Miss Squeak Lets Talk About Miss Mildred My Furbaby Chihuahua.

 Okay so today I thought we might talk about

my little furbaby Chihuahua Miss Mildred ,

many people still think she is a puppy as she is so very small and little just what I wanted.

I love everything about her from her huge ears too her big brown eyes her sweet little toes and her lovely personality she has to be my best friend and she gives so much affection to my whole family but I am her human and she knows that when we watch tv or are just siting around talking Miss Mildred is there if not on my lap.

I was told to get a male as they are my likely to be lapdogs hmmm nope my little one is never far from us!

I was really scared when we first got her as I had never had a Chihuahua before and she was ever so small and fragile. So when we got her home we had every thing ready for her a special play pen so when we went to bed she would have a safe place to sleep and so we wouldn't walk in wee and poo when we woke up. Miss Mildred was down stairs in the play pen and it worked great for keeping her safe and out of the way when I was cleaning and cooking the kitchen. Then after about 2 weeks she learnt how to get out and in the middle of the night she would be at our bedroom door crying very loudly to be let in. 

We and I mean me would pick her up and take her down stairs to the toilet then place her back into her bed and get back to bed myself.

Then a few hours later the crying would start again bugga bugga bumbum so at this time after about 2 weeks of this it was like gee just put her into bed wit us and she would go straight  to sleep hmmm and the little innocent girl got her way we allowed her to sleep with us until she was around 9mths old  then we started to train her to sleep with her fur brother Sir George and it was hard to do so every time she out of her bed and started scratching at the side of the bed and growling she was told "no bed" and put back into her bed. Still to this day Miss Mildred starts the night in her bed then somehow every morning she is in the bed between my Monster and I cheeky little Chihuahua. But so cute  and lovely at the same time.

The most scariest thing that has happened while having Miss Mildred is when she got stung by a bee wow I was so terrified that I was shaking, I will post the picture below her little face was so swollen and I thought she might stop breathing!

I was one the phone to the vet straight away and removed the stinger from her chin then gave her some medicine and put ice on her face! She didn't like that at all. So thats the most scariest time in her life.

Miss Mildred brings so much love and happiness into our life and I don't know what I would do with out her here to look out for me, When I am sick, As I have an eye problem that can sometimes leave me in bed in a dark room with no light and I had one of these episodes just recently and my little Miss Mildred was on my bed or on my lap the whole time and even went off her food as well what a sweet  little chihuahua I have she is just a true blessing to our life and she is everything I ever wanted in a furbaby she is loyal caring loveable sweet and is always happy is see me when ever I get home even if we have only been 10 minutes its unconditional love Miss Mildred doesn't care if I have makeup on or if I have brushed my hair she is just happy to see me. 

How lucky am I. So far we haven't had any problems with her at all she has been desexed had all her needles and is so very cheap to feed there are so many pluses to having a Chihuahua 

As we have many other dogs in our pack 

Miss Mildred is the only one I don't need to 

clip every 6 weeks and I am grateful for that. 

I am able to clip her nails we ease as I started playing with her toes,  feet and paw pads as soon as I got her and I rub her feet when she sits with me as well and its worked out a positive thing to do as she wears shoes in the summer to protect her feet from the hot ground. 

I would go as far as saying she loves to get dressed up in the morning as we get her out of her pyjamas into her day dress she will sit near her dresses and just wait to get dressed just to cute for words. I was easy to train her to shake hands sit, speak, stop, come and fetch. All thing that everyone should teach their furbabys just so you know your furbaby will be safe while out and about. The way I went about training 

Miss Mildred was treat training and I did this 4 times daily and over a month she was able to do mostly all the things I mentioned above. 

Now Miss Mildred will do them without treats. I get her to sit and give me a high five every night before I feed her dinner, and like magic she is sitting waiting for me with her paw up!

So that is a little look in to the life of my 

furbaby Chihuahua Miss Mildred.  

 I Would like to thank everyone for coming and reading my blogs its a fun thing to do and it keeps me busy I have a passion for my furbabys and just thought  other people might like to read about what is going on with us. So if you have any ideas for a blog just let me know in the comments below and I would love to get some new ideas and to hear your stories about your furbabys and what you do with them.

So once again thanks for reading my blog

Miss Squeak Lets Talk About Miss Mildred 

My Furbaby Chihuahua.

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Miss Squeak Talks Heart Problems For Furbabys !

 Okay I have not done a blog in a few days or should I say a week or so as I have had a lot going on with my furbabys ! As you all might know I am looking after my mums dogs while she is away and  

well he doesn't like to be clipped so we have to have him sedated just to have him groomed ! So lets start the story there every 8 weeks we go to the vet with Sebastian and have him groomed but after about 5 weeks it was like he was panting a lot and coughing too I just thought it was because he was hot and needed grooming again because of the warmer weather so I waited the extra 3 weeks until it was his time to go to the vet. So as I was dropping the little furbaby to the vet I asked if they could check out his heart and throat as he was coughing and panting. So I left him with the vet and off home I went upon arriving home I noticed my furry cat Maggie was limping on her front leg arrgh is what I thought so I went and scooped her up into my arms and called out to my big brother to come and help me , and together we shaved her arm and found a big wound on the underside of her paw! So by this time I was crying and a little frantic so I called my Monster (boyfriend) to tell him that my cat was hurt and he said to take her to the vet so he came and got us and off we went to the vet again. While having Maggie the cat looked at Sebastion was all clipped and ready to come home. But poor Maggie had to have a abscess removed so she went to sleep and had a operation to fix her. Nearly $400 bucks just for the furbaby cat. Not to mention the $250.00 for Sebastion !! When we went in to see the vet about Sebastion we where told we have to come back for more tests. That are going to be another $300.00 or so but what the vet has found is little furbaby Sebastion has fluid on his heart and thats is why is has been coughing and panting much more then normal poor little furbaby , So I thought I might talk about the signs of heart problems today!

