Comments on: Sick as a dog

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:42:37 +0000

That is awful. Give her a hug from me.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:08:01 +0000

Richie, didn’t think there was any point in a vet appointment – we know what it is (although I still think the vet was too quick to diagnose the last time). So now it’s just a matter of starting her on the drugs, which sucks because they’ll shorten her life. But better that than the alternative – her fit started on the stairs today, and she managed to get to the bottom before it properly kicked in. Had she been at the top of the stairs she could have seriously hurt herself. Still a horrible decision to have to make (although of course it’s nothing compared to the decisions some parents have to make, I know that). And it’s a fucking hellish thing to have to watch – you basically have to be sure that she can’t hurt herself and let her go through it until she knows who you are again and can be comforted.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:20:05 +0000

Poor wee pie. :-(

By: richie

richie — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:51:38 +0000

The poor pup. Hope she’s ok now. Any further word from vets?

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:18:27 +0000

Spoke too soon. Another fit today. Ech.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:07:11 +0000

There hasn’t been a recurrence so far, so hopefully it was poisoning. That sounds weird, but you know what I mean.

By: clmac

clmac — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:32:35 +0000

My dog, Sam, is a bit daft, when she was a pup, she managed to get into the bin, and feed herself on the contents, a few hours later her face & ears had swollen and she was finding it hard to breath, Called into the vets, and the said she must have an allergy, anyway, after a £60 shot in the neck, one dog as happy as Larry.

To get to the point, my neighbour’s dog has epilepsy, and it has a fit on a regular occurrences, it took months of tests and blood samples to diagnose, He (the neighbour) has Pet insurance that covers the lot, if not it would have cost him hundreds.

Apparently this can be common in certain pedigree breeds,
x-breeds it is rare.

Hope Megan is OK, and its a one off.

By: Tony Kiernan

Tony Kiernan — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:27:59 +0000

I think it takes a lot of the elasticity out of them. So, yeah, kinda.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:29:13 +0000

Is it the cooking that makes them brittle?

By: Tony Kiernan

Tony Kiernan — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:45:01 +0000

I’d advise against giving dogs any cooked bones.

They attributed my former dog’s epilepsy to the fact that she was dressed chemically as opposed to intrusive surgery. That was pushing 20 years ago, though.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:35:40 +0000

Yeah, we’ve had to take bones from Megan because they splintered. Can’t be too careful.

Space cakes? Wow.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:34:56 +0000

Aw, poor pie! :-(