This morning, we had to make the really shitty but clearly correct decision for euthanasia for this one.
She was the sweetest thing. I’ll miss her chirping noise as she jumped on the bed after we called her up.
RIP Nixi 2007-2021. 
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Im really sorry to hear this bud. Shes across the rainbow bridge now. Rest well sweet kitty.
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Not sure if this will be helpful or not, but I found this to be a great comfort and is still something I read through once a month, have a good cry, reminisce, and know everything will be ok.
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Anybody give their cat or dog B12/Cobalamin injections? Do you know/recall the cost?
We started giving our cat the shots recently to help him feel a little better due to symptoms of kidney disease - pretty standard medicine from what I understand.
We get 4 pre-loaded syringes, that each have 0.5 mL, given every other week (which based on internet research, seems to be standard dosage for <20 pounds). So 2 mL of medicine. We get charged $60. I look up online, and a 100 mL vial of this stuff is like $10. Hell, at Chewy, it’s $5. So the vet appears to be charging 300-600x times the general cost of this medicine.
Our vet’s costs are a bit higher than average due to the market, but this is so ridiculous that I feel I must have something wrong.
sorry for your loss, I lost my girl sunshine in February and it still hurts.
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Sorry for anyone who has lost dogs since I last checked. It’s the saddest shit so I avoid it.
Doggo turned 11 yesterday but still playing fetch like a puppy and willing to go all day. She’s got the warning track catches down.
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LOL. Not sure. I have uploaded a bunch from my phone before. Weird. Imagine my Aussie catching a frisbee at the back fence like Ricky Henderson at the warning track.
Works fine for me
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Does anyone have any experience with dogs having seizures?
Last Tuesday, on the way in the front door after picking him up from daycare, our dog had a seizure on the front lawn. 6 minutes long! I felt so awful and powerless.
We called the animal emergency hospital and they talked us through the situation, then when he had recovered enough (the next morning) we brought him in for tests. A bunch of bloodwork and other vital measurements, all came back normal/inconclusive. They are concerned that he had his first seizure at 5 years old, as most dogs show epilepsy in the first year or two of life. They were also concerned with the length of the seizure, apparently they are usually about a minute long.
We have scheduled an MRI with the neurology department, but I’m not confident (yet) that it’s worth the squeeze as it’s somewhat expensive and he will have to be sedated.
The current options are basically 1. wait and see if he has another one or 2. get the MRI and go from there.
I’m looking for any advice here. The MRI seems like the obvious decision to me, but I’m wondering if there’s anything else we should be thinking about or learning besides what I have already mentioned.
My Aussie had them regularly growing up but hasn’t had one for a few years that we know of.
They are horrible. One night she was in and out of seizures almost the whole night and I sat with her beside my bed the whole time.
After that I went to the doctor and they said we could try medicine but it makes them lethargic and causes weight gain.
I opted to wait and see if they got worse and tried dog treats with very very small amounts of THC in them instead.
Not sure if the treats helped or if the occurrences just got rarer as she got older.
She had Lyme disease within a few days of me adopting her because she was being kept outside in MN during tick season. That caused her to be basically paralyzed for three days or so until the antibiotics kicked in. I had to carry her outside to pee and she just laid on the floor and helped whenever she tried to move. That sucked too but I think her seizures may have been related to the damage the Lyme disease did. Or she could have epilepsy.
They say the dogs don’t remember anything during the seizure which makes it seem a bit less bad but man it sucks knowing there’s nothing you can do during it.
Thanks, and ya it was a pretty brutal experience. Like, let me deal with that shit and spare the homie!
My dad said the same thing re medicine, that the two options either create dependency (because it’s a narcotic) or make them lethargic and sleepy. As an alternative, he did recommend a special dog food that is supposed to support improved brain health.
One weird anecdote to add, I noticed that when he hopped out of the car he landed somewhat violently/awkwardly. It was a very vertical landing, where I thought “oh damn that couldn’t have been good for his neck” (I parked too close to the side of the house and he didn’t have a big landing zone, won’t do that again). Then, 5 seconds later, he’s seizing.
It got me wondering if maybe the landing triggered something in his neck or brain, sort of like a concussion. This is probably my own confirmation bias that the landing from jumping out of the car caused an adverse reaction in him, but I dunno, someone tell me I’m crazy here.
Correction - your beautiful angels had a deserved good time playing with the obvious dog toy you put on the ground. They deserve treats!
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My dog is out and sitting in the yard at 730 each day. When does she shit each day? When we walk so I get to pick it up with my hands.
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I used to walk my roommate’s English bulldog when I got home from work. It was like he was saving it up.
Always at least one in the chamber.
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