Hi, I am taking shakey my ISBT to the vet in the morning. I thought she had something lodged in her throat but now I think it might be a cough. She is eating ok, no distessing sounds from her throat. She does however keep coughing, after she coughs she wretches and sometimes brings up a small amount of mucus fluid. The cough is worse if she tries to play or do anything strenous. She hasn't been in a kennel herself, but I do walk where a lot of other dogs go just as a means of keeping her socialised.

Kennel cough is an airborne virus...a dog doesnt have to be in kennels to catch it. If one of the dogs she was playing with had it (or the beginnings..or end of Kennel Cough), it could have easily been passed on.

There is a lot about at the moment, as i said on previous post you can't mistake kennel cough and my old vet told me to use Venos cough mixture from the Chemist, she loved the stuff and it worked!

Please get this checked by the vet I don't mean to alarm you but I had a staffi who was only 3 thought that it was kennel cough, vet treated for this still no better, treated for lung worm not that in the end my Jake had to have an endoscopy of the lungs found out it was a lung disease but did not know which one if it was treatable, we paid for further investigation by a specialist but unfortuantely nothing could be done he had Fibrosis of the lungs which was not treatable in the end we had to put my baby to sleep hardest thing I have ever had to do I cried buckets. However Jake was as fit as a fiddle eating, drinking apart from cough which would not budge.

Sorry If I have been all doom and gloom but we had no idea how ill he was and if we had the tests done straightaway who knows but the vet said that even if it was caught in the early stages the outcome would have been no different.

I miss my baby so much I would have paid anything for him to have been treated and here with me today.

Good luck keep me posted hope all is well.

NikiH

Thanks, I will keep you posted. Taking shakey to vets in the morning

This sounds exactly like what Copper, my BT had, coughing and retching but perfectly fit and well otherwise. He had a couple of injections and a course of antibiotics and he was right as rain. There are other possible causes but I'm sure 9 times out of 10 it will just be a minor ailment. My vet says they can pick this up anywhere that lots of other dogs are/go unless they've been vaccinated against it. Hope yours is OK.

CG

Hi all thanks for your replys. Just got back from the vet. Shakey has a high temp and slight bronchitis. I mentioned the lung disease that nicki spoke about. However he said shakeys lungs sound fine it is more upper respitary. Also something else that I had suspected she is in a full blown phantom pregnancy, is even full of milk. By my workings she will think the pups are due any time now. So anyone with advice on Phantom pregnancies??? She is on antibiotics now and cough linctus I have had to postpone her speying which I had booked for a couple of weeks time as she now needs her hormones to settle first!!