Missed this thread first time around, but it prompted me to share a recent event...most of you have prob seen Lucky's pic in PF's "more dangerous...baby pictures" thread, he's a Pomerianian/? mix, tricolor about 15 lb furball we adopted from the shelter when he was about 11 months...now he's about 12, & been in excellent health & still frisky as a pup till a couple weeks ago...he began vomiting repeatedly til there was nothing left to bring up, & was walking funny when he moved at all...we all got so concerned I took him to the vet's office...several hours later when I went to pick him up he could hardly walk at all, his eyes were rolling around & seemed disoriented...I was sure the we were going to have to put him down...till the vet told me he was suffering from a usually temporary condition that affects old dogs sometimes, can't remember the name but it usually passes within 48 hrs...said to give him the non-drowsy dramamine pills for the nausea, that it was just extreme dizzyness, he couldn't tell which way was up...set me back a couple hundred bucks, but my wife agreed it was just as if it had been one of the kids...he was much better the next day, he still has a little difficulty with the step to the den & the vinyl floor in the kitchen, but he's back to play-fighting with the 13 yr old (he growls so viciously)...but this was a whole new for me, never had a dog get old on me before, & if you could have been in that vet's office you would have seen a grown man crying over his scared little dog that he thought he was gonna lose...

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