Pericardial Effusion in Dogs

Pericardial effusion may be a condition in which an abnormally great deal of fluid collects within the sac that surrounds the dog's heart (pericardium). A secondary condition, observed as cardiac tamponade, results from this retention of fluid, because the swelling of fluid applies pressure on the beating heart, compressing it and limiting its ability to pump blood.

The pressure within the heart will increase, and since the right atrium and ventricles usually have the lowest cardiac filling pressures, they're the most plagued by affected by. With the pressure elevated within the heart, the heart features a lower flow rate, resulting in right-sided symptom heart disease. Fluid retention throughout the body generally follows ascites, swelling of the limbs, and weakness or collapse.

Furbabys  are prone to pericardial effusion. 

Symptoms May Include

Lethargy

Vomiting

Anorexia

Pale gums

Abdominal distention

Exercise intolerance

Fainting or collapse

Respiratory distress

Increased respiratory rate and/or exaggerated heart beat rate

Causes

Congenital disorders (birth defects, or genetic traits)

Congestive heart condition (failure attributable to excess fluid retention)

Coagulopathy: a illness that affects the body's ability to clot (coagulate) blood

Constrictive pericarditis with fibrosis (inflammation of the serous membrane with excess fibrous tissue)

Infection of the pericardium

Foreign object within the body inflicting internal distress

Left chamber tear or viscus trauma

Cancer

Diagnosis

Your Furbaby Vet can perform an entire physical examination on your dog, as well as a blood chemical profile, an entire blood count, a urinalysis, and an electrolyte panel, so as to rule out underlying general diseases like cancer or infection. you may have to be compelled to provides a thorough history of your dog's health, onset of symptoms, and possible incidents which may have precipitated this condition.

Blood tests will facilitate to diagnose disorder that has caused fluid buildup within the sac. If infection or cancer is that the explanation for the pericardial effusion, a pericardial fluid analysis are often done to spot the origin of the cancer, or the sort of infection. radiograph and sonograph imaging are crucial for proper identification of pericardial effusion. associate sonograph is even additional sensitive than a radiogram for diagnosis of serosa effusion. associate electrocardiogram, that measures the electrical conductance of the heart, generally shows a definite pattern if the animal is suffering from cardiac tamponade.

Treatment

If the patient is diagnosed with cardiac tamponade, immediate pericardiocentesis (drawing the fluid out of the pericardial sac with a needle) is essential. Some dogs may need to have the process repeated.

Furbabys in respiratory distress will be stabilised with the use of administered oxygen and an oxygen cage. Some animals may need their pericardium surgically removed (pericardiectomy), if there is persistent effusion.

Living and Management

If symptoms of pericardial effusion should reoccur in your dog, contact your veterinarian immediately. If you pet has undergone a pericardiectomy, check the surgical incision every day to make sure it is clean, and is healing properly. There is always a risk of infection when the skin has been operated on.

If there is any itching, swelling, redness, or oozing at the surgical site, contact your Furbay vet immediately for advisement.

  So I hope this has been some kind of help to anyone with a furbaby that might have some signs of Heart Problems I will let you know how Sebastion goes at his up coming vet appointment on Friday !

   Little Miss Mlidred is doing fine and she is just loving the attention from all the new people she is meeting everyday I am going to do a Blog on chihuahuas and the cold weather next as you can see below Miss Mildred loves to be warm !

Okay with a heavy heart I am typing this its a update to this blog , our 
Old Man River aka Sebastion lost his fight with his heart problem it was the single most heart breaking thing I  have ever had to do 
and that was to walk into the vet and have him put to sleep it was horrible and so sad to be in the position to have to make this choice, 
Every furbaby mum and dad wants for their furbaby when they are this sick to just go to sleep and not wake up. But our Old Man River just wouldn't let go and his breathing was very fast and laboured and the pressure from the fluid on his heart lungs and kidneys was just not going away with the medical treatment. So its been a few months without him and its ver very strange to not have him snoring in the house are just being able to give him a little pat and cuddle. Yet I was there with my Monster while he passed away  and it was peaceful loving and fast. I was allowed to hold him while this was all going on. It was just as hard for our vet as they have looked after him since he was a ball of fluff so my heart was with them as theirs was with mine. I am finding it hard to type this without crying. We wish for our furbabys to live forever yet thats not the case and Sebastion had the life he was loved and cared for just like a little brother. We loved him so very very much and on this note Rest In Peace Sebastion !!

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