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I'm looking to get another dog after losing my best friend last week, and it bothers me not knowing what may have happened. If it was somehow my fault, I'd like to know so I don't let it happen again.
My 1 year old Boxer mix went from perfectly normal to foaming at the mouth and coughing up blood within a 2 or 3 hour period. Once he started coughing up blood, within a minute he was wobbling on his feet and finally fell down and never got up again. He kept fighting for another 10-12 hours before finally taking his last breath. While he laid there he was almost completely unresponsive, just breathing strangely, sometimes labored and heavy and sometimes shallow, and his mouth was open with his tongue hanging out and eyes partially open, staring blankly straight ahead. I think he still knew I was there because any time I would rub his head his breathing would change.
From what I have read, it could be a few things. Poison being one, but I don't think he could have gotten to any, as there are none that I know of in his reach, and he was with me 99% of the day, as I'm not working at the moment. Another thing I suspect is that he had a pig femur dog bone, and he maybe have swallowed a large, sharp shard of the bone and it perforated or punctured something in his GI tract.
If anyone has any guesses, please let me know. It would help me feel some kind of closure to his untimely death, and would also ease my mind when it comes to bringing another dog into the family.
Thanks.
My 1 year old Boxer mix went from perfectly normal to foaming at the mouth and coughing up blood within a 2 or 3 hour period. Once he started coughing up blood, within a minute he was wobbling on his feet and finally fell down and never got up again. He kept fighting for another 10-12 hours before finally taking his last breath. While he laid there he was almost completely unresponsive, just breathing strangely, sometimes labored and heavy and sometimes shallow, and his mouth was open with his tongue hanging out and eyes partially open, staring blankly straight ahead. I think he still knew I was there because any time I would rub his head his breathing would change.
From what I have read, it could be a few things. Poison being one, but I don't think he could have gotten to any, as there are none that I know of in his reach, and he was with me 99% of the day, as I'm not working at the moment. Another thing I suspect is that he had a pig femur dog bone, and he maybe have swallowed a large, sharp shard of the bone and it perforated or punctured something in his GI tract.
If anyone has any guesses, please let me know. It would help me feel some kind of closure to his untimely death, and would also ease my mind when it comes to bringing another dog into the family.
Thanks.