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Daz's Animals
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This is my dog of 14 years. As a pup you couldn't keep her still for 5 minutes. Being and Australian Blue Cattle Dog (AKA ACD or Blue Heeler), her breed was breed as a working dog for cattle and given their name because of the low front shoulders and the fact that they chase and nip at the heels of cattle (And people if they get pissed off, very protective of family)

We moved from Sydney to the Gold Coast when she was 2 years old and she instantly fell in love with the beach, spending at least and hour every morning on the beach chasing a ball, frisby or swimming in the surf.

As she has aged she has lost her vision to a degenerative disorder called 'Progressive Retinal Atrophy' where the retina just degrades to non-existant resulting in complete blindness. She has been blind for 2 years now and it initially didn't slow her down. Obviously she couldn't chase her beloved balls anymore, so we started putting bells in the ball and viola...she could chase balls again.

Then about 18 months ago we found her laying on the lawn and struggling to get to her feet. Our initial thought was a Paralysis Tick so after 30 minutes of looking for a tick, we found nothing and it was off to the vet.

X-Rays revealed that she had arthritis so bad that the lower 3 verterbrae in her spin were fused and her hips had rather large spurs. The vet commented that technically she should not be walking with that level of arthritis and that it was the worst case of arthritis she had seen in over 20 years. The only thing that kept her going was her great muscle tone developed from years of chasing waves, balls, fribees and anything that moved.

Because Tiggy was in absolute perfect health other than her arthritis (Heart, lungs, liver etc function better than you would expect from a 5 year old dog) and she was still so happy and full of life, she decided to try pain management, so for the last 18 months we have been managing the pain with medication and it has been working a charm. She goes to the beach once a week in summer because she absolutely loves swimming in the surf.

Here are 2 videos, the first one was made about 3 months ago, the second one was made yesterday.





Going to upload vids soon of my new hobby, Aquariums, to share with you Wink
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Daz's Animals - by dfiant - 10-06-2012, 05:50 AM
Daz's Animals - by dfiant - 10-06-2012, 07:17 AM
Daz's Animals - by dfiant - 10-06-2012, 07:20 AM
Daz's Animals - by Rainbowmum - 10-06-2012, 07:40 AM
Daz's Animals - by dfiant - 10-06-2012, 09:02 AM
Daz's Animals - by monk - 10-06-2012, 09:12 AM
Daz's Animals - by lizzielee - 10-06-2012, 01:28 PM
Daz's Animals - by ChadCoxRox - 10-06-2012, 03:13 PM
Daz's Animals - by TryingNewThing - 10-06-2012, 03:14 PM
Daz's Animals - by dfiant - 10-06-2012, 08:42 PM
Daz's Animals - by dfiant - 10-07-2012, 04:21 AM
Daz's Animals - by dfiant - 10-07-2012, 08:20 AM
Daz's Animals - by dfiant - 10-13-2012, 07:38 AM
Daz's Animals - by East - 10-13-2012, 11:13 AM
Daz's Animals - by Dillon - 10-20-2012, 05:29 AM

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