Yesterday Dave took Beth for her annual, free health check at our vets. When we adopted her two years ago we knew that she had a slight heart murmur.
The news yesterday was quite a shock, her heart murmur has got worse. They measure them on a scale of 1-6 and hers is 3.5-4, so Friday she is booked in for xrays, scans and blood tests.
This explains why she cannot seem to walk far now, Dave is feeling guilty because he says that sometimes he virtually has to drag her round the park at night.
We have been told to give her a low salt diet (do they put salt in dog food?), very short walks and get her to lose some weight (how, when she will only have short walks? Starve her?)
So please cross your fingers for us and hope the prognosis is good. One of our standard poodle some years ago had heart problems but lived to be almost 16, Beth is only 10