What began with a little cough a few days ago has gotten worse, here a little moment of yesterday.
Overnight it has even got a lot LOT worse and we hardly slept.
Doctorsorders: As of last night Mauwsie is not allowed to leave the house anymore, no more puppysitting at the neighbours, no nothing, meaning also I can not leave the house either as I refuse to leave her alone.
That is were it was so good that I could bring Mauwsie to my neighbours for an hour or 2 every day: meanwhile she would get to know more good people and I could do outside whatever needed to be done or go to the fysio or getting stuff for her....
This morning this situation already lead to problems so I had to leave her in the bench, closed this time while I would help the trimmer treat our rescuehorse Punkie who has frogcanker.
Anyways, I was in for another big surprise this morning... well we did know Mauwsie most propably would have parasites as all puppies do, but to see TENIAS in her stoollllll, was not funny because this meant BIG bad business.
As you can see she has what we call here "TENIAS" and are dangerous for all my other rescues.
So Juan, the vet, told me to give Milbemax...
OK fine,and How am I going to get that as I can t leave her alone so long, can t take her with me, can t bring her to the neighbours, and my friends living closeby being on Holiday abroad.
Yes the disadvantage of living reclude in the hills, far from everything and not being the kind of person for asking help.
Anyways, I went to my neighbours and luckily Tony proposed to come to my place and babysit on Mauwsie...
THANK YOU TONY !!!!!
So in a recordspeed I drove to Mutxamel, got all the medication and drove back...
Ow yes... In case you did not know... TENIAS is highly contagious so I have had to buy Milbemax for all the rescuedogs and R.cat to protect them from getting it from Mauwsie...
Yep if you want to rescue and help others, you must be prepared that it won t be easy
But to be honest... I am happy when she will be OK, I m quite sure she has not got distemper as the fever is lower.
Still could be Kennel Cough (incubation till 10 days and she started a few days back so could have brought it with her from the other place) or something else
I am dedicated to fight for this little girl.
I do hope the right person who wants to adopt her will contact me very soon.
Goodnight everybody... I need to get a bite to eat now !
PS. If you want to see what the worms look like, let me now ... Yes I have taken pictures as I do that all the time to have a reference bank of what is happening to them
So I ve spoken to Sharon Vigar-Jones and can update now for all of you following the story of Mauwsie...
About yesterday:
In short:
Good news: we went to the clinic and
*the stiches are already out
*new RX looking well
*we gathered enough money to pay the vetbill and get her defleet and fet with good puppyfood
Bad news:
Mauwsie has laryngitis and is having a tough time.
Longer version:
So we went to the vet and the stiches are already out...WHAT ? Yep only 1 week were they inside, thanks to the power of the torch.
A few new X-rays were taken and all is looking well
Bad news:
Mauwsie has laryngitis and is having a tough time.
Doctors orders is staying inside, no more moves, not even to the neighbours.
That means I also have to cancel all my appointments... not very handy... I wonder how other people do this ?
But hey...it s all for Mauwsie, we just don t know how strong she still is, probably never was vaccinated, did she get any antistuff of her mom ??? We just don t know.
For the healing of the leg: 2 more weeks of "no moving" around at all.
Removal of the pins after January 1 and untill then the surgeon does not want her to go to another family.
Yeahhhh right...or should I say HELP !!! this was not planned
All is going ok... Mauwsie is getting better. She has not had any important high fevers anymore so I am confident there is no risk of distemper.
The diarrhea, due to the use of Duphalac to help her liver, is better as I have lowered the amount of Duphalac so that problem is solved too.
Just remains a little cough that will be checked out tomorrowmorning
Fot the rest the pictures say it all.
She gets her daily medication and she loves the torchsessions.
1 less good thing though... the little girl is starting to bound with my pack and myself... my neighbour told me she started to hawl and cry after leaving her at their house for the daily visite.
It s time to start finding the perfect adoptive family for her before long.
Yep suddenly she was there in my bathroom... An opportunity to learn something new At the neighbours
A little torching of the wound, standard- and tingpoints
And then time to go to bed
She has not met the horses in person yet, but she will...soon
More info in the morning... she is doing better now but not out of the Woods yet and is having heavy diarrhea right now and got some stomach pain, but we can handle that... I just don t want any high fever or sneazing please
On one side because in the end you do worry so you don t sleep as deep as otherwise
On the other hand because she called me several times at 1.50 at 2.54 at 6.13... in the end we just stayed up.
And then of course it rained and stormed and we had soooo much rain overnight
Pictures and all the rest of the story have to wait till after midnight, till after I get back from the vetcourse. Do not worry, she is with me and was at the hospital area surrounded while I am on second floor in the congresarea, so she is never alone.
She was seen by the top vet and according to the sympthoms it could be.... Distemper (fever, convulsions, and more) but he did an Echo too of her heart and liver etc and it could be a liver problem too so we stay positive and start with Duphalac 2x a day.
As you know this is not my dog but I helped another person Sharon who took this animal from the street. I have 17 rescued animals at home.
I will do everything I can but I need your help ... if we all chip in obe way or the other.
I have not paid the bill from the OP yet as the promised help did not all arrive yet.
If Faith, Mauwsie has Distemper all my rescues are at risk, eventhough they have been vaccinated when the were a puppy. I will die myself if any of them all get sick or die because of this.
Sorry have to back to the vetscongress now, staying positive and taking Mauwsie with me
PS VEt not impressed Mauwsie tried to bite him... Me very happy though Mauwsie getting more confident... she wagged her tail again today when I picked her up after the morningsession at the congres.
Am I uploading the news of the day on this blog with Mauwsie lying on my lap.
