20% SHOP SALE for Sammy!

Sammy needs vet care again (read more on my pet blog here), this time there's something in his eye that needs to be looked at asap. We have an appointment later today and that alone will likely be at least 150-250€ according to the clinic.

I still haven't recovered at all from his previous vet visits from December-February so I'm doing a 20% OFF EVERYTHING in my shop on js-tierportraits! The sale will run at least until April 30 but I may extend it if necessary.

If you're not interested to get art you can also help by sharing this post and donating to/ sharing Sammy's GoFundMe here. I will update the latter with the new info after the appointment when I know more.

Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

I think Sammy is getting back his back pain and I'm pretty much 100% certain it's from administering the eye drops. Last time he got these back issues was after a few days of eye drops too.

But how am I supposed to do it without him raising his head up 😭 He barely cooperates as it is, and he still has to get them every 2-3 hours (luckily not through the night anymore though). Doing it when he sleeps as the vet suggested is definitely not an option since that would only majorly re-traumatize him, there's no way in hell I'm even trying to do that to him once.

This won't work out like that until his next appointment... 😖

Didn't get a lot of sleep last night, but I remember having a dream in where

Sammy got rid of the cone while fighting me giving him eye drops and

somehow he managed to get a big chunk of additional cornea off of his eye on the process, making everything much much worse

I guess that says a lot doesn't it 😂

Sammy's eye is looking muuuch better according to the vet. She actually seemed impressed by how fast it improved since yesterday, since the hole is now only 50% deep instead of yesterday's 80%.

Which is a good thing because now I can space the eyedrops a lot more. Sammy really is losing his patience fast with getting them administered hourly 😅

I think I'm going to catch up on some sleep/ rest now. I kinda feel the need to be painting stuff instead of resting, but honestly it seems a little pointless to pour energy into it with how things are going currently... and I can't do watercolor work rn because my legs say sitting is not an option anymore. So that's on hold for a few days, and resting it is for now. Maybe I'll do some digital art later from the couch, that depends on what the brain says by then 🥴 Or maybe I'll just find something to watch/ listen to if art is not a feasible option today.

Sammy is very tired 😕 He's definitely catching up on sleep too

Not so happy pup 🥲

Under the cut are pictures of his cornea and it's literal hole if anyone is curious. The vet had amazing pictures of it, it looked much more impressive than what I got with my phone here, but I think you get the idea.

It WAS a foreign object. They were able to remove it, but it has left a pretty deep hole in his cornea, about 80% deep. He has to get different eye drops every couple of hours and he's NOT a fan. This will be a loooong 2 days 🥲 Tomorrow morning he has a follow-up. Hopefully the eyedrops are enough for it to heal.

20% SHOP SALE for Sammy!

Sammy needs vet care again (read more on my pet blog here), this time there's something in his eye that needs to be looked at asap. We have an appointment later today and that alone will likely be at least 150-250€ according to the clinic.

I still haven't recovered at all from his previous vet visits from December-February so I'm doing a 20% OFF EVERYTHING in my shop on js-tierportraits! The sale will run at least until April 30 but I may extend it if necessary.

If you're not interested to get art you can also help by sharing this post and donating to/ sharing Sammy's GoFundMe here. I will update the latter with the new info after the appointment when I know more.

Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Of course they want to see him today. orz

They think it might be a foreign object. I just hope I can get enough €€€ to pay for that appointment and any meds he might need. It's likely going to be 200-300€, the exam alone would be maybe around 150-200€ they say. Maybe they can do payment plans or something if it's more than 200€ because rent is due next week orz

Not really better today, although he doesn't seem to squint as much. Sent the pictures to the eye specialist and am now waiting for what they'll say :/

This seems to be a stuck thing or in the worst case something that has grown there, but I just noticed it's presence today. Sammy squints that eye and is noticeably less energetic today.

I don't think that spot was there yesterday. And the clouding in that eye is new too, although I wouldn't rule out it has been there for a few days longer. No telling from the photos I have, but from the way they both sit they may be related? Maybe it's just some plant matter or something if we're lucky?

Anyway I literally can't pay for a vet visit right now, let alone the eye specialist 🥲 rip

I think I'll see if the yellow thing is still there in that same spot tomorrow and see what I can do about it then.

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Happy Birthday Pukki!! 🥳🎉🧡🖤

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Friendly reminder that I'm currently running a raffle for dog treats! Winner gets to pick either a bag of dehydrated chicken breast or beef hearts.

