In a twinkling of an eye, Duoduo has been at home for 1180 days.
I still feel lucky when I recall the time when I first took her home. The little body worked so hard, with the help of the doctor, defeated the terrible little disease with the desire to live, and stayed with us.
Accidentally bought a dog.
On Sunday, May 22, 2016, my boyfriend and I proposed to go to the flower, bird, fish and insect market in Fangcun. I heard that it was the largest pet market in Asia. We wanted to buy a fluffy rabbit, but we gave up.
We met Dodo for the first time in one of the small shops where there were not too many dogs. Cute little meat ball, big head, black eyes, two ears naturally drooping down, small nose black and bright, black and white hair, fluffy and shiny. The other puppies slept lazily in the fence, but they were very close to us. Seeing us approaching, her excited front paws lay on the fence, her back feet were off the ground, jumping back and forth, wagging her tail and acting cute. At first glance, I was so happy that I couldn't put it down. We
Physical examination of novice pet dog is indispensable
My boyfriend and I have never had the experience of taking care of pets, so we were naturally in a hurry at first. Eat, drink, shit and urinate, and the two novice shoveling officers are not ready to go online. All the knowledge is blank, and we know little about some information that now seems to be the common sense of pet raising.
These words made me so confused that I went to another pet hospital nearby to check. After I got the same answer, I had mixed feelings and cried that night. Looking at Duoduo's lively and lovely appearance, I really can't accept the pain of her suffering from illness.
Dog of the week. Morbidity in a week.
On the morning of the seventh day, her boyfriend got up to feed Duoduo, and she uncharacteristically avoided the food bowl. My boyfriend and I were surprised and immediately took it to the pet hospital for examination, which was soon diagnosed as a small infection. The heart was cold, and the bad luck of the "dog of the week" still befell Duoduo. He immediately began to draw blood, blood tests, various examinations, shaving, infusion, water and food.
Parvovirus is the abbreviation of canine parvovirus, which mostly occurs in puppies. It is highly infectious and has a high mortality rate. Doctors say that the possibility of curing puppies is 30%. Duoduo's small symptoms are enteritis type, which starts with anorexia and diarrhea, and then turns into vomiting and bleeding.
Treatment of parvovirus against the disease process!
From the first day when Duoduo was diagnosed with parvovirus, my heart has never been put down. At nine o'clock every morning, he sent her to the pet hospital to have an intravenous drip and a hemostatic and antiemetic injection. At noon, he sacrificed his lunch break and went to the hospital to talk with her for half an hour across the cage, touching her and comforting her. In the afternoon, as soon as he got off work, he rushed to the hospital to pick up Duoduo and went home, settled the day's expenses, and asked the doctor about the development of the disease and the next treatment plan. Many times in the hospital, I watched her lie weakly in the cage, wagging her tail and raising her head to us, and tears could not help rolling in her eyes.
The disease developed rapidly, and Duoduo's physical condition turned sharply downward. From the beginning of diarrhea, blood, to vomiting, hematemesis, to the later intestinal mucosa has fallen off. The poor little fellow was so weak that he could not stand up by himself because he had been deprived of water and food all the time. Because of the long-term injection, the blood vessels of his two front legs were swollen, and he had to change the side of the needle every other day. It broke my heart to see her lying on her side in the cage with her weak breathing, her shriveled belly, and her little black eyes that were no longer rolling.
On the third day of the morbidity, Duoduo was in a bad condition. The doctor asked us to be psychologically prepared, because all the drugs were on, all kinds of antibiotics, globulin, plasma, depending on whether the dog itself could survive with the help of drugs. It was a very long day. I was afraid that my cell phone would ring and I would receive the bad news from the doctor. I was afraid that I would never see the little guy again. When I took Duoduo home
Dodo pulled six times and vomited four times that night. When my boyfriend was on a business trip, I almost broke down in the face of the stench of the room and the fear of losing a lot. In order to get up in time to deal with her feces and vomit, I hardly slept a wink. Afraid of falling asleep, I set an alarm clock every two hours, got up regularly to take Duoduo's temperature, cleaned up the feces and urine on the floor, and scrubbed the vomit on her hair with warm water. Duoduo is also very good, has been quietly lying on the ground, careful for fear of disturbing me.
While cooperating with the doctor's treatment, I also did a lot of homework on the Internet. About small, about dogs, about pets. Only then did I gradually understand that keeping a pet is not just fun and novelty, but also how much determination, perseverance and courage it takes to be responsible for a fresh life.
