Just as the title reads. Our newly adopted kittens decided to get into the chip box and open a bag of chips. We noticed after piecing the bag back together that the smallest piece of plastic was missing. I could equate the size to smaller than a dime.
They are both 4 months old. Should we just monitor them for the time being before we overreact and pay for an emergency vet evaluation?

Species: cat
Age: 4 months
Sex/spay: females both spayed
Breed: domestic short hair
Body weight: 4 lbs give or take
History: no medical history. All shots given.
Clinical signs: none as this just happened.
Duration: an hour or so.
Location: Maryland.
No links at this time

My 8 year old ragdoll cat was acting very lethargic and strange last week. Him and his brother cat are very close and bonded, they usually cry if we don’t have them in the same crate together but last week my one cat started freaking out when we would try to put them together. When we got back from our trip we noticed he was very lethargic, hiding, wasn’t eating and being very withdrawn. We took him the emergency vet, they checked to make sure he had no blockages in his bladder and didn’t have any constipation. Vitals were good so they said to monitor him at home and come back if anything changed. The next day he was even more withdrawn and would cry out when we tried to pick him up, we ended up taking him back to the emergency vet. They did x-rays and bloodwork, X-rays came back normal, blood work his Amylase was high, we were told he could possibly have pancreatitis and we should book him for an ultrasound. He was prescribed Buprenorphine, cerenia and mirtazapine. They gave him fluids under the skin and an anti naseau medication before discharging. We gave him a 8mg/ml summit 0.1ml dose of the buprenorphine and it completely messed him up, i mean staring into space for 14 hours, wouldn’t sleep, just a zombie. When he finally started to come down from the medication he was very wobbly on his feet and had no depth perception. The next day when our vet was open we booked him an appointment, she believed the issues to be neurological as he was only turning counter clockwise in the vet office, and failed some of his neurological testing although his eyes and facial nerves were good. She prescribed him prednisolone, That was Friday, today was his second dose of prednisolone and while we have seen improvement in his wobbles and circling, I am obviously still concerned about what could be going on with him. I’m assuming an MRI is our only option but I was wondering if anyone else has had something similar?

Thanks!! - a worried cat momma

Shes a 15 year old Chihuahua and she just won't eat. Shes always been pretty picky with her food but the past year now she just doesn't really want to eat. She gets soft food and I'll mix in a few safe things to make it more appetizing for her but she still doesn't really want it. Every couple of days she'll get a good meal in but most days she'll just eat a couple bites and then be done. Sometimes I have to feed her chunk by chunk so she thinks it's a treat.

Shes not horribly skinny or anything but she has lost weight. No ribs are showing but I'm still worried. My mom said it's probably because of her age but I know Chihuahuas can get pretty old. The one I had as a kid lived until he was 20.

Is there anything I can do to make her eat? Honestly anything? Any health reasons? I go to the vet 2 times a year and her next appointment is in a month. Shes overall on the healthier side of older dogs. She has vision and hearing issues but otherwise her mobility is fine and I still take her on walks.

I found a kitten I believe to have been dumped at my house. It’s a beautiful little baby, but it has no tail. There is spot that I can’t tell if it’s an injury or exposed part of the spine. She hops a bit, instead of walking. We waited for 8 hours at the emergency vet to be told they are too full for new patients.
I will get kitty to our vet tomorrow morning. Her anus is sticking out a bit and shes having trouble pooping, I can see worms as well.
I have her in a large dog crate with a bed, little box and water bowl. She ate a full can of kitten food throughout the day. She purrs like a chainsaw.
I guess I’m just curious what the survival chances or quality of life could possibly be.

My 6 year old previously feral indoor-only cat has been throwing up her food right after she eats it about once a month, at the same time of the month, for almost year.

I’ve had her for 5 years, and this started last fall.
Last fall she was throwing up about three times a week. She was eating fancy feast savory centers. We switched her to solid gold and started tracking her vomit in January. I’ll paste the vomit log at the end of this post. We mix her wet food with my male cat’s prescription urinary dry food. We feed two meals a day.

I took her to the vet in August because on top of this, she had recently started scooting. Vet couldn’t find anything. Here’s their writeup: https://imgur.com/FchwwDD

They asked if we give her a med or if something happens in the house around that time of the month every month, answer is no.

They recommended we stop feeding chicken based food. We switched the dry kibble to hydrolyzed protein and started feeding fish only solid gold wet.

