I hope it’s something simple and easy to treat. We’re still trying to get weight off the collie so he can be treated for heartworms. That is going to be ridiculously expensive but he’s a good dog. Most of the time.
If it were going to be something easy we could have found the solution already. We’ve been treating this dog since October. This is a new vet who has hospitalized him.
A guy came by while I was putting out veggie and fruit scraps for the deer-he said my neighbor told him I had a table saw for sale. Long story short, he bought it for a pretty fair price, and I put the cash in my vehicle fund (a laquered Japanese box in a hiding place I built and only I know of).
I was just praying for a way to get some money to put by so I can get a used truck soon, and every tiny bit helps whn you have to pay cash-I’ve always thought my guardian angel spends too much time in bars because she/he doesn’t pay enough attention, but ever so often, he/she throws a little luck my way...
Sad to say, we have the answer and it is not good. We put our beautiful dog down this afternoon, even though all of his tests looked promising, and X-rays and ultra sounds did not show an obvious problem. But, he could not hold his food down. The vet did a post mortem and found that he had Pancreatic Cancer. The pancreas was enlarged and hard and pressing on the pilorus sphincter which did not allow his food to pass easily into his bowel. When his stomach got too full, he’d throw it up. He wasn’t getting the nourishment he needed and he was losing weight rapidly. He’d lost 15 lbs since November. He looked so much better after he died — all the tension was gon \e from his body and he was just asleep. I breaks my heart, but it was the right thing to do since it was obvious that he was suffering. I just didn’t expect this today.