My Dog Was Really Ill

[lucyjones 0]

This my pet.I regard this dog as my friend.He looks so cute.But he was ill seriously recently.I don't know how to do.Please help me. Edited August 9, 2012 by moderator (see edit history)

[iGuest 3]

Hi lucyjones,Your pet looks really cute, but if you elaborate more on the issue, it would be easier to get solutions. However, if your pet isn't keeping well, then the best option would be to take him to a vet.

[Marene 0]

Because the Internets gotz vet doctors? Quite trawling around and go see a qualified vet. Seriously I don't see the point of this post other than to gain attention. Fail'd

[AKUKUMATATA 0]

Maybe we can help, but as a previous reply said, you need to explain what's going on with your dog.

[demonboy1990 0]

go and see a trained vet instead of asking the forum but is prob just worms but the community will not be able to answer we are not trained vets or have never seen your dog in person.

[sheepdog 10]

I don't know how on earth I managed to miss this post, but I sure did, sorry. Probably far too late now if there was anything seriously wrong with the dog. Unfortunatly, with no listing of symptoms, even someone with vet experience couldn't help you. Certainly not the average lay person. Weather you take the dog to your vet or ask questions on an internet forum, you still have to supply all the details of why you think your dog is sick. Remember, your dog can't tell the vet what is wrong with him. It is very important that you report all of his symptoms to the vet or however you seek help from. Is he eating? Playing? Vomiting or just laying around. Did you take his temprature? 101-102 is actually normal for a dog, and you of course, have to do it rectally. Be sure to give lots of details, no matter how small they seem. How are his stools? When did he eat last and what did he eat? Had he been outside or inside, and was he left unobserved for any lenght of time in which he could of injured himself, or gotten into something that made him sick? Do you have a recent midical history on him, when where his last vaccinations and wormings? If he was just wormed, what with? Vets are expensive without a doubt, and I don't really fault anyone for checking out possiblities before consulting a vet. One just has to exercise some common sense. How familiar are you with dogs and their physical well being? Here's one example that proves the point sometimes it's better to ask than to panic. Some years back I sold a Dachshund puppy to a lady in our area. She reported back to me a few weeks later, said she ended up taking the puppy to the emergency room one night about 2 am. Cost her over $250 to discover that pups twitch in their sleep. Honestly, I thought everybody knew pups did that, supposedly they are dreaming and twitch a lot when sleeping. But apparently this woman didn't know it, and she thought the pup was having a seizure, so she rushed it to the emergeny room. On the other hand, if your dog is seriously ill, seeking vet attention immediatly is always your best bet, they longer you wait the less chance your pet has for survival if it is something serious.

[k_nitin_r 8]

Sheepdog,I had a neighbour with a black labrador that was about a decade old. One day, it decided it was king of the beasts, so it played hunter and preyed on a frog, devouring it whole. Frogs have toxins in their skin, which I do not really see the point of - if they have spines, it keeps preys away because they would not want spines stuck in their jaws. If they have toxins, they still get eaten anyway. Perhaps it is like taking one for the team - if a prey eats you, they die, so they cannot eat the rest of us. Sure, that sounds like team spirit, but more of the kamikaze pilot kind. If the dog was taken to the vet, it would probably have been given some kind of an antidote but its owners probably didn't think much of it because eating a frog seems a lot like eating a gazelle or wild deer or something of the sort. It's something that people understand only when it has happened to them at some point, just like the little puppy that the owner thought was having seizures when it was just having some rather active dreams in its sleep. Perhaps it was dreaming about the rich green grass in a pasture somewhere and a frisbee being tossed for it to catch. But still, seriously, the vet would actually charge $250 to tell the owner that there is nothing wrong with the dog? I'm assuming that does not include the fare for hailing a cab and heading out to the emergency room. If the vet were to look at the pup and say it was normal, a $50 charge would probably have seemed steep but still not too unreasonable for having to use the services of an emergency room. That's from the perspective of the vet, but then there could be some owners who would toss a law suit at just about anything and everything and ruin it all for the rest of us, requiring a whole series of tests that come back negative. If it were not for the threat of lawsuits, we would probably have the vet tell us that all is well and that the symptoms are normal.Oh, and did you mention that dogs have their temperature taken rectally? Ouch! The next time a dog barks at me as if to bark insults, and I say to myself, "Think happy thoughts," I'd probably be thinking of that dog visiting the vet and having its temperature taken :-D

[sheepdog 10]

Yes, that is a big problem with vet medicine today. High, hugly high bills run up when the vet is afraid if he misses something he will get sued. But that does make a big problem for the pet owner on a budget. That is another reason I mentioned the importance of good observation skills when you've decided to take your pet to the vet. Having the knowledge of symptoms can make it easier for the vet to avoid certain unneeded tests. For example, your vet wouldn't really need to take a stool sample if your dog was running a fever, but it it had loose stools the stool sample would probably be the first thing they would do. Another problem comes in when the relibility of the tests can be in question. I just went threw this with a customer. Puppy got sick, vet did a parvo test and it came back positive for parvo. I know for a stone cold fact that the puppy did not have parvo. I have been using Neopar, the worlds best parvo vaccine for many years. It is a very high titer vaccine, far higher than any other vaccine on the market. The problem came in the test because the test relies on the titer level in the pups bloodstream. When you give a high titer vaccine, you will have a high titer level in the puppy, therefore the test will show the puppy positve for parvo. And of course, the other reason I know that it wasn't parvo is that nothing else here has parvo. Parvo is a highly contagous disease, and if it was here I would darn sure know it. I can honestly say I have not had a case of it since I started using Neopar faithfully quite a few years ago. You can have outbreaks using other vaccines, but not Neopar. I do believe there are a lot of times when a vet can't really determine the actual cause of illness, so they tell their clients that it is parvo, simply because parvo is a very serious illness, and in the case of young pups is usually fatal. And it is a common disease, so everyone knows what it is so it's easy to blame any other illness on it. The symptoms of parvo are almost exactly the same as those of a heavy infestation of internal parasites, vomiting, bloody diareah, etc. Sadly, worming the dog with 25 cents worth of wormer is not nearly so profitable for the vet as is the treatment of parvo, with fluid transfusions, antibiotics, antiinflamitories, antivomiting medications, etc.