Species: canine

Age:15

Sex/Neuter status: m neuter

Breed:lab mix

Body weight:23lb

History: laceration, 12 stitches with a drain, sedated

Clinical signs: anxiety, confusion

Duration: 4hr

Your general location: pnw

Links to test results, X-rays, vet reports etc:

Around 10pm we descovered my dog had a large laceration on his side. Still trying to figure out what happened, but the leading theory is he got into it with a male deer in our backyard. I took him to emergency vet, where he was sedated with Propofol and the laceration was repaired. I could hear him sounding very agitated and barking when he woke up, and he was anxious and moving around on the car ride home. He has been not wanting to sit down, moving around, and hyperventilating at times. It is now 5am, and he is still standing up and not wanting to rest. The vet said sometimes this happens, and the drugs will produce anxiety for up to 8hr. I just wanted to ask here and see if anyone had any suggestions, and if I am getting sound advice from the vet. Sorry for the poor grammar, been a long night. I plan on staying awake with him and monitoring him. Thanks all.

Labs amd bloodwork were OK but showing mild dehydration. Can't get him to drink water at the moment.

i have a one year old cat and a 6 month old kitten, and suddenly a lesion/rash appeared on my kitten's ear. so i took them both to the vet to get them checked out and the vet suspects ringworm in my kitten and took a sample to identify whether it's ringworm or not.

both of my cats didn't have any lesions that glowed under the UV lamp/blue light. however my vet prescribed a topical spray for my kitten's rash until the culture results come out in one week. i asked the vet whether i should separate my cats until the results come out and this is how the convo went:

me: should i separate the cats until results come out?

vet: no, not necessary

few seconds later

vet: well, if u CAN separate them, u should go ahead and do so just incase ur kitten does have ringworm

me: ok but like u just said no need, and also they have been together ever since the lesion/rash appeared so doesn't that mean if it it's ringworm my non-infected cat would be already exposed to the spores?

vet: shrugs i can't tell you for sure...he can be asymptomatic for all we know.

ok so NOW what do i do... separating them is a bit of a hassle but it definitely doable. so what should i do?? should i just separate them until the results come out or just keep them together bc it wont make any difference. pls help i never had to deal with possible ringworms in my cats so idk what's the best way to handle the situation

I need to give him half a pill twice daily but they're giant. My other cat was on the same recently but it was the small pills. Looking online, the 250 seems to be for dogs.

My cat is 5.4 kg. It's for an infection in his mouth which they biopsied recently and came back negative for cancer.

Just want to check if this seems normal before raising it when I pick up some new anti-inflammatories later.

my dog has been shaking her ear constantly and it doesn't seem like an infection but rather buildup in her ear and I was thinking of just cleaning it. Is there a way you would recommend cleaning it?

My neighbor fed some of this stuff to my dog yesterday. I’m not sure how much. My dog is a nine year old 65-pound mix… maybe lab and German shepherd. She has some really stinky farts right now. But she still wanted all her morning treats (dental stick, glucosamine) today. Do I need to be worried about anything in this like the green tea extract?

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Hi! I recently adopted a 2 year old sweet girl from our local shelter. The story we got was that she was found dumped as a puppy and her first family unfortunately had to move out of the country and couldn’t bring her. She has a great temperament and seems to get around very well. My concern is what to look out for in the future regarding her “t-Rex arm” and her other front leg. The deformed leg is very small and just dangles, no use whatsoever. The other front leg seems to be very strong, but does have a lump near what I would call the ankle joint. I’ll be making an appointment with our vet next week but I’d like to get an idea of what to expect and ways to support her health.

Hey everyone, My kitty Tofu is my best friend. Tofu has severe food allergies and is FiV positive. He is the most sweetest and cuddly boy. The two types of meat he can eat without throwing up are chicken and horse, however, both cause him to itch. The chicken seems to aggravate his face and paws, while the horse aggravates the back of his legs, the back of his right arm, and a bit of the belly. I have been to the vet so many times, and each time they tell me to try various meats, which i have been doing for the last year. Dry food is an absolute no go, he throws up after 10-30 minutes of eating. When eating food he can’t tolerate his lymph nodes swell up like crazy. I feel really sad not being able to help stop itching, as well as not finding a food that he can 100% digest and tolerate. I’m wondering if anyone else has experience with this. Are there topical creams that could help him, or is this just how it’s going to be if he can’t eat anything else?

