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We all I am sure, are aware that chocolate is bad fo dogs. Well so apparently are raisins. If you have a dog ... PLEASE read this and send it on. If you don't have a dog, please pass along to friends who do. Written by: Laurinda Morris, DVM Danville Veterinary Clinic Danville, OH This week I had the first case in history of raisin toxicity ever seen at MedVet. My patient was a 56-pound, 5 yr old male neutered lab mix that ate half a canister of raisins sometime between 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM on Tuesday. He started with vomiting, diarrhea and shaking about 1 AM on Wednesday but the owner didn't call my emergency service until 7 AM. I had heard somewhere about raisins and grapes causing acute Renal failure but hadn't seen any formal paper on the subject. We had her bring the dog in immediately. In the meantime, I called the ER service at MedVet, and the doctor there was like me - had heard something about it, but... Anyway, we contacted the ASPCA National Animal Poison Control Center and they said to give IV fluids at 1 & 1/2 times maintenance and watch the kidney values for the next 48-72 hours. The dog's BUN (blood urea nitrogen level) was already at 32 (normal is less than 27) and creatinine over 5 (1.9 is the high end of normal). Both are monitors of kidney function in the bloodstream. We placed an IV catheter and started the fluids. Rechecked the renal values at 5 PM and the BUN was over 40 and creatinine over 7 with no urine production after a liter of fluids. At that point I felt the dog was in acute renal failure and sent him on to MedVet for a urinary catheter to monitor urine output overnight as well as overnight care. He started vomiting again overnight at MedVet and his renal values continued to increase daily. He produced urine when given lasix as a diuretic. He was on 3 different anti-vomiting medications and they still couldn't control his vomiting. Today his urine output decreased again, his BUN was over 120, his creatinine was at 10, his phosphorus was very elevated and his blood pressure, which had been staying around 150, skyrocketed to 220 ... He continued to vomit and the owners elected to Euthanize. This is a very sad case - great dog, great owners who had no idea raisins could be a toxin. Please alert everyone you know who has a dog of this very serious risk. Poison control said as few as 7 raisins or grapes could be toxic. Many people I know give their dogs grapes or raisins as treats including our ex-handler's. Any exposure should give rise to immediate concern. Onions, chocolate, cocoa, avocadoes and macadamia nuts can be fatal, too. Even if you don't have a dog, you might have friends who do. This is worth passing on to them. Confirmation from Snopes about the above .... www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/raisins.asp
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Squidley, I remember that post well, and so I guess due to the circumstances, We can forgive you this one time and overlook it. But you still better not roll over on us.....After all what we ever do without Lonna,s cheese c----I ah mean you.
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Hey Squidley how come your Harley is listed first and gets a longer billing:think:>>>>>>"'79 Electra Glide/'89 VR" it should be >>>>>>"89 Venture Royale / 79 HD " Are you rolling over on us
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How did we let that slip past us
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Drinking and riding is how a good friend of mine ended up in a coma for 2 months last April and would have been dead had it not been for the fact that a Doctor and Nurse happened to be right there on the scene. He is up and about today although still living in a group home for brain injured people, but is improving all the time.
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That better not apply to Lonna's baking:95:
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Common Carl ---You know the squeaky wheel always gets the grease----:fiddle:
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There may well be a difference in the way ABS effects motorcycles compared to larger vehicles, but I can tell you the abs on my trucks and cars have scared me so bad sometimes with close calls that I have disabled it on all my vehicles prefering to rely on my own driving skills. I have also repaired front end damage on many trucks were the truck driver swore up and down that if it were not for ABS he would have stopped in time to avoid the collision. Even a skidding tire on dry pavement has sufficiant friction to stop faster than a wheel that is constantly being released and reapplied By an ABS system. When ABS 1st came out I had to go on several training were they emphasized that although braking distances were somewhat increased the improvement in overall handling of the vehical during hard braking on slippery surfaces was well worth the trade off. In the training video they showed a two transport trucks stopping in a straight line , the truck without ABS stopped in a shorter distance than a truck with ABS, even on wet pavement the truck withoutstopped in a shorter distance. However when it came to hard braking while in a turn the rig with ABS was better able to avoid jacknifing. Again when steering (weaving) through a row off pillons while braking hard the truck with ABS was better able to maintain steering control. In the mid seventy's ABS was implamented on big rigs under FVMS 121 it was such a disaster tht it was canned a couple years later. Don,t forget many times things are implamented not because it is a better idea but because someone stands to make money from it, and has the right political connections to make it happen. In the case of a motorcycle I could see an advantage due to the fact when a motorcycle tire breakes traction, it not only skids but it can slide sideways out from under you.
