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May 07, 2012
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starstarstarstarstar 		Dysautonomia diagnosed-My 7 yr old Corgi
by: Sandy B from Texas

Dear Dog Parents who have posted their stories here:

Only people who love their pets in our special way can know our heartache in losing one, especially to this horrid disease. Like you all, my female Pembroke Welsh Corgi became ill about March 6, 2012. I noticed she would rub her left eye against the furniture and she was off her feed. If you know anything about Corgis, they are NEVER off their feed. I took her to our Vet who ran blood work, noted her temp at 103 and white count came back at 27,000. Our vet could not diagnose anything other than some type of bacterial infection. We went through rounds of antibiotics and she would eat but just not much. This went on through March and into April, when her nose became dry and crusted, and she began regurgitating saliva. No fever, blood work on low side of normal. She was lethargic and losing weight. My vet was perplexed as she did not understand why Buffy was not responding to the antibiotics. I could not stand not having a diagnosis so I began researching the Merck Vet Manual online and started back to the eye problem. I found the disease Dysautonomia and was jolted into the reality that Buffy may have this. This was on April 17, 2012 and I had just that day taken Buffy to the Vets to leave her for tests. After faxing the report from Dr. O'Brien with the University of MO, my vet called and confirmed the dx by the eye drop test mentioned in the article. My Buffy girl was suffering by this time and she wanted to go HOME TO RAINBOW BRIDGE as her brown eyes told us. We let her go Monday, April 23rd. Yes Caitlin, we have to remember how blessed we are to have known these beautiful creatures of God. We sorely miss her. We have Winston, a 2 yr old Cardigan at home and are watching him like a hawk. We have adopted little Minni a six wk old tri-colored Pembroke female and will bring her home next week. We love this breed and cannot just stop loving them. Is there one website we can all go to to give details regarding environment, activity of our pets to see if there is any correlation between them. We have got to do something or this will fast become an epidemic as it was in England with felines. Thank you for letting me share my story.
Nov 18, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		Dysautonomia. A horrible ideas
by: Wyoming Dog Lover

I just lost my 8 month old heeler mix to this terrible disease.
It is devastating to watch your baby go thru this. We need a common thread so a cure can be found. Our state vet is now involved and confirmed what our local vet told us. There is grant money available so that the dog's can be posted and studied. We live on a ranch but "Hitch" did not have free rein and spent much of his time in my office in town with me. Within 4 days he was gone and our story is very similar to Lucy's. I'm concerned about getting another dog even though we have had healthy dogs who lived to a ripe old age in the past.
Oct 13, 2011
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by: Caitlin Rogers

Candy ? Thank you so much for your kind words. I wish that I had known you had commented before, and I am so sorry it?s taken me so long to notice your comment. I definitely agree with you; it doesn?t matter how old they are or how long you have had them, they have a way of working their way to the deepest most center part of your heart and staying there. I am so incredibly happy that you have been able to have your labs in your life for so long! I am also happy that your husband was able to let Shadow?s love in, the way he did. They have a way of knowing when we need them, and thank god for that! If I am upset, mad, or just not feeling well, you can bet money that Hazel or Chloe (our current labs) know and are trying to make me feel better. It?s almost as if they can feel what we are feeling. Losing Lucy showed my husband and I how much we loved and needed Lucy and we now know that we cannot be without a lab in our life. So, just as you predicted we were rescued by another lab, but not one,,,we were rescued by two :o) I hope that you, your husband and Arlo are enjoying every minute together! Thank you again for your kind words, It really meant a lot.
Oct 13, 2011
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by: Caitlin Rogers

Dan ? I know how incredibly hard it is to go through what you have. I don?t know anymore about this disease than the next person but I?ll pray that it never happens to you again. I hope that you are able to find peace knowing that your beagle is happy and well now. Love your other dogs even more and never forget what your beagle meant to you!
Oct 13, 2011
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by: Caitlin Rogers

