welcome to yorkie talk. i am truly sorry for your sudden loss of rusty, especially at such a young age. i sincerely hope that you have found much better help for your ziggy and leo and they are getting better. i wish the er clinic you took rusty to could have done more to help your poor baby. i have also had a bad experience with an er clinic, but i have fortunately found a different (im sure better based on recommendations) one in case of future emergencies and i suggest you do the same. first thought would be that they must have got into something? did you recently change their diet? did they eat any fatty, rich, spicy, or dairy table foods? has the vet determined what kind of worms were found and have they been treated for the parasite?
8/29/2010 i lost my precious baby girl nika to an extreme case of pancreatitis that was possibly hemorrhagic necrotizing pancreatitis. i woke up on a saturday morning to find her having bloody liquidy stools and vomitting. we rushed her right in to our dr's office but our regular vet was not in that day, she saw a dr we had never had before. they kept her for the day on fluids and ran bloodwork, stool tests, radiographs and made the above diagnosis. she was to go home for the evening as no one would be in overnight and come back first thing sunday morning for hospitalization again. later in the evening, nika collapsed and had a terrible seizure. i called 411 and found the after hours clinic a half hour away. we drove as fast as we could to get there, my fiance giving her kayro syrup the whole way to bring her sugar up, but she kept seizing. they finally had to give her valium to stop the seizing at the er. her temp was low too, they kept her on heating pads and on fluids. i visited her around 5am sunday morning, then went back to move her to the regular vet's office a little after 7am. 8 am the dr she saw the day before met with us to rehospitalize nika, she passed away around 930am. we have no clue what caused this to happen either. before that saturday morning, she was acting perfectly normal. eating, drinking, normal stool, etc. 30-some hours later, she was gone. it breaks my heart she passed so young. i think about her every day and miss her all the time. not knowing what the cause of this was doesn't help either. you will be in my thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. i wish i had more answers for you.
how are leo and ziggy doing now? are sophie and ella still doing ok?
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Originally Posted by SophieandZiggy  My 3 year old Yorkie/Maltese Rusty died on Monday 9/19/11 after a day of sudden vomiting and bleeding. He woke up that morning refusing to eat. I tried to feed him rice, boiled chicken breast and ground Venison burger.We have no idea what happened. I called the ER Vet clinic as soon as I saw him pass blood on Sunday afternoon. He passed some worms in the blood and the girl who answered the phone told me it was normal for a dog to pass blood and that as long as he was drinking he would be okay until I took him to my vet in the morning. I shouldn't have listened to her. I watched him all night long. At 6 am he had a seizure and collapsed. my husband called the ER vet and they said to bring him to my vet at 7:30. I took him to the ER clinic anyway because I knew he was dying. I got there at 6:36. The Dr. yelled at me and told me that my dog had been sick for along time and that he had been up all night with emergencies and he was leaving at 7 am. He gave my dog some subq. fliuds under the skin and put 2 hot water bottles on him to get his temp. back up and sent me out the door to my vet! I was in shock. We got to my vet at 7:20 and she took him in right away and tried to save him, with no luck.
The vet has no idea what caused this to happen. she doesn't think the worms had anything to do with it. Five days later my male mix Ziggy started the same thing. I rushed him to the vet that Saturday morning as soon as he passed the blood. he wasn't vomiting. They started him on atibiotics and doggy Pepto. I ended up rushing him to the ER vet that afternoon because he vomitted and passed more blood. They kept him on IV and gave him meds and he came home Sunday afternoon. Still no answer as to why this happened. MyBlack Lab Leo started passing blood 2 days later. My vet put him on meds and he cleared right up. They are running several tests on his stool to see what this might be.
The weird thing is that my girls Ella (a Yellow Lab) and Sophie (a Yorkie/Maltese) are fine. I would love to have some answers and both vets say we may never know the cause!  |