MoeKnows
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Hi everyone, weāre new here! We adopted an English Bulldog from the Humane Society on 1/13, named him Moe 
. Our vet thinks heās around 1 year old, and he is the sweetest ever. This is our first Bulldog, but weāre quickly learning that these guys have special needs. On Friday (1/17) we noticed heād thrown up in the morning. He continued to throw up several times throughout the day, and developed what we thought was a cough. Our first thought was kennel cough as weād just brought him home from the shelter a few days before. We took him to our vet and they prescribed an antibiotic, so we took him home intending to start it after heād eaten dinner. However, that evening he went downhill quickly, didnāt want to eat, drink, and as the evening wore on didnāt seem to want to get up at all. He looked bad enough that we took him to the emergency vet and to make a long story short, he was diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia. Heās been in hospital since Friday evening, yesterday he was improving, but he vomited again this morning and aspirated again. This evening we visited with him and he looked tremendously better. Theyāre going to continue to treat with various antibiotics and oxygen overnight, and recommended we take him to a daytime hospital tomorrow (emergency vet closes at 8 am Monday morning).
Sorry for the novel, but my question is this. From all of your experiences, what are the chances he does this again? Weāre not even one week in and have spent a few thousand dollars now, and are unable to sustain this if it becomes a trend. Iāve read quite a few posts and learned about the steam shower and humidifier (ultrasonic!) which I plan to start tomorrow when he comes home, but if he does this again Iām not sure what to do. We have learned about the slow feeders and having him rest after he eats, are there any other recommendations to prevent this from happening again? We have already fallen in love and Iām terrified of anything happening.
Thank you all for your input!
Sara
. Our vet thinks heās around 1 year old, and he is the sweetest ever. This is our first Bulldog, but weāre quickly learning that these guys have special needs. On Friday (1/17) we noticed heād thrown up in the morning. He continued to throw up several times throughout the day, and developed what we thought was a cough. Our first thought was kennel cough as weād just brought him home from the shelter a few days before. We took him to our vet and they prescribed an antibiotic, so we took him home intending to start it after heād eaten dinner. However, that evening he went downhill quickly, didnāt want to eat, drink, and as the evening wore on didnāt seem to want to get up at all. He looked bad enough that we took him to the emergency vet and to make a long story short, he was diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia. Heās been in hospital since Friday evening, yesterday he was improving, but he vomited again this morning and aspirated again. This evening we visited with him and he looked tremendously better. Theyāre going to continue to treat with various antibiotics and oxygen overnight, and recommended we take him to a daytime hospital tomorrow (emergency vet closes at 8 am Monday morning). Sorry for the novel, but my question is this. From all of your experiences, what are the chances he does this again? Weāre not even one week in and have spent a few thousand dollars now, and are unable to sustain this if it becomes a trend. Iāve read quite a few posts and learned about the steam shower and humidifier (ultrasonic!) which I plan to start tomorrow when he comes home, but if he does this again Iām not sure what to do. We have learned about the slow feeders and having him rest after he eats, are there any other recommendations to prevent this from happening again? We have already fallen in love and Iām terrified of anything happening.
Thank you all for your input!
Sara
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