Sharing this item from one of my chat lists, with
permission:
Hi
everyone,
I received this from another list and thought it
interesting
enough to
post. ........Cross posted with permission.
I did want to
take time to tell you all about the hard
lesson we
learned this weekend.
So that you can all pass this
news onto any breed
and
all
Chihuahua
groups and message boards you may belong to.
On Friday we (hubby and I)
drove out to Brighton, and
surprised his
older sister with a puppy. She
had one last year (from
another breeder)
that died from what I thought was
Hypoglycaemia.
So we take the puppy over and everyone loves it and
she
does great
and kisses and loves on her new mommy and family. So
we go
home.
Well the next morning we get a phone call, something
is wrong
with
the puppy, it's having all the same signs that the
other puppy
had,
drooling, seizures, body temp very low, then semi
coma.
So I tell
her rush this puppy to a vet. She does and
I'm sitting here
thinking,
there's no way one of my puppies is
sick...just cant
be...they have had
shots, dewormed, no fleas,
fed
extremely
well...there'
well...there'
And then it just hits
me....My hubby's sister is a
diabetic. She
takes insulin. I call her and
tell her to tell the vet
to give the puppy
glucose. Her vet says well I
have to test for low
blood sugar first.
and Parvo and Cocidia and
Giardia....I'and Parvo and
Cocidia and Giar
tests will be neg, just
give the damn dog Glucose.
So they get the test back in 10 minutes or so
and sure
enough nothing
is wrong other then NO blood sugar. They
give
Glucose...DUHHHHHHHi
And hook up an IV, by this time I've got my
husband
already on his
way to Brighton to remove the dog from the brain
dead
vet out there and
bring it back here to our vet, which he does and
our
vet treats over
night
and today
we got her home, and she's
totally fine.
So, you say how did one dog die of this last year
and
this perfectly
healthy puppy get so sick so quickly....well
it's
simple actually...
when you draw insulin or any medication into a
needle
you are
taught to squirt out the excess and any
air
bubbles....where do
those drops go?
They go onto your clothing
or roll off onto your hand
holding the
needle. So the puppy licked her
hands (both puppies)
and just a few
drops
injested into a 1 lb puppy
is all it takes to shut off
all blood sugar
and send them into a shock, a
coma and finally death.
So for all of you with dogs, If you are diabetic
or
you live with
someone who is....it is a MUST MUST MUST that you
do
all your
insulin draws over a sink and wash your hands right
after
and the
injection site as well. And always keep the needles
and bottles
out
of the animals reach as well.
Nancy
Victoria and the raw pack
"Give it to us raw and wrrrrrrrrriggling" -
Smeigel, LOTR
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"We find
beauty in the most incomprehensible places and the otherwise homely faces. It's
our gift to see beyond the dirt, terror, sadness and defeat to find the true
soul that lies within........we are rescue."
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"Don't breed or buy while shelter
animals die."
