We adopted a dog from the pound, and he seemed very healthy until he got his round of vaccines. Ever since the vet’s office, he’s had symptoms indicating kennel cough. Is it possible that the vaccine made him sick?

*I am taking him to the vet again on Mon….so no need to tell me that. Just wondering if dogs ever get sick from the vaccine.

"Hey I have a yorkie named toby and he is 2 years old..I am very stressed and worried bc I love him more than anything. He is my child and I got him from a breeder and got his papers, I got him when he was 9 weeks and since he was in rhode island, they put him on a plane, so I picked him up from the airport and 3 days later I noticed he was coughing, right away I got scared and took him to the er vet, and they diagnosed him with kennel cough and put him on antibiotics..

anyway this past weekend he was coughing really bad on saturday on and off so I panicked and took him to the same er vet..They checked him vials and said his heart was ok lungs ok, took his temperature and weight..Hes 100% yorkie, 8 lbs. They took xray that indicated a collapsed trachea..I lost it when he said that I asked him if it was serious he said it can be..but with treatment he should be okay..It also was inflamed. So they put him on prednasone and an antibiotic for his inflamation..He seems so much better and its only been 2 days, but I did alot of googling and researched it a bit and got upset saw stories of their dogs dying from it and I just got soooooo upset..I started getting chest pains and I have trouble sleeping bc I can’t stop thinking about it. I also got rid of his collar and bought a harness..hes going back to the vet in 2 weeks for a recheck and I want to know your opinion? it also says many dogs with collapsed tracheas get heart disease? is that only if its not treated? Also do you think they checked his heart for heart disease? Do u think they had a good idea when they checked him? bc after seeing that they can have heart disease I panicked is that only if its untreated as they get older? I also saw a site that has honey cough syrup and other stuff to help and heal his throat, and other natural stuf that I can give him wanted your opinion on it, but I will also ask the vet before I order any…So its normal that hell always have the cough right? You don’t think it will get worse as long as hes taking something right? I read that it can get so severe and it scared me I’m panicking here!! He is my life and I will do anything for him..He always loves to play and run but he needs to relax and take it easy from now on.

Heres the website..

http://www.pawhealer.com/71/Coughing-Collapsed_Trachea.aspx

I was wondering if I can also put him in a daily medicine to help? I was also wondering if you know if the bloodline and stuff with breeding was good or whatever they say when u get ur dog from a breeder? Do you think he will be okay? He is also not neutured..What should I do about that? Please get back to me asap I love animals!! If I wasn’t so emotional sensitive about animals I would be a vetinarian..Animals are like our family..I appreciate any responses, anything that will help.Thanks and hope to hear from you soon!

My dog was in a kennel for 11 days but is not (from what I know) showing kennel cough symptoms. She started dry heaving last night & was again this morning but no other symptoms at all. I’m tempted to just ride it out but I don’t know if this is ok?

"Hey I have a yorkie named toby and he is 2 years old..I am very stressed and worried bc I love him more than anything. He is my child and I got him from a breeder and got his papers, I got him when he was 9 weeks and since he was in rhode island, they put him on a plane, so I picked him up from the airport and 3 days later I noticed he was coughing, right away I got scared and took him to the er vet, and they diagnosed him with kennel cough and put him on antibiotics..

anyway this past weekend he was coughing really bad on saturday on and off so I panicked and took him to the same er vet..They checked him vials and said his heart was ok lungs ok, took his temperature and weight..Hes 100% yorkie, 8 lbs. They took xray that indicated a collapsed trachea..I lost it when he said that I asked him if it was serious he said it can be..but with treatment he should be okay..It also was inflamed. So they put him on prednasone and an antibiotic for his inflamation..He seems so much better and its only been 2 days, but I did alot of googling and researched it a bit and got upset saw stories of their dogs dying from it and I just got soooooo upset..I started getting chest pains and I have trouble sleeping bc I can’t stop thinking about it. I also got rid of his collar and bought a harness..hes going back to the vet in 2 weeks for a recheck and I want to know your opinion? it also says many dogs with collapsed tracheas get heart disease? is that only if its not treated? Also do you think they checked his heart for heart disease? Do u think they had a good idea when they checked him? bc after seeing that they can have heart disease I panicked is that only if its untreated as they get older? I also saw a site that has honey cough syrup and other stuff to help and heal his throat, and other natural stuf that I can give him wanted your opinion on it, but I will also ask the vet before I order any…So its normal that hell always have the cough right? You don’t think it will get worse as long as hes taking something right? I read that it can get so severe and it scared me I’m panicking here!! He is my life and I will do anything for him..He always loves to play and run but he needs to relax and take it easy from now on.

