Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[babsbag]

20mg/kg is not much. If I did this math right a 70 lb dog would only need to ingest 600 mg which is 0.0211644 ounces. Not much at all. Would love to know how much is in the feed.

 

[Baymule]

And all this time, your input and ideas was brushed aside. It's like going to the doctor and being told "it's all in your head". Waiting on test results. Sending hugs.

 

[samssimonsays]

We are bringing sadie in for testing for lead as well. A new toxicologist that works for poison control talked with my vet today and said these are symptoms of lead poisoning as well.... Which I also brought up about a certain wall we didn't paint and left the paint from former owner in it that they chewed on.... No way of knowing the kind of paint . They dismissed that too. sigh.... All dogs chewed on the dang wall. Sadie did on Friday before her seizure Tuesday. Not very close but close enough for my vet to want to test her. Ugh.

 

[Baymule]

Hope you can find out what is causing this.

 

[NH homesteader]

What a nightmare. No one, and no animal, should have to go through all this. I hope you have answers soon.

Your dogs have a giant fan club rooting for them!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

How old is the house?

Lead can/does cause some serous issues.

I have guessing games. I really hate that you are having to go through this

 

[samssimonsays]

Hubby got home today before me, snowing with bad roads again and took me an added 45 minutes to get home at 45 miles and hour or less for my regularly 1.5 hour trip, and found may put of the pen. Not sure how.... But ok. He put her back. She also lost her collar sigh. They are miserable and wet so I put them in the barn. As I was looking for my wire the main lightbulb burned out. Then after I get them out of the pen (shovel them clear as the snow built up so much) and I'm fighting them to put them in the stall, the other lightbulb burned out. several words may have slipped my mouth in that moment as I had one goat with no collar trying to get her in the stall, one with a collar I am using to push the one without a collar into the stall and three in the stall trying to get out..... All is well and they are all in the stall! It was a very long day today....

 

[samssimonsays]

Thank you all. The house was built in 1974 or 75 I believe. Just never know I guess. Wall is patched now and they can't get to that part anymore. We have changed and eliminated everything that we can except the dog food but just don't know.

 

[Bruce]

Have you considered changing vets? The current one doesn't seem too competent. Either that or s/he has a superiority complex that makes him/her deaf. Maybe both.

 

[samssimonsays]

Have you considered changing vets? The current one doesn't seem too competent. Either that or s/he has a superiority complex that makes him/her deaf. Maybe both.

We changed vets already. This gal has listened to me from the beginning. She's been researching and doing anything she can. She thought of the blastomycosis. And discussed with the toxicologist at poison control (her idea to call and make a case file as I had no idea they existed) about everything I listed off to them from goat feed to the cedar siding on our house and essential oils and more. They've consulted with a vet in Alabama, south Carolina and the university of mn neurologist. Since both dogs were related they didn't think anything of it not being genetic. With their cbcs being normal nothing shiwed otherwise.