Poor doggy
Despite my earlier posts on my status as a “cat-lover”, learning that our dog is seriously ill has enkindled a great love for her within me, and a desire to appreciate her for as long as she lives.
Snoop has been diagnosed with pancreatitis and has been hospitilized for the past four days.
She started to seem sick early last week. So, I called the vet and they recommended I give her some medicine & she’d be fine. When she didn’t respond to the medicine as well as expected, I began to worry about her. The next morning we woke up and she looked like hell. Fortunately, Nick was home, so I didn’t have to deal with all the details of feeding the children and getting them ready to go out (which I knew would slow me down immensely), so I could just rush out and take our sick puppy to the doctor.
We believe the pancreatitis was triggered by Snoop eating something she usually doesn’t get – that her body couldn’t process. The vet said his initial impression was that she had been poisoned. The only thing we gave her that she doesn’t usually get was an organic, all-natural “dental chew” bone that I bought from REI. Although one can not know the cause of pancreatitis for certain, the bone is the only thing in her diet that’s changed.
I should have remembered that organic natural stuff is not regulated as well as non-organic. And unfortunately, with organic being akin to big business, it does not necessarily guarantee that it’s safer.
Well, bone or no bone, our dog is on an IV at the hospital, getting antibiotics and anti-nausea medicine daily until she recovers enough to come home.
You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone (Or there is the threat of it being gone).
November 4th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Well, it’s three months later, and unfortunately, Zuke’s All-natural Dog Bones CEO, Patrick, is not returning my phone calls. Right after this happened to Snoop, I was in touch with Zuke’s, and soon after, Patrick. I explained to him the whole situation, that I had a doctor’s note stating based on the fact that nothing else changed with Snoop’s diet, she believed the pancreatitis may have been incited by the Zuke’s bone. Patrick wanted to take responsibility, if it was his to take. More importantly, he wanted one main point to come across, “I really care about your dog”. Apparently, you do not, Patrick. At least you don’t care enough to make it a priority to get in touch with me. Well, you called back once and left me a voicemail message stating how eager you were to get this resolved and your hope that “Snoop is doing ok”. But you haven’t persisted. I’m a stay-at-home mom. Getting a hold of me is NOT that hard!