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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 485254" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>medications do affect weight, but you'll need to continue to watch his growth and development. At his age, teen boys can suddenly plunge into growth spurts that will cause your jaw to drop, the appetite for such spurts will cause you to faint. Travis was ravenous from about 13-20 yrs of age, seriously ravenous. (only medications he was on were seizure related)</p><p></p><p>As per the therapy dog, not to be a downer but be prepared for it not to work. He may love dogs (Travis does) but that is a far cry from being around one 24/7 and it being his "buddy". We adopted Rowdy hoping that he would be Travis' buddy dog, sort of a pre-therapy dog type deal. Now Mr Rowdy has no formal training (well not much) but he makes up for it in personality and is as patient as the day is long ect. But we discovered despite his love for dogs, Travis can be very out of sight out of mind type person. And although Travis loves Rowdy..........it was an utter failure as far as the buddy dog thing. But it did tell us Travis could never have a therapy or seeing eye dog unless he lived with someone else willing to care for the dog. Otherwise it would starve or die of thirst and be terribly neglected. (we discovered this the hard way much to my horror) Mr Rowdy is now 12 yrs old, despite being starved a few times (I do mean really bad too), terribly neglected at other times, he still has his awesome personality. (and yes the rest of the family just stepped in for the poor dog's sake) Travis wasn't deliberately being cruel......Rowdy just didn't occur to him except once in a while, even with being reminded. He was too into his own world. (still is) </p><p></p><p>Q might do better, but I thought I'd warn you just in case. It was a huge let down for us that it didn't work out the way we'd hoped.</p><p></p><p>Hugs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 485254, member: 84"] medications do affect weight, but you'll need to continue to watch his growth and development. At his age, teen boys can suddenly plunge into growth spurts that will cause your jaw to drop, the appetite for such spurts will cause you to faint. Travis was ravenous from about 13-20 yrs of age, seriously ravenous. (only medications he was on were seizure related) As per the therapy dog, not to be a downer but be prepared for it not to work. He may love dogs (Travis does) but that is a far cry from being around one 24/7 and it being his "buddy". We adopted Rowdy hoping that he would be Travis' buddy dog, sort of a pre-therapy dog type deal. Now Mr Rowdy has no formal training (well not much) but he makes up for it in personality and is as patient as the day is long ect. But we discovered despite his love for dogs, Travis can be very out of sight out of mind type person. And although Travis loves Rowdy..........it was an utter failure as far as the buddy dog thing. But it did tell us Travis could never have a therapy or seeing eye dog unless he lived with someone else willing to care for the dog. Otherwise it would starve or die of thirst and be terribly neglected. (we discovered this the hard way much to my horror) Mr Rowdy is now 12 yrs old, despite being starved a few times (I do mean really bad too), terribly neglected at other times, he still has his awesome personality. (and yes the rest of the family just stepped in for the poor dog's sake) Travis wasn't deliberately being cruel......Rowdy just didn't occur to him except once in a while, even with being reminded. He was too into his own world. (still is) Q might do better, but I thought I'd warn you just in case. It was a huge let down for us that it didn't work out the way we'd hoped. Hugs [/QUOTE]
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