Very Upsetting News ......Any Ideas??? - Page 3

Lief:  The vet in McKinney said that it is rare for dogs to get it until they eat something or chew on old wood, fruit, and in this case maybe the feces of the iguanas around where dog was...and most vets do not even think of it.

Cattle are more the culprits, according to the vet..This vet just happened to see this gsd all the time and knew the vast bloody diahrea is one sign , so he immed tested for it.

By the time Mark found it , bloody very bloody gushy diahrea had overcome the immune system, sluffed his intestines, etc.

lmd

yes the owner said it looked like a crime scene it was so bloody..I'm not sure why they waited to take him in ,I told him around here if one acts like it doesn't want to eat I take it in right away ,Labs are such pigs

very sad R.I.P Bevo

Did your vet do the Parvo test,if not you have a poor vet, Parvo now is not a fatal desease.

 There are many possibilities here. Having eaten something which gave a serious bacterial infection was a possibility but that might have been ruled out, and, at the very least, I cannot imagine the pup was not put on broad spectrum antibiotics while they tried to figure out exactly what was going on.

Relative to the iguana issue: Iguanas were dying this winter in Florida from the low temperatures. Besides reptiles harboring salmonella on them, which can make an animal very ill or kill it in some cases, the iguanas were associated with a case of botulism where there was paralysis and the typical botulism signs seen. This does not sound like botulism, but there are also many other bacterial or viral conditions, or environmental poisons that could have been at the heart of this case. Anytime a pup has serious diarrhea, the pup should be immediately seen. They cannot compensate like older dogs, just as children cannot compensate like adults can when illness strikes. Without more information, it is very difficult to know just what this might have been. Blood work, other lab test results etc. would be needed to even make a guess. And I hope the people involved did not wait long before having the pup seen.

I am sorry for the loss of such a young pup. In this case, I would have requested the body be sent to a vet lab for a necropsy, but no answer might ever be found.

Lief
I am very sorry to hear about Bevo. My thoughts are with you and yours, as well as his family
Stacy

The vets should easily have been able to diagnose or rule out something like Parvo. But the fact that they waited to have him seen, did not do the pup any favor. Just loss of fluid and electrolytes can lead to catastrophic changes in the body that can kill.

Hi Hodie!!       he was a big strapping 2 year old, the people always kept up with everything on him as far as shots etc .the dog was livin'  large. .  its so scary to think something like that can happen and yes I told them if the other one even misses one meal get him in!!! ,I ;m not sure why they waited  ...The owner is a super bright guy who just happens  to have these disarming Movie star good looks,not that that has anything to do with anything This was them the night before we left for the shoot he is second from the right