pampa

Well as it turns out I have searched the photo files and I do have a 'before' shot that I can post, so I will take an 'after' photo tonight and post them both tomorrow with the exact date my boy was given the implant!

i'm waiting

I'm glad to see that things seem to be getting better for this boy. Whilst his chest is clear, he's doing OK... Foreign objects in his nose

I'm kind of happy .... and kind of not - all at the same time, if that makes sense?

Yes I guess the uncertainty of NOT knowing what's wrong is almost as bad as knowing it is something not so nice but treatable... (goodness, I just re-read the gobble I just spat out but can't find any clearer way to express myself tonight )

I maintain that it is still better than finding a very unpleasent, untreatable something...

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to let us know how you are going and have a great time with your interstate visitors

Well It is Tuesday morning here, Tuesday evening there.... I'm waiting for the update Erny, in hoping all is clear or easy to "fix"...

Suezija, thanks for the technical answer...

I'm so sorry to hear that your family has had a sad, stressful time with their pets and rescue dogs... Is your daughter a DOL member If she is in fact "TTlover", please pass on my sympathy to her for the loss of her beloved moggy

I'm hoping not to jinx her this time

How is Kal doing Ern ?...

The tests came back "normal" and her bruising seems to be slowly subsiding

Fingers crossed

I hope he'll be feeling better in the morning. Thinking of you both

I was eating my mashed up weetbix, milk and sugar for breakky when I opened this topic ... The dogs have just finnished licking the bowl clean :D

My dogs occasionally get "mucous poo" after eating pressed buffalo skin chews/"bones"...

If your dog has these "bones" occasionally as a treat, try to see whether the mucous poos may be associated (ie : the next morning)

Can it not simply be related to a natural renewal of the bowel/intestine due to a particularly arduous digestion

We have had the most excellent week

Cheers

Jodie and Ollie dog

;) :p

Wonderful Jodie ! Keep that good news coming

In hoping his chemo won't put a damper on the wonderful progress.

Thank you very much for passing by your vets place for me, it is much appreciated...

I'm wondering if my vet just told me is was a coagulation test to stop me from worrying ...

I'll have the results tomorrow and will post an update then

Oh dear. Would you say overall she is progressing? Be it ever so slowly/slightly? If so that has got to be a sure sign that she will recover, even if she is doesn't get back to being 100%- something like this surely has to take a toll.

Does the vet not think mild sedation and/or crating is worthwhile to keep her calm? If not does that mean there is no harm done by the bruising and that its just a sign of the extent she has or hasnt healed?

Sorry Pampa...too many questions too late at night

It is only 4pm here

Yes Cactus, thank you, I feel she is slowly/slightly improving. She has stopped taking vitamin K and she SEEMS to be bruising a little bit less (or is it just that I'm working hard at limiting her play)... The vet doesn't seem to be overly worried about the bruises themselves because to date it is fairly evident that she has had no major haemorage whatsoever due to her pink mucouses and the confirmation of a high red blood cell count... He is strongly against sedating her (in case it reacts somehow on her clotting problem) and doesn't think she requires crating (just as well, she'd give me hell ) I just have to impeach her from plowing into her buddies...

The only thing that is really amuck is her low platelet count which is the direct cause of the bruising but that we cannot explain at the moment

Just wondering if the vet has done any other blood tests. It seems strange that she seems to have the blood clotting mechanism working OK.

How long since the vet did a blood clotting time test? I think I would ask for one, particularly as she has finished her course of vitK1.

Apparently, my vet cannot personally do a "coagulation" test We took blood again today which will be frozen and sent (in it's frozen state) to "vet france", our leading laboratory tomorrow. Apparently it is a very specific blood test that in 20 years experience, he has never had to perform (hence last weeks stuff-up ) I will have the coagulation test results on Thursday... This is the 1st one we have done since I first noticed the bruises over a month ago.

Is the complicated "coagulation" test I'm currently having done the same as the "blood clotting" tests you took out each fortnight ? Was is a "Prothrombin time (PT)" test or the other blood clotting test, called partial thromboplastin time (PTT) ? Did the blood have to be frozen before hand ?... (I don't know what the one we are doing is called)

She seems to have less bruises today and the ones that do appear seem to dissapear again within 24 hours.

The vet doesn't want to do any other tests until we "finally" get Thursdays results back...

I'm sorry for hijacking the thread here ...

Thank you Erny for your explanation....

LuvmyBC says in her original post that her girl lunges at other dogs...

When on a lead and in the car, my boxer lunges, growls, spins on the spot, scratches the pavement with his back feet and is a general ass...

When he isoff-leash though, he tends to "attack" (run at the dog and push into him/her) but if the other dog doesn't react, my boy settles down and then plays...

In the beginning I got angry at his reactions and that just made him worse...

Now I reassure him and he reacts a bit better. Could this be fear agression ?...

In all the time I've been on DOL, this is the first time I've visited this training forum

I know there must be hundreds of threads on "fear agression" and how to "handle" it, but could someone point me in the right direction and for starters tell me exactly what fear agression actually is ?...

Thank you Dan

Except for the lack of blood clotting when he had his tests there was really no discernable difference to him. It was very hard to stop him and really hard to play ball etc with the others and he wasn't allowed. I had to lock him away so he couldn't see them playing.

