Hello,
Exceptionally, I do not let any dog to dictate this text... Nalle has healed well and was started in harness with it gently on August. The first the real power training was in November.
Otso became ill in early summer. A week before the midsummer I was going to go with the dogs to Muonio. I went to jog by bike with dogs of the week on Friday morning and I was wondering when Otso cough and time after coughing coughed and spit up white mucus foam. During the day, I was driving to Muonio. On Saturday, it was asymptomatic, when he was resting. On Sunday, I used the dogs for a walk and Otso cough and spit up it mucus foam again. On Sunday night it threw up his food and on Monday morning too, and it also went to diarrhea. Well, on Monday I called to along the provinces of veterinarians, all of them seemed to be busy with other veterinarians being in the summer holidays, and after all, in addition to the first day of the week. I had already in the during phone call rumba consider fasting- rice regimen, which finally Kolari vet. recommended .
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| Otso and Nalle in Muonio |
This regimen seemed to be effective and the food began to stay inside until Midsummer, when I was given the first time dry food after fasting and rice. Midsummer, one of the acquaintance, veterinarian who wrote Otso ten-day cure of antibiotics to throat infection. Antibiotics seemed to help and facilitate the dog's presence, but two days after the end of the cure coughing and vomiting began again.
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| Otso chills Midsummer 2013. |
Now, I booked it up to Oulu the Veterinarian Clinic Otus, where we got to 10.7. Shockingly it´s weight had dropped from 45 kilos to 37 kilos. It was X-rayed and the images revealed that it has a dilation of the esophagus and as a result, including pneumonia. The figure showed that the esophagus constrictor muscles was paralysed with the exception of a little snippet before the stomach and the esophagus at the lowest point was clear dilatation. In addition, in a blood sample were taken, which were excluded from the thyroid gland , autoimmune diseases, myopathies, myasthenia gravis and systemic lupus erythematosus alias SLE. We were told also: "It may come with or without cause, in which case the prognosis is poor." For guidance, we were able to feed the dog several times a day in small doses in an upright position: the front feet of the podium and cups high, so that gravity would transport the food to the stomach. In addition, it had a cure of antibiotics to treat pneumonia.
A few days later doctor who had examined Otso from Otus called, asked the Otsos' welfare and told all the blood counts have been normal, so dilation was the cause of the so-called idiopathic or unknown. We booked the control time to the next week. Otso clearly liven up because of medicine cure worked. On the control visit Otso was cheerful himself, so loud that the doctor almost did not get a chance to talk. And the weight had risen one kilo. :-D It was X-rayed again, and the images showed that the lungs were cleansed , but of antibiotics was continued.
We lived day at a time... Sometimes there were good days and really bad: Some day the food and drink were inside, and then other days it cough and all came out. He was very hungry, but I was not able to enter food as much as it needed, and not only the fat as one of a meal has been a considerable help. It was made small walks, because it was neat and tidy dog and didn´t done needs to his kennel. While walking it had to put to sit a number of times, so that the coughing and spit up eased. Similarly, after feeding it had to put to stand on the podium and rub the throat and chest from top to bottom, because it seemed to facilitate its presence.
The beginning of August (Thursday, 1st of August) was started cortisone regimen and alongside the new ab-regimen. This was now the hottest summer time. Otso was panting really heavy and loudly, and I knew our common time to decline. On 3th of August it was Saturday morning I used it again a little walking before going to work. It was the first a hazy morning. The suns' rays were reflected dimly through the mist. In my head started to play a song "Niin kaunis on maa" ("So beautiful is the land") and I knew that there are no more many days left. The next night went to the control and operation eased the dog's presence by sitting and throat massaging. When it then at some point in the morning the night it did´t get properly inhalation cough or gagging was thus between what would have been choking I did it with a heavy final decision, and I said to Sami: "This is no longer worth living of Otso. We release him today blissful sleigh career today."
On Saturday, the food tasted it still, but on Sunday morning, it did not even come to beg...
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| Rest in peace my dear. You will always be in our memories. |