When my girl just had it, I had noticed she was a little "off", but as she is prone to pancreatitis, started treating for that...but it went bad quickly. It was honestly the scariest thing I have ever been through (and as an ECE, I've seen my share of vomiting and diarrhoea...but she had a bout in the crate on the way to the hospital, and my entire car smelled like blood. In one of the blogs I read, it was said that owners liken it to seeing their animals covered in blood and in a "slaughter house". That is not an exageration...although it took the vet a day or so to diagnose (HGE is determined by ruling everything else out), my girl exhibited symptoms that appeared perfectly in keeping with everything I had read. When I went to visit her, her second night in the hospital, I had to call her twice to get her to lift her head and look at me...but then as I lay down beside her she snuggled in...I'll never forget that night, nor will I ever take her presence here with me for granted ever again....She's better now (pretty well back to normal), but I'm going to work on building her immune system and keeping her stress to a minimum... |