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My 8 year old sister(rottweiler) died today. She was perfectly happy and healthy yesterday. My mom stopped at Petsmart and got her one of those huge pork bones. She brought it home and gave it to Zoe. She ate it, as she usually does, and then three hours later started vomiting. My parents assumed she ate the bone too fast, but then when it continued throughout the night and into the next day and she wasnt moving from the same spot, we thought something wasnt right. Then my brother said it looked like her breathing was looking a little odd, so my parents came home and knew there was something really wrong. They had to carry her up the stairs using a shower curtain and three guys to get her up from the basement to the garage to go in the truck. Her eyes were low and she looked very out of it. She started to lose all control of her bowels and was defecating without even moving. My dad called the vet but they couldnt fit her in because they were closing in 15 minutes (nice huh?) so he had to take her into the ER. As he was two blocks away, she took her last breath.
My mom is getting a few pieces of bone from where she vomited in hopes to get them to a lab to be tested to see what might have been on it. They said they dont do autopsies unless the dog might be rabid. They also said that sometimes pet food manufacturers cure their bones in some pretty nasty stuff and if that is the case someone will wish they never made that bone. I need to know what chemicals to tell the lab to look for. And if this is something that anyone else has gone through. There is still that small chance that it was of natural causes, she was an old dog, but I find it a bit ironic how the order of events went.
My mom is getting a few pieces of bone from where she vomited in hopes to get them to a lab to be tested to see what might have been on it. They said they dont do autopsies unless the dog might be rabid. They also said that sometimes pet food manufacturers cure their bones in some pretty nasty stuff and if that is the case someone will wish they never made that bone. I need to know what chemicals to tell the lab to look for. And if this is something that anyone else has gone through. There is still that small chance that it was of natural causes, she was an old dog, but I find it a bit ironic how the order of events went.