Since the weather is beyond beautiful i took the dogs to the valley. Victor is looping around like he is running on clouds. Pepper is having a good chase behind. Mary is soaking up the sunshine. I close my eyes and soak up some vit d. I don't hear tags so i open my eyes. I see three deer running about 5 acres away. They are down below me in very high grass. I think surely not. VIctor has always ignored deer, walked right past them as if they weren't there. Not this time. He is leaping as high as they are..and keeping up suprisingly for further than i thought he could. I yell COME and it echoes. I think surely he will come around from the front but he didn't. HE circled back, i dont' know if the echo is why. He is still prancing and leaping about..jumping in puddles and back out. Get in the car. Get home..put him in the tub to wash off the mud and i see his gums are completely white..his eyes no veins, his ears blanched and the inside of his mouth is a refridgerator he looks like he is going to pass out. I grab and run. Doing that ear stroke that is suppose to keep them from going into shock or help bring them out of it. I don't know if that is why he starting pinking up half way to the vet or not. BUt he seemed better. I turned around and came home. MY chest starts to ever so slightly loosen. I get to Mom's and we call the vet and at the same time try to give him some kayro syrup with a pinch of salt. ..something he wants none of. So...on a non hot day...with water available can a dog run himself into being shocky?
I thought was there something in the puddle he drank? The other dogs drank out of too and are fine.
DId he rupture his heart..does he have an internal bleed? No hardness to the abdomen...he doesnt' look in pain. Does this have anything to do with running into the park bench yesterday? What what what what!!!!!!
I just should have reigned him in sooner. WE have gone to the valley several times a week for 5 years without this ever happening. WE have been there longer...and when it was hotter too. DId he push so hard after those deer that he about wrecked himself?
I thought was there something in the puddle he drank? The other dogs drank out of too and are fine.
DId he rupture his heart..does he have an internal bleed? No hardness to the abdomen...he doesnt' look in pain. Does this have anything to do with running into the park bench yesterday? What what what what!!!!!!
I just should have reigned him in sooner. WE have gone to the valley several times a week for 5 years without this ever happening. WE have been there longer...and when it was hotter too. DId he push so hard after those deer that he about wrecked himself?
I asked the vet if it can be like this an hour or so afterwards then they start to swell? He said it can. I never saw anything like any of this in my life.
