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Remember playing records in the hi fi? And you only had AM on the radio until about dark then FM channels came on?




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[coffeejunkie]

CJ, I posted a few links about Windows 10. I think the 2nd link may be what you're looking for.

Windows 10 Uses Your Bandwidth to Distribute Updates, Disable It Here
Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out[/QUOTE

Thanks for the link Still learning Windows 10. I think once I set it up the way I like things, I will be okay. Just not enough time right now. Biggest issues I'm having now is setting up my address bar with my favorite sites I visit most...I'll figure it out.

 

[coffeejunkie]

Good Morning All...I promise I will start posting again when I get Windows all set up. No time mess with it right now.

Today is hubby's retirement party the kids are giving him. Tomorrow we have plans with a few of his co-workers and wife's. Monday we will be helping our Granddaughter move back to college for her second year Tuesday guys coming pull out carpets in bedrooms and installing new wood floors. Thursday getting my bridge put in. WHEW!
And I thought retirement was a slow and easy pace LOL

Take care all...I found a lot of new Do You Knows the other day and my stock pile is almost full again

:seeya::loveyou:

 

[coffeejunkie]

For all my WS Friends struggling with Windows: Consider investing in a MacBook Air. No more troubles and computing life will be so much sweeter.

All my kids have Mac's and Iphones and keep telling us buy one!! I just I'm stuck in WINDOWS MODE I like Windows. I would need buy all new graphic programs and much used other programs if I bought a Mac and the programs are not cheap

 

[salberg7]

I am thinking of you and hoping your doggie feels better every day, LinaSK. There is nothing worse than the feeling of despair we have when our dogs/pets are ill. She's got several years yet in her; not to worry...
We have a ten year old (soon to be eleven in November) rough collie. He is in relatively good health so far, thank heavens. Our last collie had to be put down when he was almost 13 due to hip dysplagia. He developed rocky mountain spotted fever and Lyme's disease after we took him to the beach when he was about 9 yrs old even with regular use of tick preventative medication. He was really sick - suffered seizures from a high temp and had to be hydrated and given antibiotics 3x/day for three weeks. Between my hubby and I, that dog never missed a dose of antibiotics. We arranged our work schedules to make sure of that. He survived it but I think that is what made his hip dysplagia so bad in the end. We put him down 10/12 Columbus Day, I will never forget it, we held him until the end.
My husband was adverse to it as he was heartbroken over losing our first collie, but I got our current collie four months after this. He was born on Thanksgiving night and came to us in January. Now, of course, my husband is just as devoted to this one as he was the last. I got him so soon after as I believe that since you have already loved one pet so much, you have to keep it going with another.
Our dog now has developed a pink area around his whiskers, as he has such a long snout he is always putting it where it doesn't belong, ie poison ivy or whatever he chooses to sniff. It doesn't seem to bother him at all, so I am keeping an eye on it.
My dog hates the car, so I empathize with you as getting a 85 lb collie in our car requires my hubby and I lifting him in the car, one of us gets the front of him and the other the back. Hubby drives, and I sit and hold the dog to calm him in the backseat. We have a special harness collar for these outings as once he managed to get loose in the vet's parking lot and of course I was scared he would run off onto the highway.
In any case, our doggie just had his checkup in May along with all his tests and vaccines so we are good to go for a year. If he gets too old or ornery next year he received a three year rabies vaccine this year so other than heartworm and lyme's disease vaccine we are good and he will be 11 1/2 then and I won't force him. We give him Frontline and heartworm meds monthly.
My thoughts again are with you. I hope your dog makes a full recovery. Good luck! I will bet she is fine as I post this.

 

[Jasper52]

All my kids have Mac's and Iphones and keep telling us buy one!! I just I'm stuck in WINDOWS MODE I like Windows. I would need buy all new graphic programs and much used other programs if I bought a Mac and the programs are not cheap

CJ, should you ever decide to switch over to Mac, you can purchase parallels which enables you to use your existing programs with Mac. There are free versions, but not sure how well they work. Just google "parallels for Mac".

Here is a popular one: Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac

ETA: Amazon sells this for $49.00 so it's worth checking around for the lowest price should you ever decide to switch to a Mac!

