sandymere 8,263 Posted June 20, 2015 Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 My Patterdale ate rat poison while in the care of a friend. They hadn't realised he had done it. A week later he suddenly went off his food, bleeding gums. I took him to my vet there and then and she diagnosed it instantly. Massive dose of vitamin K by injection and then a 21 day course of tablets. Almost instantly after the injection he began to come around and was back eating his food. A very close scare and an excellent and experienced vet. The thing is. Not all rat poisons are anti coagulants. They don't all produce symptoms straight away and some are much much stronger than others. Get your dog back to that vet or ideally a better one. It will be costly but if you cant get a sample of the poison, the information leaflet from the packet or at least a name your vet will need to do blood samples etc to find out what type of poisoning it is and then decide on a course of action. The good news is that it is most likely anti coagulant, vitamin E K is the antidote and a full recovery is most likely the result if you get the correct treatment. P.s. I will never be leaving my dogs with that particular mate ever again. don't want some pratt reading your typo and thinking he can give his dog a vitamin E tab rather than going to the vet. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
arcticgun 4,548 Posted June 20, 2015 Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 Happened too a good mate of mines bitch some idiot left poison out in open bitch was very sick and went vs k n forth did a few days very costly affair however she made a full recovery That vet wants striking off IMHO ? Jesus even if he don't care about the welfare he could at least be greedy like most em are n see too dog n hit you in pocket lol Best of luck hope it recovers soon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hydropotesinermis 724 Posted June 20, 2015 Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 My Patterdale ate rat poison while in the care of a friend. They hadn't realised he had done it. A week later he suddenly went off his food, bleeding gums. I took him to my vet there and then and she diagnosed it instantly. Massive dose of vitamin K by injection and then a 21 day course of tablets. Almost instantly after the injection he began to come around and was back eating his food. A very close scare and an excellent and experienced vet. The thing is. Not all rat poisons are anti coagulants. They don't all produce symptoms straight away and some are much much stronger than others. Get your dog back to that vet or ideally a better one. It will be costly but if you cant get a sample of the poison, the information leaflet from the packet or at least a name your vet will need to do blood samples etc to find out what type of poisoning it is and then decide on a course of action. The good news is that it is most likely anti coagulant, vitamin E K is the antidote and a full recovery is most likely the result if you get the correct treatment. P.s. I will never be leaving my dogs with that particular mate ever again. don't want some pratt reading your typo and thinking he can give his dog a vitamin E tab rather than going to the vet. Ooh shit yeah. Apologies. Thanks for that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 26,121 Posted June 20, 2015 Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 Yeh vit k1 is the antiodote,,,,,also depends on how big the dog is,,and how much it's ate,,,,a large dog eating a blue block or two,,,ain't going to be a problem,,,,a small dog,,,,eating a few pounds of it,,,is difrent. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
corkboy 1 Posted June 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 got her injected yesterday and she got another this morning she is fine. guy who brought me out brought a young bitch who got caught by a dog but she too young for a litter and got her injected he charged him 40 other vet charging 100. he didn't charge me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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