Suddenly she started having little convulsions ... first I thought she was dreaming lively (bad dream) but then I realised she was not.
As soon as it stopped, she did not move anymore and laid there quietly lifelessly... I cald her name, nothing. I lifted her skin in the neck, nothing. I did not see her breath anymore. Then i lifted her head up and when I let it loose it just fell down (in my other hand of course). So I gave her a shake to get her conscieus back.
Damn that was really frightening. Of course I informed the chief of the clinic straight away. Now, no more stress for tonight and leaving her in peace to sleep.
Tomorrow morning first stop at the vetsclinic having her totally checked out, just to be on the safe side.
Edit: this was a day of a very big UP, her tail waggling for the first time while walking with the other dogs, and the biggest DOWN, frightning me like this... I want NO MORE of these days !!!
Last night the fever came up again... 40,30 so we went back to the icepackings in between the legs and under the ingle.
This morning she only had 39.3 which is acceptable. As part of the treatment we need to have her blood flow well in the body so about 10x a day I have her do a little walk. It helps her body and at the same time it helps her to get to know new things Isn't she looking better already ? Having a look at the horses
Faith also had a visitor this morning. Addi who helpt me to bring Faith from Pedreguer came to visit her. For these pics and more pictures, please go to our Facebookpage Whispering Ranch
For the 3rd night in a row sitting in the sofa with rescue puppy Faith Mausie who having a fever again at night. She sure knows how to touch me as I had not spent an evening in a sofa in over a year or 2;) It is good though...let it all out little girl. All the bad dreams and bad memories. You are safe here with us
she is getting better... and she is a real introvert. Thanks to our intuitive communication relation I know exactly what her limits are and what is bothering/troubling her.. For those who do not practise this... you will see at the white of her eyes when she feels scared or unsecure for example.
As part of the therapy we decided that she would go each day for an hour or two to my neighbours Tony & Lin Bray, so the litlle mousie would make lots of positive interactions with humans.
Once home again she dared to go in Boomers new orthopedic bed... but just for a minute though.
She preferred the security of her bench (with the door open of course !!! )
We were at the vetclinic again this morning with this little mousie as her fever came up again hitting the 40 s.
Just to be on the safe side, although I knew she could have these fevers, due to the infestation of parasites.
Regarding the remarks on FB : To explain it as simple as I can, parasites attack the immunesystem of the body and that is one of the reasons why we have to deworm/deparasite our animal on a regular basis.
As an example: a puppy is deparasited before we vaccinate it as parasites cause a lower immunesystem and so we want the animal to be free of parasites and have a stronger immunesystem before you vaccinate it which would also lower the immunesystem.
The same is here, before any operation you want the animal to have the best and strongest immunesystem, and therefor your vets want you to deworm your animals on a regular basis.
Sometimes, like in this case there is no time to wait till the animal is topfit again : in this case repairing that leg was more urgent than all the rest as the bones start the healingproces immediately and you don t have the time to deworm and then wait for another week for the immunesystem to recuperate.
Sometimes you HAVE to make a CHOICE : in this case there was no choice... As the other vet where she was first did not deworm her or do anything for that matter: The OP simply had to be done a.s.a.p. and therefor I made the decision to have that OP already on Monday although that day the old owner still would have had a say.
This dog is getting al the necessary help and much more... she is not a single moment alone, I have done several veterinarion courses, I am a qualified photonic practitioner and I have certificates as a dogtrainer and -dogpsycho. I therefor cover both situations: the physical and the mental.
When the fever comes up she gets some ice wrapped in between the legs and under the ingle.
She received antibioticshots of Synulox yesterday and today apart from other medication
She started a fever last night so I checked and she had 39.8.
Called the vetclinic to see what she had gotten as injections so I could see what we could do.
As she already had had all she needed, we went my way... meaning torching the little mouse the standardspoints which include the point that releases aspirine in the body.
Apart from that I took a cold gel-icepack that I wrapped well and put in between her legs...
and that is how we spent some time on the sofa untill the fever went down.
During the night I realized that I need to be there for her for a longer time eventhough I am not home this w.e.
I will find a way to make this work, even take her with me to the vetcourse this w.e.
That will also give us more time to find the right fosterer, the right adoptant and now it just leaves us with finding the rest of the money to pay the vetbill.
More info around 12.00 as I am off to the vetclinic with her !
YES driving away from Hospital Veterinario JG with Hope !!!
I went to the vets for this girlie today...
She was washed with dry shampoo to get her a bit cleaner and less smellier. Then she got another treatment against flees
Then we went for a walk and once again I could see how she would try to hide under a car...damn that girl is so damn scared of the world surrounding her Even in the car she would try to hide but then she saw me, yes me and that gave her some confidence
Puppy is at the Whispering Rescue Ranch to recover
I don t know what to say really. It has been a long time since I have been so disgusted
At the hospital when let loose she would go into a corner to hide. When you go to walk her, she tries to hide under the cars. When you let her loose in the garden she only wants 1 thing... Hide away so nobody would find her.
She knows only 1 thing very well, and that is to make herself as small as possible in a hiding place.
I have had some sad cases here, but this almost breaks my heart as she is only 4.5 months old.
Here she is lying in an open bench as she feels safe there. The door is open so she can get out when she wants to get out.
I went to visit my neighbour with her and the other WRR dogs so she would find out that there are more good people in this world. Boomer was not impressed Where is that stranger ? Cheyenne was OK with sharing Tony s attention Boomer was not Hey are we going home ? At home...Tommy connecting with puppy Tonight I had to go to the physio ...of course I did not want puppy to be alone at home so she went to my neighbours yo learn and find out that there are still good humans in this world...young and old