I got an answer to the fish oil as a blood thinner query. It has the capacity to thin the blood but in canines that effect is very mild at best. So Omega threes would not exert enough of a platelet blocking effect to eliminate the use of aspirin to treat blood clots. As far as aspirin, I don't think there have been any studies to prove to what effect that thins a dog's blood either.
Another interesting tid bit of information; not only can you not mix aspirin and rimadyl; you have to wait a full week without aspirin before you can safely give rimadyl.
Yes, thanks for posting this info Sheila. Very good to know, and very important info about the aspirin and rimadyl!
Glad to hear that Thor is doing better, what a relief!
Let us know how he likes the heated mat.
No matter what, most of us will probably some day (if not right now) have a senior with a little or a lot of arthritis.
BTW, they show it without the thin wooly cover it comes with, but it does come with one, with elastic corners. When it's in the laundry I just take a thin flannel infant blanket and spread it over and tuck it under the edges of the mat. (This mat is designed to make it virtually impossible for a dog to lift/turn it, and the cord well protected too.)
It's totally OK to have it uncovered, too, as the photos show. It is NOT hot; it's warm.
That thing is a permanent piece of my living room "decor."
You see in the second one how the design (the flat edges all around) doesn't make it easy AT ALL for a dog to lift/move the mat. (Also, I should have photographed the underside, too, because it's as well-protected from the electric "guts" as the top is.)
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"As far as aspirin, I don't think there have been any studies to prove to what effect that thins a dog's blood either."
Well, "thinner" is almost a misnomer. What aspirin does is to reduce inflammation (as measured by, for example, c-reactive protein) to help with what is sometimes called sticky blood (meaning platelets sticking together).
Dogs are far more vulnerable than humans to the GI side effects of NSAIDs, and dogs also do not have the kind of coronary heart disease that humans do, so aspirin wouldn't be appropriate as an across-the-board prophylactic. And studies on its effects are much less attractive than they would be if dogs had heart attacks like humans do. At least, that's what I believe is the basic reason for the comparative dearth of aspirin-as-prophylactic studies on dogs.
Just a caution here... I read somewhere that elderly people shouldn't use electric blankets or electric heating pads as they continuously produce heat, and if someone can't get up there is the potential to get burned. I would imagine the same could be said for an elderly dog.. if they can't get up off of an electric blanket, they could get burned.
I like the heated pad that Connie mentioned as it does not actually get hot, it is just warm.. that is why it's so great to use for older dogs with mobility problems as well as newborn pups.
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