tanztanya
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I haven't been on the forum for quite a while, when i first got cookie i was always on here!! I thought I would give an update on cookie.
When we got her four years ago we found that she had a grade 2 heart murmer. She's now 8 and last week she had a really bad night and got us reallly worried!!! Cookie sat up ALL night and was breathing really heavily and it sounded like she was struggling. At about 6am she finally gave in and fell asleep and i rushed her to the vets. The vet done a xray and ultrasound and unfortunately it has showed that cookies heart is very enlarged and that there is fluid in her lungs. The vet has given her diaretic tablets and vetmedin as well as her fortekor so she has been on them for a week now and she is still looking very miserable.
Every night i usually take her out for a 45min walk and as she's unwell the vet said only take her out for 10mins and not to let her get excitable, but Cookie wants to go out and tugs the lead in the direction of her walk and she gets so excitable around us that she keeps having accidents!
She is going back in tomorrow to see if the fluid had clearer...then we'll know what to do next.
I was wondering if anyone has any advice?
thanks, Tanya
When we got her four years ago we found that she had a grade 2 heart murmer. She's now 8 and last week she had a really bad night and got us reallly worried!!! Cookie sat up ALL night and was breathing really heavily and it sounded like she was struggling. At about 6am she finally gave in and fell asleep and i rushed her to the vets. The vet done a xray and ultrasound and unfortunately it has showed that cookies heart is very enlarged and that there is fluid in her lungs. The vet has given her diaretic tablets and vetmedin as well as her fortekor so she has been on them for a week now and she is still looking very miserable.
Every night i usually take her out for a 45min walk and as she's unwell the vet said only take her out for 10mins and not to let her get excitable, but Cookie wants to go out and tugs the lead in the direction of her walk and she gets so excitable around us that she keeps having accidents!
She is going back in tomorrow to see if the fluid had clearer...then we'll know what to do next.
I was wondering if anyone has any advice?
thanks, Tanya