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If you're worried about your pet's health, please speak to a vet or qualified professional.

Any vets/ vet nurses about? Urgent help needed.

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Ammabovvered · 07/05/2026 14:01

Please note we have been at vets for last 3 hours!

My sister came downstairs this morning to her 1yo Spaniel lay in her crate, not greeting her.
She didn't want to come out of her crate. Sis got her out and saw her eye (pictured) and immediately called me then the vets.
Whilst on hold her dog was just sat, not following her, not attempting to move. She carried her outside, she would not wee.
Sis brought her back inside on couch and she almost fell off it. Dog collapsed, still awake but just fell flat.
I went to pick her up, she is registered with PDSA and by this time it was 10am and she had been trying to get through for an hour from 9am opening and all through car journey.

In vets was about 45min wait during which the dogs 2nd eye started to swell and lids fill with blood. She now has 2 blood filled eyes.
Dog urinates itself several times.
She then started chomping rapidly with lots of foam coming out of her mouth.
Dog is completely ignoring her name/calls/clicks etc.

Get into vets. Vets looked at eyes, felt tummy. Weighed her and asked questions about toxins, weed etc (non known to be present in house)
She took dog to see another vet to consult.

She comes back and says dogs temperature is fine and we will give her some eye drops.

Thats it. Eye drops. I said she is urinating herself, she is not responding to her name, she is frothing, she doesn't want to move. She cannot stand for more than a minute. She is a 1 year old spaniel, she is usually bouncing off the walls. Surely there is something else going on?

She said to take her home with eyedrop and ring back if anythings changes (yeah good luck ringing back when they don't answer the emergency phone line)

We took dog to waiting area for meds and tried standing her up, she stood for about 1 mins getting head scratches and collapsed. She fell right on her face, legs given out from under her.

The staff at counter see this and rush to help her and take her back to vet.

We got back into vets who says 'we couldn't find where the blood was coming from'
What blood? Nobody mentioned blood, they thought she had started bleeding??

They then said they will run a blood test.

We wait and blood test is normal.

She days they will prescribe an anti inflammatory and a flea treatment that covers lungworm.

Vet then says the dog is probably just tired. I said she collapsed, she said she doesn't think she collapsed she just 'lay down'
I said she fell heavily and her fell flat against the floor.

She just said to ring if we need to.

Does anyone have a clue what could be going on with her?

We kept trying to push to find out and they hust kept saying they don't know and to take her home.
I just feel really weird about it! Surely a dog in that state should be admitted?

Any vets/ vet nurses about? Urgent help needed.
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Ammabovvered · 08/05/2026 15:11

Hi, sorry for late reply, been a busy day.

She seems to perk up a little last night, she went for a poo and was walking round the living room a little and drank some water. Sis stayed with her overnight and was uneventful but sadly this morning she rapidly went downhill and started having seizures.

My sis took her immediately to vets and a different vet admitted her immediately and actually ran some tests on her.

Apparently she has a blood clotting disorder from birth and they think she is having brain bleeds.

She is sedated to stop the seizures/muscle contractions but they have said the only way to know if it is a brain bleed for sure is to transfer her to a specialist for brain scans but that will cost thousands of pounds. And that would just be a confirmation of the brain bleed, not a treatment and obviously they cannot reverse brain damage.

I think she she is unfortunately going to have to be put to sleep as they're not said anything about long term treatments or outcomes, just keeping her comfortable right now. My sis is devastated.

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Ammabovvered · 08/05/2026 16:18

They have now rang my sis and asked her to pick the dog up and to transfer her to another vets for overnight care as they can't watch her overnight as no medical staff but can't transport her either. She is not stable either.

I wonder what their reasoning is, I really don't think she is going to get better :(

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TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 08/05/2026 16:21

Oh god, that's awful. I'm so sorry this is happening to you and your sis and poor ddog. And making those urgent decisions is so hard.
Sending a 🫂 hug.

tiramisugelato · 08/05/2026 16:29

I'm so sorry, this is awful.

I think the kindest thing to do would be to have the dog PTS at this stage Flowers

Sunisgettinganewhaton · 08/05/2026 16:36

Being pts isn't the worst thing that can happen to a ddog. A life of meds is worse imo.

Ammabovvered · 08/05/2026 16:37

tiramisugelato · 08/05/2026 16:29

I'm so sorry, this is awful.

