ChelseaKaupp
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- Jun 15, 2018
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Wow. What a night!
So Umami came to us with a watery eye (clear discharge) and a little bit of sneezing. We took her to the vet Monday this week and, as suspected, vet said it was most likely herpes virus brought on by the stress of settling into a new home, and that her eye didn't look too bad.
We bought an l-lysine supplement and it arrived yesterday so we were hoping that would help clear it all up.
Seems not however! Got home from work today to find a very sickly wee girl - green discharge from her eye and much more swollen than this morning. And she had developed a cough, which she only does very infrequently, but when it happens she struggles to catch her breath.
And to add to all that, she has diarrhea! (Breeder never let us know what food she was on so we've had to start her on, presumably, a totally new food. Breeder still hasnt returned my emails...)
So I called a taxi straight away and it was off to the 24h vet hospital (as it's a public holiday here...of course). Took forever to get there as in my panic I managed to forget my handbag in the house and we had to go back
Anyway...7 hours later and we're home with some eyedrops Supposed to keep an eye on the diarrhea and cough but lungs sounded clear enough for now that we can at least wait until next week. Phew. She gave me quite the scare!
Back to her usual self now. Attacking my toes and trying to eat my dinner from straight off my plate. Now off to bed for maybe 3 or 4 hours before I'm back to work tomorrow - lots of animals at the zoo for me to take care of also ❤
Here's an unhappy wee girl at the vets, cuddling with her daddy ❤
So Umami came to us with a watery eye (clear discharge) and a little bit of sneezing. We took her to the vet Monday this week and, as suspected, vet said it was most likely herpes virus brought on by the stress of settling into a new home, and that her eye didn't look too bad.
We bought an l-lysine supplement and it arrived yesterday so we were hoping that would help clear it all up.
Seems not however! Got home from work today to find a very sickly wee girl - green discharge from her eye and much more swollen than this morning. And she had developed a cough, which she only does very infrequently, but when it happens she struggles to catch her breath.
And to add to all that, she has diarrhea! (Breeder never let us know what food she was on so we've had to start her on, presumably, a totally new food. Breeder still hasnt returned my emails...)
So I called a taxi straight away and it was off to the 24h vet hospital (as it's a public holiday here...of course). Took forever to get there as in my panic I managed to forget my handbag in the house and we had to go back
Anyway...7 hours later and we're home with some eyedrops Supposed to keep an eye on the diarrhea and cough but lungs sounded clear enough for now that we can at least wait until next week. Phew. She gave me quite the scare!
Back to her usual self now. Attacking my toes and trying to eat my dinner from straight off my plate. Now off to bed for maybe 3 or 4 hours before I'm back to work tomorrow - lots of animals at the zoo for me to take care of also ❤
Here's an unhappy wee girl at the vets, cuddling with her daddy ❤