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fifeandshaffer · 03-06-2012, 06:12 PM

Did you call your breeder to let them know? Not sure I agree that ct isn't expensive to treat, I had two dogs that had ct if money wasnt teh issue for me, the same dig with the ct had lp grade 4 and legs perthies needed 2 hip surgeries and two knee surgeries he got before he turned one, when he was 5 when his ct started he was tested at both penn and cornell but he was not a candidate for trachea surgery or I would have had it done. most f the time my dog had an attack he ended up at the er, money was not the issue for me the lack of being able to help him was but the tests the washes the vet visits the oxygen I had at home for him, like I said it wasn't about the money for me but just on his ct issues in the three years he lived with it was thousands of dollars. When he was not in the middle of an attack he was fine for the most part but during an attack we coule be at the vets a few times. I really hope your dog does not have it, it's heartbreaking, a noise I never wanted to hear again,when fife would make that noise it was like a dagger in my heart then he would stop for a few minutes often times I would be so scared to check on him. I can't tell yiu how many times I would drive to the vet saying this is it this is it,,, then we would get to the vet she would make him stable we would go home the next few days he was ok, then a few days after that you never knew he was sick, just hoping the next attack wouldn't happen. My fife has been gone almost two years now, my shaffer almost a year, shaffers came on much worse that fifes did from the start he only had three attacks and I needed to put him out of his misery, where my fife lived for three years with ct and pretty comfortable for most it, he was one spunky little dog... A medical nightmare born Cryptorchid, then his knees hips, then the ct, but I could have 100 dogs and never another that loved me like that little dog did. My shaffer has been gone almost a year not a day goes by that I don't miss either of them,,, a few months ago I got called for a study about ct in yorkies, with stem cells but it was to late for my dogs, but I hope they can figure out a fix, or bad breeders stop it's heartbreaking for the owners and the dogs. Please call your breeder so they stop breeding those parents.

03-06-2012, 06:12 PM	#13
fifeandshaffer YT Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: cherry hill, nj usa Posts: 306	Did you call your breeder to let them know? Not sure I agree that ct isn't expensive to treat, I had two dogs that had ct if money wasnt teh issue for me, the same dig with the ct had lp grade 4 and legs perthies needed 2 hip surgeries and two knee surgeries he got before he turned one, when he was 5 when his ct started he was tested at both penn and cornell but he was not a candidate for trachea surgery or I would have had it done. most f the time my dog had an attack he ended up at the er, money was not the issue for me the lack of being able to help him was but the tests the washes the vet visits the oxygen I had at home for him, like I said it wasn't about the money for me but just on his ct issues in the three years he lived with it was thousands of dollars. When he was not in the middle of an attack he was fine for the most part but during an attack we coule be at the vets a few times. I really hope your dog does not have it, it's heartbreaking, a noise I never wanted to hear again,when fife would make that noise it was like a dagger in my heart then he would stop for a few minutes often times I would be so scared to check on him. I can't tell yiu how many times I would drive to the vet saying this is it this is it,,, then we would get to the vet she would make him stable we would go home the next few days he was ok, then a few days after that you never knew he was sick, just hoping the next attack wouldn't happen. My fife has been gone almost two years now, my shaffer almost a year, shaffers came on much worse that fifes did from the start he only had three attacks and I needed to put him out of his misery, where my fife lived for three years with ct and pretty comfortable for most it, he was one spunky little dog... A medical nightmare born Cryptorchid, then his knees hips, then the ct, but I could have 100 dogs and never another that loved me like that little dog did. My shaffer has been gone almost a year not a day goes by that I don't miss either of them,,, a few months ago I got called for a study about ct in yorkies, with stem cells but it was to late for my dogs, but I hope they can figure out a fix, or bad breeders stop it's heartbreaking for the owners and the dogs. Please call your breeder so they stop breeding those parents.