Please help
 

Sunday I lost my beautiful Bella. Little miss attitude would have been one yesterday. We miss her so much. One minute she was playing and the next she was gone. I was outside watering my plants with her beside me trying to bite the water as usual. She got wet so i told my daughter to get a towel and dry her off. About 30-45 minutes later i went inside. Bella was laying on the floor. She still had her head up but other than that she wasn't moving around. She had something sticky around her mouth so at first i thought she got into something. i looked around but no there wasn't anything. i realized later that it must has been phlegm? I called for my husband and we rushed her to the hospital. I kept talking to her and she would open her eyes. At the hospital they said they had to put her on a respirator and then she became unresponsive. She died within an hour of getting there. I asked if maybe she had swallowed some water and they said "highly unlikely". they think maybe a defect like possibly congestive heart failure because it was so quick. i talked to her vet yesterday after she got the report and she said that bella's heart has always sounded good and her bloodwork when she was spayed was perfect. What happened to my baby? what could i have done? i keep going over it and over it.
The only other thing that happened recently was that she hurt her leg and since the vet was closed we took her to the same hospital. this was about 3 weeks ago. they gave her a shot of rimadyl and a rx. now i'm reading on here that rimadyl isn't good. but this wasn't liver and she hasn't had any for 2 weeks. i didn't even give her the whole rx. just for about 4 days. but if she did already have an undiagnosed heart problem?? I should have checked to see what they were giving her. Oh i miss my baby so much.
Does anyone have any ideas? Any similar experience?
I love you, Bella. forever.

I am so very sorry. RIP sweet girl.

First let me say that I am so sorry for your loss....Could it have been an allergic reaction to something, maybe from an insect?

I am so sorry...
When your daughter was drying her off and put her down, was she ok then?

I am so sorry for your loss. RIP Sweet Bella.

I am so sorry :( I think this was probably bee sting or bug bite not Rimadyl. Sounds like she went into anaphylactic shock and stopped breathing as throat swells shut. This is why when a first bee sting I tell people to rush to hospital bc you do not know if they are allergic to it or not and if allergic it can happen so fast. It happened to my mom's co-workers dachsund and it happened to my dh friend a grown man on golf course as he forgot his EPI pen when golfing with buddies and it cost him his life.

I really do not think there was anything you could have done if she was somewhere in house and you did not see her as sometimes dogs hide when they are sick too :(

If it was rimadyl your dog would have had signs 2 weeks prior as they vomit and have diarrhea not an immediate reaction usually with that.

Again I am so sorry but this may help you understand better what may have happened to ease the pain in regards to the medication.

Without a necropsy it is hard to tell exactly but that is just my gut from what you described below.

thank you
 

for your kind responses.

my daughter told me later that when she took bella inside bella just let her dry her off which is unusual. she usually puts up a little bit of resistance. then she went and lay down in her bed. she thought she was just tired.

i guess i have to resign myself to never knowing what happened to her and try to live with that. I love her so much even tho she's only one. last year i lost my little roxie. she was almost 12 years old. a neighbor's dog came into our yard and bit her while she was right by my porch. we put up a fence around our yard for bella to protect her when she played outside so she would be safe. It just doesn't seem fair. I didn't hesitate to take her to the vet or hospital. Why did this happen? I just want my feisty little sweetheart back.

throat swell
 

the only thing about that is that i think they would have noticed if her throat was swollen when they put the tube down to help her breathe?

yeah you are right - wow this is so sad :( I guess the medication is possible but I think she would have showed some GI upset signs over that two weeks as usually it affects kidneys and livers and dogs will show signs of those diseases.

This is just so tragic and so upsetting as you try to do the right things and sometimes things just happen and it is so unfair and leaves us with so many unanswered questions.

Just know she is running around at the rainbow bridge with all the rainbow babies

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Oh no! I am so sorry for your loss!

I am truly sorry for your loss. My little girl passed away 11 days ago, and I understand the pain you are feeling. This is so tragic for you and your family.