Kennel Cough !!

[Vino tinto !]

Poor Tilly ( 4 months )  has Kennel cough !! It's really awful watching her huff and huff and then kack at the end !! She then collapses on the floor with exhaustion !! Apparently its becoming more common these days so our vet says,they are thinking of offering the injection for it as standard now ? Tilly has had an anti-inflammatory injection this morning and has to take 2 tablets twice a day for 5 days.Then we go back to the  vet next friday !! We also have to try and keep her calm    , even the vet laughed when she said it !!! She has a 7 month old cocker herself !! DOH !!   

[White Bryony]

Sending lots of hugs to Tilly. 

Hope she is feeling better soon.

[louis mum]

Ahh poor Tilly. My friends little toy poodle had it last year, the only place she had been was the vets. 

[Vino tinto !]

Thank you,we let them know we were there but we waited outside the vets so that we didn't infect anyone else with it !! xx

[Cob-Web]

Poor Tilly - hope she feels better soon 

Apparently its becoming more common these days so our vet says,they are thinking of offering the injection for it as standard now ?

My two have the KC vaccine annually, but the one they have is a nasal spray, not an injection    Would you mind finding out more from your vet when you go back? If there is a new product, I'm always keen to know about it 

[Vino tinto !]

Yes of course IW Lass I will remember that,the last I heard it was a spray up the nose ! So will defo find out !! Needless to say Tilly will be having it of the norm from now on !!

[Cob-Web]

Yes of course IW Lass I will remember that,the last I heard it was a spray up the nose ! So will defo find out !! Needless to say Tilly will be having it of the norm from now on !!

The KC vaccine is a bit like the flu vaccine - it only protects against one strain, and there is every chance that a dog will still catch KC even if they are vaccinated 

I only vaccinate my two because if I had a family emergency, I would need to kennel them; and the kennels I use insist upon the vaccine 

[Cazzie]

Poor mite. There is loads of it going about. Just about everyone i speak 2 has had it or got it. Hope she gets well soon.

[suki1964]

Poor thing, its so distressing to listen too as well ((((hugs))))

I remember my first lad Gunnar came to us with KC. Three weeks later and two more trips to the vets he was still coughing at night but the vet couldnt find anything wrong and just told us to use a cough linctus. Then I was up late one night, Nigel had gone to bed and Gunnar had been put to bed in his pen in the hall when i heard him coughing badly again so crept out to see him. he was wandering around his pen area and stopping and staring at the bedroom door, after a minute of waiting he would give a good cough. When nothing happened he went back to his basket and tried again a few minutes later,  the little bleeder had learned to put on the cough at night to be allowed in the bedroom 

[JenSam]

Poor Tilly, I hope she gets better soon.

My friends lab has just recovered from kennel cough, poor doggies!!

[Hurtwood Dogs]

Oh no! Poor Tilly, she's really suffering 

Dave sends her HUGE hugs (he's just had a bath too so even smells nice for once  )

I really hope she gets better soon. I have to say I stopped my two drinking out of a dogbowl of water outside the village shop today as it suddenly occurred to me that they might be able to catch kennel cough from that and it seems to be common around here too at the moment. Does anyone know if that's the case or is it airborne only?

Hannah x

[Vino tinto !]

Caroline,that made me  so much !! What a clever dog............  Oh Dave "the Bandit " she sighed  ............ My hero, Tilly sounds tres~ sexy with her very sore throat,I'm sure Dave would find it quite alluring ??  Particularly if he has had a bath as well.......sniff sniff, ah yes,  I can smell him from here, Au De Doggy by,  Annah Annah I believe ? Send him round quick !!!     xx

[Hurtwood Dogs]

Caroline,that made me  so much !! What a clever dog............  Oh Dave "the Bandit " she sighed  ............ My hero, Tilly sounds tres~ sexy with her very sore throat,I'm sure Dave would find it quite alluring ??  Particularly if he has had a bath as well.......sniff sniff, ah yes,  I can smell him from here, Au De Doggy by,  Annah Annah I believe ? Send him round quick !!!     xx

 

He's on his way  , just don't get him too excited... he's half heartedly experimenting with 'd'amour' at the moment... mainly on Storms ear, oddly she doesn't seem to mind  sick woman.........

Hope little Tilly feels lots better soon 

Hannah x

[Linz13]

Maddi had it when she came to us, I felt so sorry for her.  It seemed to go on for ages.

Murph's had it before too. (Course his was more like man-flu!!) 

[Sheryl]

From what I can gather, this is why they give a spray or an injection.

http://www.provet.co.uk/aol/Petfacts/healthtips/kennelcough.htm