My husband & I are constantly watching Hollee as she is so fast..much like lightening. When we open doors we are careful to see she doesn't shoot out first. We have had two occasions recently where she shot out the front door before we had put a foot out ourselves and ran up the road with us running after her.
This afternoon I needed to go out the front door as I was holding a Christmas Decoration to put up on the front door & of course she was there..I told her No..stay inside and I gently eased myself out with my foot keeping her in but I couldn't see her anymore, I closed the door which is a large pivot door. She started screaming & screaming..she had tried to get out through the gap at the other side of the door and I hadn't seen. Luckily I was doing it very slowly as I thought I was keeping her in on my side. I picked her up and she just screamed. My husband came running and took her as I was so upset..suddenly she was quite as she had seen her best friend our dachie. She wanted down and ran to her. Since this happened she has been very quite & shocked. I took her and sat with her calming her. Then gave her glucose water for the shock & went to my bed with her to keep her quite. With her blanket around her.
I checked her out and found a small soft tissue swelling at the back of her neck which I put a cold compress on. I phoned our emergency vet & told her what had happened. I asked about anti-inflams. But she said no, its very tricky giving them to such a small dog. I was so reluctant to take her to the vet as they often keep them in just for observation & Hollee would have been so stressed to be left there again. She's had her fair share of vets and hospital when she was younger. She is now 4 1/2 mths and weighs 1.1kg. The vet agreed with all I had done and said as long as there was no sign of pain, crying, whimpering, seizures, loss of consciousness & that she was walking and moving her head in all directions, I could keep her at home. But I had to assess her in an hour if not happy bring her in. She walks fine and even ran to her basket. She is moving her neck in all directions with no sign of pain. She also ate a nice dinner and i carried her outside for a wee. Which she did.
My concern is she is sleeping a lot and very subdued. But at this time of night she would be with me sleeping. When she is awake she is very quite sits up and looks around, but no spark. Anyone had experience with something similar..and if so what did you do. I am so close to running to the vet, my husband saids she is in shock and just needs warmth love reassurance and hydration. He saids this because she is showing no signs of broken bones or obvious trauma to her neck.I feel so sick that I did this to her.. Any advice welcome. Luv Ave x