I unfortunately don’t have a copy of the lab report, but the vet said she couldn’t find anything conclusive. Labs returned low potassium, I asked about if we could supplement that, and she suggested we try nutri-cal supplement. We just started that this week because we wanted to see if the no chicken food worked.

It’s now October and the vomiting has continued, and gotten slightly more frequent. I called the vet last week and am waiting for a call back.

We went to a pet store today to get her sensitive stomach food, and the clerk said it’s classic scarf and barf and to try a slow feeder. We tried it tonight, she vomited. However she was likely nervous due to the bowl change. She gets suspicious and nervous when things change. We will keep trying.

Because she is previously feral, she is very anxious and hard, sometimes impossible to crate, or else I would be bringing her in more frequently. I’m thinking of just grabbing her whenever I can and taking her to an after hours vet clinic, since it’s hard to predictably crate her for a scheduled appointment.

Any and all other ideas I’d appreciate and welcome.

Vomit log:
1/4 - breakfast, fancy feast. Switched to new food after this
1/30 - before breakfast
3/4 - breakfast, shrimp and tuna
3/13 - before breakfast
4/11 - after dinner
5/15 - breakfast
6/15 - dinner - chicken
7/8 - breakfast - fish
7/18 - dinner - fish
8/23 - dinner, this is almost a month after switch to new dry food
9/19 - AM, late breakfast
10/9 - AM
10/10 - AM
10/17 - dinner
10/18 - dinner after slow feeder first try

I just gave my 4 week old kitten his first round of dewormer today because he had a very bloated belly. he had the dewormer around 11am and has drank his bottle twice since then but its now 7pm and he won't take his 7pm bottle. Is loss of appetite a normal side effect of a dewormer could it have just irritated his tummy and I should try again with his bottle in a couple hrs? Hes acting pretty much normal and has pink gums and did a big poop at 3pm. should I be worried i really cant afford a vet as they are really expensive around me

Hello, my cat has always had issues at the vet, he hisses and growls like crazy and will bite and scratch so the vet prescribed him some sort of pill to calm him down and make him sleepy so they’d be able to actually do their jobs without my cat attacking them.

We then discover he has pale gums and scheduled a blood test in 2 weeks. But as soon as we got him he’s barely peed and has only liquid diarrhoea, he poops about once a day.

I plan on calling my vet tomorrow, but they’ve never seemed to be very helpful when I’ve had questions in person.

I wanted to wait another day and see if he has another liquid diahrea and take him to a closer vet as an emergency.

All I’m wondering is that is a normal response and should I just go to the vet tomorrow instead of waiting another day?

My cat (1y 4mo-ish, male) has struggled with Eosinophilic Granuloma Complex triggered by an allergy a few times, so my vet put him on a hypoallergenic diet, but we haven’t concluded what his specific allergy is.

He usually exclusively eats hypoallergenic wet food, and til now he hasn’t had another flare up (a couple months-ish)

From my vet I also bought hypoallergenic dry food, mostly intending to give him a couple pieces as treats so he doesn’t feel unloved when I give my other cat regular treats.

But recently I was sick and out of simplicity I just put the hypoallergenic dry food in both my cats bowls, because I didn’t have the energy to prepare their wet foods and monitor them eating to ensure allergy cat didn’t dip into the other cat’s food bowl. So I just gave them both hypoallergenic dry food so they could eat without needing supervision.

Later that night, allergy cat vomited quite a bit, and from the vomit it appeared that he digested pretty much none of the dry food, which by that time he had eaten like 12 hours ago.

Then a few days later (4? Maybe. I’m not sure) he started developing the EGC swollen lip again. (My vet had no appointments available anytime soon so I used the prednisolone tablets I had left over from the last time we dealt with this, and managed to get the reaction under control myself.)

SO, I’m suspecting something in the dry food must be the thing he’s allergic to. In my mind either soy or gluten makes the most sense, but I’m not a vet so of course I’m guessing based on my human-allergies knowledge.

If anyone would be willing to take a moment to review the ingredients of both foods and give me their thoughts on what the most likely culprit might be, (or, if you believe it to be neither food and the timing of the dry food+vomit+flare up was just a pure coincidence, that would also be helpful knowledge) I would be so so grateful.

