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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  We don't know what caused Scrappy to start having seizures, but his vet suspected rat poison. It certainly was possible since MIL kept some in her garden in random places. One night Scrappy was chewing on his favorite toy after dinner. Bf noticed blood on the toy and looked in his mouth. It looked like an impacted tooth so we took him to the vet the next day. The Dr took out the tooth that he thought was the problem. Within 24 hrs he started getting seizures. They got worse and worse throughout the day. He did not want to eat at all. His breathing very labored. He struggled to get up and all he wanted to do was drink tons of water. I rushed him back to the vet and just around the corner of the vet he had another seizure and peed all over me. (He had not gone all day.)
When the vet stabilzed him he looked him over and saw bruising on his inner thigh. He did not fall or anything. He thought he must have internal bleeding and thought it was rat poison. He could not stay stabilized without being hooked up. Even in the oxygen box he could not stay up. By this point he was bleeding from the nose, and we decided it was best he be put down.
If he did not get some poison I have no idea what could have caused for him to go from perfectly normal to that in less than 48 hours. I highly doubt yours got into rat poison bc the symptoms don't sound like what we went though. I'm glad yours are doing better. It sure is very scary when something like that happens. I still haven't forgiven myself. |
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Please do forgive yourself. We all do the best we can to give the best care for our pups. We can't possibly know everything they get into. You had no way of knowing. I am so sorry you lost your precious little one so tragically. But you can't blame yourself.
I forgot to mention...I remember the vet telling us it was good that we brought the empty poison packet with us (thanks to my husband's quick thinking). He read the ingredients before he treated them. So if it is available, put the poison packet in a zip-lock bag and take it with you. I wouldn't have thought to do that.