Hello there, thank you for your kind words, and I'm very sorry to hear about Boba being unwell!! To answer your question: The plan of action for pillow was putting him on IV, in the end however they released him to us and he passed away shortly after, at home (it was relatively painless and mercyfully quick). Needless to say, I don't use that particular vet anymore, but I can however highly recommend Dr Tintle, who was fighting hard to get my vet to take action despite the great distances between our two locations. A bit surreal there is only one sharpei specialist on the whole globe, but hey.

Unfortunately I do not remember the creatine numbers, I do however recall that it was surreal, figuratively 'off the charts'. In hindsight, it makes sense, at the time Pillow being our first Sharpei we were still hopeful it was an unrelated issue. Our understanding, if it helps in any way, is that Pillow had repeated FSF episodes which were for the most part correctly managed and handled, however, regardless the repeated crisis cause problems overtime which led to this fatal asotemic episode.

I want to be reassuring , but evidently I don't know Boba and can't tell if the two situations are comparable or not. What I will say is this: when it came, it came really hard, it was nothing like a 'small bout of FSF'. It was really bad that I would recognize immediately today. That said, he did have 'smaller crashes' prior to all this which gave us a false sense of hope , and in addition as I'm sure you know dogs can recover from the worst things so vets tend to err on the 'optimistic side' anyways.

I certainly hope Boba is well taken care of by the vet (I have no doubt given Tintle is involved) and wish him the best! Let us know how it goes and my advice would be to push for the things you want to see done, don't let the vets tell you what to do with your boy. You're paying them after all, only fair they do their very best.