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Took our old boy (15 years old) to the vets as he’s been fainting occasionally.
Turns out he has an irregular heart rhythm, not sure there’s much, if anything, they can do about it.
Hasn’t lost his voice or the ability to piss up everything he can though.
Turns out he has an irregular heart rhythm, not sure there’s much, if anything, they can do about it.
Hasn’t lost his voice or the ability to piss up everything he can though.
I'm not sure an irregular heart beat is anything to worry about, our 8 year old poodle has had this condition since birth as far as I know and he is as fit as a very fit thing. I hope the same applies to your dog.Took our old boy (15 years old) to the vets as he’s been fainting occasionally.
Turns out he has an irregular heart rhythm, not sure there’s much, if anything, they can do about it.
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Hasn’t lost his voice or the ability to piss up everything he can though.
Think the problem is the vet thinks his heart sometimes gets too far ‘out of sync’ (as he put it) and then races to try and ‘fix’ itself, that causes him to faint and his heart momentarily stops.
He ends up laying totally frozen. Then about 30 seconds later he jumps up and carries on like nothings happened.
Other than that happening occasionally he seems fine, still eating ok and still getting excited for a walk (though a lot slower now).
Vet said they could do tests and perhaps meds will stop it, haven’t decided whether or not to go that route yet.
15 years is a tremendous age for a dog , has he had much in the way of medication over the last couple of years or has he just been happy and healthy without assistance?
Yeah, he’s doing well for his age.
He’s not had any meds always been happy and healthy.
Hard decision to make I have a 14 year lab and a 15 year old.. They are now too old for any meaningful treatment should they get sick but I'm happy as long as they aren't in pain. If their quality of life becomes too bad I will do the humane thing but it's a god awful thing to decide
I agree mucker, it does break your fucking heart though, when the time comes.Hard decision to make I have a 14 year lab and a 15 year old.. They are now too old for any meaningful treatment should they get sick but I'm happy as long as they aren't in pain. If their quality of life becomes too bad I will do the humane thing but it's a god awful thing to decide
I'm not sure that's a bird, I think it might be Loz
Our for our morning walk and Louis found a fresh muntjac head . He proudly carried it all the way home where Lola craftily tore a little strip off. Louis then settled down to eat the rest. When he had finished I swear he looked at me, winked and said he loves to get a little head on a Saturday morning.
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Ragwort everywhere!
A good year for it - reminds me of a childhood spent pulling it out of the horse fields
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If you haven't made the decision already I'm sure you'll make the right one.
Just hope your vet hasn't the same outlook as ours. When we go you have to brace yourself to be dry bummed at ramming speed
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Cheers.
He’s due his yearly check soon so will try and find out more then, don’t think we want to put a 15 year old dog through too much though.
We use Vets for Pets (the ones at pets at home) and to be fair they’ve been pretty good.
The last dog we had to put to sleep fell over and broke his hip in our driveway at 15, he had multiple issues so had to make a decision in the driveway of my house.. I had morphine in the house from a previous hip replacement he had so I gave it all to him hoping he would pop off peacefully.. To my horror it killed all his pain so he kept trying to get up so I lay down beside him to keep him calm... My wife rang his vet who was a pet and insisted in running out to us to put him to sleep at home.. A horrible thing to witness but as good a situation as possible considering he was put to sleep
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view from the ball’s perspective that he wants me to throw
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