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06-19-2007, 04:51 PM | #1 |
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| Sick Baby Hi. I have a sick baby and its not one of Kileys babies, they are fine and growing like weeds, i will post more pics as soon as I get them resized. This puppy is my 13 week old female chihuahua my husband got me for mothers day. About 3 weeks ago her hair started falling out on her side. Now she has none on the back of her legs and on one side and on her chest. I took her to the vet and she though it was just allergies since the skin scrape showed nothing. So I started the meds like she said. All was going ok and she had stopped scratching but the other night i noticed a bluish white spot in her eye. I made her an appointment with the vet for the only day I have off this week. Well tonight her entire right eye is the bluish white color. I cant tell if she can see out of it since she wont stay still long enough. She doesnt seem to be having any problems while walking around and is still eating and drinking ok. Any ideas on what this could be? Oh, shes 1 pound at 13 weeks so I believe she may be a smaller adult. |
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06-19-2007, 05:04 PM | #2 |
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| So sorry to hear about this. I don't have any experience with eye problems. My first guess with the white and blue would be either cataracts or blindness. Bless her heart, hopefully the vet will have good news. |
06-19-2007, 05:08 PM | #3 | |
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As for her eye, it sounds like she has a scratch on her cornea. Another idea is that maybe her eye isn't closing totally when she sleeps. check next time she is sleeping to make sure her eye is closing all the way. Either way the vet would need to treat the eye. sorry your having such problems with a new puppy hopefully she'll get better soon.
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06-19-2007, 05:40 PM | #4 | |
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Ill check on the eye closing thing. The lady he got her from said something about scratching her eye also, but it worried me when it started spreading throughout the eye. My husband got her to sit still for a sec and said he thought she could still see out of it. I hope its something that can be fixed and nothing too serious. Shes a great pup and shes the one that kiley was "mothering" before she had her pups. | |
06-20-2007, 03:05 AM | #5 | |
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glad its not demadex. that's such a pain in the arse to fix up. good luck clearing up her skin and her eye. keep us posted.
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06-20-2007, 04:02 AM | #6 |
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| As for the eye, I'm not going to say anything but maybe its a scratched cornia. My mother raises chi's so I know about the hair loss. She has one female (that she don't breed cause she dont want it passed down) that looses her hair one the back of her legs once in a while. Our vet can't find nothing wrong so what me Mother does to get rid of it is mixes cooking grease with her hard dog chow, they like the taste and it helps dry skin. All she does is whenever she grounds beef or something it drain the grease and poors it on the dry dog food. We had a abused Rot one time and when we got her she had NO hair at all, we thought it was mange but the vet confirmed that it wasn't so my mother gave her grease and also rubbed babyoil on her 4 times a day and the hair came back. Later we found the she was allergic to straw and she was tied to a doghouse with straw in it and that was why she lost her hair. Hope this helps. Good luck.
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06-20-2007, 04:21 AM | #7 |
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| aweee poor baby. i would let the breeder know asap. i hope everything turns out ok
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06-20-2007, 04:46 AM | #8 | |
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06-20-2007, 04:48 AM | #9 |
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| We did, she didnt seemed too concerned. She wondered why the first vet i took her too didnt give her a shot, I dont know either. But im taking her to the new vet I take kiley to today and see what she thinks. |
06-20-2007, 10:46 PM | #10 |
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| If I had to guess I say she may be or just shy of 2 pounds full grown! Tiny little thing! Glad to hear the pups are all doing well! My grandma had a chi. mix and he had allergies from about 8 weeks on. He mostly had allergies in the summer time and the vet put him on benadryl. Plus we added fish oil to his diet, once we did this his hair grow back and was healthier than ever! Hope everything turns out ok!
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06-21-2007, 04:31 AM | #11 |
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| Man, 2 pounds is small!! The breeder said she was suppose to be around 4. Well, thats fine too. Noone can exactly say how they will grow. I gave her benadryl and that seemed to help. It looks like her hair is growing back slowly, but her eye is still blue. We are off to the vet this afternoon. I can get fish oil from walmart cant I? Or is there a special kind for dogs? |
06-21-2007, 02:35 PM | #12 | |
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06-22-2007, 10:13 PM | #13 |
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| What did the vet say? When our male was just a few weeks old he started loosing his hair and we fould out he was allergic to the soil that the contracters were using to build our pool and we were allowing him to run around and play near it. We stopped that and all got better. Hope you find a simuliar solution! Good Luck!
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06-24-2007, 09:31 PM | #14 | |
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06-26-2007, 04:04 PM | #15 | |
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I got some fish oil today. Do i squeeze it into her food? Ive been putting baby oil on her and that seems to help with the dry skin and the hair looks like it is starting to grow back a little better now.
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