TyDog
Boxer Buddy
Last night was a very scary night for us. Ty spent his first weekend being boarded this past weekend. We were traveling out of town for a wedding and we decided to board him at the facility where he goes to dog day care. It has been highly recommended to us in the past and we were always happy with our experiences there. We chose it because we knew he would get to play with other dogs and not have to spend the whole weekend in a crate, which we would never dream of.
Well we got back into town at 8 last night and we drove straight from the airport to the boarders to pick up our baby who we were missing very badly. When we got there I took he was so excited and happy to see us, but I immediately noticed that he looked ENORMOUS. His chest was huge and looked like a full grown large male - much bigger than his normal skinny puppy frame. (he's almost 7 months old) As soon as we got in the car and I started feeling him, I realized we had a problem. His chest and abdomen were extremely distended. We immediately headed to the emergency vet. Within a few minutes of being in the car, he became very groggy, his breathing was shallow, and at times he was non responsive. He would go in phases this way and then at times he would become agitated and obviously in discomfort. We immediately feared that he was suffering from bloat brought on by his fast eating and perhaps stress from being at the boarding facility.
The ride to the emergency vet was probably the scariest event of my life; it took us 30 minutes to get there due to DC area traffic, etc. As soon as we got there they did a chest x-ray and explained that he fortunately did not have a GDV bloat; however that it was a "food bloat." Basically he had consumed so much food that his stomach was distended with food. They gave him an IV of a vomit enducing medecine, and luckily he was able to vomit it all up. He vomited up 3.4 pounds of food. This means that some time on Sunday, he gained access and was unsupervised for enough time to eat the equivalent of approximately 12 cups of food in one sitting. This is approximately 8 times what Ty eats in a normal meal. We are so shocked and upset that the boarder's would allow this to happen. We just can't even phathom how they could have let this happen and feel so lucky that we were able to be there in time to have him taken care of. We have spoken with one of the trainer/managers today, and she is also shocked and outraged and is trying to get to the bottom of it for us. We're waiting for the owner who is out of town to call us back.
We have him on limited food and water today at the vet's orders, and we are monitoring his tempature, as he had a fever last night from the event. He will be on Pepcid AC for a week too. In the end we were very lucky that he's ok, but we experienced so much fear and pain last night when we thought that he had full on GDV bloat and we were stuck in traffic trying to get him to the hospital. I guess the main purpose of my post is just to share my experience with all of you and ask for your well wishes and healing boxer vibes for little Ty after this tramatic and scary event for all of us. We love the boxer world community and are always grateful for the great information and support.
Well we got back into town at 8 last night and we drove straight from the airport to the boarders to pick up our baby who we were missing very badly. When we got there I took he was so excited and happy to see us, but I immediately noticed that he looked ENORMOUS. His chest was huge and looked like a full grown large male - much bigger than his normal skinny puppy frame. (he's almost 7 months old) As soon as we got in the car and I started feeling him, I realized we had a problem. His chest and abdomen were extremely distended. We immediately headed to the emergency vet. Within a few minutes of being in the car, he became very groggy, his breathing was shallow, and at times he was non responsive. He would go in phases this way and then at times he would become agitated and obviously in discomfort. We immediately feared that he was suffering from bloat brought on by his fast eating and perhaps stress from being at the boarding facility.
The ride to the emergency vet was probably the scariest event of my life; it took us 30 minutes to get there due to DC area traffic, etc. As soon as we got there they did a chest x-ray and explained that he fortunately did not have a GDV bloat; however that it was a "food bloat." Basically he had consumed so much food that his stomach was distended with food. They gave him an IV of a vomit enducing medecine, and luckily he was able to vomit it all up. He vomited up 3.4 pounds of food. This means that some time on Sunday, he gained access and was unsupervised for enough time to eat the equivalent of approximately 12 cups of food in one sitting. This is approximately 8 times what Ty eats in a normal meal. We are so shocked and upset that the boarder's would allow this to happen. We just can't even phathom how they could have let this happen and feel so lucky that we were able to be there in time to have him taken care of. We have spoken with one of the trainer/managers today, and she is also shocked and outraged and is trying to get to the bottom of it for us. We're waiting for the owner who is out of town to call us back.
We have him on limited food and water today at the vet's orders, and we are monitoring his tempature, as he had a fever last night from the event. He will be on Pepcid AC for a week too. In the end we were very lucky that he's ok, but we experienced so much fear and pain last night when we thought that he had full on GDV bloat and we were stuck in traffic trying to get him to the hospital. I guess the main purpose of my post is just to share my experience with all of you and ask for your well wishes and healing boxer vibes for little Ty after this tramatic and scary event for all of us. We love the boxer world community and are always grateful for the great information and support.
I would be furious. Hopefully, this sort of thing won't happen again there. I would expect a sincere apology as well as a full refund of any charges.
