dogbert | 07-29-2008 12:35 PM | My Yorkie Has Been Sick (LONG) :( She started throwing up on Sunday afternoon, I took her to the vet yesterday and today. She is better today, they think it may be from stress and heat. She went to a sitter on Saturday while we went to a wedding about an hour and a half from our home. They opened the door to carry in some things from their car and she bolted out and ran as fast as she could for quite a ways. She was caught by some strangers who took her to the vet who was closed. Our son met them there and took her home till we could pick her up later that evening. She has separation anxiety, and hates being away from me. We can only assume she was trying to run home or to me when she bolted out the door. I am so thankful she didn't get hit by a car. I pray she is back to her old self soon. Her temp was lower today and her blood work looked good except one thing. The Vet said not to panic it's probably because she was throwing up. She's never bolted out the door at our house so it never crossed my mind to warn them she might do that. One thing everyone said who was trying to catch her was "I've never seen a dog run so fast in my life!" There were four people trying to catch her. She was described by our son as a "brown cruise missile". His girlfriend said the dog has some great evasive football moves.
I had a new tag made for her collar yesterday, it has our home and two cell phone numbers on it as well as her name, our last name, city and state on it. She also wears a rabie tag but the vet is not in the same town as we live. The other tag has that info plus two cell phone numbers for our kids for when we are out of town. I will just switch tags when we are out of town. There wasn't anything we could do from where we were when we got the call Saturday, but both our kids were in town however. We were literally 5 miles from the church when we got the phone call saying what was going on. The tag she was wearing, her rabie tag and honest/caring strangers are what got her home to us. Thank God! |