My K-9 Trainer, LLC

11/08/2025

Happy Monday! It was a bit of a long one for Legend, Friday night he was up getting sick (for the first time with his new meds) and so we took the rest of the weekend slow, easy, and mostly indoors. He doesnt manage the heat very well anymore. Lots of laying down, lots and lots of water. But his one external fistula seems to be healed...knock on all the wood. We are on his last 2 doses of his antibiotic and he has about another month and half of his autoimmune meds until we reevaluate. Paws crossed his tummy keeps handling them and is helping the internal issues too!

10/08/2025

Mr Henry did amazing in hid second lesson today! We worked on tightening up his loose leash walk, how to handle cat distractions, positional stays, as well as handling other dog and human play distractions! He is surly one smart cookie!

10/08/2025

Everyone welcome miss Macy to our K9 Family! She is joining us at 6 years young to help strengthen her relationship with her family, learn to live happily with her little human, learn off leash freedom, impulse control, and how to settle. I am very excited for her and her family!

07/08/2025

Mornings are ruff around here.

07/08/2025

05/08/2025

Proud egg collectors!

01/08/2025

Legend hasnt made really any positive progress but also not many digressions. Bowels is now our biggest trouble area, along with keeping his "wound" clean. Autoimmune Diseases are a challenge in humans, let alone in a dog when they can't tell you how they truly feel. He still has his energy (thankfully), appetite has stayed. Im ok with being in this middle ground but am hoping for an upward trend soon. The girls are also his biggest supporters. Aspen knows cuddles fix everything.

01/08/2025

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31/07/2025

A cookie a day keeps the monsters at bay...right?!

29/07/2025

After sitting with the vet over an hour, crying and talking about options, I decided to try meds before giving up on him. She diagnosed him with severe grade perennial fistulas which are essentially open sores along his GI tract continuing to cause infection. Unfortunately this is a common issue with German Shepherds. If we can calm his immune system down and get the infection to go away his quality of life should improve because right now, she agreed it is not great. Further testing and surgery is an option but due to the location, there is a VERY high risk of a nerve being hit and causing him to no longer have control of bowels. So that is not an option worth considering in my eyes. We are giving it a week and hoping to see improvement. If he is not better in a month or so, then I will have to make the hard decision to let him go for quality of life. But neither the vet or I were ready for that just yet. So he will be on 3 meds then hopefully be able to taper to just an external serum if he improves.

29/07/2025

We've got our next appointment today early afternoon. Paws crossed for better news and help.

28/07/2025

Legend's mass has returned. It nearly trippled in size overnight. He's in a good amount of pain (gave him some of his pain meds) and am waiting for our vet to open to see what our next steps are.