Sheba-A Marvelous Gift

Ridgetop · Oct 29, 2025

Yes, you should have strapped on your 6 shooter! :lol:

Clothing is always optional in an emergency.

I'll never forget our first dog attack before LGDs. We heard the collar bells on the goats ringing as th dogs tried to pupll them down. DH leapt straight out of bed and ran out grabbing a shovel to beat the stray dogs off. I held the flashlight. Like @Baymule he did not stop for clothing. LOL
Luckily the children stayed asleep and we had no neighbors. That was the year we got LGDs.

Baymule · Nov 30, 2025

Everyone knows that LGD's bark a LOT. But did you know that when a predator or anything else for that matter breaches the fence, barking time, WARNING, is over? I was sitting on the porch a week ago with Buford when Sheba, in the middle field took off running. Belly down, long strides, Sheba was all out on a deadly run. Silent. No barking, no warning, deadly silent and fixed on her target. I couldn't see what she was after, but then I saw it. An orange and white cat was INSIDE the fence. It saw Sheba coming and ran for it's life. It barely got to the fence before Sheba caught it. Then she hit the fence barking, plainly telling that cat to get out, stay out and don't come back!

frustratedearthmother · Nov 30, 2025

Yay Sheba!

Baymule · 2026-02-19T04:41:06-0600

Oh Sheba,

I went to church yesterday at 6. It was just getting started when Layne came in, told me he had Sheba in the truck and she was sick. I told people my dog was sick and rushed out the door. Layne was feeding when I left for church, when he called the Anatolians to put them up for the night, they didn't come. They were laying out in the field. He walked out there and found Sheba laying in a pool of bloody diarrhea. Buford was laying next to her. Layne picked her up, but she was so heavy that he couldn't carry her. He drove the truck in the field and got her in the back seat. The seat id always folded up, with a blanket on the metal tray, that is where Carson rides. Always ready.

After hours, vet office closed, I called, left a message begging for a call back. I gave Layne the keys to my car, so he could go get his truck and go home. I headed for Crockett, figuring to sit in the parking lot until I got a call back. In the meantime. Layne was calling vets all over the place, but if you are not a client, they won't take you. He found an emergency clinic in Willis, so I turned around, picked him up and he drove to Willis. I kept a hand on Sheba, talking to her, she had more bloody diarrhea. We got to the emergency clinic, that's all they do, emergencys. I went in, a tech asked what were the symptoms and I replied nonresponsive. He ran out to the truck, Sheba couldn't even get up, much less walk in. He ran for a gurney and together he and Layne lifted the blanket and got her on the gurney and inside. I filled out paperwork while the vet gave her a quick exam. $600 went on my credit card and they got to work. The tech came out and asked me if I wanted them to do CPR, another $400. I got up and went to the exam room. They VAINLY tried to tell me that I couldn't go back there, yeah just try and stop me. They were taking blood, hardly any left. She was convulsing. Sheba was on oxygen, she was dying. I told them no. They continued working on her, blood pressure was extremely low, she still had a heart beat, stopped breathing, they jiggled the oxygen mask and she started breathing again. The tech put blood in several vials with different colored tops, then tried processing it but it wouldn't coagulate. This and the bloody diarrhea suggested heat stroke, toxin, poison, snake bite and several others that I can't remember.

I went back to the waiting room and talked to Layne. I went back to the exam room and told them to put her down. She still had a very faint heartbeat but it was clear that there was no saving her. I stroked her fur while they administered the fluids that would set her free. Layne came back there too. The vet tried his best but there just was no saving Sheba.

We went back up front, another $300+++ went on my credit card. They asked us to pull around back and they brought her out on the gurney in a body bag. Layne picked her up and put her in the back of the truck. We came home.

We will bury Sheba this morning.

I googled bloody diarrhea and found it is called Hemoragic bloody diarrhea. Dogs can be saved, but action must be immediate and a vet in the neighborhood of RIGHT NOW. After hours, a vet on call somewhere out in the middle of nowhere and a drive to an emergency clinic over an hour away just doesn't qualify for right now. There is a list of causes but pretty much I don't know. I fed the dogs at 4:00 PM and they were fine. Somewhere between 4 and 6, Sheba went down, who knows how long she laid there. IF I had been standing right there and IF I the vet's office was open and IF I had got her there ASAP (40 minutes minimum) then possibly she might have been saved. It was not to be.

