I literally just placed my 5 year old Frenchie to sleep today, and it broke my heart. After tearing up in the shower, asking myself did I do the right thing? I came to this video, knowing that this was exactly how she was. Went to the vet, and they were advising an MRI, and then possible surgery. With a cost of about $10-12,000, and her foot still could be the same way as this dogs’. I told myself, “I think I made a huge mistake!😢😭😢😭😢😭😭😤😤😤🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺”

My 6 yrs old frenchie was diagnosed with stage 5 IVDD. It came out of nowhere 😢 I’ve always been against major surgeries for any of my fur babies, so I’m trying to give my full attention to care for my paralyzed munchkin now and I truly hope that physical therapy will help, along with bed rest and medications 🥺❤️

My Shoodle had surgery 5 days ago. They said he could go home after 3 days. We have him in a cage but I cannot see any movement in his legs. He was a grade 3 case - meaning he could walk "just" before surgery but was wobbly and falling down. He is weeing in his cage. We are sick with worry. Have called the vet and they continually say this is normal and that they could see some movement in his legs before hand. They say they are not worried...... But we cannot help but think he should able to move his legs by now He is bright - eating - and weeing in cage Any advice or anyone had something similar

My 2.5 y.o, St.Bernhard, Unix, had 3 seisure attacks in the periode 23.-28. of Dec (the first two with only a couple of hours between them). Having excluded toxins, done full blood work (which were all negative), preliminary diagnosis was likely idiopathic epilepsy. Comparing the attacks with the two shown in this video, goes a long way to make me feel certain of this conclusion. With this on top of strong displasia on both hips and albows, arthrosis, being blind on one eye, and mid to strong anxiety (which could be part of the cause for epilepsy), I had to let him go. I only had him for 9 months. Mine was his 3rd home. While hard to watch, this video also made me a lot more certain that I made the right decisions. Thank you!!!

Dear Dr. Taylor, Recent day an adopt a cat, vet say she is FIP with ( 10 itens ? of blood test and Ultrasound scan or CT, we don't have MRI for animal), I would like she after the treament she will more confidience and comfortable of her body, at home, I have another 11, total 12 cats, S he so scary others cat and me, 12 cats a little more , and me only. Dr. Taylor here where I live (Macao-Macau) GS 441524 is ilegal (I don't WHY?) it is not for human, The vet say he have a medicne but I don't know it is or not Molnupiravir, today only GS 441524 injection for FIP? And need 84 injection ( yesterday is 2 dose and from black market-underground it is free "from another cat owner pass to vet say who need use it" it is free ), injection is better then medicine, and if she after treatment will recover 50-60% how life will live? Now she is < 3 years, deeply sorry on my English and mamy many thanks Dr. Taylor :) Last how about the cool train (delivery) if I buy from Amazon?

My dachshund, 11, just had the surgery two days ago. She is still in the hospital, but hasn’t been able to walk or move her legs on her own yet. When this dachshund was walking, how long after the surgery was that video taken?

My lovely boy has been experiencing pain for the past 2 weeks. We cannot afford mri or an operation. We are on pain relief and anti inflammatory and crate rest. He is having 1 long painful 2 hour episode a day. Do we let him pee outside the crate or have him use a puppy pad? He is 5, he knuckles front paws and falls sideways sometimes and then other times he’s like a puppy with no issues at all! Please help, I’m so sad. We love him so much.

My 14-year-old dachshund suffered a disc injury when run into by a big dog in public. After an MRI, she was deemed to be too old for surgery due to a heart ailment. Her hind legs were completely paralyzed with no sensation for a month. Then she began to have some sensation. We got her chiropractic and acupuncture with electrical stimulation. She enjoyed that. We also used a tens unit on her back once a day. She absolutely loved that. After a month of bed rest we also got her a custom hind leg wheelchair. Initially, she just dragged her hind paws in the hind leg wheelchair. Slowly, they began to move in a more normal gait, but did not have to hold body weight. After six months, she began to have short walks on grass without the wheelchair, with the occasional bunny hop/trot. At a one year post injury she no longer needed the wheelchair and she now trots, hind legs hopping like a bunny. The bulge in her spine has even subsided some. She is now going up and downstairs on her own, slowly and doing a bunny hop up the stairs. There’s no stopping this old girl.