 

[Bernina]

This must be the month for animals issues. :gaah: Hopefully September will bring an end to it!!!!!

I've always had my questions about heartworm. I've never had a dog with it, and never given any of my dogs preventatives for it.
What makes mosquitoes of the last 25-30 years capable of giving canines this? And it seems it's always short haired dogs.
And why are dogs living shorter lives than they did 40 years ago?
Why are there more problems with spinal compression or general vertebra displacement in our critters? It's weird, it seems to come up a lot, dogs and horses. And breaks in bones, like kitties, those critters have alway been so indestructible, with the exception of cars and a pack of coyotes.

So many questions.

Is it food, genetics, vaccinations, supplements, worming, spaying, neutering, gelding, creating a more coddled environment?

 

[LinasK]

Our cat went to live with my sister and he loved to jump up on her car and jump to the six foot fence gate and one time he got his back leg between the pickets and broke his leg trying to get down. It was on a Sunday morning and the emergency vet clinic is one hundred dollars for just walking in the door, so they splint it up to his hip and send him home on pain meds which make him sick and then you have a throwing up woozy cat that keeps falling over. That cost eight hundred dollars on top of the hundred walking in the door. Hope Louie is doing better.

With Xrays and bloodwork, I spent $680 yesterday. But we couldn't not treat her, and it turns out she was in pain, not just being lazy/old age.

 

[LinasK]

Good Morning All...I promise I will start posting again when I get Windows all set up. No time mess with it right now.

Today is hubby's retirement party the kids are giving him. Tomorrow we have plans with a few of his co-workers and wife's. Monday we will be helping our Granddaughter move back to college for her second year Tuesday guys coming pull out carpets in bedrooms and installing new wood floors. Thursday getting my bridge put in. WHEW!
And I thought retirement was a slow and easy pace LOL

Take care all...I found a lot of new Do You Knows the other day and my stock pile is almost full again

:seeya::loveyou:

See- we got you on the remodeling kick! We got the baseboards repainted, but DD has two singing shows this weekend, so don't know how much we'll get done.

 

[LinasK]

I am thinking of you and hoping your doggie feels better every day, LinaSK. There is nothing worse than the feeling of despair we have when our dogs/pets are ill. She's got several years yet in her; not to worry...
We have a ten year old (soon to be eleven in November) rough collie. He is in relatively good health so far, thank heavens. Our last collie had to be put down when he was almost 13 due to hip dysplagia. He developed rocky mountain spotted fever and Lyme's disease after we took him to the beach when he was about 9 yrs old even with regular use of tick preventative medication. He was really sick - suffered seizures from a high temp and had to be hydrated and given antibiotics 3x/day for three weeks. Between my hubby and I, that dog never missed a dose of antibiotics. We arranged our work schedules to make sure of that. He survived it but I think that is what made his hip dysplagia so bad in the end. We put him down 10/12 Columbus Day, I will never forget it, we held him until the end.
My husband was adverse to it as he was heartbroken over losing our first collie, but I got our current collie four months after this. He was born on Thanksgiving night and came to us in January. Now, of course, my husband is just as devoted to this one as he was the last. I got him so soon after as I believe that since you have already loved one pet so much, you have to keep it going with another.
Our dog now has developed a pink area around his whiskers, as he has such a long snout he is always putting it where it doesn't belong, ie poison ivy or whatever he chooses to sniff. It doesn't seem to bother him at all, so I am keeping an eye on it.
My dog hates the car, so I empathize with you as getting a 85 lb collie in our car requires my hubby and I lifting him in the car, one of us gets the front of him and the other the back. Hubby drives, and I sit and hold the dog to calm him in the backseat. We have a special harness collar for these outings as once he managed to get loose in the vet's parking lot and of course I was scared he would run off onto the highway.
In any case, our doggie just had his checkup in May along with all his tests and vaccines so we are good to go for a year. If he gets too old or ornery next year he received a three year rabies vaccine this year so other than heartworm and lyme's disease vaccine we are good and he will be 11 1/2 then and I won't force him. We give him Frontline and heartworm meds monthly.
My thoughts again are with you. I hope your dog makes a full recovery. Good luck! I will bet she is fine as I post this.

