Yes, she ate chocolate, not xylitol. Chocolate is toxic to dogs, but not in the tiny amounts xylitol is. And you can just make them throw it up, which doesn't work with xylitol. Thanks for asking!
We recently thought we were going to lose our (my) Aussie. She had been acting weird for a couple of weeks. Our 20-lb Border Terrier has bullied her (65 lbs) from day one. The terrier is now getting dementia. Our Aussie is sensitive and gets anxious when anything changes, so (along with everybody else telling me I was imagining things), I just blamed it on that.
Then one day our 20yo son, who has high-functioning autism, walked through the room and casually said, "Mavis's personality has completely changed." That sent a chill through my heart. My son has no filters -- not only in what he says, but in what he sees. I'll be eternally grateful that he didn't try to rationalize what he was seeing.
I got her in to see the vet (best vet ever), and, long story short, her kidney function was down to 25%. We have no idea why. With kidney function that bad, most dogs don't survive more than a few months. Our vet decided to try a Hail Mary -- he put her on a three-week regimen of two different antibiotics on the off chance that she had an infection so deep in her kidneys that bacteria wasn't making it into her urine samples.
Today, she's perfectly fine. We have no idea what caused it, so we have no idea whether it may happen again. But, for now, she's my miracle.
Did your sweet dog survive?
Yes, she ate chocolate, not xylitol. Chocolate is toxic to dogs, but not in the tiny amounts xylitol is. And you can just make them throw it up, which doesn't work with xylitol. Thanks for asking!
We recently thought we were going to lose our (my) Aussie. She had been acting weird for a couple of weeks. Our 20-lb Border Terrier has bullied her (65 lbs) from day one. The terrier is now getting dementia. Our Aussie is sensitive and gets anxious when anything changes, so (along with everybody else telling me I was imagining things), I just blamed it on that.
Then one day our 20yo son, who has high-functioning autism, walked through the room and casually said, "Mavis's personality has completely changed." That sent a chill through my heart. My son has no filters -- not only in what he says, but in what he sees. I'll be eternally grateful that he didn't try to rationalize what he was seeing.
I got her in to see the vet (best vet ever), and, long story short, her kidney function was down to 25%. We have no idea why. With kidney function that bad, most dogs don't survive more than a few months. Our vet decided to try a Hail Mary -- he put her on a three-week regimen of two different antibiotics on the off chance that she had an infection so deep in her kidneys that bacteria wasn't making it into her urine samples.
Today, she's perfectly fine. We have no idea what caused it, so we have no idea whether it may happen again. But, for now, she's my miracle.