A nice lady emailed YHR last night about her puppy (Mindy) who has been very sick for a couple of weeks. I made arrangements for her to meet me this morning at GCVS in Houston. The puppy has severe ascites and has been losing protein. She also has not been eating. Her vet has not been able to determine what is wrong so he had suggested internal medicine. Sadly, the cost was too much for her and she just wanted her puppy to be ok so she reached out to rescue because the breeder refused to help in any way at all. It kills me to take puppies from people like this lady. All she cared about was that Mindy get proper care. The breeder could have cared less...just tossed another puppy (the brother of this one) at her and refused to help in any other way.
So.....the initial thoughts are that she either has portal hypertension, mvd or a shunt...or something else??? They just called me to let me know the results of her ultrasound. They found a large vessel that they called "weird". They are not sure what it is.
She will have a CTscan on Monday. In the meantime they are doing blood work on her, including BATs.
Problem list on admission:
1 Severe ascites
2 Low blood protein levels
3 Electrolyte abnormalites
4 Increased Heart Rate
I am at a loss.....this is new territory for me. I just hope she has something that we can fix. She is not on the YHR site yet, but will be later tonight.
Prayers appreciated...little darling is going to need lots of them.
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