Daisy Mae's Snuggle Sacks

• Some of you are aware that at the end of April my husband and I took a well deserved vacation. To be honest I think so many of us deserve one and never seem to find the time! We found the time , it was 8 days long and we got to visit my parents too. We had a wonderful time and were very much ready to get home to our friends and family in Texas and our babies too! Yes that means the pets!

•  Piper,Nugget, Daisy Mae and Duke spent half of their own little vacation at our vets Dr. Neeman and then the second half at grandma and grandpa's aka Shannon's parent's! My in laws were kind enough to make the 45 minutes drive to bring my kids home to me! I was so tired and so happy to get kisses from them all. We slept hard that Sunday night.

•  When we woke Daisy had some soft stool. Not to be nasty but it was like soft serve ice cream. Later that day she had a second soft stool and the next day a vomit. We got her in to our other favorite vet who is local and had a fill in vet that day. He gave her sub q fluids and directed us to give mild food. He had run a fecal smear from the sample I brought in and said she had gastroenteritis, too much bacteria in the gut. He said it was a good thing we had gotten her in since this can kill a small dog in 24 hours.
  

• Wow was that a wake up call! She didn't really seem that sick.
  

• That night I woke around midnight to her burning up and shivering. When Shannon put her down to go out and potty she could not even walk. She was painful. I checked her back (you knew that would be the first thing I would check) and all seemed well there but her gut seemed painful. The the Emergency Animal Clinic we went! We got there in about 10 minutes. She was so hot. Well they took her temp and she had a fever. We were not sure what was going on since she was so painful so we went ahead and took two ex rays as well as ran a full blood panel also known as a CBC. All looked good thank goodness. They gave her some pain medications as well as IV fluids. We did not get to pick her up until 8 pm the following day. It broke my heart to not have her with us.

• The point of me telling you this story? Yes, there is one. I want to make sure all of you who have dogs small enough to fit in a Snuggle Sack are aware how fast they can go downhill. I'm not kidding when I tell you that the day before she really looked fine. And the vets told us this could have been brought on by one of two things. Eating something she was not used to, or stress. I am assured that she did not eat anything so the mere stress of us being away and her being in unfamiliar surroundings almost killed here!

•  So watch your fur babies close and know that Shannon and I will not be taking any long trips in Daisy's lifetime and when we leave for events, we will have a house sitter come stay at our home!

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