We have a 3year old Seal point Siamese. We were thinking about getting a companion cat for her. The only issue is that we had another cat (female) that our Siamese took as a threat as she ended up marking outside our bedroom. Our vet told us she seen the other female cat as a threat and was protecting us from her .

I wanted to know if there would be a difference should we get a male cat rather than a female one.

• Species: Feline • Age: 5 months • Sex/Neuter status: Female - Spayed • Breed: Domestic Short Hair • Body weight: 2.4kg • History: Adopted in June 2024. First time cat owner.

Oct 24 - went in heat Oct 26 - Spay Surgery - decided to do her spay surgery to our vet instead of the low cost spay surgery clinics.

• The vet only did ovariectomy, surgery went well, the vet advised us to close monitor for 2 weeks which we did. After 3-4 days, she started vomiting every after 2 hours of eating.

Nov 5 - Back at the vet for blood test (see folder for results) Her Crea, BUN, WBC numbers are so high. Low Platelets and HGB. Indicating high bacterial Infection and mild anemia. Nov 6 - Went back again to the vet for ultrasound. No pyometra. But vet decided to have another surgery to remove the uterus just to be sure. Also need to confine her to wash out toxins. Nov 8 - Another blood test, it came back with improvement after 2 days of dextrose. (See folder for results) Platelets still low.

• wento home in the afternoon.

From her first surgery, she went back on her normal state the day after but still sleeps a lot. But I noticed this time, after her second surgery, 2 nights at the vet then day 2 here at home, she’s still not that active yet. Still sleeps a lot but no energy unlike after her first surgery. I’m thinking she’s stressed and maybe traumatized because she went through a lot within 2 weeks. What else can I do?

• Clinical signs: • Duration: stated in the history. • Your general location: Philippines • Links to test results, vet reports, X-rays etc.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SEcW7Wndi55ZkUqotOl4F9wOb1GaL5Y

3 weeks ago, my Akita had major surgery for a bowel blockage. She ate a full size Halloween witch decoration. She came out fine, but now she is behaving weird. She is obsessed with eating grass and is cranky. She is pooping, but not her usual horse size poop. She is eating and drinking fine. No throwing up but will dry heave lightly and burp. She has been up all night and can’t get comfortable. My other dog seems worried and is fawning over her. Could it be scar tissue or maybe just a slow recovery. I’ve been watching her and she hasn’t had the opportunity to eat anything big.

Hey everyone!

My cat has been having some issues with his left ear. He's fine at the vet but gets really stressed in the car, so we really try to limit the amount of car rides he takes. We'll absolutely go to the vet if it persists or gets worse. But I just wanted to check here first and make sure that I'm not being an over-paranoid cat parent!

He's an indoor cat, we do have a fenced in balcony catio that he hangs in usually daily. He has a sister but her ears are fine and his right ear has no problems at all. I just wanted to know if this looks like infection/mites or if it's just waxy. He still plays, cuddles, and eats normally. He's just been scratching at it moderately and shaking his head since yesterday. We may try and clean it out with an ear wipe but this is also really stressful for him. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much! ❤️ (Pics attached in the link below)

Info:

-Species: Cat.

-Age: He'll be 3 years old next month.

-Sex/Neuter status: Male, Neutered.

-Breed: British Shorthair and Maine Coon mix.

-Body weight: 4.5kg

-History: Adopted with his littermate sister as a kitten from an overcrowded home. Had ear mites when we got him at 2.5 months old, hasn't had an issue with it since then. Occasionally he and his sister will play somewhat rough. We've considered the possibility that she could've scratched in his ear but didn't find anything alarming in there. The scratches in there currently look self inflicted imo.

