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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  This is my problem .... are you willing to accept you could be killing her dog with your advise? It is wonderful you did your homework and research but how do you know this person will. In one post you said if the BATS were over 100 you would test and then the very next post after she said they were 105 you wouldn't. You said you would try to control with eating for 6 months and someone else says 30 days. This is all very confusing.
Many people will take the advise that costs the least (I am not saying that is what is happening here) but I wish you would say this is just your opinion and you are not a vet. I do think you have a lot of experience with your dog but you immediately jumped onto her thread saying to controlling it with food before you even knew what the BAT scores were.
You could be 100% correct (I am not saying you are) but to much information is missing from the OP to make this determination so fast IMHO. |
i feel very strongly on this and no her dog will not die if she waits and has him retested this is not a life threatening thing that has to be done ASAP it is something that can be done in a month or two. Now if this dog was having seizures or symptoms then yes by all means jump on it and have tests done further but this is not something to run into in a dog with no symptoms so i feel very comfortable with my recommendation here and I am not a vet so i will state that here but i have a dog with mvd and have done alot of research on this subject since my dog has liver issues. Even the specialist she saw at ucdavis stated he does not think this is a shunt so why rush this owner in to this test then why not do low protein wait 30 days and retest. When i say over 100 i mean way over not 5 over that is too close to 100 for me in a dog having no symptoms and that is the key NO SYMPTOMS and the post is normal so until we get all the accurate figures of ALT, PRE AND POST which hopefully will be posted I still feel this is not a rush rush decision
I had mine tested at 30 days and at 6 months
The owner is not concerned with cost she is concerned with radioactive dye which i was as well a 3lb dog with radioactive dye that is definitely something i would not rush into myself
i said to control with food as she posted her bats before on another thread and that is why i recommended it as i knew it was slightly over 100
I do agree we need exact numbers of ALT, pre and post biles for sure that is key but based on the 105 i am reading that is what my recommendation is and what i would do if this was my dog but ultimately that is all i can do is say what i would do if this was my dog but each owner needs to make that decision for themselves.