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My first grey and galgo managed to do that while I was walking them, leashed.
They both jumped and each had a wing, poor bird didn't make it.
But yes, if they catch them in the yard, I would go for a muzzle also.
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Johhny's is right now between 220 and 250. We'll be picking up the medication tomorrow when we bring the girls in for their vaccinations and health check.
I'll see if I can split it in two. I prefer that anyway for most medication.
Food wise I am not ready to start fooling around. When I moved in 17 months ago Johnny would have bouts of diarrhea and would go really skinny at times.
He is doing great right now, looks good, keeps weight on and no problems. Diarrhea can be one of the side effects of the new medication, so if that doesn't happen I'll be really happy, we don't need that to happen again.
I do recognize the strange drinking behavior. Johnny does it when he gets exited, he runs over to the bowls and starts drinking lots. Also, when we leave, which may explain why he leaks when we come back and he is really exited again.
Don't see too much of the other signs here. But I can keep an eye on the water intake and see if I can do something about it.
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Really hope he will have no further difficulties.
With Zema, we had some other clues to high blood pressure, so we knew we should check. Plus there was a very distinct pattern to her "incontinence" -- it didn't look like normal spay or old-dog incontinence so we kept hunting for answers. We used a low dose of Enalapril and a low salt diet to treat her blood pressure, and diet change to resolve her leaking-pee episodes.
I think over the past few years it's started to get more common to check blood pressures in dogs. Few more years, it will probably be ordinary for everybody.
Thanks.
What kind of pattern are you talking about? With Johnny it is really when he is exited or after when he gets up.
Are there other signs you can look for?
I think every dog should be checked before they get certain medication.
Like for example Proin, it is a known problem and it takes only minutes to get several readings.
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The vet just called with the results of the blood test and she talked to a specialist to get his view.
It is very likely that the Proin triggered the seizure and the small stroke.
With blood pressure this high, he never should have gotten the medication. Unfortunately, checking for blood pressure isn't normally done.
They also looked if we should change his thyroid medication, but he is doing great on that.
So, he is going on Benazepril to lower his blood pressure and we will be checking it from now on.
The vet was happy that we insisted on having the blood pressure taken, so thank you Batmom.
We are hoping that he will have no more seizures although she warned us that there is still a slight possibility that he has something going on in his adrenal glad and they may return.
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Thanks for the input every one.
We took him to the vet this morning and spent a long time there.
First of all, Batmom, thanks for the suggestion to have his blood pressure taken. They did so on my request.
Right now Johnny is back to his normal self, happy and goofy. But he was a bit slow on the reflex tests and he may have had a small stroke also.
If it was the Proin triggering it, we won't know, but it might have, he won't be taking that anymore.
But it is likely, specially since they did measure his blood pressure, it was very high, even for a stressed out dog.
So we do have a number to start with. Which lead to the following, he has been on thyroid medication since he was 2 or 3.
If his blood test allows it, we will lower that, since it brings the blood pressure up.
We will get a call tomorrow after his blood was tested, they are doing a full check on him, to see if there is any other problem.
For now we have medication to give him if he gets another seizure, his blood is being checked out and depending on that we will decide what to do next.
We did discuss the worst case scenario like maybe a tumor in the brain, just in case. She wanted us to know what we might be looking at (cost) eventually and think about how far we are willing to go if it comes to that.
But it might just as well have been a one time event triggered by the Proin.
We'll just take it day by day and see what happens.
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Hoping for some input here.
Last Wednesday we took our 10 year old boy to the vet, he was dribbling urine when exited.
Since he is ok otherwise, no abdominal pain, no UTI, the vet wanted to try him on Proin (PPA).
It is a medication I have good and bad experience with, wich I told the vet, had to take Isa (galgo) off it because her heart started to work overtime, which was scary, Paquita (bordercolliemix)takes 12 mg a day for her spay incontinence and does great.
The vet wanted to work with me and decided on a low dosage. Johnny is a big boy, between 70 to 75 pound and gets 25 mg twice a day.
Last night, at 1 am we woke up and found him in a seizure, he was doing the running motion, foamed at the mouth, and urinated.
Lasted for about 1.5 minute and was disorientated, scared of us, walked into furniture and had a hard time to stay on his backlegs.
During the rest of the night I heard him smacking his lips often.
Needless to say he is extremely tired this morning and seems a bit off. His left eye is smaller than his right one but seems to slowly get normal again.
I took him off the Proin for the time being, too much coincidence I think, but am I wrong?
