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| traildancer |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 09:55:14 AM
My dog, Tucker, was diagnosed with salmon poisoning yesterday. Fortunately he was not to the puking/diarrhea stage so I was able to avoid the $330 to IV him and leave him overnight. The vet sent me home with the drugs and the whole thing only cost $138.
Do any of you live where this is a problem? Now I have to watch the other dogs for symptoms.
Some people here purposely expose their dogs because then they won't get it again.
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| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Jul 07 2011 : 6:29:33 PM
Weird that there is a salmon poisoning AND a salmonella poisoning!
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| Turtlemoon |
Posted - Jul 05 2011 : 11:09:54 AM
Loyce, interesting about the snail! That one i was not aware of.
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| Turtlemoon |
Posted - Jul 05 2011 : 11:08:53 AM
Yup, we have a river camp we spend almost every weekend at right on a large salmon river. If it is not the old spawning fish causing the problem it is the salmonella poisoning. For some reason this affects dogs more than it affects humans. Usually it comes from them eating raw or slightly raw fish or even their eggs.
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| traildancer |
Posted - Jul 05 2011 : 10:01:59 AM
According to the handout I got from the vet, salmon poisoning is caused by some little tiny organism in a particular snail that lives in particular area. The salmon eat the snail so they are now carriers. The dog eats the salmon and gets sick in 14 days. A friend used to live in Ketchikan, AK, and her husband's practice saw lots of dogs with this sickness. I grew up in Palmer, commercial fished in Bristol Bay and never heard of this disease. The dog mushers up there feed fish to their teams all the time. I think it's cooked or dried or something. Apparently the snail doesn't live up there. Once the fish is cooked it's not a problem.
The other Golden went off his food (he's a gobbler) and had a temperature well over the normal 101 degrees. Took him in. Swollen lymph nodes and yellowish feces but no flukes. But knowing that the other Golden was diagnosed and treated for salmon poisoning, the vet treated Bendigo the same way. The Jack Russell is still bouncing like a pinball.
Tucker, the first Golden, is fine. He went on a 3-hour horse ride on Saturday and a 4-hour ride on Sunday with great gusto. Of course, the Jack was ADD. Bendi is fine now, also; back to gobbling his food.
By the way, I found a good way to get drugs down the boys. Peanut butter on stale tortilla chips! They sit waiting expectantly. I had to start giving Marcus, the Jack, peanut butter on a chip, too. No drugs for him, though. Maybe Prozac!
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| sherrye |
Posted - Jul 03 2011 : 07:22:11 AM
hey there angela, where is banks oregon? i am in redmond,,,bend area. happy days sherrye
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| ChickieMama |
Posted - Jul 03 2011 : 01:23:53 AM
So glad you caught it in time. I have heard of several dogs dying from salmon poisoning around here.
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| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Jul 01 2011 : 10:51:46 PM
Yeah Sherry, I was born in Reedsport, lived in Coos Bay till I was a teenager, got transplanted to Nevada, and moved to Salem with my hubby and lived there till we moved down here 3 years ago. I'd probably move back again if land wasn't so spendy there with no economy to justify it.
Re: salmon poisoning, I hear dogs can suffer from it just by eating salmon skin, so whenever I buy it I'm real careful to wrap up my fish remains 3 times so as not to take chances.
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| Candy C. |
Posted - Jul 01 2011 : 5:10:04 PM
Jeez, the things we learn about here! Who would of thunk a dog would get sick from eating salmon, what does that say for us!?!
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| sherrye |
Posted - Jul 01 2011 : 06:51:08 AM
wow are you from coos bay area? i grew up in coos bay. went to marshfield in the late 60s. such a small world. happy days sherrye |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 8:47:20 PM
<--From Coos Bay/Sumner originally. Good ole Oregon.
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
| sherrye |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 5:40:47 PM
well i no longer live up coos river, but when we did it was a real problem. it is when the salmon go up to spawn. when they are on their way they are ending their life. the chemicals in them will kill a dog. we would find dead rotting salmon all up and down the small streams. well the salmon are gone from their mostly now. i am glad to hear over in glide you still have them spawning. i used to run and play and swim around glide, oregon. now we are in the high desert. i so hope he and your other dogs stay well. its hard to keep them out of it. mine wanted to roll in it. well sending hugs to you loyce. i still have my little positive book in my purse. happy days sherrye
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| wooliespinner |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 3:06:30 PM
I have never heard of that before. What exactly is it?
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