okay so after i bought my dog the owner gave him vaccine..when i brought him home he had chills and slept through the night..then i brought him to the vet..gave him couple of injections..he's active again..but after awhile he started to cough..it sounded like he wanted to puke but nothin came out. i am not so sure how dogs cough...so i brought him to the vet again and the doctor said he have phlegm in his lung or something and wanted to gave him some treatment by making him inhale this foggy air from a pipe..and also comes with 8 injections a day...it costs a lot, i'm a student and i dont have that money.. so i decided to not let him to the treatment. after all he is very jumpy and coughs once in awhile...does anyone experienced this?? cuz i am sure worried as hell..there isnt much vet here in the country i'm living..
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I did some research when Boris got his cold, and lots of people said that most of the time coughing just comes from kennel cough, and it usually disappears after a few days. It might be that his collar is too tight too, it's what happened with Boris.
I don't think it's a bad decision to not to the treatment actually, as long as you keep an eye on your dog and he seems to go better. It's like humans, the more meds we get, the more likely we are to get sick. But if it gets worse, maybe there is a humane society around you that could do the treatment for cheaper?
Let us know how it goes.
I don't think it's a bad decision to not to the treatment actually, as long as you keep an eye on your dog and he seems to go better. It's like humans, the more meds we get, the more likely we are to get sick. But if it gets worse, maybe there is a humane society around you that could do the treatment for cheaper?
Let us know how it goes.
Kennel cough is a dry hacking cough that sounds like they want to hack something up, but usually nothing comes up and if something does, it is usually clear mucous. Kennel cough is bronchitis for dogs and is generally not fatal. They usually get over it within about a week. There is a vaccine for it, but I don't see the vaccine as a good preventative as there are different types of K9 kennel cough. Kennel cough is a virus and many vets will try to prescribe antibiotics....you can wait it out and chances are your pup will be fine, but keep in mind that it is highly contagious and if the pup acts really ill there is a chance that he/she could have picked up a secondary bacterial infection.
Bronki was very prone to kennel cough and after one ordeal with it i never missed his bordello vaccination again..i had to lay papers down in the corners of the room because he would go there and cough up so much mucus.. and no one got any sleep because it was so much worse at night..he was the most miserable dog in the world. I too asked about cough syrup but my vet said no. What i did do was turn the shower on very hot and steam the bathroom up and take him in there and curl up on the floor with him. The steam seemed to bring him great relief. I also propped him up on pillows because being flat seemed to make it a thousand times worse. I read a story that a vet wrote about how his clients called him at night because it was easier to get ahold of him then coming to his clinic during the day. I wished i could reach right thru the pages of the book and give him a piece of my mind, because a person with a dog that has kennel cough thinks their dog must be in extreme respitory distress by the wee hours of the morning..it is just that much worse at night and you would think a vet would now that! Sorry your pup has this..make sure after this you do never miss your regular vaccinations. There is no reason to have to go thru it at all.
Seeing your vet is up to you..but let me tell you what happened the last time i thought Bronki had this. He started coughing and i thought oh no here we go again..even tho he had his shots, the vet thought he had it anyway. We were given an antibiotic and it seemed to not make much difference. Then i saw a spot of blood in the mucus. And another. I took him back and they gave me another round of antibiotics. IT worsened and i became very afraid, i knew what i was thinking in the back of my mind but i didn't want to be right,i didn't even want to say it outloud. This time we went back to the vet and i asked him could it be cancer, Bronki was only 7 yrs old, a big strong handsome dog that i loved more then almost anything in the whole wide world. THey took him back and did a lung xray. He had a tumor in his throat, and a very large one in his lung along with several smaller ones. THere was nothing they could do for him but put him down. I don't know if we had done the x-ray in the very beginning if it would have made any difference, if it came down to chemo i wouldn't have put him thru that. I promised him the day he was born that i would always take the best care of him and i would never but never let him suffer. THat was the last day i saw my best friend. Letting something go is never a good idea.
Seeing your vet is up to you..but let me tell you what happened the last time i thought Bronki had this. He started coughing and i thought oh no here we go again..even tho he had his shots, the vet thought he had it anyway. We were given an antibiotic and it seemed to not make much difference. Then i saw a spot of blood in the mucus. And another. I took him back and they gave me another round of antibiotics. IT worsened and i became very afraid, i knew what i was thinking in the back of my mind but i didn't want to be right,i didn't even want to say it outloud. This time we went back to the vet and i asked him could it be cancer, Bronki was only 7 yrs old, a big strong handsome dog that i loved more then almost anything in the whole wide world. THey took him back and did a lung xray. He had a tumor in his throat, and a very large one in his lung along with several smaller ones. THere was nothing they could do for him but put him down. I don't know if we had done the x-ray in the very beginning if it would have made any difference, if it came down to chemo i wouldn't have put him thru that. I promised him the day he was born that i would always take the best care of him and i would never but never let him suffer. THat was the last day i saw my best friend. Letting something go is never a good idea.
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