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Have her checked for an infection. Those things can look for some time like nothing and suddenly the dog is a lot sicker. It takes a lot out of a dog...or person.
That's Not what is upsetting to me it is the VET NOT seeing her at ALL for 3 Weeks! Your dog has had this Problem ... what ever it is as YOU Say Off/On for Months! YOU showed Consern by posting for Help. Yet your vet Brushes it off. Maybe the Vet is afraid that non vets figured it out when he could not. In the Mean time your dog is Suffering!
That's Not what is upsetting to me it is the VET NOT seeing her at ALL for 3 Weeks! Your dog has had this Problem ... what ever it is as YOU Say Off/On for Months! YOU showed Consern by posting for Help. Yet your vet Brushes it off. Maybe the Vet is afraid that non vets figured it out when he could not. In the Mean time your dog is Suffering!
After dogs and cats close to me I knew when something was off even a bit. So, just one story... I knew one of my cats had an ear infection. No, she didn't shake her head. She didn't keep pawing at her ear. She didn't rub her ear along a rough surface like carpet. She was a little closer a little more often. And very seldom she touched the tip of her ear with her paw.
During the vet visit, the vet said, no, no infection. She looked in her ear for any surface signs. Nothing. She put in a q-tip a bit and nothing. I said well we've got to look further and find out what it is because her ear is bothering her deeper. So the vet took her to the 'back' and yes somehow a quietly growing infection deeper in. Cleanings, meds and she was okay pretty soon.
Sometimes I do find myself thinking vets and pet owners are so used to pet owners not being aware since pets don't even talk like human children would. And both are used to the vet having the final word. I've had pretty good vets and great vets. I have concluded we need to be our pets' best advocate.
Animals are really good at hiding their ailments . . . they try their best not to show their weakness. After all, survival depends on it.
If we don't advocate for them, who will?
I have a wonderful team of vets now who take me seriously as they know I know my stuff. But I've had vets who were condescending and dismissive. Same thing applies to human doctors. We do have to choose our professionals carefully - after all, they didn't all graduate #1 in their class.
Hopefully the OP's dog will have something easily treatable and this episode will soon be a distant memory.
I have concluded we need to be our pets' best advocate.
I agree. Any good pet owner is their pet's best advocate. I am my pet's best advocate, and I'm sure you are yours. But I am not your pet's best advocate, nor can I be, because you are, and vice versa. When we start to think we know whats best for others pets we are fooling ourselves and being a bit arrogant. They aren't our pets, and nobody knows them like their own owners and their own vets.
I'm re-opening this thread as requested, please keep conversations civil and helpful.
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Georgy went through her first heat and I had picked up a musty smell from her and an odor in the house at times before and after her heat. When we took her in for her spay with a new vet, they asked if I had any other concerns. I asked if they could check her ears, it seemed like I was cleaning more debris out. While she was under, they checked deeper and she had a yeast infection and the beginning of another bacterial infection.
Medicated drops and a flush for 10 days took care of problem and no musty smell or odor ever since. She was our first dog ever to go into heat, so I thought that was the problem. Any other time with our other spaniels, I would have suspected ears sooner. She never scratched her ears or shook her head though, which didn’t help.
I hope you find the source for your dog’s funk and it’s an easy fix.
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