somethings WRONG with major...

[Vette]

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

[lv4dogs]

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

[tatsxxx11]

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!

[lv4dogs]

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

[MariaM]

Major is 100% better!

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.

[tatsxxx11]

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

[lv4dogs]

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!