she was prescribed weeks course antibiotics. other symptoms gained during last 3 weeks - heavy breathing, lack of interest in food, tired. On saturday her breathing was really bad , we brought her to the Vet hospital and she died just as we pulled up. I think she had a more serious illness and not kennel cough at all. Other symptoms were going no. 2 alot. and coughing specks of blood a little. has anyone else had this experience. She was gold labrador 11 and a half years. Thank you.
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Without knowing more, I'd have to agree with ann a.
Bordatella by itself is typically a relatively mild infection and will often go away on its own. But, many dogs are susceptible to opportunistic infections, which is likely why your vet gave the antibiotics. Antibiotics won't cure Bordatella (kennel cough) but it hopefully will keep other infections from setting in, which in this case it didn't seem to be enough treatment. Pneumonia, which is not the same thing as the flu, and is in fact a "symptom" itself of a variety of lung infections, often sets up in sick, especially old, dogs, and it is difficult to treat.
I'm very sorry for your loss.
your dog has dog flue and yes if y don't treat it your dog will die. My moms dog had it 2 years ago and she died because of it they told us their was nothing wrong and when we looked up dog flue she had all the symptoms. the symptoms are coughing don't eat cant get comfy runny nose
Sounds to me like she definately had something more going on than just kennel cough. Sometimes things like cancer dont present themselves until it is too late. That is what happened to my bulldog. He had a tumor bleeding out on his spleen.
The vet probably did the best they could without some really aggressive x rays, sonograms or something like that - did they do all of that and bloodwork too?
I believe your dog did only have kennel cough. Considering the age of your dog, the disease caused an infection that most likely poisoned his blood. I do apologize for your loss, and i know how it feels to loose a dog to Kennel Cough. My first dog died at 2 years from it.
Kennel cough" which is bordatella is an opportunistic infection. It allows the invasion of other infections that make the animal sicker - things such as bronchial condition - bronchitis/pneumonia.
Bordatella is NOT the 'flu'. It is a respiratory infection.
Think of the sequence of events as a human getting a virus that turns into bronchitis that turns into pneumonia.
do you have ticks? did your dog also have bloody nose on occation? if so it could have been tick fever, dogs cough, with blood, tick fever makes them go into d.i.c. which is in simple terms like taking to much blood thinners and they bleed internally and from every where. sorry for your loss, i have had many dogs and lost many to, it is a sad thing.
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