I'm gonna read her thread start to end and cry. :hit

Waiting on morning.

fuzzi · 2026-02-19T05:46:17-0600

Baymule said:
Oh Sheba,

I went to church yesterday at 6. It was just getting started when Layne came in, told me he had Sheba in the truck and she was sick. I told people my dog was sick and rushed out the door. Layne was feeding when I left for church, when he called the Anatolians to put them up for the night, they didn't come. They were laying out in the field. He walked out there and found Sheba laying in a pool of bloody diarrhea. Buford was laying next to her. Layne picked her up, but she was so heavy that he couldn't carry her. He drove the truck in the field and got her in the back seat. The seat id always folded up, with a blanket on the metal tray, that is where Carson rides. Always ready.

After hours, vet office closed, I called, left a message begging for a call back. I gave Layne the keys to my car, so he could go get his truck and go home. I headed for Crockett, figuring to sit in the parking lot until I got a call back. In the meantime. Layne was calling vets all over the place, but if you are not a client, they won't take you. He found an emergency clinic in Willis, so I turned around, picked him up and he drove to Willis. I kept a hand on Sheba, talking to her, she had more bloody diarrhea. We got to the emergency clinic, that's all they do, emergencys. I went in, a tech asked what were the symptoms and I replied nonresponsive. He ran out to the truck, Sheba couldn't even get up, much less walk in. He ran for a gurney and together he and Layne lifted the blanket and got her on the gurney and inside. I filled out paperwork while the vet gave her a quick exam. $600 went on my credit card and they got to work. The tech came out and asked me if I wanted them to do CPR, another $400. I got up and went to the exam room. They VAINLY tried to tell me that I couldn't go back there, yeah just try and stop me. They were taking blood, hardly any left. She was convulsing. Sheba was on oxygen, she was dying. I told them no. They continued working on her, blood pressure was extremely low, she still had a heart beat, stopped breathing, they jiggled the oxygen mask and she started breathing again. The tech put blood in several vials with different colored tops, then tried processing it but it wouldn't coagulate. This and the bloody diarrhea suggested heat stroke, toxin, poison, snake bite and several others that I can't remember.

I went back to the waiting room and talked to Layne. I went back to the exam room and told them to put her down. She still had a very faint heartbeat but it was clear that there was no saving her. I stroked her fur while they administered the fluids that would set her free. Layne came back there too. The vet tried his best but there just was no saving Sheba.

We went back up front, another $300+++ went on my credit card. They asked us to pull around back and they brought her out on the gurney in a body bag. Layne picked her up and put her in the back of the truck. We came home.

We will bury Sheba this morning.

I googled bloody diarrhea and found it is called Hemoragic bloody diarrhea. Dogs can be saved, but action must be immediate and a vet in the neighborhood of RIGHT NOW. After hours, a vet on call somewhere out in the middle of nowhere and a drive to an emergency clinic over an hour away just doesn't qualify for right now. There is a list of causes but pretty much I don't know. I fed the dogs at 4:00 PM and they were fine. Somewhere between 4 and 6, Sheba went down, who knows how long she laid there. IF I had been standing right there and IF I the vet's office was open and IF I had got her there ASAP (40 minutes minimum) then possibly she might have been saved. It was not to be.

I'm gonna read her thread start to end and cry.
Waiting on morning.

I am so sorry. There's no words or pictures that can express what I want to say.

Baymule · 2026-02-19T05:55:32-0600

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Since the dogs get wormed, I don't think it was worms. IBD, cancer, polyps and I don't know. The vet said rat poison, plus other things, but there is no poison. I think I would have to been standing over her and a vet clinic 2 miles away, to even had a chance of saving her. Layne mentioned ruptured polyps and bleeding out, or possible tumor that ruptured, possibilities. Maybe snake bite, but no swelling. If there was a snake bite, we would have to shave her whole body to find the bite marks in her thick fur. But who knows.

fuzzi · 2026-02-19T05:59:56-0600

My Cleo had a splenic tumor that ruptured at the vet's during an examination.

Weldman · 2026-02-19T06:31:34-0600

Damn, my condolences.
Vet here is so cheap it's not funny, they even sent a condolences card when the wife's cat passed away while in vet care. I would say poison of sorts.