Sabby
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When we were at paws in the park I was at the obedience tent and there was a lady with a cavalier that she rescued. We started talking about the health problems and I was telling her that my Ebony has a slight heart murmur and luxating patellas. Well I think what came next left me gob smacked. First of all she indirectly told me that my dogs are over weight. I agree that the girls could do with a bit of weight coming off but my Harley is skinny. I then pointed out that my dogs are not the size of a typical show cavalier. All three are a lot taller then any Cavalier I have met.
Then she said that when she got her rescue cavalier he was fat and had a grade 7 heart murmur. She said look how slim he is now and the vet said that his heart murmur is gone down to a grade 3.
She really must have thought that I am a stupid pet owner, I felt like saying if I be you I would change my vet or cardiologist. Am I right in thinking that there is no Grade 7 (the dog wouldn’t be alive?) and once it’s that higher grade even with the dog loosing weight the heart valve doesn’t repair itself? Once you are a certain grade it just won’t go down to a lower grade?
Then she started dismissing SM and I just mentioned C. Rusbridge and she just shut up.
Then she said that when she got her rescue cavalier he was fat and had a grade 7 heart murmur. She said look how slim he is now and the vet said that his heart murmur is gone down to a grade 3.
She really must have thought that I am a stupid pet owner, I felt like saying if I be you I would change my vet or cardiologist. Am I right in thinking that there is no Grade 7 (the dog wouldn’t be alive?) and once it’s that higher grade even with the dog loosing weight the heart valve doesn’t repair itself? Once you are a certain grade it just won’t go down to a lower grade?
Then she started dismissing SM and I just mentioned C. Rusbridge and she just shut up.