Livin' la Vida Roko

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Kinley!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some pictures of Kinley for those of you going through withdrawals.

6 Comments:

At 6:50 PM, Anonymous said...: He is beautiful! And HUGE!
At 5:11 AM, Anonymous said...: He is looking GREAT! Wish he were here on the east coast so he could have been entered in the Riverhead show next weekend. The judge would have LOVED him! Beautiful head, pigment, coat and angles. Nice tailset and carriage. Lisa, if you have any "thinning shears" just trim the tip of his tail and it will make it look even better. He seems like he has a really sweet, gentle soul also. He will only get nicer looking as he gets older because if he looks this good at 8 months old (the gauky age) he will look even better a year from now.

Thanks so much for posting the pics. I was going through "Kinley withdrawal!"

Mom
At 9:22 AM, marsha said...: He's BIG! Do you let him sleep on the bed?

Can I?
At 12:49 PM, Lisa said...: We got him to "pose" for the camera by promising him grapes just out of the picture frame. Note: he also likes bananas. And after Kinley & I went blueberry picking today, we found out that he LOVES blueberries and especially big fat juicy marionberries. He will do anything for a marionberry.

Given that he prefers to go berry picking and sitting in the shade than going on a 3 mile run through Forest Park, he may be 'my dog' afterall.

(grin)
At 4:12 AM, Anonymous said...: Don't give Kinley grapes or raisins. They are toxic to dogs! I just found this out several years ago. I used to pop grapes to my dogs also.

Mom
At 5:52 AM, Anonymous said...: The grapes and raisins came from varied sources, including being eaten off the vine directly. The dogs exhibited gastrointestinal signs including vomiting and diarrhea and then signs of kidney failure with an onset of severe kidney signs starting about 24 hours after ingestion of the grapes or raisins. The amount of grapes eaten varied between 9oz. and 2 lbs., which worked out to be between 0.41 and 1.1 oz/kg of body weight. Two dogs died directly from the toxicity, three were euthanized due to poor response to treatment and five dogs lived. Due to the severity of the signs and the potential for death, the veterinarians at the poison control center advocate aggressive treatment for any dogs suggested of ingesting excessive amounts of grapes or raisins, including inducing vomiting, stomach lavage (stomach pumping) and administration of activated charcoal, followed by intravenous fluid therapy for at least 48 hours or as indicated based on the results of blood tests for kidney damage.

I have fed my dogs a few grapes every now and then for years, so I don't think there is a need to panic if a dog eats three or four grapes but if the whole bunch is missing from the table one day, it would be good to think about watching for any signs of a toxic reaction.