Q&A: Hi,I took my little yorkie puppy 7 months old to the vet on the 26th dec as he had a hump on his lower back?
Posted by: Alan in Stop Snoring Remedies, tags: 26th, Back, hump, Little, lower, months, Puppy, took, yorkieQuestion by Larry Woofie: Hi,I took my little yorkie puppy 7 months old to the vet on the 26th dec as he had a hump on his lower back?
and was not feeling his usually playful happy self. The vet said that he had a back spasm and gave him an injection of anti-inflammatorys. He also gave me a 4 day supply of anti-inflammatorys. After the four days my little dog had not improved so i had to bring him to a new vet (as me and woof had been away from home for christmas) and she gave him steroid medicines for back pain and said he had no temperature. She said that she would x-ray him friday if no improvement to find the problem. Woof yesterday evening appeared to have improved so as I had done since he got sick (as he got cold very easily) I brought him in his bed up my bedroom and placed him on the floor beside my bed so if he needed to go bathroom he would wake me and the heat was on in the bedroom all night for him. He had eaten,drank, and went the toilet that evening/night before bed. I woke up this morning at 10.45 and thought it funny Woof had not woke me for toilet. I called him twice no respond and moved to check him and found my little pet was death. My boyfriend heard him breathing quite shallow around 5.30 but he sometimes snores and talks in his sleep so he thought nothing of it. He was quite all night never made a peep. I am so upset he was my best friend his friendship meant a lot to me. He used to come everywhere with me. He had all his shots and I had taken him to two different vets and both gave the same opinion back pain. It was logical because he responded to the anti-inflammatory injection well on the night of the 26th and was acting like himself. I also had been in my family home for christmas and Woof had been quite active playing with my other dog at the family home so logic would dictate he hurt his back playing so much. I was offered a post mortem by a very shocked vet who could not understand it at all. I felt that I didn’t want this for my little pup as it meant that I could not bury him so i chose not to. Of course I am still so shocked at the freakness of this. I was wondering has anybody every heard this to happen to another poor little dog?
Unexplained sudden puppy death
Is it possible my yorkie had a Liver shunt? It effects the nervous system and makes the poor little yorkie depressed. Should I tell the breeder? I recently saw a ad in our local paper of the same breeder selling puppies again
Best answer:
Answer by Rosalie
I’m so sorry to hear about your puppy – I hope you have informed his breeder about this.
It’s not clear as to why a necropsy would have precluded his burial, but it certainly would have helped to shed some light on what could have been the cause of his death. Without that, you may never know.
It is possible that there was a defect in his spine or something associated with his spinal chord – I would not have allowed a puppy with anything going on with his back to have played with another dog, but in the end, it may not have mattered. Something specific caused the spasms – that is not a common occurrence in dogs.
It sounds as if the swelling in his spine or some spinal damage caused his end.
I’m very sorry for your loss.
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