To anyone who ever has has dogs at their yard/ farm - learn from my mistakes!!

Thank you everyone for your support and thoughts. We have just spoken to vet again and things are looking up. Holly's body rejected the first plasma transfusion last night and reacted badly, luckily the second one has been a much greater success and her clooting levels are returning to normal. I cannot describe how much of a relief it is, she really is one of our family and we love her dearly!
If she continues improvement at this rate she will be home in the next few days, which will be lovely as she is nearly a 2 hour drive away at the moment!

Thank you everyone!
A xx
 
Oh poor thing! Glad to see she's improving, you must be so relieved. Keep us posted x

Be bop Tallulah - how heartbreaking, that's one of the saddest things I've ever read :'(
 
Glad to here your dog is improving and also just wanted to say that you can get organic slug pellets that are safe for mammals
 
Glad to hear shes getting better :)

My partner is a pest controller and if it helps he's just said a dog (or cat) would need to eat aound 1/4 of their body weight in poison (depending on brand etc) to effect them so a pet who eats a poisoned mouse is unlikely to be ill although its always better to have a poinless vet visit than be sorry
 
Glad she is showing the vital signs of improvement.
Can i be the first to suggest you rehome a stray cat?? Even a feral one (cats protection advertise in back of horse mags) then there will be no need for any poison and it benefits you, your dog, and the cat who would love to spend there days hunting round your yard!! We have 5 cats at our yard and 2 dogs never use any poison just let the cats do it!
 
Glad she is doing better.

I hate using rat poison, there is the 'knock on' effect of other animals eating the poisoned rats and it also killing them.

I had a similar incident three years ago.

The gardener had put some sachets of poison down in the log shed. Well hidden from the dogs under logs. he never gave it a thought when the logs were used and the sachets exposed.
It was Christmas Eve and I found an empty sachet of the stuff by my door. The ground was damp and I could see the blue dye used was on the ground. I didn't know what dog had eaten it, either the young Lab or my GSD. I was pretty certain it was the former but carted btw to the vet where they were given a jab and within minutes they were throwing up. It was the Lab that had eaten it but fortunately only minutes before I found it. They threw up for a good 30 minutes at the vet, continued in the car home and for another hour. I felt sorry for the GSD as she was innocent but better safe than sorry.

As I have a lot of fowl the rats have been terrible. The terriers kill what they can but rats are clever creatures and get in places dogs cannot get them so I get the 'Rat Pack' in. The smoke the rats out to the terriers and that is the end of the story - until next time!
 
hey its awful - my dog ate rat poison - we put it where she couldnt get to but the rats had dragged the container out. I noticed she was weak and when i checked her gums they were white - felt do bad but she pulled through after a few days in vets and vit k tablets -(couldnt inject in case she didnt top bleeding) she had started to bleed into her lungs but 2 years later you would never know and she has just had her 1st litter of 3 big healthy dogs.
 
Dubsie said:
Glad to hear she's doing better.

You may be interested in a bait that is effective but doesn't affect livestock/pets. It's readily available in farm suppliers, feed shops etc. :

http://www.eradibait.com/
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It might be readily available but from my experience in real life conditions it is very hard to make it effective. I tried both Eradimouse and Eradirat and it didnt kill anything. The main problem is it is supposed to work by drying the creatures insides out when they eat it, but unless you can guarantee a perfectly dry air where you are siting it, it doesnt seem to have any effect on the creatures other than them having a good meals.

I prefer snap traps for mice (choc raisins the bait of choice) - much kinder! and traps for rats (poison for places where you cant reset the traps regularly and where pets cant get at eg if they get in between walls).
 
vixann said:
hey its awful - my dog ate rat poison - we put it where she couldnt get to but the rats had dragged the container out. I noticed she was weak and when i checked her gums they were white - felt do bad but she pulled through after a few days in vets and vit k tablets -(couldnt inject in case she didnt top bleeding) she had started to bleed into her lungs but 2 years later you would never know and she has just had her 1st litter of 3 big healthy dogs.
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thank you for this, this is pretty much where we got too. she had been bleeding out through lungs and stomach. Before going to london our local vets gave her an injection and it came up the size of a small football, just kept filling with blood and wouldn't stop. we are so lucky we haven't lost her.

Re. farm and poison, it is a difficult one, we have a big, working farm. It is a family farm so we don't have the full say of what does and doesn't happen there. Rats and mice are a problem as we have our own pigs, poultry, grain stores etc, etc. I am not sure cats would keep them at bay. We need to sit down with my OH parents and agree a safer way of handling the situation. I won't see a dog go through this again, and I can't afford the £4300 (£2500 covered by insurance thank goodness!) vet bill this has set me back!

I am in my last month of maternity leave and no idea where we are going to find the extra money from, but if we get Holly home it is definately worth it, hell even if we didn't just giving the chance would be well worth it.
 
BoolavogueDC said:
Sunny you sound like a great owner - and in your last month of pregnancy too - I think I'd be blowing a gasket :)[/QUOTE

Thank but not in last month of pregnancy, ;-) have a 6mth old baby, and going back to work next month, as I have been on maternity pay only, money is tight!
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I bought some Eradibait last winter, never use conventional rat bait, bleddy stuff just sat there in neat piles, untouched. Maybe it does kill them, trick is getting them to eat it. Obviously it's nowhere near as palatable as the deadly stuff.
 
Glad to hear Holly is on the mend.
Just a thought, is there not some way of having a central point to make
contributions to in order to help people in your situation, I know I would contribute, having been in your place years ago, because I was working there was no help, if it wasn't for my sister stepping in I would have lost my dog.
Even on a loan type basis so the funds are regenerated
 
flirtygerty said:
Glad to hear Holly is on the mend.
Just a thought, is there not some way of having a central point to make
contributions to in order to help people in your situation, I know I would contribute, having been in your place years ago, because I was working there was no help, if it wasn't for my sister stepping in I would have lost my dog.
Even on a loan type basis so the funds are regenerated
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This would be a great idea. We can just about cover it but we had to pay the royal London Vet College up front, and getting hold of over £2000 at the weekend isn't that easy!

Happy to report Holly is now home, on very strict rest until her lungs recover but happy. :-) x
 
I missed your updates Sunny.

So glad she is making a recovery, I bet you've had a fretful couple of days :(.

Glad she's home!
 
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Sunny08 said:
This would be a great idea. We can just about cover it but we had to pay the royal London Vet College up front, and getting hold of over £2000 at the weekend isn't that easy!

Happy to report Holly is now home, on very strict rest until her lungs recover but happy. :-) x
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Brilliant news.
 
Just caught up with this. So glad she's on the mend. I hate using poisons of any sort, but can see where they might be needed with large grain stores and feed barns.

Gentle hug for Holly. (())xx
 
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