She's due for her shots in a couple of weeks, so the vet said we shouldn't need an exam when we bring her back. He didn't want to give them to her yesterday, probably a wise decision. We also give her Frontline and Heartworm pills. We changed meds when we discovered Sentinel didn't cover ticks. She got a tick bite 21/2 years ago and was deathly ill because we saw it, but didn't know it was a tick making her so sick. She normally likes to get into the car, except for leaving the vet yesterday. She will try to get her front paws up, and I assist her with climbing the step into the back seat, or my husband will lift her into the cargo area. We need to get a harness, we only have a neck leash for her collar/choke chain.
It turns out she apparently was just a dork and ran full-on into one of the fences, probably chasing a squirrel and didn't stop herself in time/gauge the distance properly. Does anybody else have a dog who's done this???

 

[Niner]

Afternoon all! :wave:

I was going to post earlier, but I had Louie on my lap, and couldn't... cguru:

Our cat went to live with my sister and he loved to jump up on her car and jump to the six foot fence gate and one time he got his back leg between the pickets and broke his leg trying to get down. It was on a Sunday morning and the emergency vet clinic is one hundred dollars for just walking in the door, so they splint it up to his hip and send him home on pain meds which make him sick and then you have a throwing up woozy cat that keeps falling over. That cost eight hundred dollars on top of the hundred walking in the door. Hope Louie is doing better.

first bold - YIKES!! I don't know WHAT I would have done, if it had been that much!!??!! Paid $323 plus senior discount of 5%!!

He didn't get any pain meds or antibiotics. He did get an antibiotics shot! He's hobbling around with splint/cast up to his hip. He also got a shot for fleas/ear mites! I should get one of those for Kimi! I'll have to look at the bill and see how much that was... otherwise, we are using Frontline, and some medicine for the ear mites for him.

Sony and Cher - when they lived up on Hayvenhurst Avenue in the San Fernando Valley, we lived just down the street, and my sisters used to wash Cher's car!

:waiting: on coffeejunkie's new Did You Knows... :lol: Take your time - just kidding!

Later folks! :seeya:

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Afternoon all! :wave:

I was going to post earlier, but I had Louie on my lap, and couldn't... cguru:



first bold - YIKES!! I don't know WHAT I would have done, if it had been that much!!??!! Paid $323 plus senior discount of 5%!!

He didn't get any pain meds or antibiotics. He did get an antibiotics shot! He's hobbling around with splint/cast up to his hip. He also got a shot for fleas/ear mites! I should get one of those for Kimi! I'll have to look at the bill and see how much that was... otherwise, we are using Frontline, and some medicine for the ear mites for him.

Sony and Cher - when they lived up on Hayvenhurst Avenue in the San Fernando Valley, we lived just down the street, and my sisters used to wash Cher's car!

:waiting: on coffeejunkie's new Did You Knows... :lol: Take your time - just kidding!

Later folks! :seeya:

The high cost was because it was an emergency clinic only open at nights and all day and night Friday and Saturday. If you go to a regular vet it would be much cheaper. We took Mona there when she got attacked on a Sunday afternoon, and stayed with them instead of going to our regular vet (which one vet assistant wasn't impressed with him) because we felt more comfortable with them treating Mona that night, and that cost a thousand bucks for pain meds a general antibiotic included the removing the drains in five to seven days. A week after Mona's first visit the tissues around one of her wounds started dying, and we took her back and they gave her an antibiotic for bacterial infections after blood test showed she had the MRSA in her blood, and we scheduled surgery to removed the dead skin and tissues the next evening. That visit cost us three hundred bucks, and they want it up front right then. We took Mona in Friday evening for her surgery and follow up care. In all her vet bill was thirty six hundred dollars

We had filed a claim against the dogs owners home insurance and they paid her vet bills one hundred percent.


I was walking Mona up and down the long hallway when dh was checking out for the final time when a boxer pitbull mix and a Doberman came in in muzzles, and the owners was having trouble controlling them, and there was an opened door to a room that had dim lights and a soft leather recliner and a blanket, and it dawned on me that was where they let people say goodbye to their furbabies. I was so glad I didn't have to sit in that chair for Mona with what all we'd been through.



We've used Frontline and are now using Revolution. Anna uses a three year rabies for Eva but we take her in with our dogs for heartworms and tick meds.

