We recently lost our beautiful girl (miniature poodle) to what we don't know and the vets are in disbelief too 2 weeks ago she was a happy healthy dog running around with her sister.
She would've been turning 9 in November.
At the end of 2018 she was unwell after picking her and her sister up from the kennel where they had regularly stayed whilst we were on holiday.
She was drinking and peeing lots and just off colour. Vet diagnosed her with kidney disease and or cushings as her urine results were not good but her bloods were ok apart from the ALP. She recovered in about 2-3 weeks and we got a second opinion who said that she was fine and she didn't have kidney disease although she did like her water.
Fast forward 7/9/2022 when she was at the vet for teeth trouble, she had antibiotics and was scheduled in the week after for extractions.
12/9/2022 Bloods were run as standard practice and the vet called up to say she could not have teeth done due to stage 4 kidney disease, so we brought her home to put her on a kidney diet to see if her numbers could come down. She had been in there nearly all day after fasting A few days after coming home she started to feel uncomfortable/unsettled, restless/weak legs, sleeping a lot and intermittent shivering. If she was lying down she would sit up and stretch regularly as though it was uncomfortable for her to lie on her stomach.
21/9/2022 Vet diagnosed arthritis! Gave her a Pentosan Polysulfate injection and sent her home with gabapentin 100mg twice a day and subcutaneous fluid infusions 100ml. The gabapentin knocked her out, she got weaker and couldn't walk and it gave her diarrhoea and so after 2 days I stopped them to get vet help.
25/9/2022 No shivering now, a spot of blood in diarrhoea moaning with the pain, stopped walking, eating, drinking. She was unable to see things that were close to her face and would only have fluids subcutaneously or syringned into her mouth. Her swallowing sounded hard and she could only lie on her side. As her vet was booked out I had to take her to another emergency vet who also diagnosed arthritis. She gave her a Temgesic injection and sent her home with more meds and something for her diarrhoea. She came home and led on her bed moaning and while we waited for the injection to take effect she died in our arms 2 hours after seeing the vet. Neither vet could believe it.
So we are wondering if anyone has seen anything like it. We are wondering if the kidney disease can do this so quick or if perhaps there must've been another problem.
Any help on getting some closure would be great as we have her sister booked in for her teeth next week (her bloods are good) and we are nervous.
Apologies for long post
Tina
