michelle_j_r
17-10-2009, 08:04 AM
Did not get a chance to post about it yesterday but the night before my german shepherd was chasing and playing with the kids totally fine and then yesterday morning i was loading the bags into the truck to head into town and noticed Bundy laying in the sun on the driveway and she just looked up at me... ok, enjoying the sun, lazy dog not going to come for a pat... did another trip into the house for the kids to put them in the car and Bundy STILL did not get up.
Bundy sees the kids and does not get up for a pat?!?!? I instantly knew she had a tick. I had just three days ago been talking to my sister about needing to get tick stuff onto her cos there are paralysis ticks out here but i just had not had a chance and it was on my list to do in town that day. Too late.
I went to her and gave her a pat and tried to help her stand up or move or soemthing just in case maybe she had a sore leg or something else, but no, she totally could not move. Could not even support her own weight if i help her. She just collapsed back onto the ground. Scary. And she just looked up at me soooooo sad. :(
I phoned the vet to say i was coming in and then i had to figure out how to get her on the back of the truck. She is a BIG dog. Just over 30kg!! And the back of the truck bed is up HIGH! I have to assume that the paralysis also meant that she could not feel things so well as i would have had to have hurt her belly trying to pick the poor puppy up and she never complained- just looked at me with those puppy-eyes. I still have no idea how i managed to bundle her up and carry her to the truck :ohmy
But i got her in there, and the vets were great. Her breathing was already laboured and they said she was quite severely effected already (man, it happens FAST!). We found two ticks around her neck in her fluffy fluffy mane. They talked all about the risks of the treatment and what they had to do and the fact that it could take up to a week to recover when they are this badly effected and her not being a super young dog... and then it hit me that this was going to be expensive!
A whole new level of fear! This is my dog! I have no choice but to pay to have her looked after properly! But between $500 and $1000 assuming no massive complications and she is recovered within the week....
she went through the anti-toxin treatment well and now it is apparently a waiting game to see how she recovers from the treatment and how quickly the toxin is bound up and flushed from her system. They are hoping she will be un-paralysed enough to be able to drink water this morning. If not, she will go on a drip.
I got the clothes off the line yesterday afternoon and it felt horribly empty not having Bundy there to say "get out of the bloody road!" to! :laugh and i am anxioulsy waiting for the call this morning to see how she is going because i hate the idea of her alone at the vets and, to be honest, i was not budgeting for these kind of vet bills and i hope she fights it off super fast.:unsure
Bundy sees the kids and does not get up for a pat?!?!? I instantly knew she had a tick. I had just three days ago been talking to my sister about needing to get tick stuff onto her cos there are paralysis ticks out here but i just had not had a chance and it was on my list to do in town that day. Too late.
I went to her and gave her a pat and tried to help her stand up or move or soemthing just in case maybe she had a sore leg or something else, but no, she totally could not move. Could not even support her own weight if i help her. She just collapsed back onto the ground. Scary. And she just looked up at me soooooo sad. :(
I phoned the vet to say i was coming in and then i had to figure out how to get her on the back of the truck. She is a BIG dog. Just over 30kg!! And the back of the truck bed is up HIGH! I have to assume that the paralysis also meant that she could not feel things so well as i would have had to have hurt her belly trying to pick the poor puppy up and she never complained- just looked at me with those puppy-eyes. I still have no idea how i managed to bundle her up and carry her to the truck :ohmy
But i got her in there, and the vets were great. Her breathing was already laboured and they said she was quite severely effected already (man, it happens FAST!). We found two ticks around her neck in her fluffy fluffy mane. They talked all about the risks of the treatment and what they had to do and the fact that it could take up to a week to recover when they are this badly effected and her not being a super young dog... and then it hit me that this was going to be expensive!
A whole new level of fear! This is my dog! I have no choice but to pay to have her looked after properly! But between $500 and $1000 assuming no massive complications and she is recovered within the week....
she went through the anti-toxin treatment well and now it is apparently a waiting game to see how she recovers from the treatment and how quickly the toxin is bound up and flushed from her system. They are hoping she will be un-paralysed enough to be able to drink water this morning. If not, she will go on a drip.
I got the clothes off the line yesterday afternoon and it felt horribly empty not having Bundy there to say "get out of the bloody road!" to! :laugh and i am anxioulsy waiting for the call this morning to see how she is going because i hate the idea of her alone at the vets and, to be honest, i was not budgeting for these kind of vet bills and i hope she fights it off super fast.:unsure