Hello all,

I am new to this forum, and I was hoping that someone out there could help me please.

My pet Westie went for a run through the woods with her brother, he came back after 15 mins, but thelma came back about an hour later and started vomiting. She was a grazer and would eat anything so we were not too concerned as this had happened so many times.

Anyway she was still and lifeless the following morning, I was unable to take her to the Vets as my Son was really ill with tonsilitus (sp) so I had to take care of him first.

During the afternoon she seemed to be improving so my plan was to take her to the Vets the following morning, but when I got up to see her she had taken cover (which I believe a dog does do when they know they are dying?) and she was dead.

What on earth could she have eaten for that to happen so quickly, I have been through the forest and I couldn't find anything - like a mushroom. I feel so guilty - this will stay with me for the rest of my life. If only my son (who is just 5) hadn't been ill I would have taken her straightaway in the morning to the vets.

I live in France and there are no emergency vets on call on a sunday evening.

Please anyone out there - help me.

I'm so sorry for your loss, I don't know what she/he could have got into. Maybe someone had bait out for mice or something like that. So sorry....Jill

Sorry to hear of your loss R I P little one

She could have eaten anything. Are there any fields nearby were the farmer may have been spraying pesticides or pioson in the hedges?

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Sammy you may be gone but your sprit will always live on in the sunbeams R I P Sammy

William- 6/11/03 - 24/3/10
Midge - 8/2/11 - 10-2-11

Aww bless, you must not blame your self they eat all sorts of things i dont really no what to say its so hard loosing your pets iv lost 5 this year, she is at peice now and what ever it was was not your fault R,I.P little one try to keep smiling hun its hard your other dog will wounder were she is and he needs you now.

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im sorry to hear about your little dog x

sorry for your loss, was anyone with the dogs when they went for a run?
it's hard to know what they got up to.

im am soo sorry for ur loss... its so hard to cope wiv losing a sweet pet, but just as hard not knowing what could of killed ur dog

if she is a grazer, maybe she ate some sort of wild plant thats poison?

I am so very sorry for your loss

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we had something very similar several years ago .and left the dog over night thinking she would be ok ,and was took to the vet first thing in the morning but she died later in the day ,we always wondered if it was some sort of fungi

So sorry for your loss, could have been a poisonous plant or toadstool.