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Just a thought, what about a battery operated alarm that you stick on your gate?

Great idea~!  I'll have to see if I can find one.  Knowing him though, after listening to it for a minute, he'll just disable it (so, how to make it man proof?) I'm also thinking of putting a spring on the gate to make it close after him.

Eww~!  Woody also has a very high prey drive.  I think that's the gene what he got from the 3 breeds of hunting dog he is (he sure didn't get the retrieve gene).  If it moves Woody will hunt it, but, he usually doesn't bother with buzzy bugs (that's Maple's job, she hunts flies and bees only).  I'm lucky that he doesn't eat the squirrels or 'possums that he catches, but, I've never been able to stop him from hunting them.  Heck, he even will track planes or helicopters across the sky.  Oh,and when we go to my friends house, her pond with goldfish in it is the dog sitter.  He points and will not move away from it except to eat (even at night, he begs to go out, so I'm thinking he needs to pee, and all he wants is to hunt fishies)

Good luck, and, I guess Strider will need breath mints before giving kisses from now on 

I hope all goes well with the behavioralist~!  Maddox looks absolutely adorable.  Maybe you should also have a vet check him (like Patrick said). 

Best of luck~!

Ugh~!  That type of people give our business a BAD name~! I have been in the Security business for almost 25 years now, and had to put up with a lot of the same crap many years ago.  Now, that I am the Site Manager, NO ONE in my group will dare to treat anyone else that way. 

I think I read in your post that you are union.  If so, file a formal complaint with your union.  Discrimination due to sex is ILLEGAL in this country.  You can also go to your states EED to file complaints.  From what I see, you are both being discriminated against due to your sex, and you are in a hostile work environment.  I agree with Holly, but, would reword the "get even" statement.  You are not getting even, you are requesting to be treated appropriately, which is a basic right.  (Yeah, Holly, I know, its just semantics). 

Oh, and do not QUIT until you have filed your complaints.  Once you file, they need to worry about how they treat you, as almost any negative treatment will be seen by the courts as retaliation.

Good luck~! 

They’ve ruled out a lot of things, but, don’t know what’s going on.  She consulted a specialist for advice.  He may be starting to lose his kidneys(can be a side effect of long term Phenobarb' use), or it may be a kidney infection, or, it might be his med’s, or it might be none of the above~!  So, will be adding a urine culture to his lab work and it will take 3 days to know the results of that.  His alkaline phosphatates (sp?) are very high, double what they were in March, which was double what they should be, but, this is a side effect of the Phenobarb’.  Don’t know if that’s causing the problem.  In the urinalysis, his “specific gravity” (??) is quite low, but, should really have been quite high due to his med’s and being dehydrated, so not sure what’s up there.  She’s given me pain med’s for him, to try and help him with sitting up and standing, and if the new tests don’t show anything, they’ll do abdominal X-rays to see what’s going on in there, and to check his hips for arthritis.

He's hanging in there for now.  Doesn't seem to be getting worse, and LOVE's that he gets canned dog food, so hopefully we'll either keep this holding pattern or get a bit better while we're waiting for the results.

So, one more waiting game~!  ARGH~!

Woody is eating and drinking this morning, as long as I bring it to him.  LOL  It seems the biggest problem is he has a very difficult time sitting up or staning up, but, if he can just lay there, he'll eat and drink.  At least he's keeping hydrated, so that will help until we can figure out what's going on.  I'm just going to sit by the phone all day waiting for my call~!

"It may be that Woody was depressed when you were gone for the weekend so he didn't eat or drink as usual and he is just dehydrated and weak. That'll teach you to go away and not take him with you, huh?"

Actually, Woody is the first pet (dog or cat) I've ever had that doesn't stop eating when I leave him LOL  I did think about that, but since I had noticed little things for a couple days before I went, I knew it was more than that.  Plus, when I'm gone, my DH is actually very nice to Woody~!  Reality is I don't like leaving the dogs at all~! 

OK, so, the vet took X-rays and did blood work.  The X-rays show Woody might have a problem on his sternum (or, he may have broken it at some time in his life) but she doesn’t think that is what’s causing the current problem.  Also, they found a heart murmur, but again don’t think that has anything to do with his current problem.  The blood work should be in tomorrow or Wednesday, so will hopefully know more then.  In the mean time, they fed him nice expensive wet food and he ate it.  DUH~!  LOL  He drank a lot of water for them, but, they also injected it under his skin, so his fatty tumors all look like one big fatty tumor on his left side now.  I picked him up a while ago, and he’s sleeping now, but did seem to have more energy than before.  So, I guess I need to go buy special wet food for him, and hope for the best with the blood work.

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers everyone~!

Oh, the one thing that irritated me, was everyone keeps telling me, "Well, he is old", yeah, he is old (11), but that doesn't make it easier to accept him being sick!  Maybe I'm just going into Mama Bear mode