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Hello and welcome! There's a wealth of knowledge to be had here.

Wonderful news!

Welcome to GT! Love your Kramer!

Good to know. Thank you for sharing.

She's a beauty!

Sending good thoughts for Huston.

I hope your sweet girl continues to improve.

Congratulations!

I'm so sorry you had to say goodbye to your beautiful girl.

Glad he's on the mend. I always had to crate Irys when I wasn't home for her own good.

Oh my, what a scare! Glad he's going to be okay. He sounds like my first galgo, Irys. She was always into something.

I'm so very sorry to see this news about your boy.

I've used it myself with good results and have had good results with my dogs as well.

Just passing this along FYI. August 26, 2014 – Mars Petcare US has announced a voluntary recall of 22 bags of Pedigree Adult Complete Nutrition dry dog food due to the possible presence of a foreign material. The affected bags were sold in Dollar General stores in four states. Although the small metal fragments are not embedded in the food itself, they may present a risk of injury if consumed. The company is working with Dollar General to ensure that the recalled product is no longer sold and is removed from inventory. What’s Recalled? Only 15 pound bags of Pedigree Adult Complete Nutrition dry dog food with the production code detailed below were sold at 12 Dollar General stores in the following four states: Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee Each product will have the lot code 432C1KKM03 printed on the back of the bag near the UPC and a Best Before date of 8/5/15. No other Pedigree products are affected, including any other variety of dry dog food, wet dog food or dog treats. What to Do Consumers may contact Mars Petcare at 800-305-5206 from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. CST. U.S. citizens can report complaints about FDA-regulated pet food products by calling the consumer complaint coordinator in your area. Or go to http://www.fda.gov/petfoodcomplaints. Canadians can report any health or safety incidents related to the use of this product by filling out the Consumer Product Incident Report Form.

Welcome to GT! Logan is a very handsome boy. Now that you've got your photobucket account set up, be sure to share lots of pictures.

Sending good thoughts for Birdie.

Glad Toby is feeling better.

Thank you for sharing this information on Dantrolene.

Perhaps this information could be pinned so everyone will have access to it. I want everyone to learn from this tragedy so no one else to has to go through this. Here's an article from NGAP that explains their protocol for anxious dogs: https://www.ngap.org/malignant-hyperthermia-y608.html

Thank you. Please make sure they have Dantrolene on hand and that they monitor body temperature throughout the procedure and have a cooling protocol in place. I was told my vet knew how to manage greyhounds and anesthesia, and he's seen my greys for twenty years, but I never knew the specific questions to ask until now.

I didn't realize there was a non malignant hyperthermia. I thought the E-vet said MH, but I was in such shock I could have misunderstood. I walked out of there and left all the paperwork on the counter so I can't even check that. I just found this article by Dr. Bill Feeman on non - MH: http://vet.osu.edu/sites/default/files/greyhound_pdfs/faq/AnestheticMalignantHyperthermia.pdf

I’m sorry this is long and probably not very well worded, but I’m posting here as I try to make sense of the unexpected loss of Carly after an outpatient procedure last week to malignant hyperthermia. I’m hoping one of the vets, techs, or someone with experienced with MH aka Canine Stress Syndrome can offer some insight. I've been reading articles about CMH/CSS since this happened. I only ever really knew about the anesthesia risk part of the syndrome like most greyhound owners. The rest of this was news to me. This article, although written specifically about labs, http://www.labbies.com/css.htm, made me wonder if Carly has had this all along but in a milder form? Carly had a punch biopsy on Monday for a lump/swelling that had come up on her left foreleg a week earlier. It appeared literally overnight. She was not limping, but I feared the worst and made an appointment and had it x-rayed. The bone looked great and my vet was puzzled by the cause. He thought she could have gotten stung or bitten by something and told me to give her some Benedryl and bring her back if the swelling didn’t subside. I took her back in nearly a week later (Saturday) because it was still swollen. She was not showing any signs of discomfort and was not limping at all. He did a needle aspiration and looked at the cells in house and recommended I bring her in on Monday and drop her off for a punch biopsy under light sedation (Domitor). I want to add as background that she was very stressed by these three vet appointments and the car rides to and from the vet as evidenced by panting, pacing, whining, and shaking. Also, two weeks earlier I had taken her and Princess to get their nails cut and they refused to do hers because “she collapsed to the floor” on them. They used to let me stay and hold her while they cut them, but their new policy required me to leave. I felt she must have panicked and fallen on the slick surface. She shook and panted all the way home, but was fine an hour later. She always took longer than my other dogs to stop panting after exercise, heat, or stress, so this was “normal” for her. So after the procedure on Monday, I picked her up around 5:45 pm on my way home from work. She was rather glassy eyed and panting and shaking (typical for her) and jumped into the back of my Honda Element on her own. The AC had not been off long so the car wasn’t really hot when we got in, but her panting became more pronounced and before I got home she starting shaking so hard she couldn’t stand up. I attributed this to the combination of the Domitor, buprinex, and her anxiety. She got out of the vehicle on her own when we got home and walked in the house. I put a fan on her, gave her some water, and misted her with cool water on her feet, legs, belly, etc. She relaxed and went to sleep. I thought she was still sort of out of it from the anesthesia and pain injection (buprinex?) so I wasn’t concerned that she wasn’t active or hungry. I did offer her water periodically and she drank. At bedtime I asked if she wanted to go outside but she didn’t. She woke me up around 1:30 AM to go outside. She was walking normally and not panting. She walked down the back steps and went outside. I went to the bathroom and when I came back to let her in and she had collapsed near the gate and was clearly in distress. She couldn’t bear weight on her legs and it took everything I had to carry her (70 lbs.) back into the house. I got the fan on her, applied cold towels and squirted water in her mouth while frantically calling a friend to come and help me load her in the car and drive us to the E-vet. Her temperature was 106 F when we got there. They got her temperature down a bit but she rapidly developed disseminated intravascular coagulation and her organs were shutting down. I let her go and went home in shock. Do you think she had CSS all along and this was just the “perfect storm” that pushed her over the edge? She had always had these issues and I managed it by not making her do anything she didn’t want to do (unless it was absolutely necessary). She was 11 this year and I noticed she seemed to have less tolerance for heat, but I’ve seen that with my other dogs over the years. She did, however, have less tolerance for stress and it seemed to take her longer to “calm down” once she got stressed or hot. I had read about MH as a new greyhound adopter over 20 years ago, but thought it was only seen in response to anesthesia. I had never heard of Canine Stress Syndrome until now. I’m devastated by this and in my grief am searching for answers and trying to understand it. My vet is also in shock and says he has never seen MH with Domitor. I've not talked to him yet about this article on CSS. I would appreciate any insight from those with knowledge or experience. Thank you.

I was reading an article about the Olewo products just the other day. They also have Olewo Rad Beets. Glad to hear they are working so well. I've been thinking of trying one or the other.

Sending good thoughts. Keep us posted.

I'm sorry.