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482907 tn?1208416453

Drug Overdose In a Puppy??

My parents dog had a litter of puppies and we gave all of them away. We gave one to a neighbor and a few weeks after we gave the puppy to her, she said the puppy was getting sick.  We had already given puppy his parvo vaccinations, so we were pretty sure that it wasn't parvo. Anyways, the neighbor started giving puppy penicillin and another antibiotic, and she was giving it to him about two times a day for almost 2 weeks. Also the puppy was getting fed with a big dog and we are pretty sure he wasn't getting hardly anything to eat. They gave the puppy back to us and wanted us to put the dog down. When we got him, he could barely stand up and had a consistand tick in his head, almost like he couldn't hold it up. He also could not keep his balence.  We decided to try and nurse him back to health.  We stopped giving him any meds and started making sure that he ate. The first time we tried to feed him, he acted like he hadn't ate in years, but he could hardly keep his balence and his head from bobbing to eat.  It has been almost 2 weeks and he has put on some weight, and his tick has calmed down a bit, but is still there and he still walks funny.  He can hear us and see us, but can't walk straight to us.  Also he is very stiff, almost like his joints don't bend like they are supposed to. We were wondering if maybe they overdosed him on medications and damaged his brain, or if that is even possible? We love puppy very much, but are not sure what we can do for him. Any ideas would help us greatly!! Thank you!!
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1568248 tn?1295470176
A guy from animal in distress come over today to check my 2 month old white pit bull puppy. He gave it a pill and injected it at the same time. A couple of hours later she is having the same symptoms as your puppy and she is really acting strange. I don't know what to do!
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234713 tn?1283526659
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I am sorry that your puppy appears to have been neglected by your neighbor.  The first couple of months of life for a puppy are essential to his well-being for life.  If he sustained prolonged hypoglycemia during this time due to decreased feeding his brain could be starved for glucose.  A brain that is starved for a prolonged period of time could undergo serious neurological damage that may be permanent!  This may be what happened to the puppy that your neighbor adopted briefly.  This problem could simply have happened from lack of proper nutrition in the early, critical stages of the puppies life.

Your puppy may be handicapped for life, but since he is drinking, eating, and behaving normally in every other way he could still have a happy life!  

Ideally, it would be best to take him to the vet just to be sure.  So please do that eventually when you can afford to.
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172023 tn?1334672284
Its one thing to not rush an animal to the vet "every time it comes down with something" and quite another to not provide needed veterinary care when you have a pup who sounds from YOUR own description as if it were critically ill.

A critically ill animal deserves proper diagnostics and treatment from a licensed veterinarian.  

I don't rush my dogs to the vet either, for every sniffle or case of the poops.  There are some things that you can try to treat at home with common sense.  But what you described is not one of those situations.  

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482907 tn?1208416453
I'm sorry, I know that should have been done, but we don't have the money for that.  He is doing fine other than he has trouble walking and keeping his balance.  We own a pretty big farm and do not rush our animals to the vet everytime they come down with something. That is why upco makes meds that farmers like us, who have been taking care of their animals for centries, can buy and be given themselves.  He has put on wieght and runs with the other dogs and seems to be doing fine other than the problems mentioned before. I was just wanting somebody to be a little curtious and help us out a little bit, I guess that is to much to ask on here.
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172023 tn?1334672284
Absolutely!
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I think the obvious first step would be to take the puppy to a vet.  That should have been done on day 1!!!
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