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Bad Scare!!!

I went hunting last SAT . I took my cricket dog & noticed she started moving slower & slower. After 2 hours into the hunt she came to me stagering like she was going to fall over. I had to carry her out of the field .She is 8 years old going on 9. I got her home and brought her in the house . She looked bad . She sucked in super tight in the stomach and her back was arched real high. She looked like she was goin to die . She would not eat or dink. So I took and started giveing her sugar water by surenge . I gave here vienna sasuages she did eat a few of those. The next day was rough for her too.I did everything I could think of to get her up & moving. She did start eating can dog food & drinking water, now she is doing all beter. I put her on a antibiotic. The thing about it is, I have no idea what happend. She is up to date on shots & worming. I don't know if it happend cause she is getting old or if she ate somthing bad. I thought kidney failer at first, but if she is eating & drinking useing the bathroom good now,im just not sure. I just don't know? Has any one else ever had anything like this happen to them before?? Or any idea's ???

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Grasslands Beagles Home of HBCH Little Cricket 22 ... Haunted Hill Shaker & Dingus Bred hounds Promoting The Rabbit dog, & the white RABBIT!!!!

i have had something similar to this ,my female 7 at the time we were out running and she running into trees.acted she was drunk and so i put her back in the dog box.what it was she eat this red berries hanging in the kennel.so i cut them out of there and ever since she has been fine.also she is right out of haunted hill shaker and ross's angle rock and she is ch hbch on ukc.has a 3rd in akc small pack option out of 39 big bithches,also i have to daughters out of her and one has a nbq in the ack small pack option out of 28 big females and a 5th in arha little out of 20 dogs.

Donald

From what you have wrote, it sounds as if she had a blockage of sorts and may have got into a dead deer. Sometimes a raw piece of hide will get lodged quick. Also I have seen dogs act that way when they injure a disc in their spine. Im glad to hear she is doing better, but if it happens again, I would get a x-ray done on her to make sure its not a back problem. Any sort of intestine blockage would also show up with a x-ray. Id put some corn oil or code liver oil to her, and make sure she is cleaned out, then watch her close next time out. Your right, its scary when things like that happen. Good luck

Rick

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Rick Giermata - UKC Field Rep. New York State - 716-602-5017

Smokes Creek kennels-Where Hunting dogs are made!

When its no longer fun, sell the hounds and take up Golf.

Thank's I'll keep a good I on her.

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Grasslands Beagles Home of HBCH Little Cricket 22 ... Haunted Hill Shaker & Dingus Bred hounds Promoting The Rabbit dog, & the white RABBIT!!!!