Jill-I am so sorry for your loss of Seven! It's amazing the amount of love that we are able to put into our dogs in such a short period of time. It hurts like nothing else I have ever felt, and I still cry about losing Lucy. I know my life will never be the same without her but she taught me so much and showed me more love than I could have ever asked for. She truly touched the life of everyone in our household. I still to this day cannot understand how it all happened so fast. My husband and I adopted a black lab (Chloe Anne) and brown lab (Hazel Nut), from the same litter, after Lucy?s passing. I will admit I was not ready and I had a lot of resentment towards them at first but it of course didn?t take long before I was in love with them. They are loving like Lucy but different in so many ways. Hazel is obsessed with my husband and she would do anything to lay in his lap, never mind she weighs 95 pounds! We are truly blessed to have them in our lives and love them so much. Although, I have been doing a lot of research on the internet again because it seems Hazel is experiencing similar symptoms that Lucy once went through. We are extremely paranoid about the disease of course so it?s hard to see the situation any other way. I pray that we are not ever going to face this disease again but how do you know? Today I decided to email the professor from the University of Missouri who has a website with a large amount of information regarding this disease in hopes that maybe I might be able to offer some type of information that we experienced through Lucy to help research and to ask questions out of my fear for Hazel. I'm crossing my fingers I get a response from him. Tonight I stumbled upon my initial blog while I was looking around for some other information, and I had completely forgot that I even posted my story. I was so extremely hurt, and just wanted to tell the world how mad I was about losing Lucy. Let?s all just keep praying that someone eventually defeats this disease. If I have any advice to give someone that has lost a pet so dear to them, it would be to embrace the good times and never hold in your feelings towards your loss. Find someone that can understand where you are coming from and talk whenever you are struggling.
Jul 18, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		Canine Dysautonomia, Ozark, MO
by: Jill

One week ago today, my husband and I had to say goodbye to our sweet baby Seven. He was a 13 (or so) week old bloodhound/lab? mix. He was absolutely adorable, with huge gray/green eyes and the softest tan coat. He was so sweet and cuddly and loved his mommy, daddy, and two sisters (our older dogs) very much.
Our stories sound remarkably similar--I guess even though they do not understand the cause of dysautonomia, it tends to follow a fairly predictable course. Our baby started getting sick on Wednesday night and after learning his diagnosis and watching his quick and painful decline, we made the tough decision Monday morning to put him to sleep. He was absolutely the best puppy and our hearts are shattered into pieces. We miss him more than I can put into words. Like you, I hope they can one day find a cure for this hideous disease. Thank you for writing this post.
Jul 14, 2011
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by: Dan R

We also just had our Dog die from this disease. It was horrible and heart breaking to watch him go through.

He was not a Lab, I found this by searching dysautonomia .

He was a Beagle but the symptoms were exact to ours. We have other dogs in our household and were worried that they would contract this horrible disease.

So far it has been a week and no sign of it but it scares us to death that they could contract it. They just don't know enough about it.
Jul 15, 2010
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starstarstarstarstar 		Our hearts and prayers are with you.
by: Candy

Dear Caitlin:
My heart goes out to you and your family more than you will ever know. My husband and I have lost two labs, both at 17 yrs old. It doesn't matter if they are 6 months or 17 yrs, they steal you heart the moment you know you belong to them (you don't choose them, they choose you and they take all of your heart!) I can tell in your words that your love for Lucy was very strong and deep. My husband lost his lab the week before Christmas in 2008, it took him over a year to even think about getting another one. My huband like yours did not want Shadow and even refused to have anything to do with him. You see his father had bought three baby ducks when he was small and my husband loved them! All the while Pop kept telling him that they were brought home to one day kill and eat. In order to 'toughen his boy' he was true to his word, he even made my husband eat them. I was very understanding but I brought Shadow Boy home anyway. He was almost two yrs old and the owners had neglected him, they thought they wanted to be 'breeders' so they ignored him. Immediately Shadow fell in love with my husband, following him EVERYWHERE! My husband wouldn't budge. Shadow would lay on the back deck when my husband read the paper and 'sneak' slowly over and finally lay his head on my husband's feet and sleep there. You see, Shadow knew my husband needed him desperately. Fifteen years later my husband, a big strong man, cuddled Shadow in his arms in our kitchen floor for two days, tears streaming down his face, he kept reminding Shadow of all the fishing trips they had gone on, finally watching him take his last breath and leaving my husband a better man. One year and two months later I bought him Arlo, he is the spitting image of Shadow and has his same heart. My husband slept on the sofa for the first three nights that we had Arlo, holding him and telling him all about Shadow and the 'big shoes' he had to fill, and Arlo is filling them perfectly! He never leaves my husband's side and I truely believe he knows, just like Shadow did...my husband needs him desperately! Please don't let this HORRIBLE tragedy stop you from letting another lab love you, whether you know it or not you and your husband needed Lucy desperately and she knew it; eventually...allow another lab to come to your rescue!

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