Clinical signs: Scratching, head shaking, and occasional ear flattening after scratching.

Duration: 1 Day.

General location: Germany.

Thanks again! ❤️

Apologies if the link doesn't work! I'll add in comments if it doesn't.

https://imgur.com/a/Rv2OUA5

Age: 11.5 Sex/Neuter status: Female spayed Breed: Shih tzu/bichon mix Body weight: 17.3 lbs

I want to preface that our dog is already at the emergency vet. First time we’ve ever left her in a vet’s office overnight and we’re so sad. We’ve just had a terrible day and are scared and hoping to gather any opinions that might give a sense of what to expect because we feel hopeless.

The short of it — about a week and a half ago our dog had vomiting and diarrhea so we took her to the vet. We think she just ate something she shouldn’t have. A couple days after that appointment she just still seemed like she wasn’t feeling so great and wasn’t liking her food and was still having some diarrhea so we took her back (twice). In all, between the two appointments, the vet prescribed an appetite stimulant, anti nausea, anti diarrheal, probiotic, antacid, and some gabapentin to use as needed if we thought she was uncomfortable.

However, at the appointment last Friday, when the tech came out to give us instructions for the new meds she apparently grabbed a different dog’s Novox (carprofen) and gave it to us. The “instruction” she gave us was just reading what was written on the bottle, which was to give 150mg twice daily, 12 hours apart. So 300mg in total a day. While our dog, clearly a <18 lbs dog, was sitting right there. So glad someone comes out to give you instructions, clearly highly trained.

This was a week ago, last Friday, and we just discovered the error today. So for 7 days our 17.3 lbs dog has been getting, from us per vet instructions, 300mg of Carprofen daily (150mg every 12 hours).

We took her to the ER as soon as we realized. They are treating (hopefully preventative) for GI ulcers with sucralfate, cholestyramine for recirculation of the carprofen, and a PPI, and of course fluids, and want to keep her for at least 48 hours. Symptomatically she has had little interest in food, has just been laying around a lot, and the diarrhea persisted into early this week, but has been gone the last couple days. It’s hard to delineate what could be symptoms from the original GI sickness and what could be a toxicity symptoms.

The ER vet said that in the first blood panel they did, kidney and liver function looked normal, nothing alarming. Her RBC count is a little high but barely. They will test for RBC and total protein again tomorrow morning, and bloodwork again tomorrow night.

So I guess my question is, do we have any hope of our sweet dog surviving this? Would, after a week, we expect to see signs of kidney or liver damage already in bloodwork, so the fact that there isn’t is a good sign? Does she have any chance, or is the dosage and length simply too much for her to overcome?

We’re very sad, and angry, and would appreciate any insights. Thanks.

I have a 5 year old Aussie/collie. Me and my boyfriend got back from vacation 5 days ago and my parents stayed at our house to watch the dogs. I had a project for cosmetology school due a few days before we went on vacation, and in the project had little seashells. Upon our arrival home I found a seashell on the ground of the cage, cage door open. The project piece was on top of the cage. One big piece of my project missing (covered with small seashells) my dog threw up up 5 times already, although some being only liquid, this morning 2 big piles of his food, and tonight 1 big pile of food, and 2 small piles of just a little liquid, both liquid throw ups had a tiny bit of blood in them. When he eats, he eats SO fast he doesn’t really chew. So I guess my question is, if my dog had swallowed any small shells, could this be the reason for throwing up and for this blood to present? (For reference, this pile of “throw up” is small, about 2-3” L, 1-2” W) or could it be because he eats SO fast with out chewing?

If this involves a vet visit, is there any pages that help financially? I’m not looking for any sympathy as that will make me feel worse, but my dad passed away 3 nights ago. Yes, 2 days after he and my mom stayed with my dogs 😓 I have been helping my mom with cost since. I am very overwhelmed and I’m now freaking out thinking my dog is dying. We are located in Myrtle beach, SC.

Thanks for your help.

