{"id":419,"date":"2017-04-11T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susanslattery.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2021-03-10T19:52:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:52:02","slug":"my-broken-brahma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Old Pugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Brahma of the bug eyes. He is 13 years old. He weighs about 12 pounds and has diminishing hindquarters. At his best agility weight, he was 16 pounds. A vet once told me that just like people, some dogs just get geriatric before others. Buddha is 14 and while he definitely looks stiffer than he was in<\/p>\n

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his youth, he is still pretty flexible.<\/p>\n

Here’s a shot of Brahma:<\/p>\n

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A black and white of my poor Brahma.<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t take many photos of his full body since his back end has gotten so small. I do not think this is just geriatric… I think he has some kind of spinal degeneration or atrophy. He seems to have lost the feeling in his hindquarters. Also Brahma is much more wizened than Buddha.<\/p>\n

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Buddha is 14 and looks younger than Brahma<\/p><\/div>\n

Brahma folds himself up now in the most contorted way:<\/p>\n

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He folds himself up.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s like he folds himself in half, like he’s made up of two different dogs. Maybe we should change his name to Quasimodo.<\/p>\n

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This is Brahma of the bug eyes. He is 13 years old. He weighs about 12 pounds and has diminishing hindquarters. At his best agility weight, he was 16 pounds. A vet once told me that just like people, some dogs just get geriatric before others. Buddha is 14 and while he definitely looks stiffer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[60,62,61],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-black-pug","tag-spinal-atrophy","tag-spinal-degeneration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susanslattery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}