Heres the website..

http://www.pawhealer.com/71/Coughing-Collapsed_Trachea.aspx

I was wondering if I can also put him in a daily medicine to help? I was also wondering if you know if the bloodline and stuff with breeding was good or whatever they say when u get ur dog from a breeder? Do you think he will be okay? He is also not neutured..What should I do about that? Please get back to me asap I love animals!! If I wasn’t so emotional sensitive about animals I would be a vetinarian..Animals are like our family..I appreciate any responses, anything that will help.Thanks and hope to hear from you soon!

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my 3 month old cavalier keeps making a hrwaking noise and cough up something.
hes had all of his inoculations

is the 1st dog in jeopardy of getting it again if they are almost over it and the other dog in the house doesn’t show symptoms till the 1st one is almost over it?
They have all been vaccinated against kennel cough. Unfortunately new strains come out everyday and the vaccine is no guarantee that any dog will not get it. That info was from two different vets. Now I wonder why there is such conflicting info between vets. Anyway, thanks for your opinions

Hello. My Adult Chihuahua is getting its Modified Live 5 Way Vaccine.
Would it also Need a Boretella (kennel cough) vaccine???
Will be getting its 3 year Rabbie (Killed) Vaccine soon too.
Is this good enough for full protection, or am I missing something???
Thank you, God bless.

i posted this question before and a lot of people just yelled at me to take her to the vet….. yes, of course i am taking her to the vet, i just wanted to educate myself a little bit first.

i just adopted my dog from miami animal shelter 2 days ago. They where going to put her to sleep because she’d been there for almost a month. Now she’s with us! and we love her.

when i got her they said she had kennel cough so i’ve been treating her for that for a day and a half but i was a bit skeptical when i noticed her coughs didn’t sound dry and one time she even coughed up a little saliva. she is also soo skinny which we attributed to her being a stray and possibly not eating much in the shelter. But today when i was walking her i saw 2 fat little worms in her poop. I had thought she might have worms before but now i know. Also, they told me she was about 2 years old and she’s had a healthy appetite since she’s been here.

my questions are…. 1) what immediately should i do, other than calling the vet?
2) what is the treatment?
3) is it an easy or difficult parisite to get rid of?
4) i’m assuming i should stop giving her the kennel cough meds right?
5) how long does it take to treat?
6) and lastly… are those tapeworms hurting her?? i know a little bit about parasites being a ecosystem science and biology major but i don’t really know if she’s in pain or how she feels… any dog owners know???

thanks Luna and I appreciate it
what is your problem? i just wanted to know about how to make my dog comfortable maybe by someone who’s had this problem before. You just said tape worms are this round worms are that… i’ve already looked up all the dog parasites and from what i’ve seen and the research i’ve done i’m fairly certain it’s tapeworms. you’re just a bully and a jerk
yes they looked like grains of rice that were moving so i’m sorry if i called them worms prematurely, and 1. is what else to do other than call my vet because i already know to do that and i’m going to as soon as they open

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I adopted a 9month old shephered mix from a local shelter about two weeks ago. On the first week, she had some green drainage in her nose so we took her to the vet. The vet said she is very underweight, has Kennel Cough, and has temperature a little higher than normal. She was given antibiotics. I still feed her the medicine twice everyday, but her symptoms have gotten worse.
She keeps gagging every five or less seconds without exaggeration. And her nose is completely sealed with green discharge. I’m calling the vet again soon, but is there anything that atleast I can do to help this poor dog? It hurts to just watch.