Repeated illness to stable recovery
Fortunately, the God of fate left Duoduo with us. Seven days later, after repeated illness, improvement, deterioration and improvement, escaped the more dangerous symptoms and conditions such as intestinal intussusception, dog plague, and miraculously survived. The frequency of pulling and vomiting gradually decreased, and the situation of pulling and vomiting blood gradually disappeared, which turned into cough and runny nose in the later stage. Medications began to decrease, and the daily dosage of infusion and injection gradually decreased. The doctor tried to give her more water, nutritional cream and canned food to gradually restore her digestive system.
In the second week, we changed from daily hospitalization to regular injection, atomization and medication at home. The little guy's appetite began to recover slowly. Duoduo has returned to his old life of being a trouble-maker. He is obviously very hungry, but he is a picky eater. He only eats delicious pork, and sometimes runs around the house with something he doesn't like. He wants to drink water, but he must scratch the water with his paws and play with his whole head in the basin until he is soaked.
On the tenth day, the doctor told us that Duoduo had no problem, no need to go to the hospital, prescribed some medicine to feed at home. Since then, Duoduo's treatment of parvovirus has finally come to an end, followed by a period of one or two years of gastrointestinal recovery. All kinds of probiotics, gastrointestinal medicine is a must at home, the brand and amount of dog food must be careful and cautious, no matter how eager to look at you, any food outside the dog food can not be fed, otherwise it is easy to soft stool, diarrhea, vomiting, and even caused acute gastroenteritis.
Six-word Motto-Don't Abandon, don't Give Up
Writing here, I also breathed a long sigh of relief, as if I had experienced the long ten days three years ago. In the past ten days, I searched for all kinds of small cases of success or failure on the Internet many times. Many times, I raised my hope and was dampened by the deterioration of Duoduo's condition. Many times, I cried at night and went to the hospital with my eyes swollen the next day to continue treatment. Many times, I cried with my friends and prayed on Weibo, but I never thought about abandoning Duoduo and giving up treatment.
Do not abandon, do not give up, I think this is the most solid shield against disease with our pets. The cost of pet treatment is very high, especially for this kind of acute severe disease. In these ten days, we have spent more than 7000 yuan on treatment one after another, and the cost of later treatment and health care will not be less. Raising pets requires a certain economic foundation, which is really important. Doctors also told us that some owners left their seriously ill pets in the hospital and never went back to pick them up. In the long run, there are always many abandoned cats and dogs waiting for adoption in the pet hospital.
In addition, the choice of hospitals and the trust of doctors are also very important, which is the sword for us to overcome diseases with pets. It is no longer news that pet hospitals are highly profitable and chaotic. Fortunately, the hospital we chose is very reliable. Although the cost is not low, doctors and nurses are very patient and their professional and technical knowledge is reliable. They helped Duoduo survive this. During the treatment, because of the repeated illness, I had suspected the doctor's medication and treatment plan, and secretly went to other hospitals to inquire, and got the answer that "this situation is normal, please trust the doctor in charge". Later, we would return to the hospital for vaccination, disease treatment and sterilization, and we had an inexplicable sense of intimacy and trust with them.
Finally, naturally, there is the support and help of friends and family, which is our armor against disease together with pets. During Duoduo's illness, all the friends and colleagues around me who were raising pets, had raised pets and had not raised pets gave me great help. From looking for hospitals, searching for cases, inquiring about the progress of Duoduo's illness, from comforting me, encouraging me to accompanying me to take Duoduo to the hospital, everyone showed great goodwill and love, sighing for Duoduo's deterioration and applauding for a little improvement.
At that time, my boyfriend was already my husband, and I thought that if I was the only one infected by Duoduo, I might not be able to hold on. My husband likes dogs very much, and he likes Duoduo even more. He regards her as his own child from the bottom of his heart. In the most serious days, my husband often stayed awake all night. As soon as he heard Duoduo vomiting or pulling, he immediately got up to deal with and wipe Duoduo, for fear that the filth would dirty Duoduo. During that time, besides taking care of Duoduo, he was very busy with his work and had to take care of my feelings from time to time. In the chat records WeChat, what he said most often was "Duoduo is sure to be no problem" to cheer us up.
Dogs are not only pets, but also family members.
We travel together, go to parties, go climbing, go swimming, go to hotels, go to see the sea, Duoduo is a pet and a family for us. Through illness, recovery, growth and maturity, Duoduo has grown from a little one to a woman who likes to run and chase like the wind. In these three years, we have paid time and energy, gained trust and companionship, paid love and care, gained joy and healing, paid patience and care, and gained responsibility and responsibility.
