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The dog didn't make it...:(
I posted a prequel a bit further down -- dog lost its voice.
It's really very stange.... bro's gf was walking the dog last TUesday and the dog was unsteady on her feet and stumbling. She fell a couple of times.
Next day, bro took the dog to the vet and the vet diagnosed an eye infection, cold w/post nasal drip and stomach upset.
He got drops for the eyes and meds.
The dog was still throwing up and would not let her near to get the eye drops. I told him to get a muzzle from a pet store and then give her the drops; guessing he forgot in the shuffle.
He took the dog to an evet on Sunday --- now they came up with a liver problem and some enzyme test was past the panic value -- this is the same thing that the vet said last Tuesday; somehow bro neglected to mention this to me last week.
The evet suggested the dog stay overnight; they hydrated the dog and sent her home.
Yesterday was a mess.
He followed up with her regular vet -- by now she's still s luggish and barely responsive the next morning. This vet sent him 20 miles down the road to some animal hospital, not an evet or animal urgent care facility.
I swear that these vets give their buddies work. Why send the client that far down the road unless this was a top notch specialist that was beingconsulted? And even so, there has to be a way to do an assesment by phone or skype or something.
Now the doc at the vet office 20 miles down the road is saying possible cancer and she may lose her eyes. He said it was glaucoma --- can a dog come up with glaucoma in less than a week??? Last Tuesday the dog was negative for it; my regular vet was the one who did last Tuesday's exam.
They also said that her esophagus was closing.
They kept her overnight; I can only imagine how much that is going to cost him -- and damn it to hell if they didn't pressure him into signing up for a Care Credit card!!!!
CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION: A Care credit card is NOT something you want, ever....BEWARE...
http://moneyland.time.com/2010/09/01/what-the-heck-is-a-health-care-credit-card/
How I feel about Care Credit is a whole other smoke.
This morning he found out the dog did not make it. And wow, he signed on to have the dog cremated. We have a pet cremation facility here in town; he could have bought the dog there himself and it would have been a LOT CHEAPER.
I say this leech vet suckered him and stuck him for all the money the vet could get out of this endeavor. And my brother is not the smartest...he will sign anything --- he already is in a shitload of debt and now he needs a damn Care Credit card, too?????? "I don't care," he said.
I had a feeling the dog was not going to make it.
|What the F could have happened in 48 hours and some change that she deteriorated like this??? This all seemed to happen at once in one fell swoop.
What a mess....all of it.
Re: The dog didn't make it...:(
Holy crap, this a very bad, and sad story.
So, so sorry for your brother.
Poor dog.
This is another case of do not buy ADOPT -- the dog came from a petstore.
What happened to this dog reminds me of what happened to my boss' Maltese: the dog got sick at about the same age which is 6 and developed cancer and blammo out of nowhere other issues.
She poured about 5 grand into that poor critter; he did not make it, either.
I had a german shepherd mix that I adopted that had come from a pet store.
Same exact story, she was 7. That was a year and a half ago, still not over it.
Emotionally or financially.
I had a german shepherd mix that I adopted that had come from a pet store.
Same exact story, she was 7. That was a year and a half ago, still not over it.
Emotionally or financially.
Shelby adopted after 9 months!
I also had a good experience with CareCredit when my resident dog was attacked by a foster dog and needed surgery.
Bro went to work today. I think that will be therapeutic for him. I called him about 4 hours into his shift; he sounded a little better than he sounded yesterday. He's taking this very hard.
"Cherish your furbabies today because there might not be a tomorrow"
Heaven has another angel. RIP Bubba 2/15/09 - 9 Months Old
Godspeed Apache "Boo Boo" 2/2/09 - 2 1/2 Years Old
Rest in peace my sweet Angel. 11/05/08 - 2 Years Old
This had to be positively harrowing for him. Go here, go there, bring the dog to this vet...:( Sad.
She was a nice doggie. I called her Cammodog because she was this dusky shade of a kind of black with some grey in it; when she sat on top of a black tee shirt or anything black, you couldn't find her.:)
Sad how she seemed to deteriorate in such a short time. Everything seemed to go bad at once.