Hi! My dog is going trough the same thing but the doctors here say it's 70%chance of a stroke. they don't have an MRI machine to perform test like that. but they are treating for a stroke. She was walking the same as the dogs in the video, eye movement from side to side and drooling. we had her admitted into the clinic to have 24 hours care. Is it anything that they have missed? she is strong and they gave her some prednisone and other stroke medicine. the blood tests were absolutely normal and body temperature 37.8C. Does vestibular disease shows in blood tests?

Is V-P shunt surgery recommended for hydrocephalus and dilation of the ventricular system caused by FIP?

My 7 year old dog has this and started a few months ago, it doesn't wanna stop and it seem shes getting worse, what do i do? My parents haven't went to the vet yet because they say they dony have enough money, is there any treatment i can do myself??

Muchas gracias a SVN por compartir información técnica, explican con claridad, generan mucha confianza 👍👍

4:46 Oh yea!! he's feeling great!!😁

Thank you so much for posting this video. Today our GSD of 14 years had repeated failed attempts to walk up the apartment complex stairs, but managed eventually. We have noticed in the past months some slight balance issues and wobbly walk, then the hesitation of climbing furniture such as sofa or up in the bed. Then slight issues of transitioning from sitting to walking, where in order to walk our GSD needed to drag herself forward until the legs got some momentum/found friction on the floor. And today it seems to have hit critical mass and all of these symptoms are present at once, especially her inability to place her back paw in the L position (footing), instead dragging the top part of her paw on the floor/walking on the top part. It is clear as day that it is DM, and me and my spouse are having the discussion of putting her down... It would be easier if she was in miserable pain from cancer and "ending the suffering" would be the obvious choice, but now we have to "pre-emptily" end her life even though the GSD don't realise she is in such fragile state. The GSD seems to have two appointments in her future, a last photoshoot and a visit from the veterinarian (before she loses the ability to walk). Having worked in hospice for a long time I thought I was going to be ready for our GSD passing, but it just feels emotionally like we are butchering our dearest puppy, while intellectually knowing we are doing it for her quality of life.

We have ramps everywhere, for the couch, for the garden. Get ramps for your babies and train them to go up and down the ramp with treats, they're smart. They'll get it. I also got insurance, they have pre-existing liver conditions so it's very expensive, but I'm also worried about IDD down the future. I would be devastated if I had to put them down.

Mine isn't showing signs of pain. Older bishon. He just started dragging his rear legs and lossing his balance. I have a vet appointment in a 2 days

Damn how shit that both me and my dog have a herniated disk

I can't afford to take my dog to a vet after a serious accident..I can only take care of him and same situation in the video he can't move his back legs anymore and it's so sad please help me pray for him😢

Hello i am from germany. I would like to know which medication you showed in the video. The vet prescribed a high-dose vitamin B complex preparation for my pug. My pug is 12 years old and I don't want to have him operated on anymore. Thank you.

not painful but definitely stressful for the dogs trying to walk. CANNOT afford an MRI. Outrageous prices. Sooo we live with same symptoms but not DM. Did the test.

Can French Bulldogs get DM?

Need urgent help for jhingalala, indie stray,please contact

my 15 yo dog had a stroke a few days ago and spent 3 nights at the vet. I was so scared because i thougt we would have to put her down but luckily the treatment helped. Shes still wobbly on her feet and has a head tilt, but today she ate on her own and even went on a short walk. RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE!!!

Did the poor dogy get surgery? I'm going through similar situation on back legs

What treatment did Charlie have

I always cry when I watch these because it brings back so many terrible memories of IVDD. We didn't have insurance so we funded the surgery through care credit and paid it off last month. 🎉 Our girl was able to stand again 3 days post surgery and the vet walked her to our car with no sling for the first time 4 weeks post surgery. She is now 8 months post surgery and she is walking great with just a little skip in the back legs. We are living a near normal life again with her except we have ramps all over our house now and baby barriers on our bed. So thankful these amazing recoveries can happen! ❤️‍🩹

Great! Low dose steroids forever slowly destroying liver and kidneys and joints. Wonderful.

Why check tendon reflexes in a dog that is tremoring?

The whole zoom is not here, do you have a link for that?

