somethings WRONG with major...

okay major! good! http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...d/pinkgrin.gif hope you'll keep feeling better and please don't scare us more..

(and lv4dogs, I'm so sorry about yours too!) I wonder what's the name of test too - my golden, crayola goes everywhere with me, work, school and has a high possiblity of catching chemicals or whatever. he almost was posioned by bleach crumbs - I'd want to be prepare!

anyway, sweet major, be 100% well soon! you both are still in my thoughts - let us know the complete outcome ok?

((((major))))!
..gina & crayola

Oh Major... :( Star and I are heartbroken to learn you haven't been feeling well. Please get well soon, sweetheart! We want you back to your usual happy, playful, chowdog self very soon! Maria, we're keeping you and your precious Labbie boy in our prayers.

Love, Sandra

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Originally Posted by MariaM

He's almost acting like his normal self again!! We went on a walk today and yesterday, and I took the cone off and he was so happy! :)

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good news :) glad to hear that!

I'm glad major is doing better!

i am soooo glad to hear he's better!!! what a sweetie major is! poor pup, he loves you for helping him get better!

Very Much Glad

:eek: It was the posion after all?
just gald to hear hes on the mend though.
sheew! you guys got lucky that hes such a big dog.

i bet if Kirby munched that stuff it would have gone through his system a smidgen faster then your giant guy.

*huggies*
to the both of you

How's he doing now? I hope all is well!

Checking in Major! Hope you're doing better and better and better!!!:) Hugs to you sweet boy! Star the Labs sends slurpy licks, woofs and wags!:)

Just bumping this up, hoping he's all better now!

Major is 100% better! :D

We went a couple weeks ago, for a checkup, and they took a blood test and his blood was back to normal.

Hopefully I can answer the questions you had about the blood test.

As you know, rat poison thins the blood of rats, and thats how they are killed. Well, when they took Major's blood test, his blood was very thin, because it took about 25 minutes to clot, when I think they said 4 was average. When we took him a couple weeks ago, it only took 2 minutes to clot. :)

Yay Major!!!:::D:D:D Happy dance!:) So relieved to hear the good news!

Woo Hoo! Thats great!! Glad to hear he's back to normal!

I think the test you had done was the coagulation panel, which tests the blood clotting abilities. That test does not show that a dog ingested poison but it does test the clotting abilities which are poor to non-existant if the dog did ingest poison so I guess in a way it could help you guess that the dog ate poison.

Kaige's coagulation panel was about 2 minutes too!

Oh - perhaps it could have been a coagulation test. I remember the emergency vet on the phone talking about that and some other test too, I think.
Anyway, I guess once we saw (heard) the results of his clotting, when we took him in the 2nd time when he was very ill, we knew it was the poison because we knew that he had eaten it for sure. I guess if you had no idea why your dog was sick it would not help as much. I see what you were trying to say now. :)

YAY! i am glad major is better. he is SOO cute!!