amia
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hi everyone
Just thought id bring this topic up about this disorder and see if anyone had come across it?
Unfortunately our ruby holly had this disorder a year ago when she was a puppy and we were very worried about her for a long time. Fortunately she got through it relatively unscathed and you wouldn’t even know she had this particular nasty and sometimes fatal disorder.
I’m not a vet so don’t quote me on any of this it’s just what I can recall.
Anyway what I know is that it’s a disorder that can occur in puppies less than four months old where the glands in the neck appear to be swollen and can result in swellings or pustules around the muzzle, neck, in the ears, around the eyes and other parts of the body. They then can burst and crust over and sometime get infected. Sometimes the glands in the neck can get so enlarged or swollen that they can cut off the puppies airways and hence the name puppy strangles.
When my mam brought her home we just noticed her eyelids were very swollen but the person my mam got holly from said her brother (tri boy) had an eye infection so we thought that’s what it would be. My mam and dad took her to the vet and basically said she has puppy strangles and you should take her back to the breeder because they shouldn’t have sold her at all and it will be expensive to treat. We were just too attached and we didn’t know what would happen to holly so we kept her!!! The vet gave us eye cream and antibiotics and told us to brace ourselves because this condition can get very nasty and sometimes be fatal! Her eyes looked swollen and awful, her glands were huge and she had sort of blisters all on her muzzle but she was never down and had tons of energy. Holly seen the vet every week to monitor her condition and she did get better very slowly and now shes fine and she doesn’t have any scaring or hair loss. The vet said that she was incredibly lucky that her condition wasn’t severe and it was the mildest form shed ever seen! It did cost my mam a lot of money but she was worth every penny!!
I do have few pics of her with puppy strangle which ill post later on.
Just thought id bring this topic up about this disorder and see if anyone had come across it?
Unfortunately our ruby holly had this disorder a year ago when she was a puppy and we were very worried about her for a long time. Fortunately she got through it relatively unscathed and you wouldn’t even know she had this particular nasty and sometimes fatal disorder.
I’m not a vet so don’t quote me on any of this it’s just what I can recall.
Anyway what I know is that it’s a disorder that can occur in puppies less than four months old where the glands in the neck appear to be swollen and can result in swellings or pustules around the muzzle, neck, in the ears, around the eyes and other parts of the body. They then can burst and crust over and sometime get infected. Sometimes the glands in the neck can get so enlarged or swollen that they can cut off the puppies airways and hence the name puppy strangles.
When my mam brought her home we just noticed her eyelids were very swollen but the person my mam got holly from said her brother (tri boy) had an eye infection so we thought that’s what it would be. My mam and dad took her to the vet and basically said she has puppy strangles and you should take her back to the breeder because they shouldn’t have sold her at all and it will be expensive to treat. We were just too attached and we didn’t know what would happen to holly so we kept her!!! The vet gave us eye cream and antibiotics and told us to brace ourselves because this condition can get very nasty and sometimes be fatal! Her eyes looked swollen and awful, her glands were huge and she had sort of blisters all on her muzzle but she was never down and had tons of energy. Holly seen the vet every week to monitor her condition and she did get better very slowly and now shes fine and she doesn’t have any scaring or hair loss. The vet said that she was incredibly lucky that her condition wasn’t severe and it was the mildest form shed ever seen! It did cost my mam a lot of money but she was worth every penny!!
I do have few pics of her with puppy strangle which ill post later on.