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You can add Booker to the list of the walking wounded here on BeagleWorld...
She hasn't been herself for the past few days and we thought her arthritis was acting up. She had also been having a bit of discomfort from her harness and so we were giving her some breaks from the harness (which otherwise she has to wear because of her neck surgery). She was scratching a bit, but not compulsively - just enough that we thought she might prefer to have it off when she wasn't out walking.
Well last night she definitely was not right - I don't think she slept much, if at all (I didn't, either), and most of the time she was just taking really shallow, rapid breaths. Sometimes she was panting or sitting up, and she couldn't seem to get comfortable however she lay in her bed. A bit of 3:00 am internet searching made me decide that she was either in a lot of pain or in the advanced stages of heart disease... and obviously in the middle of the night I feared the worst...
By this morning she seemed a little bit better but we made a vet appointment for mid-morning. However, when she got out of bed she went over to the carpet and started scratching her armpits again... so I went over to see if maybe I could help her out and give them a little scratch. When I put my hand there, however, I found out they were raw and bleeding. Obviously this was what was causing her discomfort overnight... although I have no idea how it could get so bad without our noticing anything besides the odd scratch.
She is now on antibiotics and topical ointment - and we have to keep her from scratching which should be fun (a cone won't help since she uses her back paws to scratch). But at least we know what the trouble was last night and she is on the mend!
Poor Booker.
She hasn't been herself for the past few days and we thought her arthritis was acting up. She had also been having a bit of discomfort from her harness and so we were giving her some breaks from the harness (which otherwise she has to wear because of her neck surgery). She was scratching a bit, but not compulsively - just enough that we thought she might prefer to have it off when she wasn't out walking.
Well last night she definitely was not right - I don't think she slept much, if at all (I didn't, either), and most of the time she was just taking really shallow, rapid breaths. Sometimes she was panting or sitting up, and she couldn't seem to get comfortable however she lay in her bed. A bit of 3:00 am internet searching made me decide that she was either in a lot of pain or in the advanced stages of heart disease... and obviously in the middle of the night I feared the worst...
By this morning she seemed a little bit better but we made a vet appointment for mid-morning. However, when she got out of bed she went over to the carpet and started scratching her armpits again... so I went over to see if maybe I could help her out and give them a little scratch. When I put my hand there, however, I found out they were raw and bleeding. Obviously this was what was causing her discomfort overnight... although I have no idea how it could get so bad without our noticing anything besides the odd scratch.
She is now on antibiotics and topical ointment - and we have to keep her from scratching which should be fun (a cone won't help since she uses her back paws to scratch). But at least we know what the trouble was last night and she is on the mend!
Poor Booker.