Hello, for 2-3 days my cat has had red eyelids and it is stuck to the edges of his eyes, I often wipe it and it looks like small reddish secretions. It looks like dried blood. What can I do to make it disappear? I am currently giving him artificial tears. lubricating eye drops

Found it screaming under one of my trees. Picked it up and placed it in a box, it's now in a quiet dark room.

There's no wound visible. Should I bring it to a vet or let it heal on its own? Thank you.

Videos included in comments

hello, my 8 year old cat had a mayor surgery at his intestine yesterday because he had a tumor and they even cut out a bit of his intestine and since then he refuses to eat or drink. I called the vet and she told me I should feed him the liquid food she gave me but he refuses to open his mouth. I dont know what to do, has anyone tips how i can get him to eat or drink?

Hello everyone, My 12.5 year old cat was at the vet this week because of a throat infection. He had also a complete bloodwork check and besides the infection everything looks fine. The only thing that worries me is that the creatinine value seems a bit high to me 1.7 mg/DL. All other values related to the kidneys are exactly in the middle of the normal values. BUN/CREA Ratio is 11. I’m worried because of his age he’s starting to develop kidney issues. Should I start giving him Azodyl? Or Phosphore Binders?

i have a 100 pound golden retriever, and he recently got into our garbage and ate a corn cob. the corn cob was cut up into smaller pieces so it wasn't just the whole thing. i did not know he ate this until 6am this morning. he started throwing up, and parts of the corn cob were in it. i put him outside where he threw up more pieces, and he threw up once more inside but nothing came up. should i be worried?

Hello!

My friend needs me to take care of her senior cat for a week. It's a large cat and needs to take a lot of medication.
I have no prior experience feeding cats pills and am anxious about putting my fingers in its mouth.
I want to know, based on your experiences, which method out there is the least risky for choking the cat, and possibly the easiest to do.

Thank you so much! 😘

PS: I watched lots of videos on it already, just that I really don't wanna mess it up. I have taken care of other animals just not cats.

11 year old male labrador, 33kg, otherwise perfect health started sort of huffing through his nose every few seconds for at least 3 hours in the night, it was like he needed to sneeze but I have never seen him do this before, and was quite worrying to see anybody have any clue what it could be?

https://imgur.com/a/EcUs9S4

Hello everyone,

So my 8 month old ragdoll I’ve had as a kitten has always had the most beautiful ocean blue eyes. His right eye is suddenly grey. No signs of discharge, pain or changes in behaviour. I went to the vet today who was unsure but will refer me to a vet eye specialist for review. She peeked in his eye using a flashlight thing and said the grey one looks as healthy as the blue one, just slightly more red on the white part of the eye. The grey eye pupil contracts and relaxes the same as the blue one, and doesn’t seem cloudy. Literally just changed colour to a uniform grey. Otherwise she commented no signs of ill health and healthy weight at 5kg. Just wondering if any of you have had seen this. He’s a full time indoor cat and I cannot think of anything that happened the day his eye changed color. Thankyou in advance !!

So when I got my cat she had diarrhea when I gave her dry food so I jus switched to wet food and fresh food and all good for 3 years. In 2 weeks, I'll have to leave the country for a while and I'm in a pickle. I wanna use an automatic feeder while I'm gone so not to count on the people I'll ask to check on her in regards to food, so I'm introducing her to dry food but she gets diarrhea for some reason when she eats dry food. I tried 7 different brands and formulas so far no change. And when I give her another type of food, her next poop is normal. Any advice?

We discovered fleas on our dog 3 weeks ago. I treated her with a spot on that day and then got her prescribed with Bravecto almost two weeks ago.

Have treated the house and it looks like we're over the worst of it and I haven't seen any fleas in a few days and there's none on her

However she's still scratching and keeps going to chew at one of her legs. Is this normal??

Any recommendations on how to treat these sires around her mouth?

I can't seem to post a photo for some reason?

• Species: dog
• Age: 3
• Sex/Neuter status: girl, not spayed
• **Breed:**husky, saint bernard
• Body weight: 110
• History: food allergies
• Clinical signs: hairless patches on face, backside. Red skin on belly
• Duration: a week, maybe two?
• Your general location: portland, oregon
• Links to test results, vet reports, X-rays etc.

