A Belfast dog who died after a gruelling 18 day fight for life, has prompted a leading university to expand research into the disease that killed him to help prevent deaths in other pets.
Toby, a long haired Dachshund died on March 30 after contracting a mystery illness, in Belfast. Like many other dogs in Northern Ireland, first signs of sickness were lethargy and a loss of appetite, followed by diarrhoea and vomiting.
Now the researchers at the University of Liverpool are calling on Northern Ireland vets to send them as much data as possible to boost the study whose hashtag is #datasaveslives.
