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Originally Posted by Mardelin  I understand what Debbie is saying. Her dog's allergies are never ending, where LS can be corrected with surgery, granted diet will be something that must be monitored.
As I've said before. At any given time a breeder's breeding can produce a pup with a life threatening genetic problem, even with all the proper testing being done. It can happen to the best of them. Just because you test, doesn't make you reputable , it's how you handle the situation. |
thanks as i have a friend who has a liver shunt surgery survivor and she is doing great eating food now no problems so it was a rough 6 mos to a year but then over like dex with pancreatitis not too much after that first year and been 4 years but this allergy thing is never ending. I really thought i had a good breeder she seemed really nice but when i called her and emailed her asking for help she of course had no puppies with skin issues but she knew they had poor immune systems as she begged me not to give dd the rabies vaccine as she had a dog die from it in her line so that was another sign
I felt tormented as wanted to protect dd and yet she scared me but the vet told me she had to have this vaccine and then she got it and in 30 days she was a total mess itching incessently and when she was under for spay as i delayed the spay until 8 mos as i did not want her itching after operation and they cannot give anything to stop her itching after surgery or before so when she was under i had her scraped for mites, blood pulled for allergy blood testing, trachea xrayed as she had horrible reverse sneeze and back then had no clue what that was. I then when told she had allergies to everything very high as well decided to try holistic to build immune system for 6-9 mos driving 1 1/2hrs each way in traffic each way to los angeles to a holistic vet that was highly recommended and wrote a book etc. I did raw diet, immune boosting treatments etc then i ruptured my achilles and she was not getting any better so we went the traditional vet and drugs to keep her comfortable then to dermatologist and did atopica, you name it i have done it to try to help my girl cost not even being a factor just doing it - then she lost all the hair on neck and drove her down to dr dodds almost 2 hrs each way to have her thyroid tested and bile acids done again as she tested a little high but less than 100 so i had the liver shunt scare with her and she is hypothyroid. It has been an agonizing journey for almost 6 years now and we went that whole journey to end up putting her on temarilp just nuts. Then on steroids it affects joints and ligaments so she ruptured her acl. It has just been one thing after another with no end in site and dermatologist just told me as she ages she will get worse and to rethink the one thing i have avoided as i have read dogs can get worse by doing this hyposensitization shots so another year of pure heck to try that to see if it works and she could potentially get worse. so what do you do? I realize california is horrible for allergy dogs too
but i got her from a breeder in california in my area. So having gone through all this and seeing my friend where she can take her dog anywhere not worry if she is going to catch something being on immune suppressant drugs having to titer to not over vaccinate and worrying and dd loves to go places but scared to take her around other dogs it just saddens me and i would have taken the liver shunt dog I could have repaired and flown to ut as i would have done that and stayed there for a week like my friend and another friend of mine with ls dog over this agonizing. Then when you ask vet if I should let her be peaceful by putting her to sleep which I would not do but have asked in desperation they look at you like no way would they do that like you are crazy so just up the meds and take the chance of another health issue to come. I am lucky i have the financial means as most people do not and even internal medicine said i feel so bad for you she has so much going on and most owners would not do what you have done and would just let her itch- how sad is that but i could see why as they cannot afford all this.
I know there are no guarantees in life but i just hope people are doing the right thing to try and get the best possible outcome especially if they truly care about the breed and dogs that is all we can ask for is at least try to get healthy dogs. I never asked for my money back or expected that but i at least expected some help from her breeder and she moved to oregon and never kept in contact after that. I always sent her pics of dd so she could see how she was doing but once she started having health issues it was like oh well. I always send pics to the rescue group i got demi from and they are very nice as i want them to see her progress just like i wanted the breeder to see as i would want that from someone i sold a dog to as well thought it was nice.