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Originally Posted by kandy313  he did have a bile acid test done and the vet called me at work to let me know that he does have a liver shunt and advised me to have xrays done so we will know where it is and how bad it is. but where i live i would have to take him 3 hours away. he seems to be fine, not had any seizures in about a month and has plenty of energy. was your the same way? |
As far as I know Bobo didn't have any seizures, as he got older he seemed to have more hypoglycemic episodes, by the time he was about 16 weeks he had 2 episodes in 3 days and I wrote about it here and someone here said their pup had the same symptons and was diagnosed with a liver shunt. He never liked to eat, I always thought that was strange, I would practically have to stand on my head to get him to eat. We went to puppy classes started when he was 10 weeks old, the first few weeks he liked the treats by the last 2 weeks he didn't want anything to do with eating the treats. We had an ultrasound with doppler and they were able to see the shunt. He did not gain any weight in a period of 6 weeks. Now 10 days after surgery he has gained 4 oz. He is still small, but now maybe since we got his surgery early he will be able to gain wt and grow more. I do know what you are going through, you should contact your breeder, she should at least refund your purchase price if nothing else. Mine didn't want to and I did not get a contract with him, we had to threaten to take her to court and she finally did agree to refund the purchase price, which I put towards the surgery costs. But I did spend $1000.00 just to make the diagnosis. Sorry about this being so long. It is nice to be able to discuss this with people. Tammy