Mon 10th November 2008
 Hiccup or heart attack?
Knowing when to get help…and when to stay
 Deciding whether your pooch needs TLC or an emergency endoscopy is tricky at the best of times – and even harder when a problem crops up after hours.
Our ‘Triple-Oh’ feature suggests 5 key pointers: First up – does your vet open outside standard office hours? – and if not – which emergency hospital do they recommend?
Secondly – don’t delay getting help if your dog has: fainted, had a seizure, an eye injury, repeated vomiting and/or diarrhoea within an hour or so, swelling around the face, suspected poisoning, snake or spider bites, heat stress, breathing troubles or is straining to toilet.
Third – better to guess dead wrong about needing help than having to live knowing you waited too long!
So how do we know when our pets are sick?
Regular listeners will know we had to have our eldest poodle Cosmo put to sleep recently. But did we miss some vital signals in the twelve months prior that might just have helped him in some small way? He certainly got the very best veterinary treatment no doubt about that, but did we leave the veterinary diagnosis longer than needed?
Being a vet and a mother, Dr Joanne Sillince knows the signs to look for that will give us a clue when pets and children are not well. She joins us to talk about how we can tell when our pet is not feeling the best and how that is different from diagnosing kids!
Forum Topic: Ever Had a Pet Emergency?
Photo: above left (c) http://www.4-legged.com/
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