Posted on 10/17/2021 1:51:55 PM PDT by Rebelbase
20 lb. Feist was out in a hayfield rooting around and hunting for about an hour. When I let her inside she was shaking, unsure walking (stumbling around) and had bugged out eyes and dilated pupils. She had a couple of spasms where she got up and tried to run only to bang into the couch. She peed, pooped and puked.
The puke look like it had some kind of small animal guts in it, most likely a mole, vole or mouse.
This is the 2nd time this has happened in the past 3 weeks after she has spent a long time hunting and rooting around.
The first time it did not last long before she could walk straight and was back to normal. This time it was much worse along with the expulsions which did not happen the first time.
We are out in the sticks well off the main road so a man made poison is not probable, besides, the event passes quickly and this is the 2nd time it's happened.
Yard critters around here are field rats, chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, moles, voles, toads, and blue tail salamanders (skinks).
She's recovered enough now that she is no longer shaking and is laying in her bed.
Has anyone here ever seen this before or have an idea of what she could have gotten into?
This time was very dramatic and it passed in about 5 minutes.
Forgot to add, there has not been any fertilizer or pesticides used in the area she was in for at least 5 years.
give it betonite clay
Ingesting a toad would do that....
What kinds of frogs or toads do you have in your area?
Mushroooms?
Sounds like he got ahold of some of them Qanon vaccine
micro-nano-cyber-bionic sea monkeys. From Hell.
They can't do him no good, nope.
Use some activated charcoal found in digestive aisle ...absorps many toxins.. While you try to figure out what to do
I always keep it on hand
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that was my first thought - mushrooms
that was my first thought - mushrooms
Mushrooms or a toad. I also have Feists and they kill anything. I’d get rid of both. One of mine had to wear a basket muzzle when outside for a while but the yard is fenced so keeping the mushrooms out is easy. Toads not so easy.
Could she have eaten a rodent that had been poisoned?
I forgot to add that the toxin on toads can cause heart irregularities.
Could be rodenticide (rat poison) ingested by eating a poisoned rodent.
Vet. Vitamin K. He might have gotten into rat poison and might bleed out. If he ate a mouse or rat that died from it, it’ll get him too.
Couple of suggestions:
1) Search “neurotoxin symptoms of dogs”. You will find most of what you just described your dog having. The next question is what exactly is she getting into.
2) Go to a petcare/veterinary website and search for dog neurotoxins. Your dog might be ingesting some sort of mushroom or other plant either directly or indirectly (by eating a rodent that has eaten the plant). Hay itself can have various rusts and fungi. Has it been unusually wet before the is problem started?
3) Don’t let your dog run in that field until you sort it out. Even if you do, you probably can’t do anything to round up every plant or critter. It’s quite possible that each episode causes more damage, and that some substances might build up in her system, doing fatal damage.
I had an old Chesapeake Bay retriever that came home one day with the side of his blown up almost like a balloon. He laid on the porch like he was dying for about 3 days and then got better. Come to find out he tried to eat a Moccasin snake and got bit in the process. That dog lived for many years afterwards still trying to eat snakes and such. Go figure. heh
There may be poisonous plants out there. I don’t know how to link websites...but typing in “poisonous plants for dogs” will get you lots of hits.
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