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Posted by Ladogos
on 6/15/2009, 9:55 pm
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I had a very heart breaking phone call from a friend of mine that has two of my dogo pups . Well 11 months old that is. He is one of those kind of owners that everyone wants to have there dogs. He takes care of them top of the line everything. They sleep in the bed with his kids, go to the farm with them, and has been using them to hunt pigs. They are a Uniqo X Daisy cross and have been doing very well.
Well I got a phone call from him friday night and he said he had some sad news . He said that they had been hunting a few days before and the next day after they got home he noticed one of the pups , Azul, was scratching at his eye very profusely . They checked him over and could not find anything wrong and thought he must have gotten stung by some sort of an insect or spider. They let Azul sleep in the bed with his son and he tried to keep him from scratching during the night. Well when morning came Azul couldn't get up. This was Saturday morning and they rushed him to the vet. Azul had a fever of 106 . The vet worked with him for a couple of hours and could not save him. . . Man i was sad . Well when they got home Satueday evening they noticed The other dog , Uniqo 2, was starting to scratch. He called me and told me they were on there way back to the vet. I then told him to have his vet to test for Pseudo Rabies. So they turned around and immediately rushed him to the vet. The vet drew blood and ran test in lab but no definate signs of anything other than an infection. And the vet didnt have a way for testing for Pseudo Rabies in lab. She then drew more blood and Fed-Xed it to Texas A&M University vet and science department for analysis . The vet sounded hopefull that he would make it as they thought they caught it in time. Saturday night thinking they may have caught it in time . He got a phone call at 5 am telling him that Uniqo 2 started haveing cunvulsions and seizures and didn't make it . Well after he got home he called his hunting partner to tell him the news and his hunting partner told him that his Pit Bull that was in on the catch also died that morning.
The vet said it showed all signs and symptoms of the Pseudo Rabies but cant be confirmed untill they hear back from Texas A&M University.
Man this family is torn apart they were really close to these two dog as they went everywhere and done everything with them.
This is one of those very rare occurances that you hear about but it never happens to you. Well after a Lot of research on the net it does happen and seems to be carried in a lot of wild pigs. More than i thought . A BIG THANKS TO ALL THE PHONE CALLS AND HELP OFFERING For this family . Yall are TRUELY my friends.
Below is a good write up on this deadly desease . It is Always FATAL in dogs from what I understand . .
Forgot to Meantion the hog was caught from the Kerrville , Junction Area in South Texas .
http://www.upprs.com/health/pseudorabies.htm
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