Hi! I am living in China and have had 2 puppys that died of what was called canine distemper. It is hard to know for sure if it really was.. Now I have a new puppy I am trying to save .

The first thing every vet does in China is a litmus paper based CDV test on your animal. An easy way to make 80 yuan and quickly blame every know sickness on Canine distemper.

The health care in China is quite poor for people, and even worse for animals. Just recently there was a picture on the front page of Chin Daily of a man dragging a dog behind a motorcyle at 50kph.

Initially 4 weeks ago my puppy had wha I believe was kennel cough, even though the local vet called it parvo. There was no dihareaa or throwing up… go figure…

So after 1 week of antibiotics the kennel cough cleared up. 1 week after stopping the antibiotics my puppy started to have red eyes, and runny nose and wheezing a bit. I dont know if its related, but above his left shoulder almost overnight there is what appears to be an abscess or swollen gland. I guess there are no lymph glands above his left shoulder, and as far as I know he never recieved any innoculations or shots there.

I started him on Amoxicillin and antibacteria eye drops. I gave him amoxicillin, 125 mg 3 times a day. On day five he seemed worse.

For 5 days the mucous in his eyes worsened, and he had fevers peaking yesterday, with heavy labored breathing with what appeared to be fuid in his lungs and coming from his nose.

With his heave labored breathing it seemed similiar to the puppy I had who died most recently.

His paws are dry, I am not sure the difference between dry and cdv hard. The vet as always insisted on another cdv lithmus test and refused to help basically letting me take it home to die. Im now giving up so easy. I believe the dog is suffering from pneumonia.

Is it a result of cdv I am not sure. I have moved up from childrens centrum to adult centrum. I will start vitamin A treatment tomorrow and attempt to get Rebavirin. I chose to stop the amoxicillin after day six and switched to Cefixime. I know its higher than recommended, but as close as he was to death I decided to give 100mg per 12 hours, he has had 2 doses. Already he looks better… not as feverish. Not as close to death.

His stools were health untill 2 days ago . SInce two days he has had no ball movement. His appetite is down, not eating at all yesterday, but improving as he is eating a little today. I have been giving him gatorade every hour since yesterday.

Yesterday his mouth was very dry, even though his skin was not tenting.

He could not swallow the vitamin,,, today after the gatorade it is much better.

A strange thing I noticed was his left ear developed a strange crease on it self and folded back with what appears to be a strange vein ? not blue, but white..

I have been giving him an antibitic eye treatment… clearly there is less mucous from the eye after one day. although the white of the eyes is quite red.

I can not count out CDV, although I know from reading there is no way to quickly test for cdv in 5 minutes with lithmus paper like the Chinese "Vets" scam artists do.

However, if it is CDV, which very well may be? I want to start treatment before it gets to the brain /nervous system.

The initial two puppies, were more serious than my current puppy, by way of diahreaa, straight out stiff neck before death, pnemonia….

This puppy seems stronger and I am going to fight as hard as possible. From what I read on Wiki Vitamin ! and ribivirin have a chance to help against CDV.

I just need to know the proper dosem abd uf there is any danger in giving 100mg every 12 hours of cefixime, or is there a danger in cutting the dosage to the more proper 50mg per 12 hours after initially giving 3 doses of 100mg for the first 36 hours.

Thanks for your help. And remember, for those that say I shouild go to the vet, this is China. I went to 3 vets allready. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/21/content_9480924.htm has an interesting perspective of a dogs life in China.

