Bitch CLose to whelp having issues

[wrknapbt]

I have a friend who is heavy into weightpull. She owns a bitch that has won ADBA Nationals and APA nationals in weightpull. She bred her and now the bitch is close to being do. A few weeks ago she started to swell in the gland areas of her body. The vets are all lost and they don't know what to do. Understand when I say swollen I mean she looks like she had a run in with a snake. They have to make a mix of raw and grind it up and shove it down her mouth to make her eat because she will not eat if they don't.


Have any of you ever seen anything like this?

The bitch had been inside the entire time.

[Officially Retired]

Just had to use Clavamox myself on Little D, who developed a bad case of mastitis, literally overnight.

I put her in with her pups before I went to bed, and when I woke up one of her titties under her right elbow was the size of a softball and she couldn't even walk.

Put her on cephalexin ... didn't work ... upgraded to Clavamox, problem solved.

Jack

[QCKLime]

Just had to use Clavamox myself on Little D, who developed a bad case of mastitis, literally overnight.

I put her in with her pups before I went to bed, and when I woke up one of her titties under her right elbow was the size of a softball and she couldn't even walk.

Put her on cephalexin ... didn't work ... upgraded to Clavamox, problem solved.

Jack

Had to do the same back in December with my Invicto II bitch. She came down with milk fever, took the babies off of her so she could stabilize, took her to work with me so I could keep an eye on her and even with me applying cold compresses to her teats to try and prevent the let down of more milk, she developed mastitis in literally under five hours. Sigh. Clavamox + hot compresses, and she was healed up in a couple of days. I had actually taken pictures of the before and after and was going to make a post about how to handle ruptured mammary glands, but you beat me to it with your article on hot compresses, haha.

[Officially Retired]

Doesn't mean you can't add to it