My puppy is 3 months old. I was told when I bought him (from a pet store) that he had a bad cold and was taking amoxicillin. It was supposed to be taken for 2 wks but dont think the store gave me all of the medication. He still has alot of congestion in his nose and the vet prescribed Clavamox--1/2 pill 3 times a day. He is to be on that for 10 days and has a follow up appnt next week. After the 3rd day of taking this, he seemed much clearer in breathing and less congested. It has been 6 days into taking the medication and he now acts as though he's back where he started. His nose is sounding congested and thick secretions run out occasionally. He plays normally and eats normally. I was told it was an upper respiratory infection but was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem and how long it took for the puppy to get better. Or did you find out that it was something else and needed different medications? What can I do to help his congestion? Thankyou!
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I purchased a puppy from a pet store and they told me the exact same thing... upper respiratory infection, on meds, give it a week he'll be fine. Well when that week came where he was supposed to be "fine" I took him to my vet instead of the pet stores vet (they cant be trusted) and he had a fever of 106.7. Dogs start getting brain damage at 106.0. They treated him as an emergency and put him on IV fluids. He had to stay over night. During the night my vet called and told me he had stopped breathing and they had to pump his chest to resuscitate him. He made it through the next two days and by then we could take him home. At about 10 that night he started walking funny. I'm a vet student so I knew that this was a neurological problem. By the next morning he couldnt walk. We worked his legs all day till he was walking again. That night his fever broke again and we rushed him to the emergency vet. He began seizuring in the car very violently. We got to the vet and they put another IV in and put in a fluid to stop the seizure. This lasted 20 min. till another seizure came on and the vet came in to tell us he wasnt going to come out of the seizure and that he was suffering. We gave permission to put our little baby down.He died of distemper, a fatal dog virus. Early the next morning we went to the pet store and demanded our money back and all the vet bills paid. They told us there was nothing they could do because we broke our contract guarantee by going to our vet. We are now in the process of a major law suit which I dont intend to lose. I will tell you to go to a reputible vet and get him thoroughly examined. Hopefully you will not suffer the same fate as we did. Good luck!
The puppy in this story was a Dogue de bordeaux and was purchased at Petland.
It's quite possible the mucous you're seeing is what his sinuses are dumping now that the infection is coming under control. If he feels great and has an appetite it's unlikely the illness is becoming resistent to the treatments. I would still update your veterinarian on the changes, and make sure all this internet advice you're getting doesnt lead you astray. If you trust your vet, you should always ask them for medical advice.
Does he have allergies maybe? I have to give my dog benedryl but you would need to use a children's does on a puppy.
Your first problem was that you purchased him from a pet store and he is 99% likely to have come from a puppy mill where the breeders could careless about anything then profit.
Dogs are kept in small cages living in their own feces, never see the light of day, stacked cage after cage in filth for profits only.
It's hard to say what is ailing ths pup but you may wish to seek a holistic vet for him to try something else as conventional medicine doesn't appear to be helping..
Clavomox is an excellent antibiotic but might be the wrong one. The vet needs to take a sample of the infectious material and send it off to a lab so that he can find out exactly what type of antibiotic is needed to fix this.
Has there been a diagnosis?
Check for a Holistic vet in your area and PLEASE do not allow any vet to give this dog any vaccines... Please tell me this has not been done since the onset of this problem?
http://www.holisticvetlist.com
A quick call to your vet is in order. Tell them what goin gon with your pup and see if they may want to check him out sooner. Clavamox is an excellent antibiotic, and it seems that it is doing it job. Your pups may just be expelling all the mucus he had built up in his sinus's, I really can't say.
A call to your vet I think is the very best way to really get the answer your looking for.
A quick call to your vet is in order. Tell them what goin gon with your pup and see if they may want to check him out sooner. Clavamox is an excellent antibiotic, and it seems that it is doing it job. Your pups may just be expelling all the mucus he had built up in his sinus's, I really can't say.
A call to your vet I think is the very best way to really get the answer your looking for.
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