He is going to the vet first thing tomorrow.
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Hope the vets can figure out something.
Poor girl.
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You have shared several Lizzie stories, but never this one.
What a special girl she was.
I am so sorry she had to go Dee.
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I am so sorry Alisha for your loss.
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Thought I would let you know what they found out today.
She has complex partial epilepsy.
Since she is already 11 they won't try to find the reason for it but she is put on medication to make her life easier for her.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
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anxiety?
Thanks, but for now we are going for a physical problem.
Everyone else, thank you, your suggestions are printed out and taken to the vet.
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Tex was just diagnosed with mild LP, he is my second dog with it.
The first was Teddy my whippet.
With both the dr told me to return if they started panting heavily.
With him losing his voice for most of the time and the panting, I would check with your vet, it might be time for the operation.
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Bloat can be a repeating issue. If it is not full torsion then the bloat will go away, and repeat. Bloat is not always caused by overeating either. The cause of bloat has not been 100% determined as of yet. I believe there is someone here on GT that has a hound that has had multiple bloat episodes without full torsion of the stomach, cant for the life of me remember who though. All the behavior you mention is classic bloat flags, that is the only reason I mentioned it.
Thanks, i'll mention it to her.
I really didn't know this.
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Sounds like bloat, or blockage of some sort.
Chad
Thanks but this is something that repeats itself and the behavior isn't as a result from overeating, the obsessive need to eat is part of the problem but she is monitored so she can't overeat in those periods.
A blockage is ruled out.
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One of my friends has an old galgo girl that is in need of help now.
Next week they are going to do a gastroscopie, not sure what the English word for it is, but they are going to look at the inside of her stomach.
For quite some time now she has been having these periods in which she will get really obsessive in her eating habits, she'll eat anything, her food, the carpet, plastic, shoelaces, anything.
At the same time she is nauseous,will yawn and swallow a lot, walk around very nervously and simply can't get any rest. She is clearly in a lot of distress.
This last period lasted for 16 hours, she has had longer and shorter ones.
Now that it is over, she is really exhausted and will sleep for days.
The vet is out of idea's and that is why they will put the tube in her throat now even though they really wanted to avoid that because of other reasons.
Anyone ever heard of this.
It isn't Cushing, that is clear.
Thanks.
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I am so sorry.
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I am so sorry Kristen.
But he sure knew he was loved
Hugs to you.
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No baths here unless someone manages to roll in something really bad.
Just brushing and petting a lot. The occasional stain gets done with baby wipes, but haven't had to do that in a very long time now.
They all smell fine to me so I don't want to upset them.
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Tonight I got the sad and totally unexpected message of the passing of Richard.
GT member name Woolfy.
Even though we never met, he became a real friend over the years we visited GT. We talked in chat and he and his wife Elise made sure they kept in touch.
We talked no to long ago, he will be sorely missed.
I wish his wife Elise a lot of strength and comfort.
Godspeed Richard.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace." - Milan Kundera
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Oh Tami, I am so sorry
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Oh no! Hope it is something that can be fixed easily.
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Emily
in Remembrance
Really don't know what to say besides that I am really sorry Glen.
Somehow she seemed to be hopeful in her messages and this comes as a complete shock.
At least she is in a place she will feel free now and not tied down as she said was the worst for her.
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Those pictures are the best, so glad Eyore is healthy!
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Thanks. Everyone seems in agreement about the muzzling. There's just one thing that scares me about the muzzles being worn for hours at a time. Earlier this week I came home to a large pile of vomit just full of lots of grass on the rug. But what if someone vomits up lots of grass wearing a muzzle; would there be a risk of choking, or would the vomit just come out? Sorry to be gross, but this really worries me.
Good question!!!
Wish that in my days as a rep more people would have asked that.
But as Judy said, unless there is a stool guard in there, the normal muzzle is safe (or is it save)
coming your way.
Those pictures are the best, so glad Eyore is healthy!
Ppa And Seizures?
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Thanks every one.
We were back to the vet last Friday and he is doing great. His blood pressure is going down, so the vet added 5 mg Benazepril to the 10 mg he already gets.
He seems to react really good to it.
He hasn't had any episodes anymore, so we keep our fingers crossed it was a one time event.
After reading everything I can find, I realize we are very lucky he is still alive. Thanks to my bad experience with Isa, he got a really low dose and that may have very well saved his life.
As for the leaking, he hasn't done that recently. If it stays like it is now, I'll look into belly bands, if it gets worse, we may go for hormone injections.