Murphy was rushed to the vet for an emergency earlier this afternoon while working at the store.
I looked over at him behind the counter, and noticed that he was just standing there trembling. There had just been a puppy running around, so as he has been known to do in the past, I thought he was just being dramatic because he wanted to be coddled.
Then a minute later, the heavy panting started suddenly. He was breathing so heavy and so hard out of nowhere, you would have thought he was overheating, except, he had been indoors in the AC the whole time.
I held him for a minute to try to calm him down, and he was still shaking and panting heavily, so he was brought to the vet who is luckily right down the road. He was being examined for 15-20 minutes, still having a lot of trouble breathing. It was terrifying. He was given a shot of Benadryl and we sat with him and I syringed a bit of water into his mouth for a few minutes to help try to cool him down since his temp was a little high.
After about 5 minutes the shot began to kick in, and his breathing improved and he was calming down. He eventually laid down and was breathing normally again.
Thank god he is okay. Vet thinks it was likely a spider bite or bee sting, since it came on so suddenly and he began to improve dramatically so quickly after the shot. If they weren't able to get his breathing under control, we were going to have to bring him to a 24/7 clinic. Now he's in bed with me, and I am going to cuddle him and love him. Just so happy and thankful he is okay.
(Picture is of him on the way home, in a bit of a Benadryl haze)
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I looked over at him behind the counter, and noticed that he was just standing there trembling. There had just been a puppy running around, so as he has been known to do in the past, I thought he was just being dramatic because he wanted to be coddled.
Then a minute later, the heavy panting started suddenly. He was breathing so heavy and so hard out of nowhere, you would have thought he was overheating, except, he had been indoors in the AC the whole time.
I held him for a minute to try to calm him down, and he was still shaking and panting heavily, so he was brought to the vet who is luckily right down the road. He was being examined for 15-20 minutes, still having a lot of trouble breathing. It was terrifying. He was given a shot of Benadryl and we sat with him and I syringed a bit of water into his mouth for a few minutes to help try to cool him down since his temp was a little high.
After about 5 minutes the shot began to kick in, and his breathing improved and he was calming down. He eventually laid down and was breathing normally again.
Thank god he is okay. Vet thinks it was likely a spider bite or bee sting, since it came on so suddenly and he began to improve dramatically so quickly after the shot. If they weren't able to get his breathing under control, we were going to have to bring him to a 24/7 clinic. Now he's in bed with me, and I am going to cuddle him and love him. Just so happy and thankful he is okay.
(Picture is of him on the way home, in a bit of a Benadryl haze)
