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Mouth Ulcers
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 My 6 year old female Pekingese has developed ulcers in her mouth next to both top eye teeth in the front of her mouth. I have been watching them for several weeks now and they are not getting bigger. Read an internet article about pancreatic enzymes causing this in a German Shepherd. I was giving her Wobenzyme and stopped immediately. Any help or advice I can get on this subject would be appreciated.
Posted by dorisastephens - Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
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illness
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About a week ago, my 10-yr. old female peke began having "spells" - she gets really stiff and seems to have tremors. At first, she was having about 2 of these a day. After a couple days, they tapered off to one every 2-3 days. They are sudden and not seemingly related to any other event, and may last from 30 min. to an hour. Then she is OK - lively and happy until the next one. Any ideas about what is causing this problem?? Posted by clock - Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
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16 year old pekin
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my dog is now 16 years old, was slower and had all elderly problems lately..but since 15 days does not eat or drink.. 4 days ago the vet tried atropin and since then she is worse, now legs parallyzed, never eats or drinks only with a syringe... it seems like heart broblems are leading to lungs, but we cannot proceed...she is getting worser each day.. today she cannot even stand or make herself turn around...any ideas? Posted by sedarkan - Sunday, June 01, 2008 |
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jordie's dad
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We have a 13 y.o. Pekingese, whom we've had to leave in the Chicago area with our youngest daughter (age 29). We moved to CT about 3 yrs ago. We had a lot of problems with him which began when we did bring him here with us shortly after our move. First, he developed significant breathing stridor issues when we'd go on a car ride of any length...very unusual since he always enjoyed even the longest car rides, including the one from IL to CT. We had surgery to remove some sacks from his trachea, but found that we had to leave him in Chicago. When we tried to return with him to CT the first time, the stridor began after 45 minutes and became very difficult for all of us. It was at that point that we asked our daughter to care for him and she agreed. She's great with dogs and was living at the time in our large home in Chicago with a large yard...very good accomodations.
She has since gotten her own TWO dogs, both of whom our Peke "tolerates." They all get along fine. However, our daughter has moved out of our house to a smallish place of her own. To make matters worse, our little guy has peripheral neuropathy and almost became paralyzed about a year and a half ago. We had back surgery for him by a specialist and he came back really well. He gets around fine...not like a puppy, but he's perfectly mobile and can even fun and get up a few steps by himself. When we're around, he seems happy and upbeat. We're all happy we did the surgery.
An after effect, however, is that he is now becoming incontinent...not unusual with this type of neuropathy. Because they're now in such a confined space and because my daughter's house doesn't lend itself easily to isolating our little guy, it's all now driving her crazy.
I'm beside myself, wondering what to do. My wife spends considerable time in Chicago. I work long hours in NYC and so he can't live with us because he can't be boarded for my wife's long absences and he can't make the trip back and forth. His heart, lungs, and mental alertness are fine. Should such a dog, my best friend for 13years, be put to sleep for becoming an inconvenience. I'll admit that he spends most of his time laying around - partially because of old age, partially because this is not an active breed.
I'm looking for words of wisdom from anyone who's had similar issues. I'm very depressed at the thought of losing someone - even though I see him for a total of about 3-4 weeks a year. At the same time, I need to be fair to my daughter. Very difficult. I hope someone out there reads this long and impassioned e-mail and has something to say. Posted by jalber9648 - Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
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Hip and knee problems
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Be very careful buying your peke puppy, especially out of state. I bought a 3 month
old puppy who turned out to have hip displacia and luxating patella on both sides.
Surgical correction is prohibitively expensive; our only alternative was putting him to
sleep or letting him live with it on anti-inflammatories until he got older and disabled
from it. What a choice! Get your puppy certified by a vet to be free of hip or knee
problems. Your breeder may not reveal or even know. Posted by Deb Collin - Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
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