I hope little Cosmo continues to improve. I know you don't want him to suffer but on the other hand you certainly don't want to give up on him to soon. I have never had a yorkie with ct but I can only imagine that it is a pretty scary thing to witness.
I just want to point out that sometimes collapsed trachea can also be brought on by dogs getting into things they should not. I know a lady that had two young pups around 10 weeks old that suddenly started having breathing problems. They rushed them to the vet and the vet said they had collapsed trachea, he ran all the test that did show the trachea had collapsed. The owner was considering putting them to sleep because the vet suggested surgery, which was very expensive and no guarantee it would help them. They took the pups home and kept them on medication and they appeared to be improving. Not long after that the owners discovered the puppies had chewed on a paint brush that had been used to apply some kind of insulation. The owners took the pups to a different vet for a second opinion and that vet told them the stuff the pups got into cause their trachea to collapse. Luckily for the owner the pups recovered but it makes me wonder how many times a breeder gets blamed for a collapsed trachea when it was really caused by some chemical the dog got into. We have to be so careful of these little ones because they will chew on just about anything. |