I make and package these treats so they are 100% single ingredient. Here's a picture of a bag of beef hearts.

All donations go directly to @arlo-venn for some much needed help.

To enter make a donation to any of the following:

Venmo: @remywolfe

CashApp: $remywolfe

PayPal: [email protected] or paypal.me/wolfstephollow

ApplePay: 4805199559

kofi: ko-fi.com/remywolfe

Then send a screenshot to [email protected]

I'll draw a random winner on April 26th and ship the treats anywhere in the continental US at my own expense. If donations exceed $50, I'll add a second winner. If donations exceed $100, I'll add both a third winner and a second bag of choice to the first winner.

Every dollar helps and counts as a ticket. Reblogs much appreciated.

Thanks!

gotta say, the "id dog breeds" gimmick is fun and all but the thing about referencing biological categories is that they're so much messier than the car model IDs that are being riffed off. especially with anything with a poodle coat, given.... the thirty years of doodles meaning that there are a hell of a lot of crosses out there.

I would not personally presume to confidently announce the breed of any poodle/doodly thing without having hands on it, because a) crosses with all manner of options are so common, b) so much of the common heuristic for recognizing poodle vs doodle is a matter of haircut, and c) it's so hard to assess anything about the structure of a dog with a loose, rough coat that obscures the dog's shape. Frankly, after getting Benton's Embark back, I also don't make confident pronouncements about any mix.

Yeah, that dog is approximately half American Bully. Guess that from looking at him, folks. (I routinely flabbergast dog professionals by encouraging them to guess his breed makeup.) I still regularly read the r/DoggyDNA subreddit, and it's just astonishing how many ways there are to build a mutt and how hard it is to accurately predict anything about a mixed breed dog's ancestry without additional information--especially when a lot of colors pop out in mixes in some rather unexpected ways. (For example: Golden and Labrador retriever mixes have a pronounced tendency to pop out as brindles, bewildering everyone concerned. There are a lot of dominant black pit bulls. And about 75% of anything with a wire coat is poodle, not any kind of terrier.) There are so many ways to get a black and tan or sable dog. If you want to claim expertise, you have to know what the limits of your knowledge are and when you need additional information to make a call.

Identifying purebred dogs which come out of a controlled gene pool is obviously much easier, although you need to be aware how various populations within breeds have been selected and what those populations typically look like. Even then, you need to be careful: it's so easy to assume that conformation shots show you what a given dog breed looks like, but that's usually not the case: both pet and working populations have often diverged substantially from the conformation ideal, not least because conformation standards are a fucking social construct. We have to distinguish between socially constructed and natural categories when we try to learn how to run these kinds of identifications.

more broadly, dogs are living things and therefore they don't come with model numbers or unique serial numbers. "Breed" is a social construct that shapes their populations because, basically, our human culture says it should. You can identify a car very accurately because cars are human-made inanimate objects, and each category of car is essentially identical within the category at construction. That's how mass-produced items work. They lend themselves so nicely to this kind of ordered assignment and identification.

Animals do not work like that. You can strive for uniformity all you want, but mutation is going to pop up and fuck with your carefully uniform lines when you aren't looking. For example, just look at the C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N mouse substrains, which have been bred in total isolation from any other mouse population in brother-sister matings aiming for total uniformity since the 1930s... and were noticed having developed divergent characteristics by the 1950s. Turns out that substrain matters.

And you can't tell without running some very specific tests, let alone from any marker so plain as a static picture.

The number of crimes in my house has risen as Dandelion has recovered from his ordeal.

I could still use help with his vet bills. Reblogs are appreciated, and even a dollar donation would mean the world.

Because his condition could return I'm trying to pay down the bills as soon as possible should, god forbid, he block again.

Sorry to hijack your post like that, but this reminds me that recently I found something Sammy finds very upsetting:

a bunch of daffodils. Just behind a chain link fence on a property nearby. It's just a little cluster with maybe 3 flowers

He wouldn't go further once he saw them. He also didn't want to check them out when I offered. We crossed the street so he could look at them from a distance, but he just kept woofing at them and didn't want to go further along even on the other side of the street XD Who knows what those lil fuckers could do to him, after all... He still finds them very sus

List of animals Troj finds upsetting, updated 26/3/24:

- whippets

- cats

- basset hounds