Will in New Haven wrote in rec.pets.cats.community:

On Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 11:26:00 AM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
Pit2nya wrote in rec.pets.cats.community:

On Monday, June 5, 2017 at 5:37:06 PM UTC-7, cshenk wrote:
Just to let all know, Iowna fell ill Friday with Vestibular
Disease. It's also called 'old dog syndrome'. Head tilts,
moves in fast tight circles, falls down a lot. Nausea (caused
by the tight circles sometimes). Vertigo. Ear infection ruled
out as one of the causes. This is very fast to show, like
15-30 minutes before she was fine.

She spent Friday on an IV. Most dogs have the simple sort and
recover. Some are not so lucky as causation can also be brain
tumor or a central nervous system infection. Her's is apt to be
the somple sort but she is 3 weeks from turning 15 and that is
very old in dogs years. She is close to 25 for a cat for
comparison. We have to wait and see.

Sounds like a miserable thing to have, poor girl.
Purrs coming...

Yeah, she was pretty miserable for a time. We lucked up and she's
back to normal now. Lost too much weight as she was so dizzy, she
couldnt eat (or if she tried, she vomited it up). We are fattening
her up now. She's about 3lbs under weight still.

Mine puppy Samanfa had dat furry fing and neow she is fine tootoo.
She would WIKE to be unnerweight butted she can't manaj itted.

Iowna is now in fine fettle, eating everything in sight again. 1 month
later, she is pleasingly plump again ;-)

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