Dog deteriorated suddenly and needed to get put to sleep. Need advice on cause
Hey. Posting again as I put a post up a few days ago explaining what had happened to one of my dogs. I'm still looking for answers as this is absolutely devastating for my family. I am in the United Kingdom. My dog was a 9 year old Yorkshire Terrier with no previous health issues, no tumors, no murmurs. She was in a clean bill of health. No garden treatment, no rat traps, ant traps or any sort of insecticide or Rodenticides are in use anywhere.
X-rays and bloodwork showed absolutely NOTHING. Literally, this happened out of the blue.
It happened on Monday. I came home from working nightshift at 8am(BST) She was fine, had a bit of toast that my mum gives to her and playful as ever. When I went to bed and woke up, I noticed that I could hear her vomit. 664
This by itself isn't usual as sometimes she gets an upset stomach. But she continually vomitted one after another. To the point her breath began to become very laboured, almost like she was struggling.
My mum decided to take her to the vets and even getting up by car, she was seemingly worsening. The vets tried all they could and even said she was going cold, to the point a heated blanket needed to help stabilise her temperature. The vets declared her critically ill and our option was to try and take her over to Edinburgh, which is no easy journey to a veterinary college. But, she didn't have any guarantee she'd survive the trip there. Or even if they did an operation on her. There was only a chance that paying many thousands of pounds would keep her safe and alive, no surefire guarantee she'd make it.
So we had to difficult decision of not making her suffer anymore due to her being in such a critical way. I'd just like to know some possibilities of why she changed in a few hours to the point of needing to be put to sleep. We're all very heartbroken as a family and just can't grasp how.. this happened. 664