A mysterious respiratory illness is infecting dogs at a worrisome rate and veterinarians are now scrambling to better understand the possible “bacterium pathogen.” Vets say the suspected bacterium can quickly progress to pneumonia and severe respiratory distress. NBC News’ Miguel Almaguer reports.
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Chemtrails in the sky are at fault
Great the neighborhood dogs like to use my yard as a bathroom
Wish everyone in this thread would stop speculating and making crap up.
This disease in dogs is serious and requires immediate vet care if symptoms begin. Bit can go from mild to seriously critical quickly. Antibiotics are required and a complete course at least once. Dogs are ending up in oxygen tents. This is nothing to mess with. Get your dog to a vet immediately if respiratory symptoms. Vet tech here & have seen it.
Stop spreading misinformation with speculation. It doesn't help. Vets are trying to figure out exactly what this is, and how best to treat it.
Facts are our friends.
Suppose big pharma has a vaccinations or that and ALL dogs will have to get the vaccinations, find out what politician has already invested in the stocks!
So it's dog COVID now 😔
I do believe that this is from Deers , could Made by CHINA CCP !
This sounds exactly like blastomycosis! My dog contracted blastomycosis and fought it for two years. He finally recovered, but has lung damage due to scar tissue, and does have days where he is weezy.
The wild part is that not a many a person will buck precautions to protect dogs, but buck protecting themselves and other humans.
My dogs don't have any friends. 😅
Covid for dogs!
Planet of the Apes. It’s starting.
My Maltese hasn’t seen another dog since Covid just backyard and indoor he is safe👍
Great, now we have Dogvid 19
Oh my God is it only affecting beagles it must be fauci
Mine have an air purifier thank you
Respiratory is being mispronounced by many Americans and they don't even realize it. "Respiratory" actually has two ways of pronunciation depending on your grammar.
covid?
Make your dogs wear masks pro maskers
Cement in the air . (much construction; wars ) Its A Small World, afterall.
Dollars to donuts it came out of China
Faucin says put masks on your dogs! 😂
We were hearing about this in the summer in Michigan
Dogs going into lockdown next and they must work from home.
Next News will be reporting that the illness can be passed to humans. The next pandemic is gearing up right before 2024
It’s because we make are dogs weak. They were wolves once… now they are scared of vacuums
Oh no 😞
This is not just in dogs, this is also in other animals. My cat got it from a stray cat I rescued from the streets. They already had 2 antibiotics shots but my older cat is taking it a lot harder. Already spent $130 and still has to get more if it doesn't get better
Does this transmitted to humans?
My beagle has developed a cough,read it could be kennel cough.been giving her honey,but not better.dont seem to be suffering at all,and her appetite is normal
Seeing as how the police un-alive 10,000+ innocent dogs each year, they're probably behind this.
FYI for anyone dealing with this: several sources have said that the labs studying this illness believe this is likely caused by Mycoplasma. Any rat-parent will be very familiar with Mycoplasma, as it's something ratties and rat-parents deal with often. It's a nasty and hearty bacteria that can quickly turn to pneumonia if not treated quickly and aggressively.
The treatment for Mycoplasma flare ups is a COMBINATION of Doxycycline AND Enrofloxacin (also called Baytril) for a minimum of 3 weeks, so that's what you're going to want to let your vet know, as it's not common knowledge unless your vet treats rats and other exotics (dogs don't typically deal with Mycoplasma like rats do, so this is an outlier). Your vet will likely try to prescribe a single antibiotic, as most vets like to be conservative with antibiotic treatments, but Mycoplasma has to be treated aggressively immediately or it will turn into pneumonia – a single antibiotic isn't going to knock Mycoplasma out. In fact, it could actually give the bacteria time to become resistant to the one antibiotic – it needs to be treated aggressively with the combination of antibiotics immediately. If the Doxycycline and Enrofloxacin (aka Baytril) combo isn't working after a week, certain strains may respond to Clavamox, *but that should be a second choice*, as the Doxy & Enro combo usually works much better. It can take 4 weeks of being on the antibiotics to completely kick the infection out, but you should start to see a little improvement after about 3 days on the Doxycycline & Enrofloxacin (aka Baytril). Even if your dog seems better sooner, he/she should stay on the antibiotics for the full 3 weeks or the Mycoplasma will linger and then flare back up a week or two after you stop the meds – like I said, it's a hearty bacteria, so you have to be sure that it's been completely kicked out. Depending on the severity of the infection, it can sometimes take longer on antibiotics to completely clear it, but the antibiotics should start making them feel much better after the first week. You may see your dog vacillate between feeling better one day and then feeling bad again for a couple of days, while on the antibiotics – that's totally normal while the antibiotics are fighting to "get the upper hand" over the bacteria. It can go back & forth like that multiple times, so just keep a close eye, be patient, make sure your baby is hydrated and getting calories and don't stop or switch the antibiotics when they feel bad again for a couple of days.
In addition, if your dog-kid is stuffed up, you may want to ask your vet to prescribe a bronchodilator like Theophylline to help open his/her airways. Keeping a humidifier on high right near where your dog is lying down helps a lot also – DON'T use steam from your bathroom though, as that can actually make pneumonia worse. Steam and a humidifier are totally different, so if you don't have one, pick up a cool air humidifier from your local pharmacy/drug store.
And finally, you'll need to make sure that your dog is well hydrated. Furkids who are sick will often stop eating and drinking, which can make the illness much worse, so talk to your vet about either giving your dog sub-cutaneous saline or syringe-feeding him/her bottled water while she/he is ill. With rats, we give them Ensure, which keeps them both hydrated and gives them calories, which helps fight the illness. Unfortunately Ensure isn't recommended for the doggos, so you'll need to ask your vet the best way to help keep your baby hydrated. We often use meat flavored baby food to keep calories on our cat-kids and dog-kids when they're ill – you can mix a bit of water in with baby food and syringe feed that to your dog, if he/she refuses to eat.
These are all things used to treat rats who have a Mycoplasma flare up and rats are often called "tiny dogs," because of the similarity between rats' & dogs' physiological responses, so I hope they're helpful for fellow dog-parents out there dealing with this illness. ❤❤
CovidK9 😳
Purina? Flu vaccines w mrna, surely some BS
My 11yr old Rottweiler developed a hacking cough around a week ago, she hasn't been near other dogs. We did have a dog overnight in the house mid-October, (got loose and we searched for the owner) but she stayed on another floor of the house and is apparently still healthy. My Rottie didn't have this cough til a month later! We are in Maine.
Vaccine shedding
The chap who said 'it's like dog COVID' might have hit the nail on the head.
Dogs have their own respiratory coronovirus (CRCoV) which can cause a KC type cough and is usually mild but when combined with other pathogens e.g. Bordetella bronchiseptica or canine mycoplasma can progress to potentially life-threatening pneumonia. Other factors likely to contribute/play a role e.g. age/co-morbidities.
For reference:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7114852/
Lord please have mercy for our doggies!
"It's just like covid…for dogs"…predictable!
Maybe they can try out all the unused and unwanted covid booster jabs. You know…the ones that don't stop transmission or contraction of the disease. I'm sure Big Pharma doesn’t want to see all that $$$ go down the toilet!
Oh no😢
Mmmm covid 19 dog edition
Simple keep your dog locked in a cage in a house where no one ever goes outside and never gets visitors! Job done!😮
Covid
This sounds just like what was described on the 1970's Escape From the Planet of the Apes movie! Cornelius and Zera said that dogs and cats were dying for no reason from some kind of illness!
Thank you. Watching from Alaska.
💔
Fauci in veterinary medicine now!
Take your dog to a Homeopath