need advice on older dog...
She's nearly 11 or so we think. We've had her almost 10 of those years She's always had some interesting traits especially regarding people's feet. But lately we think she's losing her night vision. S...
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Just my experience but we had a Dalmation long time ago, he was a very large male but he got along with our other dogs. At the time we had an old lab/goldie mix, a poodle and a Pom.
At age 8 he started with some strange behavior where I was afraid to leave the small dogs alone with him.
We took him to the vet and had a full medical, blood work to and he advised we keep them separated as he was a healthy dog.
I wasn't satisfied with that answer, something changed in this dog. So off to another vet, highly recommended for another full check up.
He found something with his heart, he was put on medication and actually did better for awhile, one Saturday he was awfully aggressive towards the Pom so I crated him and would take him to the vet on Monday.
That evening he went outside before bed, when he walked into the living room he looked at me sideways and snarled...I thought oh boy this is not good. He went about 10 feet and dropped dead...it happened to be his 9th birthday too.
Frankly I was relieved, we didn't have to make any decisions but I knew that night we may have to.
So I'd say a medical workup is in order, I wish you the very best of luck with your old guy.
Sher
At age 8 he started with some strange behavior where I was afraid to leave the small dogs alone with him.
We took him to the vet and had a full medical, blood work to and he advised we keep them separated as he was a healthy dog.
I wasn't satisfied with that answer, something changed in this dog. So off to another vet, highly recommended for another full check up.
He found something with his heart, he was put on medication and actually did better for awhile, one Saturday he was awfully aggressive towards the Pom so I crated him and would take him to the vet on Monday.
That evening he went outside before bed, when he walked into the living room he looked at me sideways and snarled...I thought oh boy this is not good. He went about 10 feet and dropped dead...it happened to be his 9th birthday too.
Frankly I was relieved, we didn't have to make any decisions but I knew that night we may have to.
So I'd say a medical workup is in order, I wish you the very best of luck with your old guy.
Sher