I'm thinking too she had a tumor or cancer somewhere; maybe that's what accounted for the hoarse bark. Maybe it was something lung or esophogeal; that's what I'm thinking.
A lot of those symptoms sound like a possible ingestion of poison also...stumbling, vomiting, liver issues.
I'm sorry for your brother's dog. We have found it a constant, on going struggle to find vets we trust each time we move. It can be frustrating.
Oh geez. I'm soooo sorry for the suffering he went through and his loss. Losing a pet is almost (it would be the same for me because I love my little fur baby Bella) the same as losing a family member. I couldn't imagine what he's going through right now.
I don't know about that --- I don't think he has anything insecticide in his place (and I always use the pet safe "hollistic" bug sprays made of natural plant oils, like peppermint oil and rosemary oil. Those are a trip; the one I used smelled like Ben Gay.)
Oh my. That is heartbreaking. My condolences to you and your brother.
It was terrible that him and the poor dog got the run around.
Indeed. I can't figure out what the valid reason was to send him to another vet all the way down the road. It was a garden variety vet's office, not an emergency clinic -- this was probably one vet sending his vet buddy work and nothing more.
And it's heartbreaking. People are vulnerable at this time and they'll do anything to save their pet.
I'll miss that doggie. I used to call her Cammodoggus because she was a dusky ashy black on top --- whenever she was on top of anything that was black, you couldn't see her.:
She liked to sit in the windows. And she loved to shred paper.
My xH had better luck with a puppy that his dad brought home; somebody had a box full of puppies and was giving them away in front of a store....yeah yeah, we know this is eeevil....:) but this was a different time and a different age. We was all kids back then. Things were a lot different.
That dog lived to be 16 years of age. The dog was a pointer/maybe lab mix....he was approproately named Spot.:)
I must say.. I love your dogs name. I lost my Maximus last year at 3 due to a whole slew of problems. I couldn't even qualify for Care Credit which was the worst!
The second vet -- the one that sent him all the way down the road to another vet's office --- also came up with a slow heartbeat.
She was probably on the way out there and then. That also happens to many patients when they're dying -- I'm sure it can happen to a dog, too, when the dog is on his way out.:(
I find it heartbreaking that you had a client go all the way down the road -- 20 miles? There are parts of the highway on the way to that vet that are under heavy construction and factor in that it is almost rush hour. It probably took him a good 40 minutes to get to that othe vet's office. That's taxing for the dog and taxing for the client.
I wonder why he didn't say to my brother, "take her home; there isn't anything else I can do for her"? Don't these vets know what's what when all of these symptoms present all at once? They ought to.
I agree, "poor dog", but I'd hate to see this turned in to an issue of adoption versus purchase. I have adopted three dogs from three different rescues within the past five years and all three died from different causes - first, didn't survive surgery to correct an injury sustained before I adopted her; second, three yr old pit-mix, developed lymphoma (which we diagnosed first by googling her symptoms) and third, bulldog-mix, developed an undiagnosable kidney disease.
I have spoken at length with retired veterinarians and salesmen of veterinarian diagnostic equipment and arrived at the following conclusion: the issue, is that veterinarians by and large are taking stabs in the dark when diagnosing disease or other issues. They rely on diagnostic machinery with margins of error that would never be acceptable in human medicine. The art of diagnosing disease or injury based on symptoms, history and behavior is no longer encouraged or taught by mentors. Instead, vets put a pet (and owner) through a battery of tests in hopes that something will come out of it all because most of the time they simply have no %#@*ing clue! It's enormously expensive because they're not selective about which tests to order and that's often before they even begin treatment, IF they can diagnose the problem to start!
Yes, I'm bitter and we're broke but I have to say that of all the veterinarians I've used over the past five years, they all did their best. And they all felt terrible when the animals died. One office felt so bad they charged us their own cost for a number of tests and medications. It's too bad that vets can't combine diagnostics based on historical knowledge with the marvels of modern diagnostic technology. Instead, it seems they're ruled by the tests they can order and we all lose in the end - the pets we love and our money.
OP - sorry for your brother's trouble. Sounds just awful.