Worried About Tasha
Posted on November 23, 2008 - Filed Under Kids, Personal | 2 Comments
Tasha started acting weird on Friday. She wasn`t terribly interested in her food (though she scarfed down the leftover hamburger meat the boys left) and seemed down and listless. She spent most of the day sleeping.
Yesterday, Saturday, she perked up quite a bit and started playing with the boys and running around again. But at about 4 pm, she headed to her usual sleeping spot and crashed there. We checked on her a few times as we went to the bathroom and she seemed fine popping her head up when we called out to her and perking up her ears.
This morning, I went to the bathroom and noticed she was sleeping still. Not unusual. On my way back, I saw something slimy and red on the path and realized it was blood. There was more blood a foot away. As in, pooped blood and mucus. So I took a second look at our puppy and there she was, laying in her normal spot, her front legs stretched out very straight, like you might if you were trying to deal with a lot of pain. But it was her eyes that worried me, she has the exact same look as my German Shepherd, Niko, when he was poisoned a few years ago. That weird look that dying animals have . . . like they`re looking right past life and into the afterworld. It`s a look I really hate.
We don`t have much money right now and vets would charge an arm and a leg, but it`s also Sunday, so that means we can`t find anyone who is actually open for business. So Irving is out searching for someone who can help poor Tasha, but I`m afraid it`s too late. 
I don`t know what happened and if any action had been done, it needed to be done two days ago, when we thought she`d just eaten something bad.
Update 8:45 – Irving found someone to come and check Tasha. She swallowed a chicken bone (the in-laws gave her chicken bones, we know not to) and it got stuck somewhere inside. Prognosis iffy.
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Oh no! I hope she gets through it okay!
Oh dear… I do hope that she gets better…
We give Macc Chicken bones all the time, either the necks or a whole carcas! But the important thing is, as with ANY other type of bone, it has to be RAW!
Please update us with her condition…