For two years it’s been like Dakota is at death’s door, but she keeps coming roaring back. She’s had two strokes, months apart. They caused her to stagger to the left, fall down, and just generally become a confused doggy. Suddenly, a week later, it’s like nothing ever happened. The vet said dogs just can do that.

Over the weekend we had a panic because Dakota had something akin to an asthma attack or a panic attack, and she couldn’t breath. Her terror was obvious and I felt so damn helpless. We were able to get our hands on a nebulizer that, over the course of an hour or so, helped immensely. The last half of the day she was resting comfortable, but didn’t want to eat (except bacon and left over pork ribs. She came running back from death’s door for those!)
Today shes 95% better, almost like nothing happened…except for the poop accidents here and there she had over night. But she even went outside this morning. She couldn’t do that yesterday. She’s not 100%, but I really thought we were going to lose her today and hoped to hell we could find a vet would would open for us (for posterity, it’s December 31st.) But she’s awake and alert now.

How is she recovering like this? Humans would be down for days or weeks or months.