So, it's been forever since I've blogged and I'm gonna be sad. Sorry!
See that sweet face? That's Mocha and this morning he went to play in doggy heaven. I think he was about 7 yrs old. And at this very moment, we aren't sure what happended to him. All we know is that his body stopped making blood and we'll, you know what happens when you don't make blood. You get reallllllllllly sick. It started about a month ago. His right eye became discolored, bulging and pretty gross. He spent 3 days at the vet and they said he probably suffered some sort of head injury/eye trama. More than likely cause by our other dog, Koda. They play pretty rough - both 90lb labs. Anyways, that got better then Tuesday, the left eye started looking funky. DH put Mocha in the garage to keep him from the other dog getting to rough. That was Wednesday around 4:00 pm., by 5:30 pm, he was a sick puppy, having a hard time breathing and looking sick. I called the vet and they said to watch him and to take him to the Emergency Vet if he got worse. He didn't really get worse that I could tell, but he wasn't getting better either. DH stayed home yesterday morning to take him to the Vet. The vet said heart worms at first, then he said rat poisioning and then this morning when the vet came him, he was much worse and wouldn't/couldn't even stand. They said we said two options. Send him to Knoxville Vet School or put him down. We opted to put him down, not knowing if he'd ever get better. At this moment, all we know is that his body wasn't making blood. They did a mini-autopsy and didn't find anything. The lab is doing more work, free of charge, because they are so baffled at what happened. Plus, we are concerned it could be enviromental and we have another dog in the same yard, plus my house dog. So, love your pet today and tell them you love them! Somehow I knew if would end up like this, I told DD to tell him by and that she loved him yesterday morning cause we never know what could happen.
2 comments:
I'm so sorry to hear about Mocha. :(
My sympathy on the loss of Mocha. We love all our pets and try our best to do what is right and I'm sure you made the best choice even though it was hard to do.
Last week our dogs got in to some rat poison our exterminator had put out in our yard. The poison was 'in secure bait boxes' that the dogs should not bother or be able to get to. But, unfortunately the bait boxes were not all they should have been and our dogs got to the poison. We took them to the North Texas Emergency Animal Hospital as our personal vet was out of the office and time was of the essence. It was $759.00 for treatment and we still don't know the outcome. The vet said it could take as long as 10 days for the symptoms to show up - internal bleeding and inability to clot. They are on a 21 day treatment plan of vitamin K right now. I don't want to lose any of my dogs and am thankful there was enough $ in savings to pay for treatment. I asked the exterminator to help with the bill but he refused saying I had requested the bail boxes. Not sure what will happen next but hope it is more long healthy happy days for my dogs, DC, Bruiser, Tucker, Rocky and Hunter.
Sharing your pain of loss.
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