My Dog's Poison or Not, I've Got To Fine Out?

Question

In Dec, 2005 my 10 yr old Rott passed & in April, 2006 my 10 yr old Lab had to be put down. They both displayed the same symptoms it took about 7 to 10 days. Both started to swell up, legs included.They slowly stopped eating, dark blood in the stool & runny in the last couple days both started going down in the hind-end and would howl tryin to get up after sitting. They both began acting lethorgic and very much in pain. Unable to pay a vet at that time a drug Co Metacam paid for an autopsy on my Rott but do to the time frame 30 days after the resultes were not clear but modules were noted on her liver and the right kidney was enlarged. My Lab I got to the vet, a light brown fluid was pulled off from around his chest he continuned to decline and I had him put down. My vet wrote a statement for the Police stating (toxins could not be ruled out) due to the time frame and not knowing what toxin to test for no toxology was done. I've got to fine out, Please any HELP or answers. TY Naosbbo

Answer 1

Since both your dogs were affected in and around the same time period I would have to wonder about poisoning of some kind.

More and more dogs are dying of cancer due to fertilizer and insectacides being used on lawns. Because they walk on the grass it is aborbed through their paws. I think you should probably consider this possibility with your dogs. Someone in the area may have been spraying or fertilizing at that time and both your dogs were exposed.

Dogs also eat some of the strangest things no matter how rotten & disgusting it is. So another possibility would be that they both ingested something that was either poisoned on purpose or something just plain rotten to the core. I had a dog one time that ate rancid bacon fat & that just about killed her. She also ate raccoon ****, mouse poison, dirty condoms, rubber fishing worms ..... the list goes on. She spent alot of time at the vets !!!

Answer 2

I had something similar happen to two of my dogs, a year old Red Husky and a 5 month old Collie pup. I had an autopsy done on the pup, who died last. The vet could not pin point the poison. He assumed it was something that had been bad that they had ingested. Dogs can get food poisoning too. Road kill is bad for them as is any other dead remains they may find and eat. Sometimes they eat something that died of some sort of poison and it kills them as well.
I'm sorry for your loss.

Answer 3

do no longer think of from basically sniffing it yet right here's a sturdy occasion from the internet... source All toads secrete mucus interior the direction of the floor that doesn't flavor sturdy to different animals. some toads, whether, are truthfully poisonous. those contain the tropical toads Bufo alvarius (Colorado River Toad) discovered interior the Southwest desert and Bufo marinus present day in Florida and Hawaii. another species of Bufotoads in different aspects of the U.S. produce a milder venom. there is one species of poisonous salamander, the California Newt, that's present day in California

Answer 4

my first instinct is antifreeze but that usually is pretty fast and hits the kidneys, my second instinct says insectacide, but thats just a roundabout guess. it definatly sounds like poison though