I think the kindest thing to do would be to have the dog PTS at this stage Flowers

That is what I am thinking, I don't think the vets have offered it as an option.

Surely that is kinder than transporting a very sick dog to another scary place for her to be without her owner again all night in pain, when the prognosis and outcome looks extremely poor?

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tiramisugelato · 08/05/2026 16:39

Ammabovvered · 08/05/2026 16:37

That is what I am thinking, I don't think the vets have offered it as an option.

Surely that is kinder than transporting a very sick dog to another scary place for her to be without her owner again all night in pain, when the prognosis and outcome looks extremely poor?

I find a lot of vets will leave it up to the owners to bring up end of life decisions. Our vet is a bit unusual in that respect as they're quite old-school and matter o fact and will happily say "look, this isn't fair on Fluffy".

I think it needs to be up to your sister to have that conversation.

ForCosyLion · 08/05/2026 16:41

I'm so sorry, OP. Poor, poor little dog. 😢

redboxer321 · 08/05/2026 16:45

Agree with pp, your sister needs to bring pts up with the vet.

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 08/05/2026 16:50

It honestly sounds like your poor dsis is going to have to bite the bullet and have ddog pts sooner rather than dragging this out.
What do you think @Ammabovvered?

MotherofPufflings · 08/05/2026 17:06

Ask the vet "what would you do if this was your dog?"

Ammabovvered · 08/05/2026 17:40

She has transported the dog to the overnight vets and she had seizures the whole way there.
I was very blunt with her and told I feel she should do the right thing for the poor dog, my sis said she wants to see if the steriods work first.
I said the steriods she is being given will not make her the same dog she was 3 days ago. They suspect serious brain bleeds. You won't be taking a healthy dog home and if she does survive she will likely need lifelong, expensive care and medications. With small children she just cannot do that practically or financially.

I'm just so sad for her. I feel like the vets should be guiding her here :(
I feel like they have given her flase hope of treatment with the sterioids, when it seems like a temporary fix that isnt even working?

She said she had to go and it sounded urgent so maybe the vet was going to talk to her about it, as surely if they were told she had about 8 seizures on the drive over the steroids aren't working and the new vet might broach the subject??

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Tulipvase · 08/05/2026 17:45

I hope your sister gets some answers soon so she can make an informed decision (in my mind that would be to PTS). I wonder if it’s something neurological.

tinyspiny · 08/05/2026 17:53

Very few vets will take the lead on having a young dog like this pts and if your sister wants to try the steroids i think you should support that decision .It seems reasonable to give it 24/ 36 hrs . Is where the dog is now going to keep her over the weekend or is she expected to move her again tomorrow ? We have recently had to change vets just to avoid this moving them about issue .

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 08/05/2026 18:06

We had our beautiful boy PTS a few weeks ago after a short lifetime of epilepsy. Eventually a devastating seizure caused brain damage and we knew it was the roght thing. Feel free to message me.

Sending love to you all and puppy dog.

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 09/05/2026 13:14

Any news @Ammabovvered ? Keep thinking about poor lovely ddog. 😟

Ammabovvered · 09/05/2026 15:25

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 09/05/2026 13:14

Any news @Ammabovvered ? Keep thinking about poor lovely ddog. 😟

She passed away in night from a final large brain bleed, she is with the crematorium now.

Thanks for all the kind words x

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7238SM · 09/05/2026 15:38

I'm so sorry to read your update OP. That is terrible news Flowers

Excitedannie · 09/05/2026 15:41

So sorry to hear your sad update but she's at peace now x

tinyspiny · 09/05/2026 15:41

Sorry for your family’s loss @Ammabovvered 💐

tiramisugelato · 09/05/2026 15:47

That's awful @Ammabovvered - I am so sorry Flowers

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 09/05/2026 15:53

I'm so sorry to hear that. You and your sister did your best for her, but it didn't look good. It was so swift. Bless her.
Take care of yourselves. 💕

Morepositivemum · 09/05/2026 15:57

I’m so sorry op

MirrorMirror1247 · 09/05/2026 16:03

That's such sad news. Even though it was short, I'm sure she had a lovely life with your sister and her family.

NippyNinjaCrab · 09/05/2026 17:04

I am so sorry to read this, bless the wee soul. Hugs to you all. Xxx

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