enlosandes
10-02-2008, 12:02 PM
Hi All,
I'm new to this forum. I was wondering if any of you had any ideas about our extremely strange and sad situation.
We live in Bariloche, Argentina. My husand, myself and three dogs often go out for hikes in the forest around our house. After a great hike our 3 year old, super healthy German Shepard Suerte started to talk more than usual. He is a big talker anyway and we just thought he had extra things to say. Three days later he stopped talking all together and started to become lethargic. He stopped wanting to jump into our truck and became uninterested in people that came to our house.
That night, four days into the beginning of strange behavior, he started acting completely out of it. His pupils became very large, his ears were back, he had a far away look almost as if he was on drugs and at times would become very slack jawed with his tongue sticking limply out of his mouth, almost as if he was catatonic. This was a Sunday evening and we called our vet for an emergency appointment.
The vet found his temp to be a degree celcius (1.8 Fahrenheit). Suerte was shaking a bit (but more from being scared to be at the vet in my opinion). The doctor felt that it was maybe epilepsy. He gave him a cortisone shot to help the fever and help his shaking.
That night Suerte's health got worse. He had boughts of his eyes rolling in the back of his head and vomited four times. We took him back to the vet. X rays showed inflammation of the lungs, urine tests came back normal, we are still waiting for the blood tests. The doctor put him on an antibiotic and said to keep him rested.
That night was better with no vomiting but he started to act more strange. He wanted out in the middle of the night and would race to the grass area of our yard only to start walking in awkward circles, sometimes crashing into things.
The following day we took him to another vet to get a second opinion. His fever was gone, his pupils were back to normal and health wise things checked out. This doctor couldn't hear or see anything wrong with his lungs. He thought it was best to keep him on the antibiotic.
Today Suerte has become more skiddish and runs away from nothing, slipping in the process. He still has a far away look in his eyes at times, that looks like pure fear sometimes.
Because we believe in homeopathic modalities of healing we also have Suerte on a herbal dog decongestant, liquid aged garlic, goldenseal and an extra dose of doggy vitamins. I took him off of his normal dry dog food when the vomiting started and am feeding him the above supplements with rice and extra lean ground beef.
I have also been running his energy and using lavender to help with calming.
He has and is eating great and has normal bowel and urine movements.
It is the strangest thing ever. We love him so much and don't understand how our vibrant, healthy German Shepard could of shifted his entire personality so fast.
Could this be a bad acid (mushroom) trip? Or is it something else? Anyone ever heard of something like this before? Any thoughts, advice, etc is greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much.
I'm new to this forum. I was wondering if any of you had any ideas about our extremely strange and sad situation.
We live in Bariloche, Argentina. My husand, myself and three dogs often go out for hikes in the forest around our house. After a great hike our 3 year old, super healthy German Shepard Suerte started to talk more than usual. He is a big talker anyway and we just thought he had extra things to say. Three days later he stopped talking all together and started to become lethargic. He stopped wanting to jump into our truck and became uninterested in people that came to our house.
That night, four days into the beginning of strange behavior, he started acting completely out of it. His pupils became very large, his ears were back, he had a far away look almost as if he was on drugs and at times would become very slack jawed with his tongue sticking limply out of his mouth, almost as if he was catatonic. This was a Sunday evening and we called our vet for an emergency appointment.
The vet found his temp to be a degree celcius (1.8 Fahrenheit). Suerte was shaking a bit (but more from being scared to be at the vet in my opinion). The doctor felt that it was maybe epilepsy. He gave him a cortisone shot to help the fever and help his shaking.
That night Suerte's health got worse. He had boughts of his eyes rolling in the back of his head and vomited four times. We took him back to the vet. X rays showed inflammation of the lungs, urine tests came back normal, we are still waiting for the blood tests. The doctor put him on an antibiotic and said to keep him rested.
That night was better with no vomiting but he started to act more strange. He wanted out in the middle of the night and would race to the grass area of our yard only to start walking in awkward circles, sometimes crashing into things.
The following day we took him to another vet to get a second opinion. His fever was gone, his pupils were back to normal and health wise things checked out. This doctor couldn't hear or see anything wrong with his lungs. He thought it was best to keep him on the antibiotic.
Today Suerte has become more skiddish and runs away from nothing, slipping in the process. He still has a far away look in his eyes at times, that looks like pure fear sometimes.
Because we believe in homeopathic modalities of healing we also have Suerte on a herbal dog decongestant, liquid aged garlic, goldenseal and an extra dose of doggy vitamins. I took him off of his normal dry dog food when the vomiting started and am feeding him the above supplements with rice and extra lean ground beef.
I have also been running his energy and using lavender to help with calming.
He has and is eating great and has normal bowel and urine movements.
It is the strangest thing ever. We love him so much and don't understand how our vibrant, healthy German Shepard could of shifted his entire personality so fast.
Could this be a bad acid (mushroom) trip? Or is it something else? Anyone ever heard of something like this before? Any thoughts, advice, etc is greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much.