[Drew_Smoke]

After $700 our vet had no clue. I contacted another animal clinic that I was referred to from here and they said they had alot of respect for my present vet and made me feel like all had been done that could be.

Scruffy is going downhill pretty quick. Now his legs just don't work like they did. He gets no traction on tile or the wood flooring and hangs around on the carpet where he can kinda walk. I caught him walking with one of his front paws tucked under and had to pull it back out for him. When he walks he travels kinda "sideways." I was thinking maybe he got poisoned some how but he is a house dog.

He is only 6 or 7 and doesn't seem to be in any pain and he eats well. I was hoping maybe someone had a dog go thru this before.

Thanks

 

[allicat]

i havent had a dog go through anything like that, but i wish him the best of luck. i hope someone can figure out whats wrong. he is still too young for just old age stuff!

good luck!
trudy

 

[Gary]

Could it be parvo?

 

[ShadMan]

I'm not sure what that could be, bro. Sounds like severe tendonitis, or maybe something like MS. Maybe a tumor on the brain??

 

[sandybottom]

That's kinda of what I was thinking too. Sometimes when the liver fails a dog can get lethargic. Hope Scuffy gets better.

Could it be parvo?

 

[Waistdeep]

Sorry to hear your dog has not gotten better, I remember your first post about it. My brother's lab has somewhat similar symtoms, loss of motor control and legs not working right but it is intermnittent.... His vet diagnosed it as epilepsy - which I did not know dogs can get. Probably not the same thing but cant hurt to ask.

 

[Bobby]

I had a Chow do that same thing. Took her to the vet on Broadway in Galveston. She told me she(the chow) had had a stroke. It would have cost me $2000 to find out just what kind of stroke she had had and it wouldn't help the dog any. The dog was still going to suffer and in time die. So I had her put down. She was 12 years old. I hope yours is not the same. It sounds like it though.
I am sorry about dog not getting any better.

 

[Drew_Smoke]

Thanks for the replies...Scruff had 2 heartworm tests, a parvo test and everything else they could think of. He would go up and down and a couple of weeks ago he was sick...reel sick. He was puking and his eyes would roll like he was posessed. It was weird. He snapped out of that but is still wobbling around.

As for his flappy paw, I noticed a couple of months ago he was limping on it. He would limp then later run around like nothing was wrong. Now the same one gets turned in as he walks sometimes.

If he was 10 I could see all of this but he's 7 at the most.

 

[Gary]

He didnt seem to be suffering when I saw him, but, you may have a rough desicision to make bro.

 

[Tom Stewart]

It could be a lot of things, but sounds like some sort of neuropthy. I would get a referral to the Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialist and have some test run there....

My 12.5 year old lab has problem on tile now and he has Laryngeal Paralysis....sometimes these two things go together....LP and a generalized neuropothy....it comes and goes though....

I rally like Dr. Burney at GCVS....you may try to do a search for canine neuropothy or go to their website..www.gcvs.com or org...

Good Luck,
TS