Cyanide Poisoning in 3 of my dogs.
Almost lost 3 of my dogs this weekend. Still not out of the woods with one of them. :( One dog went down completely on Thursday. Because only one eye dilated the ER "insisted" it was a brain tumor....
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dturm wrote:
I constantly remind myself of one of the sayings that a professor in vet school was fond of saying:"Old age isn't a disease"
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Boy, that sure IS a lesson I had to learn when I switched breeds. I wanted a breed that had no health issues and was long lived.
30 years in Great Danes I can 'sadly' talk a blue streak with my unwanted knowledge about OCD, HOD, DCM, CM, torsion, ruptured spleens, bloat, bone cancer, Hemangiosarcoma,etc., etc., and even been forced to assist in surgery at 2:00 in the morning on my own dog waiting for vet techs to arrive. THAT is a real eyeopener for any owner.
Danes die very young and even sooner if afflicted with any of the above. So I have NO experience with the aging dog.
When I would ask about some of the symptoms these toy dogs were having the answer was always "that's just old age".
Been full timing for a couple of years. Settled in Florida with a new to me house and all dogs retired from the show ring, so I am not filling out their birth dates on entries anymore.
During this past emergency at a new vet was confronted with actually providing birth dates for each of them.
Boy has time flown by. 15, 13, 10, 5!
Yup, I found a breed that is long lived. :C
