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Great Danes => Great Dane Discussions => : Stacey June 05, 2006, 06:18:26 PM
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I just brought Tonka home from the vet! He is back to his old, goofy self and he started eating again yesterday, so he was cleared to come home! He is pretty skinny after not eating for 8 days but it looks as though he is getting his old apetite back.
The techs at the clinic were all pretty sad to see him go, seems they all became pretty attached to him. When I got there to pick him up he was the Tonka I have been missing...jump ing around and knocking things over...he was soooo excited.
Thank you all for your supportive messages and thoughts and all of your prayers. Tonka is better and he is home!
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Yay I'm glad he's feeling better!
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This made me happier than anything has all day!...I was really getting worried!...Now get that boy fattened back up ya' hear? ;D :-*
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That's great news!!!! Lots of kisses to him now that he's out of the woods! :-* Did they ever figure out what caused all the problems?
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They only know he was fighting an infection, it seemed to be centered in his pancreas (according to blood panels)but they never pinpointed what it was. Friday they just began treating him with two new (and different) kinds of antibiotics to cover the bases and it seemed to work. By today he was knocking over techs and leaning on the vets, he head butted a couple of crotches and started eating again!!
My baby is back...it did come at quite a price though! :o
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I am so glad to head he's back to healthy!
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I'm so happy for you and Tonka. I was really worried. It's great that he back to his old self ;D
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Good to hear you are home Tonka ;D ;D :-* Don't be scaring mommy like that any more
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That is such great news, three cheers for Tonka!
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I'm sending a big fat wet air kiss to Tonka, right on the mouth!!!
I'm sooooo releived for you!
YAYAYAYAYAAY
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Whew! Big sigh of relief from the Fritsche house in Louisiana. All 5 tails (well, 3 tails and 2 stubs) are wagging!! Welcome home, Tonka!!!
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Glad to hear your boy is better now! You must be so happy to have him home now. Fatten that boy up now, ya hear?!
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:D :D :D :D :D :D Happy DANCE here in So. Calif!!! ;D ;D ;D
That's the VERY BEST news I've had all week! SUCH GREAT NEWS!!
Please give Tonka a geeee-normous hug from the Newfs and me!!!
and then yell and him and tell him never, ever do that to us ever again!!!! ;)
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I'm so glad that your baby boy is back home! Yeah!
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Welcome Home Tonka! :-*
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I'm so happy for you and Tonka!! It's amazing what animals can pull through! :-* :D
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Thanks guys, it is great to have him home and back to his job as my shadow!! ;D
He is doing so good and I feel so relieved to see him back to his old self.
One more question and then I promise to stop!!
Should I just give him some time to gain his back naturally or should I try some satin balls??
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Did the vet give you any guidelines? After Lucille had pancreatitis, she had to be on an extremely low fat/non fat diet. I would think whatever they were giving him at the vet should probably continue for a couple of days and then ease him back s l o w l y back to his regular food.
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Yay! Welcome home Tonka!
I havnt been on much but this is one post I was fallowing and I was also getting worried about your big guy!
Glad to hear he is ok!
Big Slobbers from Kayzer and little slobbers from Queenie! :-*
Carole
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YAY!!!! And a HUGE sigh of relief when I saw this post! I was worried about your boy! I'm so glad he's home and back to his old self. :D
So what did the vet recommend as far as feeding? Did they have him on any special diet for recovery after all the troubles?
Welcome home Tonka!!!! :-*
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I can't tell you how happy I am to hear that Tonka is home and doing well.
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YAY!!!! And a HUGE sigh of relief when I saw this post! I was worried about your boy! I'm so glad he's home and back to his old self. :D
So what did the vet recommend as far as feeding? Did they have him on any special diet for recovery after all the troubles?
Welcome home Tonka!!!! :-*
They gave me a 6-pack of science diet cans to mix in with his regular food and antibiotics. They did determine that the infection/virus was not a result of me changing his food, but that the change may have aggravated his symptoms while he was subclinical. I am changing his portions from 2x a day to 3x (smaller amounts) a day to ease him back into eating...after 8 days I don't want him getting sick.