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Have any of you heard of this disease?
This morning a good friends wife called me to come over and help her load up "DUKE" in her car. Duke is their 2yr. old lab. My pup and him are almost the exact same age and they are best friends. Her husband travels a lot and he wasn't home today and she can't lift him.
She woke up this morning and he was laying in his own vomit. I came over and he was lying on the floor. She told me that his back legs were shaking and that he couldn't stand up. So i put one hand through his collar and started to rub on his back legs, to see if he had hurt him self somewhere. I held his collar so that if i found the sore spot he wouldn't be able to bite me. He didn't react to me squeezing his legs. So i tried to help him stand so that i could get my arms under him to pick him up. he just kept collapsing, his back legs had no strength at all. So i picked him up and loaded him in the car for her and she took him to the vet.
About half and hour ago she called and the vet says that there is a couple of possibilities. One of them was that they found bacteria in his stool sample. The bacteria is the kind from something like a dead rat or mouse. not usually found in dogs.
The second thing could be Addison's disease. I don't know a lot about it. I just googled it and a lot of scarry stuff came up. It is not fun. I just wanted to see if anyone has first hand knowledge of this disease. From what i have found, humans can get it also. From my brief research, i think that is something to do with the adreno glands. also a salt deficiancy. I will be researching this more.
It sounds like this disease is misdiagnosed quite often.
This morning a good friends wife called me to come over and help her load up "DUKE" in her car. Duke is their 2yr. old lab. My pup and him are almost the exact same age and they are best friends. Her husband travels a lot and he wasn't home today and she can't lift him.
She woke up this morning and he was laying in his own vomit. I came over and he was lying on the floor. She told me that his back legs were shaking and that he couldn't stand up. So i put one hand through his collar and started to rub on his back legs, to see if he had hurt him self somewhere. I held his collar so that if i found the sore spot he wouldn't be able to bite me. He didn't react to me squeezing his legs. So i tried to help him stand so that i could get my arms under him to pick him up. he just kept collapsing, his back legs had no strength at all. So i picked him up and loaded him in the car for her and she took him to the vet.
About half and hour ago she called and the vet says that there is a couple of possibilities. One of them was that they found bacteria in his stool sample. The bacteria is the kind from something like a dead rat or mouse. not usually found in dogs.
The second thing could be Addison's disease. I don't know a lot about it. I just googled it and a lot of scarry stuff came up. It is not fun. I just wanted to see if anyone has first hand knowledge of this disease. From what i have found, humans can get it also. From my brief research, i think that is something to do with the adreno glands. also a salt deficiancy. I will be researching this more.
It sounds like this disease is misdiagnosed quite often.
