Hi Maggan,

De Niro is doing very well. Thanks for asking !

Norma
how is the pup????
Maggan

TO EVERYONE WHO CELEBRATES THANKSGIVING,HAVE A WONDERFUL AND SAFE HOLIDAY !

I am sure they do the operacion on mastins, a friend of a friend is operating on his mastins dogs leg I think he damaged a ligament in the knee and its costing around 2000euros to get him fixed, with rehablitation etc. he doesn't have insurance unfortunately,I will ask my friend if his friend has had the operacion done yet. I haven't seen him in about a month. Just to make life a bit more comfy for your dog, have you got a mattress for him to sleep on, I put a cot matress in princessas kennel so she sleeps on that which is softer for her joints. good luck

Hi we have done X-ray the DH is very bad and elbows also
I am not thinking about an operacion I am just curios
I spoke to the vet today and he explained that they have good results with small dogs and it takes the pain away and is included in my insurence the meds
are not
they have 3 kinds the one Frans post about
a protes or the cut a piece of the end of the bone
and put a muscle there they can still be lame but without pain
As my Mastin is a working LGD living outdoors and have 4 bad legs we have to be realistic and wait and see and give her the meds The Vet did not know if a
so big dog 60 kg have had this op
Maggan

hi, my vet had talked to me about operacions on the knee joints as my german shep has arthritus from when she was a puppy and said its a very complicated surgery that doesn't always have good results, your dog would have to be practically laying down for at least 3 months after the operacion to recover. If he/ she isn't to the point where she is suffering too much and it can be controlled with medicine for pain and inflamacion and she is ok most of the time, I wouldn't put her through an operacion, my vet suggested not to operate on princessa and we just give her the medicine, most of the time she is fine its when it gets colder she starts to limp so we treat her. But of course the best person to talk to would be a specialist a vet that knows what they are talking about and that has performed these types of operacions, maybe you should go to the vets and get them to do some xrays and get a profesional opinion. good luck. kiwiespañola (Tracey)

Thats cosequin
Has anybody heard about operacion???
My vet saw St bernard operated
Maggan

you need to get a hold of a supplement especially for dogs which helps the joints and cartliges, it has these components... glucosamine, condrointine,and msm. this will help a lot. I have a german shep with arthritus, and she gets very limpy when it starts to get cold, the anti-inflam melixicam is good for taking away pain and reducing inflamation. I give her glucosomine everyday for about 6 weeks before the cold weather sets in and she is doing fine. the anti inflam is if she starts to limp to take away the inflamation. give it a try it will help you will see a difference.

Hi people has always told me the Mastin is walking looking clumsy??? is that true or is is that they have HD'??
Has anybody operated the hips and elbows??
She is now 1 w on Meloxidyl-melixicam
liquid it helped all year on-off Cosequin
Maggan

Hi the vet was here today and I got new painmed. to try on my other dogs too
He explain that you can op the hips so must off the pain is going away later on she is still moving and jumping fairly well, he said the elbows could be more difficult
and she will feel the weatherchanges and get more artrosis
she is a gurdian and want to be outside as well as she needs to be
Maggan

There is a 'new' category with 'puppies born in Estonia', all the photos are not 'visible' in 'latest uploads' - because I was 'too slow' to make the album...
http://mastingallery.net/cpg145/index.php?cat=75

My vet said the arthritis in my mastiff's spine and leg joints is from being a giant breed... the vet recommended a weekly injection of a medicine named Adequan. Maybe this could help yours?
(we didn't try it yet at home)

Hi maggan,
What a nice story...
Your mastina is very clever trying to tell you she wants more food
What a pity she has to be on a diet.
How is she doing with her bad HD and bad elbows?

Hi I don´t remember if I told you my Mastina has very bad HD and bad elbows so she is spayed must diet and eat medicin.She doesnt not understand diet so the other day she came home with a dead ewe that we lost in summer and we looked everywhere, she put it on the doorsteep
to show she want more food she has always had free food but when she passed 2y she sterted to get fat she has put it there 3 days know
Maggan

Hi Sally I found an other mail
it is 2 interested in Romeo
what about the breeder????
Maggan

Hi mom2goliath and maggan,
Thanks a lot for the info and link to Romeo, who needs to be adopted...
No, maggan, I did not change my email, maybe server had been 'down' for a while...

Sally have you changed your mail
I found a link to a SM Romeo
in a shelter in NY i resend to spanish mastiff
yahoo list Maggan

hi Sally, thanks !
well the dog is going to be fine , it will take about a month to recover fully. She wouldn't have made it without the blood donation from Canela. They gave her a medicine to kill the leeches,and she is still on a treatment for a month till she is fully better. At least we could help, I am happy to have helped out, and that it all turned out as a happy ending and am very proud of my darling Canela she was very brave to let the vet do it aswell, she is such a gentle, loving dog and was kissing the vets face while she was taking the blood from her legs, 3 times pinching the veins, in her two legs to get a whole bag of blood from her. Thats what I call an amazing dog!! anyway if anyone believes in karma, what goes round comes round!! so help out when you can everybody! giving blood saves lives even for animals!!!
regards Tracey

Hi kiwiespañola,
Welcome to the 'mastin web'...
I am so glad to hear that your Canela could help with a blood transfusion :
I hope the dog, who needed the blood survived?
Please, keep us informed...
Best regards from Sally

hi everybody I am a new member and we live in spain, I just wanted to say that I got a ph call off our vet this morning asking if we could let our canela do a blood transfusion to help save the life of another dog who drunken leech infested water in a village in the mountains in a village in Granada. The poor dog had lost so much blood from internal bleeding it needed a blood transfusion. Of course I said Yes straight away and our vets came over to do the transfusion, canela was amazing and such a good donor. so hopefully they we helped in time, and that the poor dog who we don't know, survives as its in a really bad way! the vet is going to keep us informed so everyone keep their fingers xd.

Congratulations!!
Gina Tornado Erben gave birth to a 'Danish litter' the 3rd of September
2 little girls and 1 boy...
http://mastingallery.net/cpg145/index.php?cat=70

Hurray for us !! And honour to Sally, who -after all- accomodates and mounted this 10,000 pics MASTIN-exhibition !!

We just passed 10.000 photos in the Mastin Photo Gallery: http://mastingallery.net/cpg145/
Thanks a lot to all of you, who send photos of your mastines to the Gallery

Link to Mastin Español Lovers at Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38434681832&ref=mf