Re: [pyrnet] Re: pyrnet-l-digest.20040731

["gowalkin" <gowalkin@charter.net>]

My Pyr, Buddy, always got very sick from pigs ears and any kind of rawhide
stuff, close to what you described but no blood. My vet advised not giving
him any more.
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From: "Tom McCulloch" <tmcculloch@achp.gov>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 9:18 AM
Subject: [pyrnet] Re: pyrnet-l-digest.20040731


> You asked for Sierra's symptoms.  They began at 4:30 am with vomiting the
> partially digested dinner from c. 6 hours earlier, and explosive diarrhea.
> She was perfectly fine the night before.  The vomiting then continued for
> several hours, expelling everything in her stomach.  Then came the dry
heaves
> after she threw up all her bile.  (On the advice of our vet she was not
> allowed water prior to seeing the doctor.)  At the vet she had a 104
degree
> fever and a 180 beats per minute heart rate.  She was very lethargic,
> dehydrated, and kept trying to stretch out her back legs.  At her normal
vet
> she began to drip blood from her nose.  We were then referred to the
critical
> care vet hospital, where she began bleeding from the mouth.  Five minutes
> later in the examining room, right in front of the admitting vet, she
vomited
> what was determined to be about a pint of fresh blood.  At this point she
was
> taken into the back, cooled down, and administered fluids, antispasmodics,
> and antibiotics.  Her blood profile was normal.  By Monday morning her
> temperature and heart rate were back to normal, and she had gained 7
pounds
> from the IVs.  Her X-rays were normal, showing no blockage or anything.
Her
> ultrasounds also showed nothing abnormal, but she continued to have the
> vomiting reflex so they opened her up and examined her esophagus, stomach,
> and colon.  All were only very severely irritated and raw, but no signs of
a
> puncture or tear or a disease.  We visited Tuesday night and she was
> naturally disoriented from the surgery and drugs, and uncomfortable due to
> the tube they down her nose to her stomach to drain off the stomach acid,
and
> the lampshade she had to wear.  By Wednesday she was more alert, but still
> slow and tender.  We took her home the next day, where she has been
getting
> more active and alert all the time.
>
> Over this past weekend she has been eating a little more each day, and
> beginning to interact with our Samoyed again.  She continues on several
> medicines, and has a week to go prior to getting her stitches out.
>
> Both our dogs share everything, eat and drink from the same bowls, sniff
the
> same things, etc., but only our Pyr got hit with this situation.
>
> The pig ears we get in bulk from a large vet supply house.  The dogs like
the
> smoked flavor ones.  Sometimes the ears can be very greasy, other times
very
> dry.  The night before Sierra got sick, they each got about half a pig ear
> each.  Looking back I can't say whether the one Sierra ate was a "greasy"
or
> "dry" ear, only that there was nothing strange about it compared to what
they
> had had in the past--no different smell, texture, size, etc.  Our dogs
have
> had pig ears from the same company for many years, with no problems.
>
> As our Sierra continues to heal I'll keep you posted on any new
> developments.  Thanks for everyone's concern.
>
>
> owner-pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org wrote:
>
> > pyrnet-l-digest                                   Saturday, July 31,
2004
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> > Re: [pyrnet] scary situation II        swegers@tricountyi.net
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> > Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 00:13:12 -0400
> > From: swegers@tricountyi.net
> > Subject: Re: [pyrnet] scary situation II
> >
> > What I'm asking for is symptoms.
> > My sister - in - law is having a problem with her puppy and he had been
> > given pigs ears also. I'm wondering if there is a connection.
> > Thank you.
> > Deb
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