TODAY ENDED LOUSY. Preemptively: last I heard the dog was fine. Inside this plurk: fretting over a dog I rushed to the vet for breathing issues.
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TODAY ENDED LOUSY. Preemptively: last I heard the dog was fine. Inside this plurk: fretting over a dog I rushed to the vet for breathing issues.
TODAY ENDED LOUSY. Preemptively: last I heard the dog was fine. Inside this plurk: fretting over a dog I rushed to the vet for breathing issues.
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This poor little yorkie. ;A; At check in I was alerted to her having anxiety and some variety of throat problem. The family was very Russian with only one person translating, so the details were unclear but
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we definitely communicated and confirmed that nothing was ever to be put around her neck. Nothing ever was. She was in a harness the whole time.
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She was so sweet and gentle and gave me no problems, but her tongue turned blue while I was on the phone with her people telling them I'd be done in ten minutes. (She'd been there barely an hour.)
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Okay short version I told her people change in plans and took her to the vet. They put the poor little girl on oxygen and I was still there holding her the whole time until her parents arrived QnQ
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According to my managers, who took over, her people didn't seem all that concerned? LIke that was normal for her? But I was a wreck. That poor baby.
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Friends, if your pet's tongue turns blue when pink is the normal color, that is not a good thing
cacopheny
oh no :< I'd be a wreck, too! that poor dog needs some longer-term treatment!
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Yeah. 8C Somehow the vet people managed to communicate that. I saw two techs accompanying the parents and dog with the oxygen tank out to the parking lot and somehow the whole lot of them went to
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the nearest emergency vet
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(One of those 24-hour deals versus our little in-store vet.)
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An hour and a half later a manager came and told me the dog was still being treated, but improving.
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That poor little girl. She wasn't even very old, only five years.
cacopheny
that's hardly old at all, for a yorkie. must be some other kind of problem, hereditary, maybe 
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The best impression I got was that she was injured at another salon somehow? They mentioned something being put around her neck on a table and were very wary of that being done again
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The vets definitely agreed preexisting problem. Her anxiety suddenly escalating was a trigger but not cause
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Oh no..