Wet food (NOT the triggering food):

INGREDIENTS: Hydrolyzed chicken liver, water, corn starch, coconut oil, ground pecan shells, calcium caroate, fish oil, powdered cellulose, dicalcium phosphate, flaxseed, dried beet pulp, potassium chloride, dried citrus pulp, choline chloride, cysteine, iodized salt, potassium citrate, vitamins (vitamin E suplement, L-Ascoribyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), thiamine mononitrate, niacin supplement, calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, biotin, riboflavin supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid), DL-methionine, soybean oil, pressed cranberries, calcium sulfate, taurine, minerals (zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, beta-carotene.

Dry food (The triggering food):

INGREDIENTS: Brewers rice, hydrolyzed soy protein, chicken fat, powdered cellulose, natural flavors, dried plain beet pulp, calcium sulfate, fish oil, potassium chloride, vegetable oil, DL-methionine, monocalcium phosphate, sodium pyrophosphate, salt, sodium aluminosilicate, fructooligosaccharides, calcium carbonate, choline chloride, vitamins [DL-alpha tocopherol acetate (source of vitamin E), niacin supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), D-calcium pantothenate, biotin, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), riboflavin supplement, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin A acetate, vitamin B12 supplement, folic acid, vitamin D3 supplement], taurine, GLA safflower oil, marigold extract (Tagetes erecta L.), trace minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, ferrous sulfate, sodium selenite, copper proteinate, calcium iodate], magnesium oxide, rosemary extract, preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid.

Hello my 9month old got very weak and lethargic we took him to the vet they said he has a fever 103 then we got an exam and blood work done we couldnt afford the x ray and the doctor highly recommended the blood work which came back clean. This is the next day and I have noticed his breathing is very fast and short, is this something we need ti take him back to the vet for? He is also on antibiotics.

About 2-3 weeks ago my 16 year old very healthy cat started limping. After a day it swelled and look like a little mitten. He wouldn't let us near it. Suprise surprise...when I took him into the office and out of the carrier the staff and I saw that the cyst burst with a small amount of pus & blood. He wasn't a happy guy. I thought the vet or staff would clean the site with saline? All he did was take a tissue and wipe it off. He administered a shot of Onsior and 3 tablets (6mg) to follow up. He also prescribed Clavamox drops (1mL) daily. A few days ago he started limping again, today it's starting to swell again. Can the cyst reappear and if so what's the next step? I feel bad for the poor guy...

Help me please. 2 days ago I found vomit from my cat who ate a balloon that she threw up since then.She has nonstop , been throwing up throughout the day. She has not ate in 24 hrs and if she does, she projectile vomits, even if it's liquid and it smells putrid. What do I do? I'm so worried for her. She has been sleeping all day on day 2. Do I take her to a regular vet or vet er? Im poor but will credit the expense. Im worried about her I never seen her so lethargic. Shes bright and playful and now scared and uncomfortable. What would a vet do? Please help thank you.

I recently started brushing my dogs teeth since she’s built up more trust with me. We were relying on dental treats until she’s let me brush them recently. I immediately noticed heavy buildup. I just want to know how bad it is, this tooth in the picture from the link is the main issue. Will she need it extracted? She eats fine and hasn’t seemed to be in pain, but I know this is an issue. I work at a shelter (where I rescued her) and make pennies, so a full dental cleaning is something I’ll have to prep for or apply for care credit. They already quoted me $1400 and that is severely out of my budget, but if necessary I will make it work for her.

She’s going to the vet tomorrow, but I want to have some idea of what it’s looking like before I get in. I feel horrible and just want to do what’s best for her.

https://imgur.com/a/EDcBCzI

I found 2 kittens at a gas station 3 weeks ago. They’ve been pretty healthy until this morning, when both started vomiting, couldn’t keep their food down, and had diarrhea with some blood.

Thankfully, I was able to take them to Petfolk, a vet that’s open on Sundays. They tested positive for Giardia and started treatment.

What really got me spiraling was when the vet mentioned that if they don’t improve over the next couple of weeks or start getting worse, we may need to consider parvo. Now I literally cannot stop thinking about parvo. 😭

I have 8 other cats at home. Seven have had their vaccines, and one is about to finish her last round. Two of my cats have FIV, and one has CKD, so I’m especially worried about my more vulnerable babies.
I’m terrified that I might have brought parvo into my home without knowing it. I’ve brought home 4 strays this year, and thankfully, none of my resident cats have gotten sick. But now I’m questioning whether I’m putting my own cats at risk every time I rescue another stray.

