Saving bella the dog
It was almost 2 months ago that we adopted bella from a foster, through a quite complicated processes ; select a dog from pictures, filling and sending an adoption form, interview, couple of times went to Jakarta, a city located nearly 300 kms from my hometown, looking for appropriate dog for my home.
Then I finally picked her, cause she's cute, active (or naughty, said the owner) and I just fell in love with her since our first acquaintance.
We gave her the first series complete vaccines a week after her arrival in our home. And she looked okay, since bella almost always happy and active as a young dog. Seemed there's nothing went wrong at that moment.
I left for vacation to Thailand in the next 2 weeks, it was amazing trip of course.
When I came home, I've noticed there's this eyes discharges on bella's eyes.
I thought it was just a common bacterial infection, and after consulted with her vet, we gave her a topical antibiotic. Then there was this constant jerking of her left back leg, which I thought it wasn't so serious, since bella really likes to climb up things in my mother's garden. There was also a sign of unusually hardened pad, that I noticed, but we missed the early detection anyway.
We took her to the vet in the end of the week after we heard her shrieking at night in the last 2 days, it was like she's having nightmares.
The vet was saying our bella got Distemper that attacked the central nervous systems. I
t was a worse version then the other classic type that attacks digestive system and manifest symptoms such as vomit, diarrhea, anorexia, cause our bella didn't have all those symptoms.
She still has a good appetite, no vomit or diarrhea whatsoever. She probably got the virus from the fosterage, it could take 21 days for incubation period though. And there's no cure for Distemper , it caused by the virus. It was dog's own immune body system that has to build and treatment was given supportively.
I found in websites that 80% of dogs who get this diagnosed get killed by the virus, and the prognosis even worse if the virus already attacked the nerves systems, with permanent complications could occur even if its resolve.
Basically, all the information I get from the websites just make me even more discourage about bella's chance to survive.
Not to mention had to hear the squeak every night even thou' I already gave the medication
(I even got her the prescription for diazepam so she could get asleep).
It's so sad to see her condition, with the constant muscle jerking, incoordination movement when she's walking trying to pee, and the sore around her mouth. We're really thinking about euthanasia if she's not getting better.
Whenever I saw her with all the suffering, I thought ; ' A dog shouldn't lived like this.'
Unfortunately this dog didn't had much opportunity to live a happy life with us.
So we finally letting her go, we took her to a vet and put her to sleep.
Goodbye bella.
It was almost 2 months ago that we adopted bella from a foster, through a quite complicated processes ; select a dog from pictures, filling and sending an adoption form, interview, couple of times went to Jakarta, a city located nearly 300 kms from my hometown, looking for appropriate dog for my home.
Then I finally picked her, cause she's cute, active (or naughty, said the owner) and I just fell in love with her since our first acquaintance.
We gave her the first series complete vaccines a week after her arrival in our home. And she looked okay, since bella almost always happy and active as a young dog. Seemed there's nothing went wrong at that moment.
I left for vacation to Thailand in the next 2 weeks, it was amazing trip of course.
When I came home, I've noticed there's this eyes discharges on bella's eyes.
I thought it was just a common bacterial infection, and after consulted with her vet, we gave her a topical antibiotic. Then there was this constant jerking of her left back leg, which I thought it wasn't so serious, since bella really likes to climb up things in my mother's garden. There was also a sign of unusually hardened pad, that I noticed, but we missed the early detection anyway.
We took her to the vet in the end of the week after we heard her shrieking at night in the last 2 days, it was like she's having nightmares.
The vet was saying our bella got Distemper that attacked the central nervous systems. I
t was a worse version then the other classic type that attacks digestive system and manifest symptoms such as vomit, diarrhea, anorexia, cause our bella didn't have all those symptoms.
She still has a good appetite, no vomit or diarrhea whatsoever. She probably got the virus from the fosterage, it could take 21 days for incubation period though. And there's no cure for Distemper , it caused by the virus. It was dog's own immune body system that has to build and treatment was given supportively.
I found in websites that 80% of dogs who get this diagnosed get killed by the virus, and the prognosis even worse if the virus already attacked the nerves systems, with permanent complications could occur even if its resolve.
Basically, all the information I get from the websites just make me even more discourage about bella's chance to survive.
Not to mention had to hear the squeak every night even thou' I already gave the medication
(I even got her the prescription for diazepam so she could get asleep).
It's so sad to see her condition, with the constant muscle jerking, incoordination movement when she's walking trying to pee, and the sore around her mouth. We're really thinking about euthanasia if she's not getting better.
Whenever I saw her with all the suffering, I thought ; ' A dog shouldn't lived like this.'
Unfortunately this dog didn't had much opportunity to live a happy life with us.
So we finally letting her go, we took her to a vet and put her to sleep.
Goodbye bella.
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