*sigh*

Last couple of days, Dog-Or the Wonder Spaniel has been having difficulty standing - I've been carrying him up and down the stairs at night. Today he turned down dry food, although we managed to coax him into eating a small bit of chicken. [edit: but it didn't stay down.]

Vet visit this morning to see what can be done.

*sigh*

He's not a young dog - we've had him 13 years now, and he's had three serious illnesses/injuries in his life - but I was hoping he'd be with us a while yet. Now... don't know.

slightly less doom

Vet says: looks like vestibular syndrome (something like a mini-stroke), causing disorientation/loss of balance/nausea. She gave him shots for the nausea; if it is vestibular syndrome he should improve over the next week. Will still walk unevenly with a bit of head tilt, but as long as he's happy I don't care.

He doesn't seem to be in any great distress, beyond being disoriented and woozy. But he may take a while to forgive me for the bath I'm about to give him. (He's usually very good about housetraining, but he's had a couple of accidents lately, probably due to all this stuff.)

So we'll see how he does this week.