I'm going through hell trying to keep my girl quiet... As soon as she has 2 metres² in front of her, she starts doing zoomies. The cut on her foot is much better (6 days now...) but each time she "goes mad", she just starts it bleeding again. The strange thing is, as I mentioned above, the paw DOES stop bleeding pretty well as soon as she settles down One would think that this would mean that the blood IS cagulating correctly despite her being low on platelets .

She finished her prescribed vitamin K treatment on Wednesday (25 days in all) but I'm wondering whether I should maybe keep her on it a bit longer

Today she doesn't seem to have many bruises at all... Dare I hope she is improving or is it simply because yesterday I managed to keep her calm

Pampa - I've only just found this thread. Hoping your girl is better soon. I have found this information to be very helpful and thank goodness I haven't ever been in a situation like so many of you seem to have. I guess it is pure luck as I have garbage gutses for dogs.

I am interested to know how you make a dog vomit if you find them eating a bait. Not sure how i'd go about doing that if I needed to.

good luck with your girl (what is her name?)

Jo

The subject was bought up recently on the below thread, when a dog ate a cockroach trap...

There are many interesting ways to make your dog throw up with household products that most of us have on hand at all times...

http://www.dolforums.com.au/index.php?show...1&st=&p=entry

Here are a few suggestions :

"Definately phone a vet. Depending on the ingredients you should induce vomitting by pouring salt or salt water down the throat...do it outside because it'll make a right awful mess"

"Unless the poison is corrosive like bleach you can give your pet a dose of mustard, salty water or washing soda crystals to make it sick. Only induce vomiting if it is less than 1 hour after ingestion."

"Another really quick way to make your dog vomit is to get a handful of butter/margarine and pack a couple of teaspoons of salt into the middle. Make it into a ball with the salt inside and drop it down your dogs throat. He will give you a very foul look in a minute or two and then dispose of everything in his stomach".

He went onto vitK1 for ten weeks and we tested the clotting time every two weeks.

I also used Swedish Bitters to help build up his blood. I cooked him up "stews" of liver and pasta and soaked his dried food in it so as not to caused any bleeding in the mouth, oesophegus and stomach.

He totally recovered and has had no ill effects since then.

It is very scary and each time he failed a blood test it was very worrying.

Wow, suezija, this too is really interesting information... You say he needed 10 WEEKS treatment !

My vet is amazed that she still has bruising after 25 days

Goodness, 10 weeks of vitK1 must have cost you a fortune

Maybe my girl simply needs longer to recover :D I'll try to get some more info on that...

Thanks for your post.

Modesty will get you nowhere DBS, we know that the "smidgen" of knowledge you claim to have is absolutely worth its weight in gold Your dogs certainly have put you through the mills and I hope it calms down somewhat in the future, but I imagine your vet loves you :D

I'v got part of the blood test results back from the vets... In fact, the tests were screwed up because the Laboratory forgot to tell my vet that the blood needed to be frozen for 24 hours prior to being transported and the laboratory hadn't sent a special container to keep the serum frozen during delivery...

SO, for the moment we only have one analysis back which shows that my girl doesn't have nearly enough platelets and that she is apparently not manufacturing them fast enough. In the links DBS posted there seem to be many reasons as to why she may be lacking platelets, now we just have to narrow down which cause relates to my girl...

We are going in on Monday to draw more blood for the "frozen" blood test...

To be continued...

Ollie's new meds for the thyroid are working so well...

Today, we walked 2.5km - amazing...

It is just so great to see him wanting to play and wrestle with the boys again, after seeing him so tired for so long...

Oh Jodie, I'm so thrilled that Ollie Dog is feeling like playing again and is so much more energetic. It must be really uplifting for you to see him that way again after all these past weeks of relative lethargia.

Please continue to keep us up to date, you just made my day :D

I've been using (and selling BTW) Andis AGC 2 speed and the AGR + cordless clippers here in France for 6 years but not for dogs FOR HORSES !

I know they are supposedly specialty canine clippers but my boss has been using his AGR= CORDLESS for a full clip on his show jumpers for years and years and I clip my horse 4 times a year with mine, without a problem...

We use a tiny bit of Andis blade lubrifying oil once or twice per clip and use a light aerosol cold spray to keep the blades cool, all along the duration of the clip.

I love Moser, but I prefer Andis

PS : Oster blades are interchangeable with Andis blades...

Well, well, well...

That is DEFINATLY food for thought, or a bone to knaw on if you'll pardon my pun

Great articles

Wow DBS, poor Morris, poor you... It must have been very traumatising.

The vet was worried that my girl would bleed or bruise from yesterdays blood-drawing so they bandaged the site a bit more firmly than they normally would, which I removed an hour after getting home, as per instruction... There was only a teeny-weeny spot of blood on the cotton swab and this morning there is only a really small bruise where the needle went in... She did however scratch behind her ear last night which has led to a big purple blotch on her head... All very puzzling

I religiously read the threads you PM'ed me which were very interesting but I think I can rule out any tick related illnesses as it is winter here (4 inches of snow today ) and due to the cold, I haven't seen a tick since November. On top of that, my kids are regularly treated against external parasites with Frontline which repels / impeaches the ticks from biting in the first place, as oposed to other treatments that kill the parasite only AFTER biting the animal.

I hope the Dr Monique BOURDIN will be able to help shed some light on Saturday.