Seasonal Canine Illness.

[treefrog]

Hi all, thought I'd post a timely warning to any dog owners on here, as my mates Border Collie has just gone down with SCI and is currently very poorly at the vets.

Seasonal Canine Illness.

The disease comes on very quickly, usually within 24-72 hours of having walked in a woodland area. The most common clinical signs reported are:​

• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea (which can vary from watery to bloody)
• Tummy (abdominal) pain
• Lethargy (or reluctance to move)
• Loss of appetite
• Shaking or trembling
• High temperature (fever)

The most common clinical signs are sickness, diarrhoea and lethargy. If you suspect your dog is showing symptoms of SCI then please contact your vet immediately.​

http://www.aht.org.uk/cms-display/seasonal_illness.html

http://www.youtube.com/ahttv

 

[jackcbr]

This is a nasty thing. We lost a border collie to it last year and nearly another. Big vets bill

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Is it not caused by poisonous fungal spores ?

 

[Turnip]

Hadn't heard of this before! thank you for the heads up!

 

[Everything Mac]

My gf is a vet, she says they don't really know what causes it but there might be a link to harvest mites.
Little orange mites in their paws/ears.

Hope your mates collie gets well soon.
Andy

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

Feature on Countryfile tonight. part one just been on and theyre coming back to it later in the show

 

[carabao]

Spoke to my vet just last week, and mentioned that I had just read about this, he said that not sure what causes it, very rare and hard to diagnose, could be a fungus or mite, majority of cases involved a wood with a stream or river and possible laburnum trees / bushes.

 

[treefrog]

Hope your mates collie gets well soon.

Thanks for the good wishes. Pip is now out of the woods and has made a full recovery. He just needs to work off the £600 vet bill.

Feature on Countryfile tonight. part one just been on and theyre coming back to it later in the show

It was good to see it highlighted. I'd not really heard much about it until my mates dog fell ill.

 

[ReamviThantos]

Following the Countryfile programme, i could not understand it being suspected as being linked to harvest mites due to the expert receiving bites around his ankles. It doesn't seem to be very scientific if the affected canines have not been found to have become ill/died from a disease carried by these mites. So so far i've heard it possibly linked to algae poisoning water sources, mite disease transmission and toxic fungus/mould spores. Not a particularily positive diagnosis so far.

 

[santaman2000]

Following the Countryfile programme, i could not understand it being suspected as being linked to harvest mites due to the expert receiving bites around his ankles.....

We also get bitten by the same mosquitos that dogs and cats do but we don't get heartworms from it; they do. That has to do with their body temp being high enough to support them whereas ours isn't. As to the disease in question though, seasonal Canine Illness, I've also seen the other theories; algae, etc. I don't think anybody really knows yet.

 

[ReamviThantos]

We also get bitten by the same mosquitos that dogs and cats do but we don't get heartworms from it; they do. That has to do with their body temp being high enough to support them whereas ours isn't. As to the disease in question though, seasonal Canine Illness, I've also seen the other theories; algae, etc. I don't think anybody really knows yet.

Hi Santaman,

Bit odd that they haven't isolated the cause yet given the number of suspected cases though? Seems like a bit of a cross between who is prepared to fund the investigations required perhaps?

 

[santaman2000]

Hi Santaman,

Bit odd that they haven't isolated the cause yet given the number of suspected cases though? Seems like a bit of a cross between who is prepared to fund the investigations required perhaps?

I suspect you're right.