[dwells1959]

Hi All,

Last evening we were playing with our little Harlie, she's 11 weeks old now. She was out in the yard doing Harlie stuff and started acting strange, shaking her head and scratching a lot. We took her in the house and looked at her real good and noticed her eyes and ears were reddish. We didn't know what she had gotten into so we drew a bath and scrubbed her up real fresh and clean. While we were bathing her she started vomiting. After she was all dried off, she just sat with my wife, wrapped in her favorite blanket.

I went ahead and went to bed as I'm an early riser, my wife stays up a couple hours later. This morning, my wife woke with me and started crying. I said "what's wrong" and she told me that she and my daughter had gone ahead and taken Harlie to the vet, it was her first visit since we've had her as we were waiting to get her second round of puppy vacs...my bad. The vet gave her an antihist and steroid shot because he thought she got stung by something...I found the fire ants this morning.

He did a full exam of our little pup and told my wife "Mrs. Wells, Harlie has a heart murmur". "What!!!" she started crying and questioning the doctor. He said on a scale of 1-6, it's a 3 and that she probably wouldn't outgrow it. He said that it's common in pure bred dogs and acted like we should get our money back from the breeder. We have fallen head over heels for this little girl and would never, ever part with her...we're very sad. Next week, a cardio doctor will make his round to our clinic, we'll have a sonagram run on her to see what's going on.

Have any of you out there faced this? What was the outcome? what should we expect and what should we do?

Thanks in advance to all who respond,

Don