Hi Everyone, I am new here but wanted to share our tragic story with you about 2 of our baby chihuahua's.
On Saturday 24th September we were in the middle of decorating and my 2 baby chi's Mia and Trinity were playing in the playpen. Mia was a 4 month old chocolate Chi she was stunning. Anyway late Saturday afternoon she seemed a little sleepy and I just put it down to her bouncing around like crazy, she had not been sick, no diarrhoea nothing, so we just thought she was slightly off colour.
Sunday she seemed quieter than usual but again it was not something I could have rang my vet about and given any symptoms about. She just seemed a bit miserable and tired.
Monday morning we had some guys coming in to decorate and I left my tiny babies upstairs as Mia was always a bit nervous around strangers, I went back upstairs about 40 minutes after initially coming down, to top up food and water and went I walked into my bedroom I was hit by the most horrendous smell. It smelled like stale blood, when I looked Mia had had a case of Exploding Diarrhoea, the bed and crate were splattered with blood. I went into pure panic mode and grabbed the phone and rang my vet, they said it sounded like parvo and to bring her straight round, which we did.
Literally overnight she had gone from being a chubby puppy to looking like a neglected pup, you could see her ribs, she would not eat nor drink, vet checked for parvo and it came back negative, we were over the moon thinking that was the worst it could be. How naive can you be??
Mia was put on IV's for fluid and glucose, given antibiotics and something to ease her tummy. The vet to be honest did tell us it was 50 50 whether she would survive or not mainly due to her being so tiny. Anyway we hoped and hoped and hoped for a miracle that was not to be. Mia had to be pts the following morning at 10am. She had started fitting and even under sedation it could not be stopped, so we called a halt as she could no longer fight. To say we were heartbroken would be a complete understatement.
At the same time Mia went to the vets they recommended we get Trinity vaccinated she was 9 weeks at that time for parvo just in case Mia had it. On Wednesday night around 10:20pm Trinity had a awful bout of diarrhoea and slight vomiting, I rang my vet straight away to be told to just give her water, anymore diarrhoea or vomiting and ring us straight back. I spent half the night watching her terrified we would lose a second pup. When we got up early this next morning I heaved a sigh of relief as there was no vomit or diarrhoea.
That was a very short lived relief as when I put her down she was walking like an old lady not bouncing like a 9 week old puppy. I rang my vet and explained in a morning she normally is excitable and bouncy and this morning she is tired and lethargic they asked us to take her in.
Again we took her straight down and all they could find wrong was a slight temperature but because of what had happened to Mia they decided to err on the side of caution and to admit her. She was hooked up on IV;s with fluid and glucose and antibiotics etc. For 2 days she held her own and we had just started to hope that she was winning. On Friday the vet said she had started to refuse food and was still vomiting and having diarrhoea.
On Saturday they released her to come home, I was sooo happy until I saw her. You could see every bone in her body I was heartbroken and when I picked her up and her whole body flopped to one side, I knew we would lose Trinity too.
I rang the vets they came straight round to us, we could not get her to eat so once again her blood glucose levels had fallen dramatically so she had to go back on IV's again.
Sunday morning at 8am the vet rang me to say she had started bleeding from her back passage but the bleeding was coming from further up the digestive tract, her advice was too euthanise as she had also collapsed, so once again we had to let another baby go.
Mia's cause of death was HGE which is Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis, and its NOT contagious but Trinity died of the same thing just 4 days later.
For all you pet owners out there please just take a few seconds to read up on HGE it can hit any dog at anytime there is no specific reason, no one knows what causes it. It could be viral, bacterial, or food sensitive, either way its more common in toy breeds, and that couple of minutes reading could mean the difference between life and death.
Its too late for both my babies, make sure yours at least have a chance by educating yourself about it.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.xxxx.
On Saturday 24th September we were in the middle of decorating and my 2 baby chi's Mia and Trinity were playing in the playpen. Mia was a 4 month old chocolate Chi she was stunning. Anyway late Saturday afternoon she seemed a little sleepy and I just put it down to her bouncing around like crazy, she had not been sick, no diarrhoea nothing, so we just thought she was slightly off colour.
Sunday she seemed quieter than usual but again it was not something I could have rang my vet about and given any symptoms about. She just seemed a bit miserable and tired.
Monday morning we had some guys coming in to decorate and I left my tiny babies upstairs as Mia was always a bit nervous around strangers, I went back upstairs about 40 minutes after initially coming down, to top up food and water and went I walked into my bedroom I was hit by the most horrendous smell. It smelled like stale blood, when I looked Mia had had a case of Exploding Diarrhoea, the bed and crate were splattered with blood. I went into pure panic mode and grabbed the phone and rang my vet, they said it sounded like parvo and to bring her straight round, which we did.
Literally overnight she had gone from being a chubby puppy to looking like a neglected pup, you could see her ribs, she would not eat nor drink, vet checked for parvo and it came back negative, we were over the moon thinking that was the worst it could be. How naive can you be??
Mia was put on IV's for fluid and glucose, given antibiotics and something to ease her tummy. The vet to be honest did tell us it was 50 50 whether she would survive or not mainly due to her being so tiny. Anyway we hoped and hoped and hoped for a miracle that was not to be. Mia had to be pts the following morning at 10am. She had started fitting and even under sedation it could not be stopped, so we called a halt as she could no longer fight. To say we were heartbroken would be a complete understatement.
At the same time Mia went to the vets they recommended we get Trinity vaccinated she was 9 weeks at that time for parvo just in case Mia had it. On Wednesday night around 10:20pm Trinity had a awful bout of diarrhoea and slight vomiting, I rang my vet straight away to be told to just give her water, anymore diarrhoea or vomiting and ring us straight back. I spent half the night watching her terrified we would lose a second pup. When we got up early this next morning I heaved a sigh of relief as there was no vomit or diarrhoea.
That was a very short lived relief as when I put her down she was walking like an old lady not bouncing like a 9 week old puppy. I rang my vet and explained in a morning she normally is excitable and bouncy and this morning she is tired and lethargic they asked us to take her in.
Again we took her straight down and all they could find wrong was a slight temperature but because of what had happened to Mia they decided to err on the side of caution and to admit her. She was hooked up on IV;s with fluid and glucose and antibiotics etc. For 2 days she held her own and we had just started to hope that she was winning. On Friday the vet said she had started to refuse food and was still vomiting and having diarrhoea.
On Saturday they released her to come home, I was sooo happy until I saw her. You could see every bone in her body I was heartbroken and when I picked her up and her whole body flopped to one side, I knew we would lose Trinity too.
I rang the vets they came straight round to us, we could not get her to eat so once again her blood glucose levels had fallen dramatically so she had to go back on IV's again.
Sunday morning at 8am the vet rang me to say she had started bleeding from her back passage but the bleeding was coming from further up the digestive tract, her advice was too euthanise as she had also collapsed, so once again we had to let another baby go.
Mia's cause of death was HGE which is Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis, and its NOT contagious but Trinity died of the same thing just 4 days later.
For all you pet owners out there please just take a few seconds to read up on HGE it can hit any dog at anytime there is no specific reason, no one knows what causes it. It could be viral, bacterial, or food sensitive, either way its more common in toy breeds, and that couple of minutes reading could mean the difference between life and death.
Its too late for both my babies, make sure yours at least have a chance by educating yourself about it.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.xxxx.
