A very old stray {The Old Fella Story}
Went camping this weekend at a campground on the lake, had not been there for a few years. Once there I began to walk around looking at the different sites when I noticed a very old dog. He just lay t...
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So sorry your Cookie is having problems. It sounds like she has many complications. I would just continue to monitor her behavior. When my Neal had seizures he would pee and poo during the seizure. After lots of research, I found that a seizure in a dog is the equivalent of running a marathon and depletes their blood sugar. You don't mention cluster seizures which is what my Neal would do. Just one after another. I would wait till he tried to get up after the seizure and dose him with honey from an oral syringe. It would bring him out of it faster. Then I would take him outside where he would pee and poo. Within a few hours he was almost back to normal.
The phenobarbitol and potassium bromide he was on for so many years, however, to keep the seizures at bay ended up destroying his liver. He had a stroke one day and I made the decision to end his suffering.
I have had all my dogs cremated. My vet of over 30 years does this and scatters their ashes in his orchard. Some dogs who died while we were on the road I had cremated and I brought their ashes back to him, so they are all scattered in the same orchard. I didn't want containers with ashes that my kids would have to decide what to do with. I didin't save the boxes/containers, but my last dog was cremated in Texas. The vet places their ashes in a bag inside an intricately carved woooden box with a slide opening in the bottom. The box is hand carved from Mexico and it is beautiful. I have that box on my dresser and placed in it the collars and tags of my last four dogs who traveled with us on the road over the last 15 years.
Much love and prayers to you and your wee one. Wish they lived longer for us.
Dale
The phenobarbitol and potassium bromide he was on for so many years, however, to keep the seizures at bay ended up destroying his liver. He had a stroke one day and I made the decision to end his suffering.
I have had all my dogs cremated. My vet of over 30 years does this and scatters their ashes in his orchard. Some dogs who died while we were on the road I had cremated and I brought their ashes back to him, so they are all scattered in the same orchard. I didn't want containers with ashes that my kids would have to decide what to do with. I didin't save the boxes/containers, but my last dog was cremated in Texas. The vet places their ashes in a bag inside an intricately carved woooden box with a slide opening in the bottom. The box is hand carved from Mexico and it is beautiful. I have that box on my dresser and placed in it the collars and tags of my last four dogs who traveled with us on the road over the last 15 years.
Much love and prayers to you and your wee one. Wish they lived longer for us.
Dale
