HEALTH-GREYHOUNDS ARE DIFFERENT: A Deadly Overdose
The Loss of Flora the Adorable
Fostering a greyhound can be very rewarding but also quite challenging. Unfortunately, it can also be a very sad and painful experience as described below by a foster mom.
In the very early morning hours of GreySave’s Oktoberfest social I experienced what I consider an extremely painful and very un-necessary event. My darling Flora, whom I have fostered for 3 months, for some strange and unknown reason, decided to go counter surfing while I was sleeping. She got into another grey’s bladder control medicine, Proin and ate 30 or more of the chewable tablets. The normal dose is one tablet daily. I discovered her at 3:30 in the morning wandering around in a delirious state bumping into walls and barely responding to her name. I soon found she had vomited 9 times and also discovered the cause and the open bottle of medication. I got her to the emergency vet quickly but by then she was in shock, hypertensive, tachycardic, both pupils were dilated and one was fixed.
At that point, I already knew she was neurologically impaired. After several hours of administering critical care including lots of fluids, plasma, drugs, multiple lab tests and several calls to poison control it was clear that she was not responding to the treatment. I will spare you any more details. Her little brindle body just was not able to overcome the damage that had already occurred. We helped her cross to the rainbow bridge at 9:05 that morning. A 3 year old healthy pup at dinner time......left our world before breakfast......and on my watch. Now I know this was accidental but it took me a couple of days to digest all the emotions and reassess the circumstances. My conclusion came loud and clear, even when you think they won't bother those bottles of pills or any other toxins, you never know for sure. So you'd better not leave anything like that out on the counter EVER again. I share this story to remind all my dear animal loving friends that sometimes our complacency over these matters can have devastating effects. Please look around your homes to be sure that your pups are protected and kept safe in the best way possible.
Little FLora was my foster for 3 months, had her 3rd birthday on August 28th, played for hours with stuffies, found her way onto my bed and kissed me every night and every morning. Can't ask for more joy that that. And now Floradorable ashes will join the ashes of all my grey babies...in the garden with a new plant above her.
Leslie
Fostering a greyhound can be very rewarding but also quite challenging. Unfortunately, it can also be a very sad and painful experience as described below by a foster mom.
In the very early morning hours of GreySave’s Oktoberfest social I experienced what I consider an extremely painful and very un-necessary event. My darling Flora, whom I have fostered for 3 months, for some strange and unknown reason, decided to go counter surfing while I was sleeping. She got into another grey’s bladder control medicine, Proin and ate 30 or more of the chewable tablets. The normal dose is one tablet daily. I discovered her at 3:30 in the morning wandering around in a delirious state bumping into walls and barely responding to her name. I soon found she had vomited 9 times and also discovered the cause and the open bottle of medication. I got her to the emergency vet quickly but by then she was in shock, hypertensive, tachycardic, both pupils were dilated and one was fixed.
At that point, I already knew she was neurologically impaired. After several hours of administering critical care including lots of fluids, plasma, drugs, multiple lab tests and several calls to poison control it was clear that she was not responding to the treatment. I will spare you any more details. Her little brindle body just was not able to overcome the damage that had already occurred. We helped her cross to the rainbow bridge at 9:05 that morning. A 3 year old healthy pup at dinner time......left our world before breakfast......and on my watch. Now I know this was accidental but it took me a couple of days to digest all the emotions and reassess the circumstances. My conclusion came loud and clear, even when you think they won't bother those bottles of pills or any other toxins, you never know for sure. So you'd better not leave anything like that out on the counter EVER again. I share this story to remind all my dear animal loving friends that sometimes our complacency over these matters can have devastating effects. Please look around your homes to be sure that your pups are protected and kept safe in the best way possible.
Little FLora was my foster for 3 months, had her 3rd birthday on August 28th, played for hours with stuffies, found her way onto my bed and kissed me every night and every morning. Can't ask for more joy that that. And now Floradorable ashes will join the ashes of all my grey babies...in the garden with a new plant above her.
Leslie
