Hello all,
I am writing this on behalf of someone else to see if anyone could be of assistance:
My mom was "puppy-sitting" her neighbors 2 recently rescued Pomeranians. Sunday night my mom called me, one Pom, Cinnamon, who is about 1.5 years old, kept staggering and falling down. I told my mom this sounded like hypoglycemia, so she administered Karo syrup, but it did not fix the problem. So she took the little one to the Emergency Vet in our area, where they determined her red blood cell count was extremely low. They did a blood transfusion yesterday. From what I've read, it seems like she was anemic, which the causes are pretty vague (kidney issues, parasites, etc.) The vet has said, "the likelihood of treating her again successfully would be unlikely" - and that she will be on meds for awhile.
She was adopted from a shelter about 2 months ago at 1.5 years, and came to the shelter pregnant, where she had one pup (not sure if this would be related to her issue)
Her neighbor will not be back until Sunday, and little Cinnamon will be monitored by a vet until then. I was just wondering if anyone else had a similar situation with anemia. Even though she's a non-yorkie (and not even my pet), I know you all understand
Thank you!