Very long night last night. - Page 4

t he chased my daughter on her dirtbike saturday afternoon like nothing was wrong.now i realize this could have been what had done him in.i took him in sunday morning and he died during surgery.this is harder to lose than most of the friends who have died,amazing what a place these dogs hold in our hearts.

friends love us for that the think we are, dogs love us for who we are.............

your boy was awsome!

thank you .he was by far the best dog i have ever had.he has definately hooked me on this breed.

I'm so sorry Buckeye.  It's hard to lose them like that.  Don't feel guilty, sometimes those surgeries are really tough and they don't make it.  Did it perforate his intestines?  I guess it's survival, that animals can hide things so well, for so long.  

Sita, the first thing I though of was bloat too.  Trying to vomit and not being able to.  I'm glad that she's feeling better, that can be pretty scary.

Last year, my older girl raided the refrigerator.  I came home to a bloated tick.  Probably ate several pounds worth of food including, raw dog food, bread, leftovers, and lord knows what else.  There were three dogs loose in the house, but she was clearly the one that ate most of it.  Actually shocked that there wasn't a dog fight then, between her and my other female who no longer get along.   LOL  Luckily there was no cooked bones or anything too terrible.

I gave her peroxide hoping to make her vomit.  She was truly filled to the brim, as it didn't even touch it.  At one point I had her in the car on the way to the emergency clinic as I thought she was bloating.   Got about a mile from home and heard the biggest/baddest belch and the most aweful smell!  Well, she only puked up "some" of it, but apparently was enough to make her feel better and no emergency visit.  Apparently she's got a pretty good gut, as not even any diarrhea (apparently only eating a rice bag gives her diarrhea, but that's another story), and wanted food the next day!  No such luck though, think I just gave her green beans or something to tide her over. 

Kathy

Rezkat5  the surgery report says "gastrotomy performed,large cloth with linear FB with tension extending from stomach to mid jejunum"released intussusseption(prior to gastrotomy)then he went into asystole.cpr and other things were unsuccessful. hope this helps.it also says leakage of intestinal contents into abdomen.

So glad she's better, Sitasmom!

buckeyefan, I'm sorry for your loss, when my girl had her intrasusseption, she even fooled the vet the first time we went. But with bowel contents in the peritoneum it means the bowel had ruptured. The jejunum is part of the small intestine, & it means the bowel had telescoped into itself & then became swollen until it blocks the digestive tract, the more the bowel tries to move stuff along, the more & further into itself it telescopes, increasing the blockage....in front of the blockage the bowel fills with gas & any food the dog has eaten, & creates tension & swelling all along the digestive tract. My girl was leaking gas from her bowels into the abdominal cavity, called 'free air' in the films of her gut....your guy wasn't so lucky, he must have had a tear for leakage of the contents of the bowel to occur. It's good that he passed while he was asleep in surgery, the bowel contains a lot of bacteria, once that gets into the abdomen the dog will go septic very quickly, antibiotics are often no help at all, & it is a sad, bad way to go. I had instructed our surgeon to let Ansgar go if that had happened, because the chance of her recovering was so very slim, & I loved her too much to put her through that. Thankfully, she was saved. You did the best you could for your boy, & it sounds like the vet did all he could do, as well. I think our dogs must go bounding joyfully up to heaven, for that is how they live here, that is why we love them so much. And I'm sure they wait for us there. Take care, jackie harris

thank you everyone for your support and prayers.

thank you jackie.i too am glad that it happened under anesthesa also instead of in the back yard.

buckeye, sounds like there was a lot going on there for sure.   Foreign body surgeries can be touch and go anyway, then add all the complications.  Know that, even if he had made it through the surgery, recovery can be hard after such a surgery.

I've been in surgery assisting with the surgery when the animals crashed during the surgery.     A friend from work, her Giant Schnauzer miraculously made it through.   All from a one teeny tiny corn cob.   He had one surgery to remove the corn cob from his intestine, seemingly recovering quite well and then crashed a few days later from being septic.   Basically his intestines were in on giant unrecognizable ball.  He lost most of his intestines and will never have a normal bowel movement again.  

So glad everything turned out OK sitasmom!

I am so sorry for your buckeyefan, there are never words that make it easier. I lost my old girl in January and still miss the heck out of her.