Coping With Canine Distemper

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Does this sound like distemper?
by: Mary E. on Mon, Jul 07 2008

My 15 year old son and I decided to adopt a dog from the animal shelter. We had recently moved to a large city and he was quite lonely. We found the cutest dachshund/lab mix online and decided to take a look. When we got there, he was coughing, lethargic, and had diarrhea. I tried to talk my son out of getting him but he wanted to try and save him as the shelter was going to put the dog down that afternoon. They told us he just had kennel cough. He (Snoopy) walked around and tried to jump on my son and he just seemed so sweet. We brought him home and, although he was drinking, he refused food. By nightfall, I figured he would be dead by morning. However, in the morning he seemed to have a little spunk left in him. He also had a more severe cough and bloody mucous discharge from his nose. The vet confirmed that he had pneumonia, a coccidia infection, and some other kind of bacterial overgrowth (normal flora that had gotten out of control). She also did lots of blood work and sent off some kind of panel to test for distemper (still waiting on those results…it takes about a week). It has been 5 days since then and he is on Clavamox, Metronidazole, and Albon. The diarrhea stopped the very next day and he began to eat. The cough is almost gone and today he was up running and chasing squirrels. Does it sound like he could possibly have or had distemper? It was something I thought about but didn’t think he would get better so quickly. Any comments would be appreciated. We love him to pieces and just keep praying he’ll be around for a long time.

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Fri, Aug 01 2008
Hi Sandra You need to be more informed about this Disease. You may want to take a look at this place at [moderator note: website address has been re...Read
Fri, Aug 01 2008
Hi there, I hope your puppy is doing better. We have a 9 month-old Great Pyrenees puppy who has survived distemper - we got her from rescue back in F...Read
Thu, Jul 24 2008
[quote="Sandra1224"]Daveyo, Thanks for your wisdom:) they removed the Dr.Sears address from your letter to me, can you send it to me at my ...Read
Thu, Jul 24 2008
Daveyo, Thanks for your wisdom:) they removed the Dr.Sears address from your letter to me, can you send it to me at my personal email, [moderator not...Read
Thu, Jul 24 2008
this animal you mentioned here needs to have a CSF tap done to avoid the ODE. Once ODE sets in, death is imminent. You may want to take a look at ou...Read

July 2008

Does this sound like distemper? - by Mary E. - (Mon, Jul 07 2008)
My 15 year old son and I decided to adopt a dog from the animal shelter. We had recently moved to a large city and he was quite lonely. [more..]

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