I clean out our dogs ears with peroxide on a cotton ball and rub baby oil in them and it gets rid of them.

 

[LinasK]

The high cost was because it was an emergency clinic only open at nights and all day and night Friday and Saturday. If you go to a regular vet it would be much cheaper. We took Mona there when she got attacked on a Sunday afternoon, and stayed with them instead of going to our regular vet (which one vet assistant wasn't impressed with him) because we felt more comfortable with them treating Mona that night, and that cost a thousand bucks for pain meds a general antibiotic included the removing the drains in five to seven days. A week after Mona's first visit the tissues around one of her wounds started dying, and we took her back and they gave her an antibiotic for bacterial infections after blood test showed she had the MRSA in her blood, and we scheduled surgery to removed the dead skin and tissues the next evening. That visit cost us three hundred bucks, and they want it up front right then. We took Mona in Friday evening for her surgery and follow up care. In all her vet bill was thirty six hundred dollars

We had filed a claim against the dogs owners home insurance and they paid her vet bills one hundred percent.


I was walking Mona up and down the long hallway when dh was checking out for the final time when a boxer pitbull mix and a Doberman came in in muzzles, and the owners was having trouble controlling them, and there was an opened door to a room that had dim lights and a soft leather recliner and a blanket, and it dawned on me that was where they let people say goodbye to their furbabies. I was so glad I didn't have to sit in that chair for Mona with what all we'd been through.



We've used Frontline and are now using Revolution. Anna uses a three year rabies for Eva but we take her in with our dogs for heartworms and tick meds.

I clean out our dogs ears with peroxide on a cotton ball and rub baby oil in them and it gets rid of them.

Sorry Pages, I missed if Mona was a dog and what kind? What was she attacked by? We used the ER Vet when Ciara got the tick, but they didn't see the tick, so only treated her for the nausea and vomiting, then went to our regular vet the next day, and when I pointed out a "growth" to him, he told us it was a tick and yanked it out.
Ciara was also attacked a year later, also in January, by two Malamutes on the loose as I was walking her. I didn't think of the homeowner's insurance, I had to spent $75 to file in small claims court and have her served in order to threaten her to get the owner to pay up in full. She claimed it wasn't her responsibility, since her gardeners left the gate open...:stormingmad:

 

[Zuri]

Linas, I am sending Jingles your way as all the Jingles sent up for my horse sure did help. You are so right in that we do what we need to do for our beloved animals, regardless of cost. I am so glad she is better and I hope she is not in too much pain still. It sounds as though you have a busy weekend with lots going on!

Please keep us apprised of her condition and how you are doing too.

 

[Zuri]

Niner, hope your kitty is doing ok with the splint on. My goodness, this has been emergency vet week hasn't it. Jingles for your cat! And Husband!

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Sorry Pages, I missed if Mona was a dog and what kind? What was she attacked by? We used the ER Vet when Ciara got the tick, but they didn't see the tick, so only treated her for the nausea and vomiting, then went to our regular vet the next day, and when I pointed out a "growth" to him, he told us it was a tick and yanked it out.
Ciara was also attacked a year later, also in January, by two Malamutes on the loose as I was walking her. I didn't think of the homeowner's insurance, I had to spent $75 to file in small claims court and have her served in order to threaten her to get the owner to pay up in full. She claimed it wasn't her responsibility, since her gardeners left the gate open...:stormingmad:

Monalou is my baby. She's a jack russell and weighs fifteen pounds. A year ago last March two pit bulls jumped our back fence and attacked her, one grabbed her and she had three ten inch long bites down her sides and the separated the skin from the muscle, and the other dog bite just grazed her shoulder. My grandson and his friend heard it and beat the dogs off of Mona and animal control showed up about the time we were leaving for the er vet. The owners of the dogs showed up the next morning to claim their dogs and the city asked them to give the dogs up and they said no. They also said the dog's weren't theirs and showed papers that one dog had rabies shot and it had the man as owner, so they got a total of seven citations totaling fourteen thousand dollars. Animal control said the people were pissed that they were being put out and costing them money and never asked or said sorry that their dogs hurt Mona. Animal control asked for a copy of Mona's injuries and after the er faxing them over they came and took pictures of her injuries and turned them over to the city da to file charges.

