Please let us know how it turns out - and tell your son we are praying for his doggie...
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Thank you for your concern and prayers, it is much appreciated.
Sorry for taking so long to answerr.
The dog is stayed ovenight and is still at the vets receivng anti-biotics and something to get his glucose level up, the vet says it looks like liver failure or cancer, white cells are up also, even though the dog was drinking more water and urinating more often.
When he heard from the vet this morning she said he had improved just a very little, not interested in food or any activity. Son is going to keep him there maybe overnight again to see if he improves any more, if not, he will have to put him down. So sad after losing our dog last week.
I did some searching and found this that we all might check out for our pets food. Son is at work and hasn’t checked it out yet on the food he was feeding him.
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=menadione
His dog has always had the allergies and the excema problems, but who knows anymore.
Just to much of this stuff in their food and ours also.
Too many preservatives. I am thinking if you cannot read what is in something or cannot pronounce it, forget that product.
Will keep you posted.
The dog is a shepard mix and about 12 years old.
Thanks for the update. I’m sorry the prognosis doesn’t sound very good.
And not to second-guess the Vet, but I just want to be sure the Vet considered whether it might be kidney failure rather than liver failure, in case the treatments are different. I’m not a Vet, so it may be perfectly obvious to a Vet that liver-related symptoms are nothing like kidney-related symptoms... but given that Vets all over the country were stumped by the cases related to the recalled-food, it probably doesn’t hurt to ask the question, “Is there any chance this could be acute renal failure or in any way related to the symptoms attributed to the recalled foods?”
Whether or not the dog was eating one of the recalled foods... As we have seen, the recall has expanded several times, so just because a food isn’t on a current recall list doesn’t mean it might not be the same symptoms. Don’t let the Vet tell him “if he wasn’t eating one of the recalled foods, then it can’t be the same illness.” The recall may continue to expand.