Mayla went to the vet today, and after a talk with her vet, I was sure that getting the Kennel Cough (which was optional) would be okay for my baby and probably the best thing to do. So she gets her last set of puppy shots and we come home an hour later after transferring ownership and everything. Around 3:30pm she was acting a little funny and wouldn’t play or anything. I was automatically worried because… well stuff like that doesn’t happen often around here. So I call up there and they ask me to bring her in immediately and say that its a vacs reaction. so I do so, they give her Benadryl and Steroids and send us back home with the instructions that if it doesn’t go down within 8 hours to give her two tablets of adult Benadryl…. Im still waiting on it to go down. ((7:23pm)) ps: please ignore my voice. it is rather rough because i was so tried and worried. XD I ended up laying down next to her and falling asleep shortly after this was recorded.

***SHORT:
My dog killed a cat a week ago and has been choking for the past few days, i thought it was just a bone or twig stuck in her throat but i noticed she’s sneezing while she’s choking. i havent heard her gag for i think to be an hour but it might start again. Could she have gotten kennel cough from the cat? i believe the cat lived with dogs, maybe it was a carrier, though there have been cases where cats can be infected with it.

***SHORT SYMPTOMS:
gagging, sneezing while gagging, snot spraying out while sneezing while gagging. runny nose only after she stops gagging, then she’s fine.

***LONG: (minor explicitly detailed, and somewhat boring. if you like stories, true of fiction (this is true), then read on. if not, please dont skim and start posting things that dont make sense because you didnt read the whole thing. thank you to you readers. i find readers to be of equal value to answerers. though answers are great and i kinda need one, knowing that people read it and that my question wasnt skipped (never read, they usually are and i never get answers) is great.)

NOTE: (so all is understood, i’ve never met our neighbors, never seen them and dont know their names. our properties are divided by a 12ft brick wall with barb wire across yet we can hear them speaking with "indoor voices" as if they were right next to us. we’ve lived behind each other for 8 years)

*******(about a week ago, maybe 11 days)
right behind us lives a family with i think to be 2 dogs (hard to tell, i’ve never seen them, only heard) and a bunch of cats, mostly kittens (maybe a month old). i went out to the back yard to bring the laundry in from off the line and heard the 2 children that live there and their classmates singing "we are the world" (a little pitchy if you ask me). how do i know classmates? its that time of the year here where all the elementary schools have social programs with students performing numbers in lightly competitive events only to raise awareness for whatever theme the school chooses. that or they perform at high school or college graduations.

i go inside and finish cleaning up when my 2 dogs (8y/o mutt (terrier mixed with something) and her 2y/o daughter (mom mixed with poodle/shi tzu father)) go stark raving made in the back yard. i ignore them for a while as they normally do this 27 times a day. they bark at the garbage men, little kids running down the street, other dogs, cats, Jehovah’s witnesses, everything that moves, except birds because they finally learned that they cant catch them.

i heard whining and growling and thought something was up, but what really got me going was when May (mom) "attacked" Lulu (2 y/o) and Lulu yelped. when May’s in "the zone", you dont mess with her. i came out to see a rust and brown cat, cornered, hissing and clawing at my dogs. i tried to get them away from it (verbally, you dont want to get into May’s way in a fight. Dad learned that the hard way 3 years ago) then got the hose out and sprayed them. Lulu cowarded and hesistated to stay (my dogs HATE water) May didnt move, neither did the cat. i yelled and spray all of them (including the cat) in the face and they all gave in. Dogs ran for the front yard to hide from my "lethal weapon" and the cat hid behind the clothes line post (5inches from where it was when i went outside). i put down the hose and blocked off the the narrow path from car port to back yard with an old white board leaning against the house jus as May and Lulu came back for more.

i went over to the corner and looked at the cat (wet, muddy, scared, furious, and a collar). A blue and orange collar was around its neck with a little brass bell dangling, but no name tag. (oh yeah, there’s a really small gap that goes half way down the wall on the right edge so you can kind of see the neighbors back yard, just big enough for May to squeeze through but luckily she cant reach it). i look over to the neighbors yard and cant really see much but the back door and a rusty gas tank. i call out to them (it had only been at least 10mins since i brought the laundry in) and asked if they were missing a cat. no one answered, but when i put the board up i could hear the mother talking to her kids. i called out and asked 3 more times and never got an answer, but i did hear the son go "where’s Chris?". it didn’t sound like they were leaving or going inside, their voices were still as loud and clear as if they were standing in the middle of their yard.

