| Pepper, who I had adopted as a pregnant, homeless teenager, lost 4
of her litter from this kind of a problem. Pnemonia symptoms set in,
and by the time I got them to the vet, (within hours), it was too late.
2 of them died right away, the other 2, I was givem mediction for,and
stayed up diligently taking care of them, but they passed away
overnight. It was just too severe.
Denise
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| Would I be out of place with a success story here? Hope not 'cause
here it comes anyway.
Back in my "single" days I had Sylvester, who was black and white,
looked and acted like his cartoon namesake. While on vacation I
boarded him and his canine big sister with a vet a now nonexistant
Brighton veterinarian. While he was there I felt the time was right to
have him altered, which they did.
After a week there I picked them up,they seemed ok but by the next
morning I was awakened with the dog coughing and a bloody nose, she had
Kennel cough, and the cat absolutely unable to breath with congestion.
I didn't wait but found myself at the vets (Belmont Animal Hospital)
without an appt by 8am. The dog did well, the bloody nose evidently is
a symptom of kennel cough, but I came very close to loosing Sylvester.
After several ify days of high level anitbiotics and lots of TLC he
recovered slowly, and the end result was that he was anemic for which I
had to bring him daily for 2 weeks for an iron shot. He lived for
several more years, but did himself in by chewing on a plastic coat
hanger, a piece lodged in his intestine and he didn't survive the
surgery. (This is the cat I described in an earlier note, who got even
with me by chomping through phone cords! and thought hard plastic was a
dietary suppliment!)
Lyn
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