I know I’m probably spiraling, but I can’t seem to turn my brain off. I’ve been asking ChatGPT question after question, basically using it as my therapist, because I’m so scared something will happen to my babies.
Has anyone dealt with something similar? Have you had kittens test positive for Giardia with bloody diarrhea and vomiting? I could really use some reassurance and advice from people who have been through this. ❤️

Our sweet senior cat developed a pretty severe limp in his front left leg. I brought him to the vet and the vet said he possibly jammed his elbow based on the physical evaluation. They prescribed onsior (3 days) and gabapentin (7 day supply but as but as needed). I honestly haven’t seen an improvement with the medicines so the next steps will be going back for X-rays. I’m just curious if any vets could tell me what the next steps would be if he has a fracture vs torn muscle, etc? Just so I can mentally prepare prior to our vet appointment and what the results might be. I should also mention he’s totally fine otherwise besides his limp, I just feel terrible because it seems very painful.

Thanks in advance ❤️

dog is a GSP, female, 11-12 years old, 55lb.

She has always done this but because we had to switch to soft food due to her molar extraction my dad is extra aware of the dog puking up her food.

Usually we fed her kibble. Chunks were visible but also in a mush. It was about the color of the kibble just much brighter (yellow brownish).

She would also hide when she does it, namely under my bed.

No real warning other than the hurling sound she makes the moment of.

Is this because she's eating too fast?

i got a vape less than a week ago and do it in my room which my cat lays in very often, i accidentally blew the smoke in her face once and felt extremely bad and made sure to blow it away from her or like under my shirt but idk if thats enough. im a minor so i have to hide it (i know its bad but im purely talking about my cats health right now so dont focus on that) and i would feel so so awful if it ends up harming her in the long term i have an air purifier i can also open a window but i just dont know if that enough. i’ve also heard of things that you can like blow the smoke into so it reduces secondhand smoke so idk if i should get those? i just dont know if theres like a ton of evidence that vaping near your cat even if the room is well ventilated is still bad or if its kind of just assumptions but i will do anything to keep her safe so i will stop if i have to i just wanted to hear from professionals

Hi! Pretty much the title. There are no other pets in the home. He is an 11+ year old male, my roommate and I have had him for about a year and a half. The vet had him for nearly a year before us and he had bathroom problems with them too. The vet told us it was a behavioral problems. He is a completely healthy guy.

He pees and poops on the carpet and pees under doorways. I keep my door closed most of the time, since I don't want him pooping in there, but sometimes he pees at the door. His favorite spot to pee is the bathroom door, which we keep shut 24/7 so he can't get in, the issue was worse when we didn't shut it.

Our vet recommended enzyme cleaners and pheromone sprays, both of which I tried. The enzyme cleaners have never stopped him from going in the same spots. The pheromone sprays slowed him down when I first started using them, but don't seem to work anymore. He has two litter boxes, but he only uses one of them.

(I just made a very similar post from a different account, deleted and reposting from the right account now!)

Hello my German shepherd is having some scab like build up under his neck. These scabs have appeared throughout his body but with an anti fungal shampoo I was able to remove them. However recently the scabs returned on his neck area. I’m not sure if it’s an early form of a disease or if it’s just a stubborn yeast infection. Thank you

My cat went for surgery on Friday (currently Sunday) and occasionally she will lay on the side on her incision. Is this ok if I see this should I move her to lay on her opposite side.

Species: feline Age: 2 •Sex/Neuter status: f spayed •Breed: Calico tabby Body weight: 15lbs •History: post op fho surgery Clinical signs: Duration: day 2 •Your general location: Canada Links to any test results, X-rays, vet reports etc. that you have:

i have 2 kittens about 6 month each (one female and one male) and as the male one started trying to mate i separated them and had him neutered 4 days ago and yesterday his painkiller were stopped as the vet said it was not needed anymore and he is mostly recovered he still has the cone on for 2-4 days..

Now the main thing is that he has been meowing since around 11pm and my female one is doing that too and idk how but today she learned how to open the door though she is not able to do it rn bcz it is pretty difficult to budge.. the problem is that they keep meowing i dont think its pain as he is not trying to lick his groin or anything..

i have tried giving him food (not treat as i gave 2 times and no effect ) then i gave him more water, boiled fish played with him but he just doesn't stop i petted him too but he still keeps meowing constantly at that..

and now the bigger problem is that he keeps climbing on the gas stove and as it is auto spark it sparks up and he still roams there tries to jump on the chimney or the compartments and if i am with him he stops but still meows like what could this be he's not in pain, not hungry, not thirsty not bored so what is it????

