7/15/2009

Pixie has gotten over her case of the canine bug. She is doing really well now. She has developed a limp since she has started playing again. So she will be spayed on 7/22 and X-rays taken. She will not be ready for adoption until she has recovered from her spay surgery and we determine the source of her limp. She is a great all round sweet girl.

6/15/2009

Pixie came into rescue as another casualty of the hard economic times we all suffer from. Unfortunately she had to spend some time at the local shelter before we could take her in and she picked up a nasty germ before she left. By the time she made her way to her foster home she was well on her way to being very ill.

At the end of the first week she had a raging fever over 105 and was about as active as a couch potato and had stopped eating. A trip to the vet for some antibiotics should have done the trick but this bug was too strong for that. It was a holiday weekend and by the following Tuesday poor Pixie was no better, a call to the vet and another antibiotic was added to the first. Another week went by and she started to get a bit better and her fever went down to 103 but still persisted and she still was not eating very well.

Back to the vet again, where she was weighed in and low and behold she has lost five pounds in a week. Blood tests were done but nothing showed up. An x-ray of her throat and chest revealed that her trachea looked more like an s-curve rather than the straight line it should be and her lungs looked suspicious. Something was causing severe swelling in her throat. It was decided that a trachea wash to flush out the germs in her throat would be done with a culture to be sent to the lab, but first she had to be taken off her meds for 72 hours before the test could be done. Poor Pixie was so miserable that week she sounded like an old fashion coffee peculator but on the up side the Rymadel she was on helped the swelling in her throat enough to allow her to start eating again. Friday rolled around and she went for her test now it was a waiting game.

Another week rolled by with no word from the lab and her antibiotics were gone. She was still running a fever and sounded like a percolator. Another call to the vet and 2 new antibiotics were prescribed along with the Rymadel. That was last Friday and we are still waiting to here from the lab. The new meds seem to be helping a lot as her energy level has gone up to medium and she likes to hang with the other animals of the house rather than the humans. She has shown a like for playing tug but she tires so easily and she loves to ride in the car. She is such a sweet dog with all the love in the world to give to the right family. Pixie will not be available for adoption until she is completely recovered from her illness.