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| Not having a good day today :-(Go out for morning chores start letting dogs lose and Tuff, my superstar working dog was very messed up, couldent walk straight would fall over peing every where, put what dogs were lose away and took him to the vet. He has something nurogical going on but UN able to find a cause. Urine was clean, blood was pefrect, x ray showed no trama. So I was sent home with steroids. He is not ever lose without me with him, he is tied right by my back door. Last Saturday a pokie pine came to him and got him, vet removed all quills and he got antibiotics for that is the only UN usual thing that's happened lately. I'm at a loss as what to think, was told he could have had some trama that caused spinal swelling, maybe a stroke (his head is crooked but eyes work right) or he has a (can't member the name) the blood dosent go to his liver so all the toxins never get filtered and cause problems like this? But I guess it's hard to test for. So we are on a 24 hour wait to see if steroids help at all, I'm so worried about my boy.Than I got home and get him settled and take Fannie for her walk (she broke her leg and was doing great) but won't put any weight on it tonight, she has an apoinemt first thing tomorrow to see what's wrong, but I'm really worried about her too. I'm so upset and frustrated, does anybody have any thoughts on Tuff and if you could say a prayer for them both it would mean so much. I'm gona have to sell a horse to pay my dogs vet bills here soon lmao .... but not really laughing :-(
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | awe.....I got nothing but sending prayers for your babies. |
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Location: Great NW | Rough day indeed prayers for recovery - I had one simular - it was an infection 24 hours on an antibiotic an she was better. |
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| speedjunkie - 2013-10-25 4:24 PM
Rough day indeed prayers for recovery - I had one simular - it was an infection 24 hours on an antibiotic an she was better.
thank you, they ruled out infection today, he does have some antibiotics to prevent infection from being on steroids but there was no infection present today :-( |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Oh no what a horrible time you are having, poor dogs. I had one a few years back that messed up his back had him to the vet many times over it, he got to where he could not get up any more had him on everything trying to help him, never did find out what happen to him, this went on for two weeks and he could not even get up to go potty so I had to make the call and put him to sleep was really hard to do.
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| I wanted to thank everybody for all you kind words. Tuff is brighter this morning but more wobble, so Idk if that is progress or not. I'll just take him when I take Fannie to make sure we are going the right direction. |
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Location: Minnesota | Goodness della, I'm so sorry all of this is happening. Hopefully the vet can come up with some answers for you and your dogs can start to get better. Hugs and prayers friend. Text or call anytime. |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I hope you can find some answers. One of the worst things, in my opinion, is not knowing what is wrong. Many prayers for you and your doggy. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Prayers!
Any chance he could have gotten into some ivermectin?
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| roanrobey - 2013-10-26 10:26 AM
Prayers!
Any chance he could have gotten into some ivermectin?
No not possible, The cattle stuff gets kept in a diffrent yardsite and the horse stuff is locked up. |
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| Just got back from the vet.
Great news for Fannie she just over did it and just needs smaller confinement for a bit and will be back to weight bearing soon.
Tuff however is worse, all the vets are at a loss. We are keeping on the steroid plan for the weekend if he is worse Monday I have to decide if we are going to start looking for rare and hard to test for infections and conditions and hope there is a treatment if we even do find what's wrong. Or the other choice is to put him down. Those words are just devastating. I love that dog so much, I raised him and he makes me so proud, he is the best working dog I've ever had. |
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Location: The edge of no where | Lots of prayers for him. |
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | Don't the steroids take a few days to work to fullest effect? Many prayers! Hopefully the steroids will start to work along with prayer. |
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| della - 2013-10-26 1:03 PM
Just got back from the vet.
Great news for Fannie she just over did it and just needs smaller confinement for a bit and will be back to weight bearing soon.
Tuff however is worse, all the vets are at a loss. We are keeping on the steroid plan for the weekend if he is worse Monday I have to decide if we are going to start looking for rare and hard to test for infections and conditions and hope there is a treatment if we even do find what's wrong. Or the other choice is to put him down. Those words are just devastating. I love that dog so much, I raised him and he makes me so proud, he is the best working dog I've ever had.
See if the vets have any of his blood before he started on the steroids, if so get an ana test done, this is an autoimmune test costs about 65 to do the test. I guess lupus runs rampant in dogs and it generally starts showing symptoms after a traumatic event, the pulling quills.
I have a dog diagnosed with lupus just started the treatment, my guy won't quit itching and has open sores all over.
Lupus can affect any part of the body, dogs and human lupus very similar.
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Location: In a happy place | Oh Della I am so sorry you are having such a rough time. Prayer for you and your dog family. |
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| my weinie dog did this. He was so dizzy and could not walk or stand. I took him to the vet and he had something to do with inner ear. I am going to find the name just cannot remember it off hand. The symptoms are very severe and lasted about 2 weeks. I read on the internet that a lot of people put their dogs some thinking they had a stroke. mine had the head tilt too. His world was spinning around and you could see it in his eyes. I think this is what your dog has. please do not put him down. mine recovered and is perfect now. it did take a few weeks though. Ill find the name and send it too you. |
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| Vestibular disease in Dogs. mine fully recovered
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| FAB - 2013-10-26 6:14 PM
my weinie dog did this. He was so dizzy and could not walk or stand. I took him to the vet and he had something to do with inner ear. I am going to find the name just cannot remember it off hand. The symptoms are very severe and lasted about 2 weeks. I read on the internet that a lot of people put their dogs some thinking they had a stroke. mine had the head tilt too. His world was spinning around and you could see it in his eyes. I think this is what your dog has. please do not put him down. mine recovered and is perfect now. it did take a few weeks though. Ill find the name and send it too you.
thank you for the info.
His eyes are good and clear, but it is something to look into how did you find out? We did cheek for ear infections and his ears looked good.
My vet at this moment is very convinced the issue is in his spine going off his symptoms we just can not find the cause. And the loss of limb control is far more sever in his hind end.
I'm no where near ready to give up on him, so long as he is still fighting I will for him. |
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