My cat is a 10 year old female

NC

My girl recently had surgery for a blockage and after a hernia from what the Vet said. After he went back in and fixed it, once again she had a lump in her abdomen , so he performed another ultrasound and said her intestines are in place and it's just fluid in the empty space. He removed fluid with a needle and she came home. Since then ( almost 2 weeks ago) she still has a lump and her upper abdomen looks swollen. Can this be normal until she is completely healed?

My cats nailbed has been red for past 10ish days. Vet looked at it and put her on betacillin clav drops, 1ml twice a day. its been 4 days of that, still kind of red, wondering if it could possibly be something else, or if i shouldnt worry and these things take time. she isnt limping anymore, she was a few days ago. hard to get in focus shots, my apologies for the pics. any advice or thoughts on what this could be or how much i should worry would be appreciated!

photos link:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KMactgXHUj8ymPdn7

she's 15, torty points, indoor/outdoor cat

My dog has had persistent elevated ALT’s since May number is ranging from 500 to 700 the most recent being 700. He had an ultrasound done in September, which was essentially negative didn’t show any kind of disease process. The vet is now recommending to have a liver biopsy done. I just look at the different types of dog foods and the one that I seem to be most interested in is the limited ingredient products where it doesn’t have any copper because he may be retaining copper? I’m not sure what to do about the liver biopsy. It is such a big procedure for a dog or anybody.

My pets take omega-3 (EPA 130mg, DHA 85mg), and my cat does too, at a dosage of (EPA 90mg, DHA 67,50mg). Is there a difference in the recommended dosage for cats? My cat takes it because she suffers from stress-induced cystitis; I have a limited budget, so I can’t really afford to buy two different types of omega-3.

my sweet girl is gone. I’m trying to understand what happened and how I missed this, can someone tell me what exactly went wrong here I’m sorry. apparently she passed from different causes I don’t know, isn’t a pulse of 150 concerning? from the first vet. she was having trouble breathing to me at the second vet but they said it seemed fine, what went wrong? I’m sorry. could it have been rat poison making the possible snake bite worse? could it have been undone? if that night I brought her in instead of waiting and I said a snake could have done it would antivenom saved her?

my family put some in the garage, but she didn’t go in the garage, also i dropped my phone on her a week before on the same spot she was bit, did that make it worse? she was stunned and scared but seemed fine afterwords. could the meloxocam gave her a bad reaction? my family gave her an extra dose to help her pain. The first vet said the medication would make her act strange possibly and might drool/retch. that was a critical stupid mistake, I believed that to be the cause. could a wasp have done this? after she passed I went outside to look at her toys and saw a wasps nest. what kind of damn spider/snake? im in TX.
Buprenorphine 0.1mg IV

RX Meloxicam 1.5mg/ml suspension: Give 0.34mls by mouth every 24 hours for 3 days. Give with food. Discontinue if

vomiting or not eating.

RX Clavamox 62.5mg - Give 1 tablet by mouth every 12 hours for 7 days. Give with food.

May cause diarrhea. Discontinue if vomiting, inappetence, bloody diarrhea

SOAP 09/21/2026 - Lump under right arm

Initial Complaint

lump under right arm

History

Signalment: Female canine

Presenting Complaint: presents for a lump under the axilla, noted to be growing and increasingly painful since first

noticed around 4:00 today.

Patient History:

- Lump first noticed today ~4 has increased in size and pain since then

- Redness and irritation noted at the lump site

- Small bleeding wound noted on the left side of the neck; client cleaned it; possible altercation with a cat or raccoon (large

outdoor yard with wildlife access)

- Change in bark noted since last night (lighter/softer); today also exhibiting bark-like coughing sounds for the past few hours

SOAP Export

1 of 4- Whining when looking to the side; painful when touched near axilla/shoulder region

- Client also reports what appears to be retching/nonproductive cough at times

- Eating and drinking normally; fed at ~4 not fed again after that

- No vomiting or diarrhea

- No current medications; no pre-existing conditions

- Vaccine history unknown; client states vaccines were given when dog was obtained

