I seem to be posting all the time re Willow health lately....
Just to re cap she had her spay about a month ago, then had a cough, vet said they thought it was kennel cough....she has had a few lots of tabs and been on loxicom. She seemed fine last week and she went back to her training class, she seemed to enjoy it although calmer/more subdude than usual.
Then the day after training (thurs) I noticed her coughing a little in the morning and her neck seemed stiff when she walked or tried to turn, we then had an incident with a huge dog running up to her whilst out and taking her unaware where she moved suddenly and yelped a good few times when I lifted her in my arms she continued to yelp but no signs anywhere of anything.
On Friday her chest sounded rattly. I took her on a walk she seemed fine, tail wagging the whole time although her neck was still stiff, whilst facing forward this didnt not bother her. I took her on a longer walk than usual as I had to leave her for longer at home than usual. left her, came back she was very reserved, looked uncomfortable, this got progressively worse....
took her to the vets and he listened to her chest and said he thought the kennel cough had changed to chronic bronchitis.... He didnt seemed overly concerned about her neck!!
Yesterday, (sun) when we got up she didnt want to get up, we had to carry her out for a wee, we then had to left her back on the bed and she looked awful, sad, half slit eyes, ears and tail down, the bottom half of her body was shaking.... We decided to take her back to the vets, saw our usual vets, she had been on hols during willows kennel cough. She said her chest sounded okay but Willow did cough a bit whilst we were there!! She was concerned about her neck. She did brighten up a bit whilst there after lying on OH listless whilst waiting. I did tell the vet this.
She took bloods and called me later to say all of her organs are functioning ok, the only thing in the test showed her white blood cells were raised to indicate she is fighting infection, im worried about this as she is now on her fourth lot of anti biotics, why havnt they taken the infection away? Her temp was raised.
She gave us more anti biotics, (stronger ones) in case the chest is still affected by the cough, gave us panacur so it rules out lungworm.
She wants to refer us to a unit to do xrays and further tests, if no improvement over the next few days!! she said she is not sure if the stiff neck is connected to the cough or could be something else. She said if she is no better Wed next week she will make the referral. She said if she gets worse to call them today or tmw and they will make the referral then.
She is still on loxicom and after having this she does come to life a bit, she cannot jump on the furniture when the meds ware off but is better after them although still cautious when moving about.
Please, please, please can someone offer some advise of what to do and what could be wrong with our fur baby. I dont know whether the two lots of symtoms are linked or whether the cough is one thing and her being uncomfortable is another!!
Anyone with any experience of these symtoms or know what it could be, we are going out of our minds with worry!!
Thank you and sorry for the long post!!
