amia
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hello
i was just asking my mam what the condition was called that our 12 year old cav lucy was unfortunately put to sleep for 4 years ago and this was the name of the disease.
i remember she got out one time when she was in heat and we picked her up at the local kennels. A couple of weeks later we noticed she had a cough and her belly seemed bigger! We all thought she might have caught kennel cough and also may be pregnant. Anyway she had none of these and had what I now know is VHD. at the time I didn’t really have a clue that it was a really serious progressive disease because I was only about 16 and she had tablets which she took every day and she seemed fine. A year went by before she really got ill and the tablets eventually stopped working and she got worse. Her belly was huge, she couldn’t lay down or get up properly, she couldn’t walk or go to the toilet and she couldn’t eat . she wasn’t the same dog because she loved her walks and her food so I knew she wasn’t going to get any better and this vet trip would be the last time id see her. I didn’t go with my dad because I couldn’t face leaving with out her and I guess a small part of me still hoped that she would come home and she be ok. I was really upset that she had been pts but I knew she was old and there was nothing they could of done except drain the fluid from her lungs but they would only fill up again. My dad told me the vet said lucys gums were blue which meant she was struggling for oxygen and it made me really upset because she still wagged her tail even on the way to the vets.
she was a great dog and a model cavalier i miss her alot :l*v:
i was wondering is this the condition most of our cavs are prone to??
i was just asking my mam what the condition was called that our 12 year old cav lucy was unfortunately put to sleep for 4 years ago and this was the name of the disease.
i remember she got out one time when she was in heat and we picked her up at the local kennels. A couple of weeks later we noticed she had a cough and her belly seemed bigger! We all thought she might have caught kennel cough and also may be pregnant. Anyway she had none of these and had what I now know is VHD. at the time I didn’t really have a clue that it was a really serious progressive disease because I was only about 16 and she had tablets which she took every day and she seemed fine. A year went by before she really got ill and the tablets eventually stopped working and she got worse. Her belly was huge, she couldn’t lay down or get up properly, she couldn’t walk or go to the toilet and she couldn’t eat . she wasn’t the same dog because she loved her walks and her food so I knew she wasn’t going to get any better and this vet trip would be the last time id see her. I didn’t go with my dad because I couldn’t face leaving with out her and I guess a small part of me still hoped that she would come home and she be ok. I was really upset that she had been pts but I knew she was old and there was nothing they could of done except drain the fluid from her lungs but they would only fill up again. My dad told me the vet said lucys gums were blue which meant she was struggling for oxygen and it made me really upset because she still wagged her tail even on the way to the vets.
she was a great dog and a model cavalier i miss her alot :l*v:
i was wondering is this the condition most of our cavs are prone to??