I just came from the vet... and this is always the first place I go when I need to talk about the girls!
A short history - a year ago i had zeebs (Zebra) into the vet as she had some pretty bad breath - they came to the conclusion she needed a couple teeth extracted. She seemed fine after that - the first part of last week suddenly she became so thin (we could feel every bone & vertebrae)- we started noticing that she wasn't eating or drinking like she should - I made an appt to go in on Thursday. When we took her in they examined her mouth and took some blood samples. They found a high count of white blood cells - and found a couple ulcers in her mouth. She was down to 2.2kg..
"Well she's not dying" is what they said.. a big sigh of relief from us... We took her home $187.00 later with antibiotics which they expected would fix her up. She totally stopped eating and drinking since then which initially we thought was just because of the stress/trauma of the appt.. i was feeding her water by the syringe.
but she was not happy.. so back i took her to the vet today... No improvements and she is now down to 1.942kg.. and barely moving at all.. 10% dehydration..I had hoped in the back of my mind they'd be able to give her a miracle drug that would make everything better. They are now leaning toward kidney failure.. which could in turn cause mouth/teeth problems they say. What a tough decision - to put her down or keep trying to see if we can find a solution. She said that if they find it to be kidney problems- it could lead to a short term life - or a very low quality life. But still not 100% sure it was kidney failure ... She said if it was could be upward to $1000 to fix her. As much as I hate to let money make my decisions - it is a big part of my decision. I love my girl dearly but I know at one time in ones life decisions must be made around money. And i feel like a terrible person for it. She said she could put her on IV & rehydrate her & do a ultrasound to see if they could find out more and then she would give us her advise. I know she seemed totally sincere when she said this and i just got a feeling she wanted to do every thing she could for my baby! She said to do this would cost about $400-500.. I couldn't live not knowing that we didn't do everything we could to help her. So we gave her the go ahead & she is going to try to make her better! I just need everyone to pray for my little baby girl! She is only 3 years old... We love her so much & dont' want to live without her...
A short history - a year ago i had zeebs (Zebra) into the vet as she had some pretty bad breath - they came to the conclusion she needed a couple teeth extracted. She seemed fine after that - the first part of last week suddenly she became so thin (we could feel every bone & vertebrae)- we started noticing that she wasn't eating or drinking like she should - I made an appt to go in on Thursday. When we took her in they examined her mouth and took some blood samples. They found a high count of white blood cells - and found a couple ulcers in her mouth. She was down to 2.2kg..