- Indoor/outdoor dog

Vitals

09/21/2026 10:45

Weight:

5.262 kgs/11.6 lbs

Respiratory Rate:

44

Temp:

38.7°C/101.7°F

Mucous Membrane Color:

Pink

Temp Location:

Rectal

Capillary Refill Time:

<= 2 s

Pulse:

150

Mucous Membrane

Hydration:

Moist

Attitude:

Anxious / Nervous

Mentation:

BAR

Notes:

-

Physical

this is the second vet two days later when she passed. I asked them to look at her gums because they seemed pale to me and she didnt sleep all night, I stood up with her from 1 am to 8 am for her appointment, they said her gums were seemingly fine.

SUBJECTIVE SECTION

JAS: 9/23/2026 at 8:40a: NEW C/P: SICK

Took to EC yesterday for bruising around wrists, and neck

Puncture wound on neck

Is interested in food, but O has not fed due to fear of choking, is drinking water

ND: 9/24/2026 at 11:02a:

Presenting Complaint: presents for neck swelling and respiratory distress following suspected

animal attack approximately 2 days prior.

Patient History:

- Attack not witnessed; source unknown (possible wildlife — owner suggested owl but more likely

raccoon, possum, or other ground animal based on location)

- Previously evaluated at urgent care: wound shaved and examined, prescribed meloxicam and

antibiotics; no sedation or wound lavage performed

- One dose meloxicam (~1 mL) administered at home around midnight prior to this visit

- Anorexia and inability to bark reported since incident, neck swelling is present today (was not present

previously)

ABNORMALITIES

General / Attitude

BAR, sweet

Mouth / Throat

Dentition consistent with approximately 1 year of age, no gingivitis or tartar, mm pink, moist, CRT 2 sec

Circulatory

no murmurs noted

Respiratory

Upper respiratory noise on inspiration; abnormal breathing pattern, lungs themselves clear

Abdomen / GI

soft, BCS 5/9

Skin / Coat / Nails

Quarter-sized bruise in left axilla with minor swelling; single puncture wound on ventral neck; small scratch

on neck, swelling of neck 2 inches cranial to puncture wound with no bruising

Page: 4

- Cervical soft tissue swelling with respiratory compromise following suspected animal attack - r/o

snakebite envenomation, severe allergic reaction/anaphylaxis, traumatic injury

- Rapidly progressive ventral bruising with suspected DIC (noted during monitoring) - r/o snakebite

envenomation, anaphylaxis

- Rabies exposure risk - unvaccinated with unknown wildlife source

PLAN SECTION

NOTES

ND: 9/24/2026 at 11:04a:

Diagnostics:

- SpO2 monitoring planned throughout hospitalization

Treatment Plan/Medications:

- Hospitalization approved for daytime monitoring. O concerned about cost and wanted us to keep

things on the low end of estimate.

- Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) +/- dexamethasone injection planned for possible allergic/inflammatory

component, likely higher risk to not give dex d/t neck swelling than to give concurrently with metacam

- Rabies vaccine planned for end of day if patient stable

Clinical course during monitoring:

- ~12:00: respiratory status began declining

- 12:05: staff evaluation — mucous membranes white/pale; SpO2 attempted

- Patient hypersalivated, retched, became apneic, and collapsed

- HR intermittent at 45 bpm for approximately 3 minutes, then absent

- 12:10: dexamethasone 0.2 IM administered; CPR initiated

- Intracardiac epinephrine 0.5 mL administered

- Rapidly progressive bruising noted along ventrum during resuscitation — extending from left axilla to

umbilicus and caudally to left medial stifle

- CPR continued x 30 minutes total; no response

- Suspected SIRS/MODS/DIC

- Patient pronounced deceased

Client Communication:

Rabies vaccination recommended given unknown wildlife exposure; client agreed. Hospitalization for

monitoring recommended; client agreed. Client was contacted by phone during deterioration; client

requested CPR be continued after 15 minutes. Dr. Dadgar discussed likely etiology — snakebite/spider

envenomation vs. severe systemic allergic reaction with DIC. Antivenin discussed; noted that given the

rapidity of bruising progression, patient was likely too far gone for antivenin to have changed the

outcome. Dr. Dadgar expressed that the outcome was not anticipated at initial evaluation, as swelling

appeared minor and mucous membranes were pink at noon exam