Dr. Senneca is the best! She did surgery on our dachshund 3 years ago. Jet was 14 and 1/2 years old at the time. I often say the quote Dr. Senneca told us, “Age is not a disease.” Jet is still doing great at the ripe old age of 17 and 1/2. Thanks doesn’t cover how grateful we are for her kindness, skill and expertise. ❤🐶

would this procedure work on a older frenchie 8 yrs

My Chihuahua has bladder stones and today he tried to pee and nothing came out. After about 2 mins he peed but when tried to go again nothing came out. He always goes several times during a walk?

Dr, your vocal fry is extremely annoying and distracting from the wealth of information you give. It’s common in Americans. Try speaking slower, and use proper breath support. You will damage your voice further otherwise.

Miracle workers!!! I was crying at the end, he seems so happy!

Our son’s retired service dog has osteochondrosarcoma in his eye, behind his eye. He is a valiant dog. His spirit is stronger than his body. Day to day, I am amazed at his will to continue. I will fight for him as long as he is willing to fight. I love this dog so much. Though he is “retired” he continues to work everyday, now for me, for things completely different than what he was trained to do for my son. He is amazing. He was found as a stray running the streets. I encourage you to look at those strays, and realize the potential that they have. He is now 14 years old (approximately). I know this is his final months with us. It breaks my heart.

My dog who was one week away from his birthday died cause of this The story I was getting ready for school then I heard my mum on the phone to my Nan whilst running around the house I went downstairs to ask her what’s going on and she told me lokis legs stopped working whilst he was eating his breakfast I was shouting ‘he’s gonna be ok right’ they said he might be put down and then my Nan came and put a towel on my dogs hips to help it from hurting then I had to go to school so during geography I went to the bath room and started crying cause of how scared I was I was on the bus texting my sister ‘is Loki ok’ she ignored me I was confused why she did so I left it then 5 minutes later my mum texted me saying she would come pick me up I thought it was weird but I texted her ok then when I got in the car she said to me ‘I have some bad news about Loki’ I asked is he dead? She said yes honey he died at half ten this morning the vets told me that’s the only way he would be happy I held in my tears and was silent not wanting to say anything cause of how sad I felt when we got home I got to bury him and say my goodbyes I was crying hard by his grave but I have a little bottle of his fur and a paw print to remember him but I will love him forever and ever RIP LOKI 10/9/23 🪦🐾🐶

He started naming those testing..all i hurd was Chu ching cash register

My dog just had two seizures in the span of 20 minutes. I just got off the phone with the vet and he is being given a new seizure medication and I stay away and stay calm. But it’s scary,I’m just a kid and it’s overwhelming but I know there isn’t much I can do except for comfort him afterwards.

I am going through this right now with my Frenchie and it seems I’m so vulnerable and I wish I can heal him like now😫 but I know there is hope just seeing how if he is able to do this without surgery but I think he needs it.

My dog has recently been diagnosed with renal failure. ( a ten year old Dachshund) She's had 3 seizures in 2 weeks. This video is excellent information.

hats off for you Doc.

Thank you for this video. My dog is having a neurological exam on Thursday, so it's helpful for me to learn about what it'll entail (the vet did go through this with me, but I forgot the major details).

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Ugh so hard to watch my a family member go through this and feel so helpless. It takes so much out of her.

That’s that happened to my cat boo boo had stroke this morning he had Hyperthyroidism he was 14 years and they put him to sleep I been crying all day and night

My pug has this on both sides and his face and a blood spot in the middle of his eye

My dog jumped off a counter and injured his spine about 9 months ago. Both back legs went out but came back with rest. He had a limp afterwards and his right leg was off. Just a little limp but he got around perfectly fine. 9 months later and he has Congestive heart failure. He had his worst night in terms of fluid build up. His leg went full numb. I got the fluid down and he is breathing well again but that leg is just dead. Not sure what to do... It's so frustrating not knowing what's wrong with him. He does seem to be in an pain. I got him a wheel chair

Very good and detailed explaining really appreciate the video ❤❤❤❤

And that line drawn between #3 and #4 is where costs go from hundreds to thousands of dollars just to get a diagnosis. So pray it’s an ear infection that can be handled with an antibiotic.

Cayenne Pepper is a vasodilator and stops these seizures. Dab it on the gum and count to 3. Seizure over. Too simple and the quicker the seizure stops the better for the dog. The only sensible solution for vestibular seizures. Fact