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08-06-2012, 11:11 AM | #16 |
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| I'm so sorry Are you going to have a necropsy done? I don't know if I'd ever trust that friend again, as I have doubts about a little dog being able to run so fast and hard as to give himself a fatal brain injury. An injury, yes, but fatal? That just doesn't seem right to me. It would help to get a medical opinion one way or the other. Again, I am so so very sorry for the loss of your little one
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08-06-2012, 12:53 PM | #17 |
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| It is tragic. I have never heard of a dog killing it's self by running into a bookcase or anything else for that matter. I would question the vet to see if they think it is possible. At any rate you know the person you left the dog with and should know if they are really trust worthy or not. I doubt I would ever leave my pet in that person's care again. |
08-06-2012, 03:45 PM | #18 |
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| I'm so very sorry for your loss.
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08-06-2012, 04:12 PM | #19 |
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| Im so sorry for your loss! I thought their skulls were very strong? Nia is always hitting her head on things and she is fine. |
08-06-2012, 04:21 PM | #21 | |
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08-07-2012, 04:54 AM | #22 | |
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When my Gracie was 13 weeks old I was sitting on the bed with her as she and a kitten smaller than she were wrestling around. I looked away for a second and next thing I knew she was on the floor (a 4' drop). She injured her back leg and we were off to the vet. (that gravity again!) Thankfully, no fracture but she could not bare weight on it for 2 days and limped for a week and a half. I know it could have been much worse. I took my bed out of the frame after that event. | |
08-07-2012, 06:56 AM | #23 | |
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Yes, I have heard of this happening. It seems they hit their head just in a certain spot that can make this happen. I know one person their dog ran into a tree while running around out side and the same thing happened.
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09-10-2012, 08:35 AM | #24 |
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| I am so very sorry for your loss, that is tragic and suspicious at best. If an adult or teen, preteen fully steps on the paw of a standard Yorkie (7 lbs or less) that Yorkie isn't going to go tearing off around the house fast as lightning out of fear. A dog of that size has the immediate reaction to lift that paw up in the air and limp around while they try to understand what just happened to their paw. If he or she stepped on it hard enough to cause your dog to be in pain it wouldn't be running with near enough inertia to cause an injury of that extent to the head; my non-expert opinion. It would be like a human stubbing all five toes and then running full-speed. I wouldn't do that; would you? Someone stepping on our naked foot isn't even the same, as we aren't being stepped on by someone *literally* 20 times our weight. Additionally, if the specialist doing the necropsy stated it was a "hemorrhage in the brain caused by violence against the head" ...."violence to the head" means exactly that. Hitting a spot on the head "just right" on the bookcase wouldn't bring about that finding on the necropsy report. This is just SO very sad. I wouldn't let that friend watch your pets anymore...even if by some miracle of miracles they're telling the truth (which I do not believe they are). To clarify: if the dog just randomly ran into the bookcase while running full-force and playing then YES I can see this happening...but I can't see it happening with the rest of the story (the paw injury). Praying for discovery and emotional healing to you and yours. Last edited by YorkOfTheShire; 09-10-2012 at 08:40 AM. |
09-10-2012, 08:40 AM | #25 |
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09-10-2012, 09:11 AM | #26 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | So very sorry for your loss! Such a tradegy. Perhaps you can question your vet a little more about this "injury". Namely given the area of the brain that haemorraghed, was the skull at that point (presumably the point of impact), weakened in any way? In your opinion, how hard a "knock" to the head would have been necessary to cause this death? And yes I have heard of this happening, most especially to young pups, but being dropped from a height. You didn't mention the age of the dog that died. Even in humans are skulls do have stronger versus weaker places. Some bones are thicker than others. I'm not sure if your friend actually linked the I stepped on his toes, to the running away from him and hitting his head. I do know that you are from Sweden, and perhaps English is not your first language, so maybe something is lost in translation? Logically, it doesn't seem to fit together. I just on Sunday stepped on my Yorkies toes! He yelped (a lot), picked up his paw, and he certainly was not running anywhere. I of course picked him up, and examined carefully all of his toe digits, and ankles. Thankfully he was fine! My condolences once again for your loss.
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09-10-2012, 01:07 PM | #27 |
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| I was thinking the same thing that YorkoftheShire said. If their foot is stepped on they are not going to take out running. I do believe they can be running and playing and run into something if they are running fast through the house and fatally injury themselves. We have seen it happen right here to someone's baby that hit the wall running real fast. In this case, something is just not right. I would not trust your friend to watch another one if I were you. So sorry about that precious baby. What a tragedy. RIP little one. |
09-10-2012, 01:22 PM | #28 |
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| I am so sorry for your loss. Yes, it is very possible for you dog to have ran into something to cause it's death. A couple of years ago I spoke with someone that lost their small adult yorkie when it was playing and ran it into a piece of furniture and it died from a head injury. Dogs all react differently when they get their toes stepped on. Some will just yelp and other will quickly turn and run. If your yorkie was not real close to the person you left her with then I can understand her turning and running. I am sure your friend is very sorry for what happened.
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09-11-2012, 04:09 AM | #29 |
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| I am very sorry about what happened to your baby. My sincerest condolences, and I hope you get to the bottom of it all...and the truth of what happened to help relieve your grief.
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09-11-2012, 06:20 AM | #30 |
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| So sorry for your loss I do not know if this is possible or not but I would be questioning my friend a whole lot more that is for sure. I know that mine tend to hit their heads on the coffee table a whole lot while running around the house but never has one gotten hurt. I truly am sorry for you
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