We filed on their home insurance to not have to deal with them personally and have to take them to court. There was no way they could get out of their two dogs two blocks away from their home and attacking a small dog inside of it's own fence yard.

 

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[LinasK]

Well, we thought she was doing better, but unfortunately she's been throwing up and had excessive foamy saliva this evening... and of course on a Sat. night, when the only option is the Emergency Vet. Hopefully she's over the worst of it. Will discontinue tonight's dose of meds and call somebody tomorrow. I texted my friend, but she didn't respond.
DH was a jerk most of the day, and we didn't work on the Den, but he's been more compassionate since the dog got sick.

 

[LinasK]

Monalou is my baby. She's a jack russell and weighs fifteen pounds. A year ago last March two pit bulls jumped our back fence and attacked her, one grabbed her and she had three ten inch long bites down her sides and the separated the skin from the muscle, and the other dog bite just grazed her shoulder. My grandson and his friend heard it and beat the dogs off of Mona and animal control showed up about the time we were leaving for the er vet. The owners of the dogs showed up the next morning to claim their dogs and the city asked them to give the dogs up and they said no. They also said the dog's weren't theirs and showed papers that one dog had rabies shot and it had the man as owner, so they got a total of seven citations totaling fourteen thousand dollars. Animal control said the people were pissed that they were being put out and costing them money and never asked or said sorry that their dogs hurt Mona. Animal control asked for a copy of Mona's injuries and after the er faxing them over they came and took pictures of her injuries and turned them over to the city da to file charges.

We filed on their home insurance to not have to deal with them personally and have to take them to court. There was no way they could get out of their two dogs two blocks away from their home and attacking a small dog inside of it's own fence yard.

In my case, they attacked without warning- growled, then immediately attacked in front of me and she was on leash!!! They came up to her, were hiding in juniper, and it wasn't their property or anywhere near their house. I pulled the male off her neck, but he had already bitten her and the female bit her back leg. The bite wounds weren't visible, but she started bleeding an hour later on the way to the Vet. Animal control did come, but someone else had called her and she had already picked up the dogs. They didn't take them, but 10 days later they bit her pool lady severely on the arm, and they were taken. She also was put out that she had to pay for them to be at the county pound for several weeks. My vet friend clued me in about that, because she was the one to evaluate them at the shelter. She never said sorry either. She was very grudging in giving me her name and phone number, but I heard the guy who called her ( lives 2 doors down from me) say where she worked, and I know people in common, and verified where she worked, got her first name, and googled her address. Bet she was shocked when I had her served at the Elementary school she works at!

 

[Dmacky]

Well, we thought she was doing better, but unfortunately she's been throwing up and had excessive foamy saliva this evening... and of course on a Sat. night, when the only option is the Emergency Vet. Hopefully she's over the worst of it. Will discontinue tonight's dose of meds and call somebody tomorrow. I texted my friend, but she didn't respond.
DH was a jerk most of the day, and we didn't work on the Den, but he's been more compassionate since the dog got sick.

Linask, So sorry to hear your furbaby's still not feeling well. If only they could tell us what was hurting!!
It might very well be the tramadol (ultram). About 4 years ago, I took Macky for her yearly check up and my Vet saw where her top back molar was split/cracked.
She was a chewer back then and I had gotten her Nylabones.

We had to have that tooth extracted. Before the surgery, they did x-rays and blood work, and of course you have to figure in the cost of the anesthesia for the operation itself.....lots of $$$$. They called back later and asked if I wanted them to do to clean her teeth since she was already out. I can't remember how much more $ it was going to be, but it was NOT cheap. I remember it was more than it cost getting my own teeth cleaned. I politely declined.

They sent her home with Tramadol and an antibiotic. I can't remember if they gave her Rimadyl or not.
She did the whimper thing just like your girl the next day. I quit giving her the Tramadol the day after that and the whimpering stopped. She was back to her old self. She didn't throw up though. I still think it's probably related to the drugs she's on.

It does seem to be true about things always happening on a weekend. Please let us know what the Vet says today.
Good luck and as Zuri says "JINGLES" being sent from my heart to your precious furbaby.