Sudden Death

[bannork]

We kept one of our dog's puppies this year, he was about 5 months old at New Year, a bundle of energy, named ' Mark' as the wife claimed he was as handsome as the PM.

Over New Year he suddenly stopped eating and developed a temperature. Listless, he stood still or lay down, the second day he started breathing with difficulty and just died.

It was all so sudden, would anyone have any idea what it could have been?

He wasn't frothing at the mouth so I don't think he ate rat poison.

Thanking anyone in advance,

bannork.

[Crypt36]

Might have been Aujezki disease? It comes with raw pork meat and causes instant death. Wouls be possible with a young animal.

No idea what the symptoms are, look it up!

[Priceless]

My, at the time, youngest cat died suddenly in her sleep less than two years ago, aged 22 months. An extensive autopsy, including sending several samples to a Bangkok university for pathological tests, eventually proved the cause to be HCM (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy). This disease also appears in dogs, though much more rarely than in cats. You can google for it and also read about it here: http://www.petmd.com/dog/conditions/cardio...hy_hypertrophic

What led me to think about HCM is the almost total lack of preceding symptoms and the breathing difficulty.

My deepest sympathy to you and your wife, losing a beloved pet is really hard.

/ Priceless

[sbk]

not eating and high temperature sounds like distemper to me.

[bannork]

Thanks for the replies,the rapid decline into death made me think it wasn't distemper.

I've since found out that many of the puppies sired by the father have died young, it may be a congenital heart defect.

Living on the farm, dogs have a great life here, running up and down the haystacks in the cool early morning, racing across the stubble in the rice fields.

I once put a collar and lead on our dog once, she went beserk trying to free herself.

Their lives are cheap but it's a good one upcountry.

[Nienke]

Might have been Aujezki disease? It comes with raw pork meat and causes instant death. Wouls be possible with a young animal.

No idea what the symptoms are, look it up!

From what I've seen it didn't cause instant death to the several dogs and cats that caught the Aujeski disease.

Symptoms were similar to Rabies without the aggression part. That's why it (was?) is also called pseudo-rabies.

[Nienke]

Parvo virus usually shows as severe inflammation of the small intestine. However, it can also cause myocarditis (inflammatory heart-muscle disease) which can result in acute or chronic heart failure and death.

The parvo virus vaccine can cause the same, although in a much lesser extent.

[Priceless]

Thanks for the replies,the rapid decline into death made me think it wasn't distemper.

I've since found out that many of the puppies sired by the father have died young, it may be a congenital heart defect.

Living on the farm, dogs have a great life here, running up and down the haystacks in the cool early morning, racing across the stubble in the rice fields.

I once put a collar and lead on our dog once, she went beserk trying to free herself.

Their lives are cheap but it's a good one upcountry.

I'm not trying to argue my point, since I am in no way an expert in the field However, if it is congenital then that might fit in with my HCM hypothesis. In the case of my young cat, both parents were subsequently found to carry a DNA defect that can lead to HCM (the DNA test had not yet been developed at the time of my cat's birth).

Obviously, both my cats parents were sterilized after the DNA defect was found.

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[Nienke]

Thanks for the replies,the rapid decline into death made me think it wasn't distemper.

I've since found out that many of the puppies sired by the father have died young, it may be a congenital heart defect.

Living on the farm, dogs have a great life here, running up and down the haystacks in the cool early morning, racing across the stubble in the rice fields.

I once put a collar and lead on our dog once, she went beserk trying to free herself.

Their lives are cheap but it's a good one upcountry.

I'm not trying to argue my point, since I am in no way an expert in the field However, if it is congenital then that might fit in with my HCM hypothesis. In the case of my young cat, both parents were subsequently found to carry a DNA defect that can lead to HCM (the DNA test had not yet been developed at the time of my cat's birth).

Obviously, both my cats parents were sterilized after the DNA defect was found.

/ Priceless

And those are the wise words of a real RESPONSIBLE (ex?) breeder! Nonetheless, very sorry that that happened to you and your cats.

BTW, vaccine can change DNA. Proven in humans.

[Nienke]

Thanks for the replies,the rapid decline into death made me think it wasn't distemper.

I've since found out that many of the puppies sired by the father have died young, it may be a congenital heart defect.

Living on the farm, dogs have a great life here, running up and down the haystacks in the cool early morning, racing across the stubble in the rice fields.

I once put a collar and lead on our dog once, she went beserk trying to free herself.

Their lives are cheap but it's a good one upcountry.

I'm not trying to argue my point, since I am in no way an expert in the field However, if it is congenital then that might fit in with my HCM hypothesis. In the case of my young cat, both parents were subsequently found to carry a DNA defect that can lead to HCM (the DNA test had not yet been developed at the time of my cat's birth).

Obviously, both my cats parents were sterilized after the DNA defect was found.

/ Priceless

And those are the wise words of a real RESPONSIBLE (ex?) breeder! Nonetheless, very sorry that that happened to you and your cats.

BTW, vaccine can change DNA. Proven in humans.

[Priceless]

Thanks for the replies,the rapid decline into death made me think it wasn't distemper.

I've since found out that many of the puppies sired by the father have died young, it may be a congenital heart defect.

Living on the farm, dogs have a great life here, running up and down the haystacks in the cool early morning, racing across the stubble in the rice fields.

I once put a collar and lead on our dog once, she went beserk trying to free herself.

Their lives are cheap but it's a good one upcountry.

I'm not trying to argue my point, since I am in no way an expert in the field However, if it is congenital then that might fit in with my HCM hypothesis. In the case of my young cat, both parents were subsequently found to carry a DNA defect that can lead to HCM (the DNA test had not yet been developed at the time of my cat's birth).

Obviously, both my cats parents were sterilized after the DNA defect was found.

/ Priceless

And those are the wise words of a real RESPONSIBLE (ex?) breeder! Nonetheless, very sorry that that happened to you and your cats.

BTW, vaccine can change DNA. Proven in humans.

Thank you, but I was not the responsible breeder in this case. I had bought her as a kitten from a breeder who is also a very good friend. She is now in the process of (slowly) rebuilding her cattery after losing her wonderful male breeder (one of the most beautiful Ragdoll cats that I have ever met).

I'd like to think that I would have been equally responsible in my breeding, but fortunately I never had anything similar happen in my cattery.

/ Priceless