Hi, My dogs both caught it from out cat when we brought him home from the humane society ... even though they had been vaccinated for it - LOL! They did have a really mild case, they probably were sick for only two weeks, with only one week of moderate symptoms. It was weird though because the humane society had assured me over and over there was no need to quarentine the cat, since there was nothing he could give to the dogs ... except kennel cough! The cat (Hobbes) had to be put into intensive care for a week his was so bad. Luckily, the humane society had me bring him to their hospital and paid for his care, since he got sick there. Poor baby! It did kind of make me question getting another animal from the humane society, since the first cat we feel in love with was FLV +, so we couldn't adopt him and that was very traumatic because we didn't know what was going to happen to him and we felt like then it was our fault. Then Hobbes almost died, and we had just gone through a cat dying of a lung condition that required getting her lungs tapped every other day or so, force feeding her, and giving her pills all of the time. But she just wasn't getting any better so after a fair chance of trying to get her to heal, we had to put her to sleep. When Hobbes got out of the ICU, I had to force feed him and shove pills down him, just like the kitty that died too! So, When the dogs got sick, we were pretty stressed out! In retrospect, they never got very sick though. Shell
On 8/1/07, chiowner2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, I haven't been on in a while. My computer was down for a long > time. I just got it back up and running. I was having to go to the > library to use the computer. > > My baby has kennel cough. Well I believe it is kennel cough because he > has all the symptoms. I searched the web about it. But he hasn't been > around any other dogs nor has he been kenneled. I found that I can > either take him to to the vet and get him treated with antibiotics or > I > can give him Robitussin and baby asprin (as long as it is > acetaminophen > free). Right now, it has been a week and he is no longer couhing up > that gunk yet he still has the cough but it is not as often. I am > going > to watch him one more week and if he still has the cough, I will take > him to the vet. > > Has any of your babies out there had kennel cough? What did you do > about it? > > Tammie > > >
