 Oscarito
Hello there!!
This is actually my first time in this forum. My husband introduced me to it. We are going through a though time. We lost our little Oscar on 11/17/05. We have Chiquito (a long hair Chihuahua) and Kiki a calico cat. We got OScar when he was 3 months old, we gave him so much love just like the other guys. Oscar only lived 2 years and 9 months a very short life but full of love. It is so painful, he was my baby, he was my sweetie pie, he was my little angel, my papito, my papi chulo, he was my life I've told my husband several times that I was born to spoil him and my other pets of course. The house is so full of him, that is hard not to think about him and not cry and not to feel the pain that I feel. I see him everwhere in the house, everthing reminds me of him. I don't understand some things in life and his death is one of those things.
I was in Mexico on vacation and my husband stayed home to take care of the babies(Chiquito, Oscar and Kiki) and one day he told me that OScar started vomiting, he took him to the vet and gave him antibiotics, the next day he kept throwing up, husband took him to vet again, gave him more antiobitcs, third day husband takes him to the emergency room. They didn't find anything wrong, gave him liquids. Monday regular vet decides to keep him with him he suspected it was his liver. I called him several times fron Mexico to check on him and to talked to the vet and asked if I needed to come back home. He said it wasn't life threathneing. Tuesday husband calls me and tells me that they had found a hole on Oscar's neck. everybody thought it was a spider bite. Tuesday afternoon vet calls husband to tell him to take Oscar to a Veterinary Internists Hospital. I decided to came back home. Wednesday morning I went to see OScar to tell him that mommy was here and that everthing was going to be fine and that he was going to come back home to play with his brother and sister.Wednesday evening the vet interninsts calls to tell us that they had founf a worm on OScar's neck and that was a cuterebra fly, that they had taken it out but he wasn't doing good because they were afraid that his organs weren't working right. They were going to do surgery(of course with our approval) to try to feed him but they were afraid that he wasn't going to make it, he was already weak, but they offered me a chance to save him and I took it. I wanted to see my little angel back home and well. Thursday morning we went to see him again and he was in pain this time. They had shave part of his neck and they were going to drain the rest of that area of course they had to open his neck and that was too much for his little 4 pounds body to handle. Doctor calls us to give her the ok to put him to sleep becasue her and other doctors had been working on him for an hour and his little heart ha stopped but his brain and other parts of his body were still working, we thought that was too much for him we didn't want him to suffer more. So now he is at the rainbow bridge waitning for us to meet him there one day. HE must be with his big cat brother that he didn't get to meet in real life but they both know that they are brothers becasue they come from the same mother and father.
Cuterebra fly species are also known as botflies, and they are opportunistic in that they use the small mammals (dogs, cats, rabbits, squirrels, etc.) to complete their life cycle.
The adult files are large and do not feed on or bite animals. Eggs are deposited around animal burrows and low-lying vegetation, stones, and objects. The eggs stick on the animal host as the host passes by, and then the eggs hatch in response to the body heat of the animal. The hatched larvae enter the body through the mouth or nose during grooming, or less commonly, through an open wound in the animal or the animal can breathe in the fly since it is a very small one. The larvae then migrate to specific areas on the body under the skin. The larvae make a small hole in the skin to breathe, and roughly 30 days later, they exit the animal host, pupate on the ground, and become an adult fly.
Oscarito was an indoor dog as well as chikis and Kiki, but we will left him out to pee in the backyard and with me always keeping an eye on them will never left them out ther for a long time because there are some hawks around here. Every doctor or vet have told us that this is a very rare case in a dog.Even on the web we haven't founf a single case of those parasites on a dog most of them are in cats, squirrels and other animals.
One day my husband (who also feels the loss of our baby as much as I do) showed me this forum that he had found and that's how I ended up writing our story. We are still hurt and we know is going to take a while but in the meantime we don't wawnt to celebrate anything or talk about it with other people, because sometimes other people don't see pets the way we see them.
Thanks for listening, or reading.
Veguroev |