I know that this is not an emergency anymore.. But my heart is broken and I need to understand what happened.
We bought a 2-months yorkie a week ago (on 3/8, 500g), very small but an active and playful puppy. All family immediately fell in love with him.
On the third day a vet that we visited and who was recommended by our friend checked our puppy and told us that he was in good condition and we should visit him for the second vaccination in a week (today actually). (The puppy had his first vaccination on 3/3/09 (canine distemper, parvo, influenza.., modified live virus).
We bought a new dry food for him at the vet's clinic next day and started to mix it with his food that we got from the shop as the vet recommended. Also, following our vet's
recommendations we started to reduce his food intake from 5 to 3 times a day. Everything seemed fine. No diarrhea or other bad things. On Friday he was very playful, ate quite good, on
Saturday morning everything seemed the same. But around 12 pm he started having rapid breath and gagging like he wanted to vomit. It wasn't look very awful or serious but definitely weird, so we decided to take him to the vet as we worried about such a small creature. The vet said that the puppy had no fever and he seemed to have stomach problems and then he injected an antibiotic with glucose. That was really awful. Poor puppy cried for 5 mins while the "doctor" tried to find his vein. After he made a shot in puppy's neck at last, he said that in no case we should give the puppy a water and food, till next morning. Next morning it was suggested to give a medicine with honey (also antibiotic).
We brought our puppy home at 5 pm and he almost immediately had a first seizure. We called our vet but he told us to follow his recommendations and advise us to go to another doctor next morning as he was leaving. We kept the puppy without water (!) and food. But it got worse and worse, more seizures followed, saliva and nasal discharge developed, gagging got worse: it looked like rapid breath and cough all together, his small body was trembling and shaking all the time. At 1 am we went to another vet but when we arrived he was closed already.
All night long poor puppy was screaming and crying and we couldn't know how to help him or to ease his suffering.
In the morning (6am) when we decided to give him a medicine, he was already not able to stand. He became even smaller. He died at 7 am on our way to another vet.
We are in shock, children especially, we are all crying.. Everything happened so fast, we just hadn't time to treat the poor creature and even to realize what was going on.
I understand now that we should have go to a vet and ask for some investigation but in our grief and desperateness that nobody would ever bring our puppy back we just went and buried him..
Now we desperately try to find any explanation.. was it our fault? Living in a foreign country, lack of communication and a language barrier make it almost impossible to find a truth and any reasonable explanation...
Can anyone please explain what it could be?.. Disease, allergic reaction, shock, distemper?..