Sick Dog / Puppy? 4 Things That Could Save Your Dog’s Life

Four crucial things to dealing with a sick dog. So, the four things are common sense, good vet relationship with an experienced person {slash} good breeder, and then awareness. Sounds sounds very um obvious, but let me get into detail of each one. And before I go, this is one of our keepers from our Fury daughter bred to um the bred to stuart little. So, keeping this girl. She's really calm, really sweet, and actually like a little timid, so I'm spending time with her. Um and then you have this girl right here who's wild, her sister, and we're going to be keeping her as well, too. Um and she just she won't stay in my lap. So, and the and they've been this way since they.

Were younger, too. It's cool. I've known their personality. Um and I'll get into that a little bit later about that personality thing. But, the the first thing with dealing with a sick dog is [snorts] common sense. And too many hey, baby, you want to come up here? Um too many people.

React in a way that I I understand why. They act with straight emotion instead of ration. And because it's your baby, you love the dog. Uh you're not sure how they're doing. They can't talk to you. They can't tell you how they're feeling. And then you get super scared. You overreact. You might do things that could harm a dog. You might over bring a dog to a place that that that it's not suitable. You might do a bunch of irrational things because you were thinking emotionally. So, the first thing is common sense and be aware of what's going on and try to diagnose the to the best of your abilities. Because when you diagnose the best of your abilities, it's going to help you following.

These next two steps. So, we got common sense. Okay, let's relax first. Let's take a second and let's let's go from here. Even if it's you have a dire emergency, you know, like even firefighters like that. The best firefighters, the best medics, the best trauma surgeons, they're very calm. They can take a second, think for a second, and find out what's the best course of step two is a good vet. And this is going to this is going to require.

Um previ- previously done your homework and getting at least one if not two good vets. And I mean that is maybe one's closed, maybe one's not 24/7, but establishing a relationship with these um getting referrals to them, getting uh feedback, looking online, and just picking out a good vet. Even if you never use the vet, which hopefully you don't, uh you want to have a good vet that's on call, one that's for 24/7, one that's for the day, one you know, obviously for both. So, that's extremely important. And that being said, good vet is going to meet it means that they understand these bulldogs. You want to make sure that they understand brachycephalic dogs. You want to make sure that they are not.

All about money and they're going to diagnose your dog properly and do what's necessary and not do what's unnecessary. So, vets, establishing a relationship. Three, which honestly might even be more important to deciding what you're going to do with your dog, is having a good relationship with an experienced person, hence your breeder. Whoever you get your dog from, you should I mean, if whatever you get your dog from, golden retriever, german shepherd, bulldog, whatever, you should get from an experienced person that has years of experience, done it lots of times, seen probably a lot more than you, and you could call them 24/7 and say, "hey, my dog has this, my dog threw up like this, this is going on, this poop is.

Going on, all the all this stuff." and then they can say, "hey, you should do this, you should do that." and I understand the whole thing of why people freak out because it's like you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Like if you don't do something and something bad happens to your dog, you're going to like regret it for the rest of your life. But, having.

A breeder or a person that you know that's dealt with, you know, bulldogs, golden retrievers, whatever you have specifically, and has a very good experience with dogs, is going to make it so much better for your for your initial diagnosis, what you're going to do. They're going to give you great advice that could potentially save you save your dog's life, save you lots of time, save you lots of money, all kinds of all kinds of things. And that's why I tell I tell everyone who gets a puppy from me, and even people that don't have don't get puppies from me, they they they call me and ask ask me for information. But anyone who gets a puppy from me, I tell them, "hey, 24/7, 2:00.

A.m., 3:00 a.m., call me. If I'm awake, I'll pick up. If I'm not awake, wake me up." um even if you think it's a stupid question because I might be able to save you a lot of time and energy and heartbreak and maybe even the dog, you know, I don't want the dog any bad things happen to dog. And step four is awareness. Awareness what your dog is doing.

Because you want to know, like for is the dog throwing up? How's the dog's poop? How's the dog's attitude? Is the dog eating? What's going on? Awareness as far as trying to be aware that your dog is sick beforehand because the sicker your dog gets, the worse it is. And with dogs, it's bad. They can't tell you, "I don't feel good." sometimes like for example, I don't feel good, I can tell I can tell I can tell my dog, "hey, I don't feel good." and that's before I even show any but dogs really can't. They have to show symptoms. So they might not feel good for days. And they do show symptoms, but not like, you know, they can't verbalize it. So it's important to.

Pay attention. And if you can if you can figure out your dog's not feeling well beforehand, it's a lot easier to treat. Your dog's immune system is stronger. Dog's dog dog stronger. And this goes this this is exponential. >> woo. [music].