Our Shepadoodle puppy ate a part of a sago palm last Sunday. We discovered what he had eaten after he started throwing up and then took him right to the vet. He stayed in the hospital for a few days of treatment and when released his enzyme levels were only slightly elevated and had been that way through his whole stay. I was told to take him to our regular vet to have the levels checked a few days later and they were almost exactly the same as they were in the hospital. I thought we were pretty much in the clear and were told to bring him back 3 days later to ch close one more time. So I took him in today and his ALT and ALP are both considerably higher. I have to take him back in 2 days to check again but am now so worried. He is acting and eating fine. Can the levels bounce around like this? I really thought we had dodged a bullet and now don’t know what to think. :( What is your opinion?

Last night (May 14th) I took my dog out for his nightly walk. He was super happy! My husband had him on his leash and stopped so he can explore(smell). About a few yards down he started to walk funny and sideways then he fell on his side and started to seize and foam at the mouth. His eyes were rolling back in his head. This lasted for about a minute. He completely snapped out of it and was his normal self. I rushed for my trk so he wouldn’t have to walk back home and he immediately went for his water. He had no nausea or vomiting nor diarrhea. He wanted fruit and was playful quickly thereafter. An hour later I looked up what could have caused this seizure and came across a list of things and I read sago plant was one of them. I ran out of my house with a flashlight to my front yard. There was the sago plant. The plant he stopped at to explore before our walk. There are no seeds or those red berries it has though. It’s just the plant. Is the whole plant itself poisonous too? I love my baby to death, and even though I didn’t take him to the Vet, could there be future damage I’m not seeing right now. Like I said, as of late, he’s back to his normal self.

My dog Xavi ate a Sago Palm seed around 6:00 pm on a Monday and we noticed that he vomited like around 10 times before we rush him to the emergency clinic. Around 8:00 pm they gave him fluids (IV) and ran some blood tests. He had the liver enzymes 3 times higher than normal. We took him to the vet the next day and gave him some Demarin and his enzymes went down. The vet tested the blood 3 times in 72 hours and every single time they went down until closer to normal. It looked that we survived the sago palm episode. A week later on a Monday, he vomited only once early in the morning, but he was as playful as always. We took him for a light walk and played fetched with him. The next morning he vomited again only once, we thought that maybe the Demarin was bothering him, but on Wednesday morning he vomited even more and he looked sad and tired. We took him immediately to the vet at 7:00 am and liver enzymes were up again, but this time 9 times higher. He was hospitalized and this morning his enzymes went down a little bit, but not much, so the vet wants to keep him hospitalized for another day. Our concern is how come his liver enzyme went down close to normal during the first 72 hours of getting poisoning and after a week the enzymes went up again? Can sago palm poisoning do this? Reucurr a week later? Thanks, Sad owner

Last Saturday my Australian cattle dog puppy 11wks ate a sago palm. I took him to the er where the treated with with charcoal and iv fluids. Picked him up on sunday everything was normal blood levels good and everything. Thursday I had an appt for his shots. He was eating everything. They have him a dewormer panacur and a trifexis pill along with his shots. The next morning he was good and was eating. When I got home he didn't want to get up was really slow. I finally got him to eat some scrambled eggs . Never stopped drinking. Saturday was feeling good again eating and playing . Now today sunday he is back in a funk . Wont eat bologna . My normal vet didn't take the bloodwork they were supposed to have. I have read denamarin is good for liver support . Or milk thistle. What do I do . I know he prolly needs to go back to the vet I'm looking for ideas and if that denamarin would be good for him to take it it is his liver