1. is Chris a common name for a cat? 2. they had friends over so maybe he wasnt referring to the cat. 3. i know they have cats, they have LOTS of cats and our other neighbors dont have cats. they have dogs that hate cats. so am i wrong to suspect them for not taking full responsibilty in keeping their pets inside THEIR OWN property?

next thing i hear is rustling and see Lulu looking up
next thing i hear is rustling and see Lulu looking up at me like she’s the cutest thing to ever walk the planet (she kind of is :3). i worried that May was coming next but saw she was still waiting behind the board while Lulu decided to go around the house. while this whole thing was going on i was texting my father asking what to do because i was NOT going to touch that cat and i was NOT going to wait for the people behind our house to finally get the gall and say, "oh that’s my cat". (we have no animal control here. animal control would be like calling your local butcher or any guy on the street willing enough to risk a few cuts and scrapes to "remove" an animal, just as long as you pay him) yes, its that bad.

i was too busy texting to notice May sneaking up behind me and didnt realize what had happened (a loud bark ringing in my right ear, saw a white and orange flash and heard a high pitch meow) til it was over. May had grabbed the cat at the neck and dug her worn down canines in
canines in deep. Lulu joined in and started yanking at its tail and hind legs in the same manner you would see when dogs play tug of war. (*dont get me wrong, im not proud of it but there was nothing left for me to do to make it better*) i stood there watching as my dogs mangled the cat lifeless. it only took less than a minute for it to stop clawing at May’s neck and kicking Lulu’s nose. the cat was dead but May didnt let go. I told them to back off but only Lulu walked away.
a few moments later, May dropped the lifeless body, stood up and looked me. "what? you want a trophy?" i said. all she did was give me a little smirk (its creepy when dogs smile) then laid down next to the cat, admiring her work. i was through with all the fuss with the cat and the killing and the nasty dogs that just took their bath the day before, that i grabbed the shovel, and dug a hole. i was satisfied at knee deep and May looked at me bad. she knew what i was going to do and she didnt like it. i "threatened" her with the shovel (just for her to move, i would never hit a dog with a shovel unless i really really really had to or i was being attacked by cujo) and buried the cat, i piled in broken hollow block pieces into the hole, packed the dirt in tight, laid more bricks down and i even gave a short (somewhat hurtful) eulogy. "here lies dumb***t cat" yep, that’s all i said.
i pet my dogs, went inside, washed my hands like mad, and gave them half a banana each. (what? they like it). i finished cleaning and told dad everything when he got home. he was a little angry for me burying it but am i supposed to do with the cat? i dont know. where am i going to take a dead cat? the ice parlor? so i did what i did. 3 days ago, May dug it up. RANCID! the cat was black, and i could everything incuding bare bone. the only thing, ONLY THING i couldn’t see was the cat’s hind legs. (they were gone)

yeah, i know. sick. very sick. dont yell at me, i didnt do. i tried to save the cat. yes i didnt do my best, but its animal natural for dogs to kill cats, jus like cats to mice, is it any different if i witnessed the whole and tried to call the owners and do something about it? does it make me bad? it shouldn’t.
***LONG SYPMTOMS
My dog is 8 years old, mutt, mix breed of probably everything, no front teeth, canines that look like rejected jelly beans, back teeth all still there and stays outside 24/7. yes, she is exposed to every sort of disease out there but this is one of the only times that she’s ever been sick and it just happens to be right after she ate a week dead cat. maybe its not kennel cough, maybe its worse. but her symptoms are gagging, retching, hawking whatever you want to call it, running nose with sneezing only when she coughs. her eyes look normal (i would know, i stare at them constantly, they’re pretty) she’s not irritable, sensitive to touch or sound, she stills gets wired up when she sees me eating cheese. nothing wrong with her stool, no blood anywhere, no whining at night, she still sleeps in the lawn chair, on her back with her legs up in the air.
she always runs towards the gate to greet people we know and ward off the solicitors and people that just stand there in front of our gate for no reason. she’s just as normal as she’s always been but she’s coughing like mad. AND she’s still the most ROTTEN DOG EVER. jus earlier she walked over to me when she was coughing and sneezed all over my leg, then looked up at me with that big old goofy smile of hers. yes, my dog’s does that. and Lulu’s just as bad. i dont know, maybe they get it from me. hahaha
well thats it. i’d tell you what i had for lunch but i dont know if you want a 40ft long story about me eating a hamburger from Kokomo’s.

