As an addition to that topic on escaping, my FC Abbey got out last fri, through an open gate. My wife found her in the neighborhood 15 min's later and brought her home, no harm, no foul. So we thought! She came up lame yesterday, WED, she took her to the Vet and she was fading fast. She must have gotten into someones mouse/rat poison when she had escaped. Had to rush her 3 hours to the nearest critical care center. The new 2500HD Diesel handled well at 85 - 90. She was on her last minutes as we pulled in. She was beginning to pass gas, void urine, and gasp within the last 1/2 hour of the trip as my wife was holding her with an IV drip in. Her entire mouth was ash gray and ice ice cold. 2 blood transfusions last night and she is starting to come around. No proof or evidence of poison yet, and it is not my neighbors fault if she did, it is mine for her getting out. I can train the animals, I have not been able to train the children.
![Evil or Very Mad :evil:](./images/smilies/icon_evil.gif)
The poison caused her to bleed out in the chest cavity. So between the chest tube and transfusions, she was able to start clotting again and the bleeding has hopefully subsided as her PCB levels are up and she is apparently not losing any more blood. She is probably 70% out of the woods. Not sure if any permanent damage and won't know for a while. If she makes it, and it does look good, she'll only be down for a month. She'll be down until summer or I see that she is ready to begin conditioning.
I wholeheartedly believe that if it were not for the extremely rigorous roading program I use, 12 months on and 0 months off, a cardiovascular weaker dog would have perished. I am well aware that many feel the dogs need a break, however, it is my opinion that the building up and letting down of muscle tissue is more detrimental than constant work. A person that gains and loses weight consistently stresses his body more than one that either gains it or loses it and maintains that level. Although the drive to survive is strong in our animals, they are only as good as their pump. All the blood in the cavity was compressing the lungs and causing the heart to work harder.
FYI do not use mouse/rat poison or if you suspect that your animal may have ingested some or they come up lame and there has been a possibility of it, look in their stools for the green undigestible blocks
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Bill