting it at? My wife is a veterinarian and she is extremely interested in orthopedics. Forwarding her this thread.

I'm not certain which conference he will be presenting at but here's the basics of what he did:

"The tibial plateau leveling osteotomy - TPLO involves making a curved cut in the top of the tibia bone (osteotomy) to include the tibial plateau. The tibial plateau is then rotated along the curved osteotomy in order to level the slope. A plate and screws are used to hold the tibial plateau in place so that the bone can heal in its new position & the tibial wedge osteotomy involves cutting the tibia and removing a wedge of bone, hence changing the angle of the weight bearing surface of the knee to prevent the abnormal sliding motion of the joint which occurs after the ligament has been damaged."

He consulted with someone from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine who is supposed to be some sort of authority on the procedure.

**david_42** · 12-06-2011, 07:06 PM

Great story. Katie Belle is 12 and that's fairly old even for a greyhound. I have a standing offer from a professor at OSU Vet. to bring Katie in if she develops anything major, like bone cancer, that greyhounds are subject to. There's a new viral treatment for cancer that has the Vet community very excited.

**cracked1** · 12-06-2011, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by lgilmore

Just thought I would post a few pics (I know I know)

When Nellie came over, the Sheep got up and qued up single file to the fence gate where one by one they came up to Nellie and let her clean their faces, then she would nudge one with her nose and the next sheep came over and repeated the process with nellie. This went on for 20 minutes. The amazing thing was Nellie has never seen a sheep. I brought her home at 4 or 5 weeks old. It was so cool..

This last picture is Wesley our new dog. A golden/husky maybe chow mix. He had been fenced to a tree for 6 years on an eastern Washington reservation. Two weeks after getting him, he's in his life jacket boat camping with us. We've had him 4 months now and he is filling a void in our hearts.

It's pretty awesome to see how deep those instincts run. I'm guessing Wesley is just as happy to be with you as you are to have him!

Here's a couple more shots of our pups:

The chicken coop in the background has since been moved behind the garden fence. Labs and chickens don't always mix too well...

lgilmore · 12-07-2011, 01:56 AM

What happy dogs! Labs always seem to be some of the happiest breeds out there.

This past summer between our last two dogs passing and adopting Wesley, we took a vacation to find heat (PNW need I say more?) and open spaces. The first part of our journey took us to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (Kanab, UT) for a couple days. This is the place that took 23 of M. Vicks dogs. It is a happy/sad place. The tour takes 90 minutes as the Sanctuary is huge. Over 500 employees.

But one of the neatest sadest places was their cemetery. People have been sending wind chimes with their pets names on them and the place is covered with these giant wind chime set ups that are beautiful.

What inspired my wife and I after seeing this was to do something to remember our 6 dogs we have had over the last 30 years together. So we stole their idea a bit. We call it Dog Gong.. just thought I would share with you who have pets that have passed and you wanted to do something to remember them. We took a garden wind chime to an awards shop and had it engraved. Just thought I would share if anybody out there has thought about doing something to remember your best friends by.