Recent content by s5nelson

Welcome to the forum! I'm so sorry to hear that you're going through all of this! It's never easy to deal with a suffering pet! What I'm wondering is if your boy wasn't misdiagnosed. The steroids don't generally help with elongated palate issues. In general, steroids help to calm inflammation &...

How did you get involved with this?! I'm in DC and would love to have Winston be a part!

Oh no, I'd be the person who would call their friends over & say "check this out!!!", take pictures, THEN go help the kid...I fully admit I'd be a horrible parent...

Oh no!! Poor guy!! I hope you find out whatever is bothering him. Sending good thoughts & prayers your way!

Big congrats to you!!! That's great!

Thank you SO much for saying this. It really, really means a lot. I do hope that I made a difference for him, and I do hope that he is able to turn himself around, but there's just no way that I'm equipped to help him any more than I already did. It was a difficult decision, but at the end of...

I have too many neighbors / friends who volunteer constantly to watch Winston whenever I need. So, he really has no need for doggie daycare.

It depends on what he's eating. When he gets treats I have to remind him to chew. When he eats his regular food, he stores it in his jowls & then chews on it throughout the day (weird, I know...I just tell people it's his "storage unit" and he's saving it for later haha!)

Yes, and he does it after both pooing and peeing. What's bad is when he kicks the actual poo haha

Boy isn't that the truth! I keep hoping that it will turn around one of these days, but you never know.

I'm sorry, I meant to say her daughter is close friends with him, but she wanted me to take him in. Yeah, I thought at the time it was just because I had more room, could afford him (she lives off of her child support checks) etc, but in really started to question her motives on Friday when she...

You're telling me haha! How all of this started is because a close friend of his is a neighbor of mine. She actually tried to bully me into keeping him on Friday when I told her that I was done (I had gone into the basement to do laundry & the whole basement reeked because he hadn't flushed the...

I agree with you 100%, which is why I told my friend that I couldn't be in the middle anymore. He's staying with another family down the street & I think that they might be better suited for him that I am. I just don't have the experience to be able to help teach him. You aren't the first person...

Yes, from what I understand, the last time this happened she tried to beat him with a broom so he took it from her & tried to break it so she couldn't hurt him with it. This of course escalated the situation, the police were called & he was arrested. The parents aren't even divorced yet. They've...

Haha! Yeah, I definitely don't have any children. I do believe that you're correct that he's never been taught responsibility from his parents. His father is currently living with his sister since he cannot afford a place go his own & doesn't know if / when he'll even be able to. Yeah, I am...