Lynn
06-13-2006, 06:56 AM
So here's my continuation on my dog being "sick"...and being in this forum I'm sure you can all guess WHAT it was now. So here's the story...
We were just going to wait until we took her in, in the morning for the spay and talk to the vet about it then...well, the night wore on and she started whining and howling, then she became even more restless than before...go into her crate, come back out and whine at me, go back to the crate, come back and whine at me...then it got to the point where she was whining the entire time. That's when AJ finally was like "just take her to the er" so I got her in the car and took her down and when they asked I was like "I really don't know" and told them her symptoms. Got her back into the exam room and she just was acting up even more, couldn't sit still, couldn't even sit straight. The tech came in and took her heartrate and noticed her nipples were very large and asked if she had puppies recently...and I could only tell her that they'd been like that since we got her 3 weeks ago but we never bred her and had no intention of it either (hence getting her spayed tomorrow (err...today)) She forgot she needed to weigh her so we had to go out to the scale, and when I had to pick her up to get her to come w/ me, I felt a wet spot on her hind leg, and thought she had just drooled and then laid in it. Got out to the scale and noticed little dropplets on the floor and the tech asked if she was leaking fluids...then all of a sudden FLOOD GATES OPENED and her water broke...ALL over the floor. We rushed her back to the exam room, got towels and potty pads and she went into labor a few min. later. (I called AJ freaking out telling him to get down there b/c she was in labor and...let me just say...he was less than thrilled about her being preggo).
Of course, I was stressed out because I've never even seen puppies delivered, let alone have to do it myself. She had 4 w/in about 3 hrs time and stopped from there. They said w/ her breed she could take as long as 4 hrs between puppies...so I sat there until almost 4 until they finally said it would be in her best interest to just take her home and let her feed these guys and have a stress free birth of the rest. She still has a HUGE bulge in her tummy but these puppies are higher in the birth canal so they're going to take a while. (So looks like i'm not going to bed any time soon...)
All said and done though, the er was very generous and we only paid $45 for the tech exam. They didn't charge me for the 7 hrs we were using their exam room or anything else for that matter. And they helped me out a LOT.
So here's where the situation gets sticky...in the morning I'm going to call the pound, and try to be as civil as possible w/ them, but I am p***ed off w/ them to say the least. I didn't think anything of it when I adopted her b/c she was only 8 months...but she was in the same kennel w/ another female and 2 unneutered adult males...*scowls* I didn't realize she could get pregnant as early as 6 mo...thus never crossed my mind. Two, before I took her, w/ the acception of needing her rabies and spay done, they said she was healthy, up to date on all shots and wasn't pregnant (yet they never did a test to confirm that anyhow). So of course, again, I never thought twice about it. On their part though, it was complete neglegance, and irresponsibility to put an unspayed female w/ unneutered males. I KNOW she got pregnant at the pound b/c gestation is approx 52 days from conception and I have paperwork stating that her first checkup at the pound was 4/18 but she was there for weeks before that first checkup...
More frustrating was she was supposed to get spayed tomorrow. Cruel irony. So now we have to wait on that. Needless to say, I'm calling the pound tomorrow and telling them they need to incur, half if not all of the costs of this because of their irresponsiblity w/ this puppy and the fact that they sold her to us telling us she wasn't pregnant...I'm frustrated enough to the point where I'd consider getting a lawyer to push the matter too...b/c anyone that's had puppies knows how expensive they can get between food, shots, supplies and time.
While I'm really proud to be a "grandma" of sorts, I just hope we can find these puppies the best of homes when they are ready to be adopted out.
/end rant
pictures will probably be up in the next couple days....they are just darling
We were just going to wait until we took her in, in the morning for the spay and talk to the vet about it then...well, the night wore on and she started whining and howling, then she became even more restless than before...go into her crate, come back out and whine at me, go back to the crate, come back and whine at me...then it got to the point where she was whining the entire time. That's when AJ finally was like "just take her to the er" so I got her in the car and took her down and when they asked I was like "I really don't know" and told them her symptoms. Got her back into the exam room and she just was acting up even more, couldn't sit still, couldn't even sit straight. The tech came in and took her heartrate and noticed her nipples were very large and asked if she had puppies recently...and I could only tell her that they'd been like that since we got her 3 weeks ago but we never bred her and had no intention of it either (hence getting her spayed tomorrow (err...today)) She forgot she needed to weigh her so we had to go out to the scale, and when I had to pick her up to get her to come w/ me, I felt a wet spot on her hind leg, and thought she had just drooled and then laid in it. Got out to the scale and noticed little dropplets on the floor and the tech asked if she was leaking fluids...then all of a sudden FLOOD GATES OPENED and her water broke...ALL over the floor. We rushed her back to the exam room, got towels and potty pads and she went into labor a few min. later. (I called AJ freaking out telling him to get down there b/c she was in labor and...let me just say...he was less than thrilled about her being preggo).
Of course, I was stressed out because I've never even seen puppies delivered, let alone have to do it myself. She had 4 w/in about 3 hrs time and stopped from there. They said w/ her breed she could take as long as 4 hrs between puppies...so I sat there until almost 4 until they finally said it would be in her best interest to just take her home and let her feed these guys and have a stress free birth of the rest. She still has a HUGE bulge in her tummy but these puppies are higher in the birth canal so they're going to take a while. (So looks like i'm not going to bed any time soon...)
All said and done though, the er was very generous and we only paid $45 for the tech exam. They didn't charge me for the 7 hrs we were using their exam room or anything else for that matter. And they helped me out a LOT.
So here's where the situation gets sticky...in the morning I'm going to call the pound, and try to be as civil as possible w/ them, but I am p***ed off w/ them to say the least. I didn't think anything of it when I adopted her b/c she was only 8 months...but she was in the same kennel w/ another female and 2 unneutered adult males...*scowls* I didn't realize she could get pregnant as early as 6 mo...thus never crossed my mind. Two, before I took her, w/ the acception of needing her rabies and spay done, they said she was healthy, up to date on all shots and wasn't pregnant (yet they never did a test to confirm that anyhow). So of course, again, I never thought twice about it. On their part though, it was complete neglegance, and irresponsibility to put an unspayed female w/ unneutered males. I KNOW she got pregnant at the pound b/c gestation is approx 52 days from conception and I have paperwork stating that her first checkup at the pound was 4/18 but she was there for weeks before that first checkup...
More frustrating was she was supposed to get spayed tomorrow. Cruel irony. So now we have to wait on that. Needless to say, I'm calling the pound tomorrow and telling them they need to incur, half if not all of the costs of this because of their irresponsiblity w/ this puppy and the fact that they sold her to us telling us she wasn't pregnant...I'm frustrated enough to the point where I'd consider getting a lawyer to push the matter too...b/c anyone that's had puppies knows how expensive they can get between food, shots, supplies and time.
While I'm really proud to be a "grandma" of sorts, I just hope we can find these puppies the best of homes when they are ready to be adopted out.
/end rant
pictures will probably be up in the next couple days....they are just darling