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By the Grace of God, she lived


by: Andrea on Wed, May 30 2007

Her name is Grace, I fostered her and her 8 siblings from when they were 6 wks. old and scheduled to die at a kill shelter. Grace had lesions on her face, eyes half closed, inability to walk, discharge from her eyes & nose w/ heavy congestion in her lungs, difficulty swallowing, bleeding enternally, lethargic, refusal to eat/drink and emaciated.

Her 8 siblings were symptom free. I kept her in isolation and worked around the clock subcueing her, force feeding her, supplements of nutri-cal, dyne, puppy formula, I had an additional heater and vaporizer beside her going 24/7. Tests along with clinical signs indicating distemper Now, 3 1/2 months later she is a pillar of health, is able to walk, run & play. She suffered no permenant damage and to see her now you’d never suspect she was ever so sick.

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  1. Tue, Mar 25 2008
    Your method did not save this dog. It was the dogs genetics that it survived. Also that virus is in the spinal cord and working a nice bit of damage...Read

May 2007

  • By the Grace of God, she lived - by Andrea - (Wed, May 30 2007)
    Her name is Grace, I fostered her and her 8 siblings from when they were 6 wks. old and scheduled to die at a kill shelter. [more..]
  • napnap and ingky - by ann - (Mon, May 28 2007)
    i have 5 dogs. 2 of them were infected by canine distemper napnap got it from her mom ingky. i was just glad that even though they are infected they’re still alive and are doing good. [more..]
  • my puppy caught Canine distemper - by cissy qu - (Mon, May 28 2007)
    I have two puppies, the first one is bought from the market, we took him to the vet for the vaccine a few days after we bought him home, but the vet said he is too thin and refused to vaccine him. [more..]
  • Copper - by Gabby - (Wed, May 23 2007)
    I adopted my adorable puppy 4-1/2 months old on May 5th. By May 7th-8th he had begun to develop pneumonia. I took him to the vet. [more..]
  • canine distemper fight for life - by j. estrella - (Thu, May 17 2007)
    i have two yorkies they were infected but the percentege of the virus was very low. my vet - very professional - proposed a treatment with cinoglobulin. [more..]
  • Surviving Possible Distemper - by KM - (Tue, May 15 2007)
    Based only on the clinical prognosis, I would likely have opted to have our sweet 3-month old pup euthanized if I had a diagnosis of distemper. [more..]
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