Originally Posted by broodizt (Post 2863690)

Hi everyone,

This is a LONG post. Please forgive me for writing such a long post, but I am so worried and I want to include all the facts.

In the middle of October, we went back east (from California), for a funeral. I was discouraged from taking my two girls with me (Cassie and Muffin) by family and friends so I boarded them at the Vets, who i have used for a LONG time and never had any problem with. I was reluctant to leave them for so long (12 days) but I consented to leave them because I trusted the Vet. I came home on the 27th of October and picked them up. They were in deplorable condition. Both were knotted so bad, I had to cut knots out of them-mostly Muffin. The knots were impeding her walking. They are both scratching alot. Muffins eyes were so encrusted she could barely open them. She was due for a shot (I think it was for Kennel Cough) and so she was given that at the Vets. When I go to pet her around her head and ears and eyes, she seems to squeal and cry out in pain, or fear. Muffin has never been a fearful dog, now she will not walk into rooms, she is very clingy and wants to be held all the time, she will not play with her toys, and has coughed 2-3 times in a day, every day, and I'm afraid it sounds like a collapsed trachea. Muffin has always been very active, full of the devil. very curious and happy, and loves to play catch with her toys. She is a completely different dog. She will not play with her toys, is fearful and wants to be held and wants to sleep in my arms all the time. And she has cried out several times, seemingly in pain, as I mentioned before. She is just not the same dog I left in October. I have left them last year with this same Vet when our ceiling collapsed and we were living in a motel for about two months, and they were not in this condition. To make matters worse, this Vet's office staff called us about 5 hours after we got home and told us they gave us an extra $50 back, which they did not. THey were training a new person and could not balance the books at the end of the day, and so they decided that they gave us too much money. When I told them we didn't have it they got mad and hung up. Was I supposed to pay them the money they were out just to appease them. We really did not have an extra $50, and if we did and we owed it i would certainly have paid it. So now I am looking for another Vet, a naturiopathic, Holistic Vet in Southern California, and they are not easy to find or come by. But anyway, Muffins behavior is completely changed. Does it sound like she has been abused? Do you think the shot they gave her could have been done wrong and hurt her? Could it have been given somewhere around the head area? They were certainly neglected. They both came back underweight, and they only weight 2-3 lbs each respectively anyway-(Cassie and Muffin). Do you think Muffin may have kennel cough in spite of the shot she got, or worse, a collapsed trachea? I don't know what to do, I am so worried. Should I Pay the money they say we owe, even though we do not owe it, just to appease them? As I've said before, we have left them many times, and last year, for a lot longer, (6 weeks to 2 months when our ceiling collapsed and we were living in a motel). But they were a year younger then. We only just got muffin then and she was only 5 months and Cassie was only a year and a half, so maybe that is a factor. Anyway, please forgive this long post, but I just wanted to include everything I could think of. Any responses would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance to all who have had the patience and tenacity to read through this entire message. Shellie

Originally Posted by broodizt (Post 2875016)

Hi all,

So much has happened since I last updated everybody. I tried to do an update a few days ago, but by the time I finished writing it, the site logged me out and I LOST the whole post!!! This happened to me several times before, so I got really discouraged because my post was so long and so detailed, and then to lose it all-ugh. And then I got sick-I mean VIOLENTLY ill with some sort of stomach flu or food poisoning or something. Over the weekend I was so sick I couldn’t even feed Muffin and Cassie, my Dad had to do it for me.

So today, well, I missed the appointment with my wonderful holistic Vet, because I was still so weak and still feeling some stomach pain. Later in the day, however I was starting to feel better when I noticed something about Muffin, that her head was tilted to the side. I thought she had been looking at me quizzically, you know, how when they are listening to you they tilt their heads to the side? But then I noticed that she was always looking at me like that, so I thought that was strange and picked her up and tried (very gently) to straighten her neck, and she screamed and I stopped immediately. I was so upset I called my local Vet (the one who’s staff member practically accused us of stealing $50) and I told the girl there what was going on with Muffin, and how I was so upset I was looking for a different Vet. She appologized for the other girl, who she said “sometimes gets like that”, and told me she could get me in, in a half hour. I went to see my Vet and told her everything from the beginning. To make a long story short, she examined Muffin and told me she thought she was blind in the right eye and she sent me to a Veterinary Hospital to see an ophtamologist or a neurologist. She did not charge me for the appointment but denied all wrong doing or accidents or any thing that could have caused this with Muffin. We went to the hospital and they did some preliminary tests. They say there is something really wrong with muffin. There may be some neurologic damage in the brain, she may have encephalitis or something else. I have to bring her back tommorrow, as there was no neurologist there at the time, this was just an internal medicine doc. They concur with the findings of my local Vet about the blindness in one eye, also her back leg is not functioning. I am in such grief,that I cannot even breath. They wanted me to leave her there over night, but I said no,I will never ever leave her anywhere else again overnight unless it is medically essential. She is home now, and I fed her some Boston Chicken. I’m going back tommorrow to the ER with her. Please please pray for Muffin.
Shellie:-(