We are looking into adopting two kittens (siblings), however one of them is cross-eyed. They’re 6/7 weeks old at the moment. Will the cross-eyed kitten have any health implications in the future due to this? Or behavioural issues?

https://ibb.co/ydZxnZ4 image of cross-eyed kitten

• ⁠Species: Cat

• ⁠Age: 6/7 weeks

• ⁠Sex/Neuter status: Male

• ⁠Breed: Tuxedo Cat

• ⁠Body weight: NA

• ⁠History: Cross-eyed

• ⁠Clinical signs: NA

• ⁠Duration: NA

• ⁠Your general location: Malta

• ⁠Links to any test results, X-rays, vet reports etc. that you have: NA

Thanks in advance!

About 5 days ago my puppy ozzy started throwing up multiple times before me and my girlfriend went to sleep. The following day he was taken to the vet where he tested positive for parvo. He was immediately put on multiple medications and a daily iv, followed by us giving him water and pedialyte with a little plastic syringe. At first we were giving him very small amounts of immune and digestive support baby food mixed with water through the syringe until today where we offered him boiled chicken and baby food because he hasn’t thrown up in over 48 hours. He ate the serving for his body weight recommended and has hold down multiple small meals all day long. He is still not drinking water on his own but we’re hoping tomorrow we’ll see more signs of improvement in that. He is peeing every 4-5 hours as of now and has had tremendous energy improvement compared to days 2-3. He gets the zoomies for a few minutes and then takes a nap and is very interested in his surroundings.

I have had such bad anxiety this past week and I just need to know if anybody out there has any good news for me about his current state. We’ve been following the vets exact instructions and are not going to be getting lazy anytime soon so i’d like to know anyone’s knowledge on this situation or similar experience, thank you everyone.

Friends pit just had a litter a couple weeks ago and most of the litter died within a day or two. I hadn't seen the dog until tonight and I noticed ever one of it's it's breast were very full and hanging. Reminded me of a cow. She said she doesn't think they've been able to feed from their mother.

My cat has a prescription for Hill’s C/D wet food due to a history of cystitis. Since it has to be vet prescribed, my local clinic has an autoship service for it. There were some delays, and the food just arrived but it’s K/D and not C/D. Because of those delays, he’s out of his C/D food, and there’s no where around that’s open for the weekend that has it. I tried calling the vet to see if it would be ok to temporarily feed him the K/D food, but after a few calls and voicemails, I never received a response. I don’t know what to do. Is it ok to give him the K/D for a few days until the C/D comes in?

I adopted a stray kitten. He is 6 weeks old and is suffering from constipation. I found him when we was 4 weeks old and since there is no mother he didn’t go through any weaning period.took him to vet multiple times, got him dewormed and gave him antibiotics medicine.

I feed him wet and dry food and the doc said u have to figure out what quantity of wet and dry food to give till his digestion becomes normal.i have to give him oral drops for stool softening.

But his poop colour is dark brown almost black. From pooping one in 3 days it has come down to once in 2 days.
He is usually playful and eats and sleeps a lot but is clearly bothered because he strains and can’t get the poop out. Can someone know blackish brown poop is normal?

Hi everyone, I’ve emailed this question to our veterinary oncologist but she hasn’t emailed back yet.

Our dog (American bulldog, spayed female, 6.5 years old, northwest America) unfortunately has been diagnosed with osteosarcoma. She also unfortunately has other chronic health issues, including masticatory muscle myositis (MMM) which has been in remission since January, though she was diagnosed three years ago.

As we consider treatment options for the cancer I worry about amputation of the leg (for many reasons I believe I detailed in another post here) but the question just came to mind: the last surgery she had for TPLO we saw her MMM come out of remission, the treatment for which is heavy prednisone dosage to act as an immune suppressant. Say we do amputate her leg and see the MMM come back again, will putting her on an immune suppressant cause the cancer to spread faster, since her immune system is suppressed?

Thank you