Dear all,
Yesterday night, around 1.15am, a dog (we couldn't see it) attacked our female, Kari. After the attack, her neck was swollen, but we couldn't find any trace of an open wound and there was no blood to be seen. We slept with her, but in the morning all her body was swollen, so we bath her with fresh water and kept her under fresh damp cloth, trying to reduce the swollen. She didn't pee that morning.
At 9am, she started to have difficulties breathing. We live deep in the country side and have no contact of a vet, whatsoever, and anyway, it was obvious that no one could come in time to save her. Very fast, her face started to get swollen as well and she died in no time. As she was dying, we found out a very, very tiny piece of red naked skin around her neck, from which air seemed to come out. So we can imagine that this was the bite, from the other dog. Of course, we tried to pressure that little hole for more air to come out, but her thong was already to swollen for her to be able to breath. We though of perforating her throat, to allow air to come in and out, but it was too late.
Now... we have 2 other dogs and since we couldn't find out which dog attacked ours, it is possible that this dog comes back sometime. We would like to know what we can do, it this happens again.
Thank you,
Shadée