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Lost puppy and want to know why

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Giada
Giada

My husband and I got a Siberian Husky from a pet store 4 weeks ago. She seemed sick since the day we got her, we thought it was because she was stressed. She had diarrhea. We took her to the vet several times because we didn’t want her to get dehydrated. He put her on some different meds. Nothing helped. Wednesday night (30th of January) she started to act really freaked out and crying so we thought she was in pain. We took her to the vet on Thursday and she started to have many of seizures in one hour, at this time I was balling because I didn’t know what was going on. The vet took her home to his house overnight to watch her. He called Friday and said he had been giving her valium for her seizures. We put her down on Friday. I feel like we could have kept her alive if we tried harder. Can you please explain to me what happened to her because my vet has no clue and this is very frustrating. Thank you!

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  • Experienced Advisor Stacey Crompton says:

    February 11th, 2008 at 06:45 PM

    I am so sorry to hear your news.

    The only way to determine the problem is a post mortem. Performed by your local vet.

    The possibilites may have been a brain tumor, epilepsy, ingesting something toxic, nut it is so difficult to say. I would request a post mortem to find exacally what happened.

    Sorry i couldnt of been more help.

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  • User says:

    February 11th, 2008 at 08:22 PM

    Would this be possibly distemper? Thank you for trying to help us out.

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  • Experienced Advisor Stacey Crompton says:

    February 12th, 2008 at 06:39 PM

    Distemper is very uncommon , this is highly unlikley but it can not be ruled out untill it is confirmed otherwise. I have been in practice 7years and never seen a case of distemper. Also unlikley if Giada was vaccinated or not

     

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  • User says:

    February 12th, 2008 at 07:28 PM

    I am pretty sure she got her distemper shot I will have to go home and check. I just have one more question. Now I have read a lot of dogs survive going through seizures, was there anything we could have done to keep her alive. She was also taking the meds of Albon, Centrine, and Metronidazole. (didn't know if any of those might have triggered it)

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