My wheelie dog Bombón (6 yr old female Pek cross, HBC with rear paralysis) had previously had brief seizures when she had urine infections/uterine stump pyometra. In November last year she had her first prolonged seizure, at that stage she wasn't diagnosed as epileptic. She was in hospital for sever...

Looking for something completely different I found a different type of helmet/head protection. You need to scroll down the page, it's last but one in the list: http://www.k-9orthotics.com/direct/products/orthotics/Cranial.jpg http://www.k-9orthotics.com/products/orthotics/ Not sure how well it would...

Hi Carol & hugs :-) Thanks MC for your post, very useful. I saw it some months ago and someone I know is desperate to try it, I already said to her there are no miracle cures. Anyway, my vet has a vet friend in the US and asked him to see if there was any chance of getting hold of it. That vet s...

Does anyone have any reports of people trying Imulan / LCTI for FeLV or FIV kitties? I ran a search for the terms but couldn't see them, if anyone knows where to point me on discussion about them I'd be interested. We can't get it in Spain but might be able to arrange it through somebody if it is wo...

Karen, sorry so many days have passed! Translation of latest email from the vet: "I just wanted to tell you that the little one hardly cries now, he is much better, he knows his way around the house, how to get up on the sofa, and he can even go up and down the stairs. The change in him is so s...

Karen, thanks for answering, I know you're an expert on this! The woman who is temporarily fostering him is a practising vet, she doesn't know what is wrong but isn't able to find anything, they have done all the normal tests and he seems to be okay physically. I simply heard him crying over the pho...

Hopefully I've posted a photo of him...

I suggested they try something like the anxiety wrap to see if it might calm him a little bit, poor thing, it just sounds like he is constantly crying cos him mummy left him...

Debbie

(Sorry I have been away so long, too many animals here...) I've been asked by a vet if I can help with this case. She turned up at work at her clinic in Barcelona a few days ago and there was a little old blind dog tied to the door. She took him in, he has cataracts and has had them for some time. T...

About an hour after I posted this yesterday, Lys called me to say the inevitable had happened... Cati tried to have a go at Lia, and Lia responded. The problem is that Cati is a doxie and Lia is a Rottweiler... There was a lot of blood. Cati had to be taken to emergency, have two wounds stitched up ...

Thanks both for your suggestions. He seems to be a little steadier on his feet, hasn't had any falls, his main problem seems to be indoors on more slippery surfaces, outdoors he does great. So until I can find a good way to protect his head I may try putting boots on him for indoor use to try and st...

This is where Cati was when still with her hunter owner, she was kept tied on a rope in a kind of yard which they had put carpet over, you can see her pee patches on it. She had been there for months and finally the hunter decided she was no use to him so he took her to the vet to be put to sleep. O...

We have a young female doxie here in Spain and are unable to find a home for her, her case is becoming urgent so I am posting in here in case any European or possibly even US families might be interested in adopting her. Cati was originally owned by a hunter. We do not know the exact cause of her di...

We have a young female doxie here in Spain and are unable to find a home for her, her case is becoming urgent so I am posting in here in case any European or possibly even US families might be interested in adopting her. Cati was originally owned by a hunter. We do not know the exact cause of her di...

Hi Karen It's difficult to tell without seeing him, but like Critters, it sounds to me like it could be something brain-related. I currently have two CH puppies in foster (not related to each other) and both have more severe problems with their front legs than their rear legs. I just lost one whose ...

I have recently taken in a new foster, a CH pup called Bunny. They called him Bunny because to walk/run he moves both his front legs together and they are a little stiff. Sometimes his back legs slide from underneath him, but his case is not too severe. However, occasionally he falls and hits his he...