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Originally Posted by PrestigeousYT  I am wishing you the best with him. Very likely he will outgrow this.
My son had a heart murmur and he is fine today 19 years later almost 20 years
I will tell you with mine you could FEEL it if you held them and if you take a stethoscope and listen it sounds like a washer chugging (what mine has)
Also I noticed mine was not wanting to nurse really well one I tube fed from 2 weeks of age. So that really was heartbreaking since I tube fed him and was already so attached and then to find out he was so sick. I could see bluing around his mouth too.
But he will be celebrating his 2nd birthday in May and has had no medicine and no special diets but he is monitored and may have to go on meds later.
I did loose his brother at 8 months but his diagnosis was grave from the beginning.
One thing I learned was some Vet schools will allow you to try to save them by surgery without explaining that you have a size issue, my pups at 20 ounces they vets were willing to try to do surgery, but I knew that the size limitation was an issue, had I not known that I would have been paying a very high price for them to basically be put down.
the UT vet school was the only one that told me if they didn't get to be at least 8 lbs don't do surgery for Pulmonic Stenosis it will just kill them.
Deana
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He is 2 pounds now at almost 10 weeks. I doubt that he will get to be much over 3 1/2 pounds. He was fragile right from the beginning but I never had to tube feed. I just had to watch so the others would not push him off. We didn't even have his tail docked because he was so fragile.