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And here we have it folks------the mud slinging begin's :doh:
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I say don't get either. Ride the bike the fresh air will do you more good.
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this is one I made myself and if your good at scrounging should cost next to nothing. It only use's one guage to avoid discrepency. you simply open the valve linked to the cylinder your working on and take a reading. dampening is accomplished by adjusting the needle valve. [ame=http://venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=36518]home made carb tune tool - VentureRider.Org[/ame]
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I believe he mentioned something about not being able to afford PRINCE JOHNS INSURANCE RATE GRAB. -
Not so easy as you think. I have heard many parents talk and use language around there six year olds that even make me shudder, and I work with truckers, mechanics and contractors all day long.
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you make that sound like a bad thing
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On the contrary ABS actually increases stopping distance. The purpose of ABS is so that the driver can maintain steering control during hard braking. Once the tires break traction with the road surface regardless of the vehicle, the driver no longer has steering control of his vehicle. A good driver knows this and controls his brakes accordingly. However we have a high population of drivers who are inept at emergancy driving skills, so we implement technology to compansate for them. Unfortunatly to gain this electronic steering control, Stopping distance's have been a trade off and increased, hence an increase in rear end collisions have resulted. Personally I prefer a vehicle without ABS over one with. Where the tires come into play here, usually the harder the tire compound the easier it is for the tire to brake traction. the softer the compound the better it grips. There is a trade off here as well better traction faster tire wear. better tire wear less traction. Then there are tread patterns different design's have different grip characteristic's, each designed for different road surfaces.
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pedastal ? ...is that what it was?.......I thought it was the sacrificial table :doh::rotfl:
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Three little pig's huh.......mmmm.......interesting :think:
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I rode my body's wing a couple of times and I found the same thing a) not enough leg room and b) I did not like the way it handled. I found the steering felt heavy and awkward. not at all like the venture were you seem to just think turn and it does.
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Its worse than unforgiving . Antifreeze in the oil will literaly cut up your bearings, it is worse than if you had plain water in there. Getting an oil sample tested is also a good idea, and pretty much any heavy truck dealer will carry them and get it tested for you. last of all there is one other way for oil to get in the cooling system, I have seen this happen many times in my line of work, and that is by using an oil contaminated container when topping up the cooling system.
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Yeh along with all the other stuff we have to keep in mind. At least no one got killed and from the sound of it, it could have happened very easly
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MRK 2 Questions
saddlebum replied to Sheradan's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
Thats about the same for me -
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Any ideas how to remove a stripped Allen bolt?
saddlebum replied to Color01's topic in Poor Man Tips and Fixes
In my job I run into this quite often and one simple trick that works 9out 0f 10 times is to take a torx bit slightly larger than the allen hole in the bolt. touch up the end of it with a grinder to create sharpe edges then tap it into the end of the bolt. it will cut new groves as it goes down and then just turn the bolt out. I also use this trick for broke bolts drill a hole in the center and drive in a torx bit . better than any easy out I have ever owned. Works best if you can file or grind the bottom flat but if not it still works well without grinding it. -
Yup those were the ones, thanks for the help Bryan. Don't know why they vanished they were there when I first posted it.
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horn wire confusion
saddlebum replied to jimmyenglish's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
As mentioned earlier one wire going to your horn is a constant 12 volt supply. the other goes back to your horn button and gets grounded when you press your horn button. You should have 0 volts on these wires when you are not pressing the button and with both horns disconnected, and 12vlts when you do. If you are getting any voltage through these wires without pushing the buttonn and while they are disconnected from both horns then your horn button has a slight short in it possibly from pitted or arc welded contacts, or one of your ground wire's from the horn has shorted to ground somewhere. Also make sure the horns you installed have 2 independent terminals and are not internaly grounded. You can easily check this by using an ohmmeter and measure from each terminal to the horn body, you should show an open cicuit on both. If you get any kind of resistance reading at all then the horn has an internal ground and you should not use this horn without a properly wired relay. And yes for horns that draw a lot of currant a relay is a very good idea as well. Here is a diagram of a relay circuit you can use if your horns are internaly or self grounded ( the diagram shows lights but you just substitue the horns for the lights )