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Crate
Rest
Thursday, April 12, 2012 Robbie
writes: We took our 9 pound toy poodle to the
emergency vet because she was shaking and would not eat.
They did an x-ray and thought it was IVDD.
They gave us tramadol for pain and told us to
strictly crate her for 2 weeks. This was on Feb. 4
of this year. We did this and she seemed to recover
but 2 days ago she started with the same symptoms.
Our vet has recommended we see a neuro vet. My
question after doing a lot of reading online and finding
Dodgers List is if we crated her long enough? Was it
only 2 weeks because she is a toy poodle not a dachshund?
The night we were at the emergency vet a dachshund
came in with back pain and they were instructed to crate
it for 6 weeks. Any additional information would be
appreciated. We have not been given any other meds
but the tramadol for pain. Bella can walk and go to
the bathroom and the tramadol seems to control the pain.
We will do anything we need to do for Bella and want
to be sure we do whatever is best to try to prevent
this from recurring?
With the second go around ideally it would be nice to know what you are up against. However, if imaging is not going to be feasible then by no means is a longer cage rest time wrong. c2012
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