Cause for severe rapid breathing--- Pain ?
Our rescue Rottweiler, about 4 years old, is suffering from rapid breathing up to 100 bpm while resting. I don't know how she could of survived the night. In the past week I've taken her for complete ...
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I hate to be blunt but I just lost my rescue Rottie to bone cancer a day before his 7th birthday this past March. A high percentage of Rotties succumb to bone cancer--thus the low life expectancy. Really sucks.
Everytime my boy limped or held his paw up--I was at the vet with him. I was always sure it was bone cancer. I was aware that it doesn't always show up in x-rays and that a week from a "clean' x-ray the cancer can be rampant in this breed. A week and a half before I put him down he was limping. Off to the vet I went. The vet (an excellent vet whose dog of choice is Rotties) said his ACL was loose and it would probably blow one day. He gave him some meds and we made an appt. to check in two weeks. GREAT, I though--we had dodged the cancer bullet again! The next Friday he was running and screamed out loud. I was sure he blew his ACL, as that's what happened to my other two dogs in the past that had ACLs blown. By Sunday I knew something else was wrong--it was more than that. Monday I took him in, they x-rayed him, and the cancer was all through his leg--if it was that bad, it surely was in his lungs and elsewhere, I was told. He was sedated just enough to let me say goodbye.
I HOPE that's not what's wrong with yours, but bone cancer can come up quickly with no warning, it's rampant in their breed, and rapid panting is a sign of severe pain. Rotties are very stoic and usually hide pain until it's unbearable.
I honestly don't mean to scare you--I just want you to be aware of it, if you're not. Maybe ask your vets what they think??
Everytime my boy limped or held his paw up--I was at the vet with him. I was always sure it was bone cancer. I was aware that it doesn't always show up in x-rays and that a week from a "clean' x-ray the cancer can be rampant in this breed. A week and a half before I put him down he was limping. Off to the vet I went. The vet (an excellent vet whose dog of choice is Rotties) said his ACL was loose and it would probably blow one day. He gave him some meds and we made an appt. to check in two weeks. GREAT, I though--we had dodged the cancer bullet again! The next Friday he was running and screamed out loud. I was sure he blew his ACL, as that's what happened to my other two dogs in the past that had ACLs blown. By Sunday I knew something else was wrong--it was more than that. Monday I took him in, they x-rayed him, and the cancer was all through his leg--if it was that bad, it surely was in his lungs and elsewhere, I was told. He was sedated just enough to let me say goodbye.
I HOPE that's not what's wrong with yours, but bone cancer can come up quickly with no warning, it's rampant in their breed, and rapid panting is a sign of severe pain. Rotties are very stoic and usually hide pain until it's unbearable.
I honestly don't mean to scare you--I just want you to be aware of it, if you're not. Maybe ask your vets what they think??