thanks everybody who post answers, comments bout the story, my dogs and the cat, rants about animal cruelty and those who want to get Kokomo’s number for delivery. their burgers and tropical salad are boss. everything else is ok. but dont take my word for it, i only work there.
***FAILED TO MENTION!!!***

the closest vet here is a whack job that needs to get shut down. first day we ever met the owner (also the head vet and always there) he freaked us out and we left.

the good vet is all the way across town and expensive, we only go there to get routine shots and if there’s an emergency, kind of like when Ginger, (May’s other daughter) swelled but like a volleyball and died on the operating table, her veins collapse. the vet said she had severe hemorrhaging that happen at birth. she was 2 months old when she died. the other pups are all very healthy and were given as gifts to very good friends of ours. we see them from time to time.
swelled up not but.., wow i just now noticed alot of typos. my apologies

Our puppy was sick, coughing like crazy, when we got her, and our warranty was 15 days. We took her to our vet, since her coughing was terrible, and we told him how she was treated for kennel cough before we got her at the store, which they had told us was cured. He agreed that she was still sick, and wanted to treat her. The store had told us that they would only pay for services performed by their own vet, and to take her back to them if she needed anything. So we told our vet that, and he wrote them a letter diagnosing her and urging treatment.

So we took her back to the pet store, within three days of getting her, for the treatment. They told that they would have to have their vet look at her, and ending up keeping her for a week for observation. When we went to get her back, they told us that they had heard nothing and didn’t have to pay for any treatment. The thing is, one of the employees told us that she’d heard it when we were chatting with her during one of our visits during that week.

We have her now, and it’s been a month since then, and she still coughs every night. So my question now is, how do I go about getting that pet store shut down? This is in Connecticut. Is there an agency I need to report them to, or an organization that does that?

Thank you!
All Pets Club in Wallingford

Pickles came back from the Kennel with an infection. Again.

Hi, I have a 3 month old rottweiler mix and we brought him from the pound over 2 weeks ago. We rent a back house and the owner’s have a 3 year old boxer in the backyard. Before we brought our dog, their dog wasn’t sick. A few days later, my dog started with a cough and it sounded like he had kennel cough. I took her to the vet a week later because she got better in a few days. She gave her antibiotics and she is been taking them for 3 days now. The boxer also has that since my dog gave it to her (we feel so bad about that). Her symptoms are worse than my dog, she is been puking white foam and all the food she eats, today it looked like her vomit had some blood on it. We are very worried, the neighbors are mad at us and are also giving her medicine but it’s been 3 days already and it looks like she is not getting better. Is this how the medicine works? Is she supposed to be coughing even if she is taking the medicine? Because my dog is not coughing anymore. Also, my dog ate some of the boxer’s puke, is this going to affect her more? I appreciate any answers. Thanks.
also, when I took my dog to the vet, she was worried and told me it might be distemper, she told me took out for other signs and if she is not getting better in a week to take her back. why would she have distemper? I already love her to much to see her go.
a vet came to their house on sunday and they said that he gave her a shot with antibiotics and left medicine for her (cough syrup). I really think they should take her to another vet since her symptoms are not getting better, they say they love their dog but since we moved in here we noticed that they never take her out for walks, she lives in the backyard 24/7 and now that my dog came I was taking both of them for walks, she loved it. We feel very bad about her being sick because if she doesn’t get better, it would be our fault.