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Yesterday, totally out of the blue, Myrtie was not interested in food or walking. Last night, she did not morph into Madam Lash, and this morning very unhappy.

Off to the vet the moment they opened ...... only to find that she is going into heart failure. What a shock !!

She is now at SASH (Small Animal Specialist Hospital) at North Ryde in an oxygen tent and having intravenous diuretics as there is a lot of fluid around her lungs :cry: She has been at SASH twice before for HGE and my local vet for annual vax etc, and has never presented with the slightest heart murmur, so it is shock, to put it mildly.

I'm just wondering whether her years of neglect before she came to me are starting to have an affect on her general health.

Anyway - it is now just waiting on call from specialist.

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Thank you people.

Myrtie is only 3kg - last time she was weighed she was 3.4kg so these little dogs can lose such a high percentage of their weight very quickly.

I keep looking at the clock because the vet said to call her at 4pm if she hadn't called me first. :(

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K, she is about 12. Bit hard to tell really. When I rescued her from the pound (she wasn't supposed to stay LOL) she had the most dreadful teeth, the teeth of an old dog, but she obviously wasn't as old as her teeth could indicate.

She has been with me since June 2010, 4 years .... seems longer because she is a huge personality.

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Thanks for all the good wishes. I'm pretty worried as the vet has reported (I rang at 4pm) that Myrtie hasn't responded as well as she would like. There has been some reduction in her breathing rate, but not as much as she would have expected.

They will continue treatment and then start to consider other options. Both my local vet and the emergency vet mentioned poison, but wrack my brain as I might, I cannot see where she could have been exposed to any. I don't use any bug ridding poisons, and have had the same can of fly spray for about 10 years. Apart from the fact that it just about kills ME, I know that some dogs will pick up dead flies, so use it only on the very very rare occasion. I just can't see how it could be that. She never picks up anything to eat on our walks and none of the footpaths around here have been subjected to weed poisons.

Still a waiting process.

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So sorry to hear about your girl. Hopefully she can be managed with oral diuretics for the long term at home.

Thanks, gillbear. Yes, I understand that she will be on a strict medication regime from now on. With lots of elderly and sick (rescues) over the years, medicating is second nature. :(

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Hmmmm..not the best update , here's hoping next news is more positive . Wasn't it her that was not eating well recently ..and you tried her on different food?

Yes, I started a thread on General on it asking about good quality kibble. It wasn't that she wasn't eating well; rather because her tongue hangs out (most teeth extracted 4 years ago), she had started having difficult getting the food into her mouth. I did tell my local vet that and I think (but can't swear to it) that I told the emergency vet as well.

Because she enjoyed kibble, but the Optimum was giving her very large and soft motions, I switched to Nature's Gift Semi Moist and Chunkers. I've also been giving this to the other dogs (mixed in with wet raw) and they are all fine. She was enjoying that mixture until yesterday morning when, I now know, she started being unwell.

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