Our 5 year old yellow lab was diagnosed with pneumonia a month ago, had X-rays and blood work done and was diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia. We had X-rays done initially when it was diagnosed and twice after that with the last X-rays done 10 days ago or so. The vet said that the last X-rays were similar to the second round of X-rays but didn’t need follow up X-rays if the dog seemed back to normal. We just finished out his 33 day supply of the medicine as instructed. Should I request another round of X-rays to make sure it’s completely gone? Our dog seems back to normal but just checking as this is a new vet for us.

My 4 year old Akita was diagnosed with Kennel Cough 2 weeks ago. At that time, he was given oxycodone for his cough and Clavamox because he was running a fever. I went out of town for 3 days and my husband finished giving him the Clavamox on Monday. I got back Wednesday and Rocco was panting and breathing through his mouth. He was breathing very fast so I took him back to the same veterinary clinic. His heart and lungs sounded fine on the exam, and he had no temperature, but his x-rays showed pneumonia. I am not sure how he got the pneumonia while taking the Clavamox, but he did. He was given Doxycycline Tabs 100 mg and gets 3 tabs every 12 hours, and Enroflaxin tabs 136 mg , and he gets 3 tabs every 24 hours. He was eating and drinking water normally and had not lost any weight when I took him in on Thursday. I started both antibiotics Thursday night, and he had the Doxycyline this morning in a pill pocket, but I could not get him to eat anything all day. He hasn't really eaten since Thursday and he is periodically vomiting yellow bile and water. He lies in the same spot all day, he barely moves unless someone comes to the door. He goes on his walks. I skipped his antibiotics tonight because he quit eating and has been throwing up bile all day. Should I give him the antibiotics in the morning even though he is not eating? It seems like he is on really high doses of the antibiotics and I think they are making him sick. I don't want the pneumonia to get worse, but right now he is a lot sicker than he was before he started taking them. Does he need to be put on different meds or should I try force feeding him a small amount of canned food with his meds? He may not let me do that. He has been growling at me the last few times I checked his gums. They are nice and pink as they should be.

I put my 15.5 yr old chihuahua down about a year ago primarily due to pneumonia. She coughed incessantly and vet took chest xray and said it was enlarged heart up against the trachea causing it. She was rxd hydrocodone and all was well for about 2 wks. That's when coughing started again and so assumed was still heart against trachea and vet and I decided to increase hydrocodone dose. Cough still was not going away even after adding cerenia to the RX mix. Another chest xray taken about a month after the original. Dx'd with pneumonia and rx'd clavamox. Later that evening her coughing and breathing were so bad I could not see her suffer any longer and also figured she'd be on hydrocodone for the rest of her life due to enlarged heart. Xrays indicated no fluid in lungs. She was dx'd with mitral valve regurgitation about 5 yrs before and managed by cardiologist visits and meds. I still have so many unanswered questions. The ones most important to me lately: could the original chest xray have shown bordatella or some other condition that turned into the pneumonia? The original xray was read by a radiologist. Could the enlarged heart made my little girl more susceptible to pneumonia? Or.. Was it possible it was two truly independent events? - heart against trachea and then pneumonia developed later? Part of my decision to put her down was that even if the pneumonia was cured, she would still have an enlarged heart affecting quality of life for the rest of her days (along with the quality of life dealing with after effects of pneumonia). Thank you for providing any insights you may have. I can't seem to get straight answers to these questions from my vet or cardiologist.

Miley has been fighting “pneumonia” for about 8 weeks. We’ve tried 3 antibiotics and they haven’t worked. We had a lung wash and are waiting for results- I’m so nervous waiting because she has rapid breathing, crackling, and her stomach contracts. She’s also out of breath after going out to potty. Is there a chance she’ll be able to withstand until the results come back and result specific medicine takes affect? I’m worried I made the wrong decision with the lung wash - she’s struggled more since then. Did I do the right thing? I’ve taken her in multiple times but they want over $500 to keep/monitor overnight- she’s gettig oxygen, eating, drinking, barking and wagging (sometimes).

My 6 yr old Flat Coated Retriever had what the vet thought was Kennel Cough (without lab test) that two weeks into treatment turned into pneumonia. He had high fever, lethargic, weak and wouldn’t eat. Emergency room treated him for pneumonia. It’s now 8 weeks later and he did 6 weeks of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory meds. He is on 6th day of prednisone now and still presents a cough intermittently. Last X-ray showed a few white dots...this seems too long and too extreme.

My 10 weeks old French bulldog has kennel cough, cold, respiratory tract infection and pneumonia. She at the vet for almost 5 days, within the 1 day she had discharge coming out of her nose and eyes were red with discharge, heavy breathing, lost of appetite, fever and dehydration. She had to been given her oxygen, Ivy, getting feed by a syringe, she’s down to 2pd. This is the 6 days at the vet, she hasn’t been on oxygen at all, her eyes clear up, but bubbles are still coming out of her nose, and she still has respiratory infection. She’s on enrofloxacin and clavamox. Will she recover from this, if she’s going to be at the vet within 2 weeks. She been getting care sinces September 15 2019 till now!

Trigga is 4 years old and been a happy healthy dog until last week we noticed a large dent to the left side of his head I immediately phoned our vet who came to the house and quickly hospitalised him but unfortunately he continued to go down hill extremely rapid as he vomits every time he drinks anything and is eating next to nothing he was thirteen stone but it’s dropping off him our vet has diagnosed bacterial pneumonia but is also worried that tumours may also be present he’s on metronidazole 3 twice daily and every so often shows is signs he is fighting back Although on the whole it seems his spirit is leaving him any advice would be gratefully recieved he is currently st home

My 6 month old pug puppy went into the vets on an emergency visit. She was showing signs of being lethargic, no interest in food, wobbly when she walked, when I called my vet the assumed her to be hypoglycemic and told me to get her karo syrup. 2 days after that I noticed very labored breathing and a low heart rate. We went to the vets, they were very concerned. She immediately went into an oxygen chamber, antibiotics. I think they tried a round of steroids, her heart rate around 30-40 bpm. They first diagnosed her with non cardiogenic pulmonary edema. The amount of fluid in her lungs was alarming. She was hospitalized for 4 days and sent home on the 5th day with antibiotics and strict rest. On the night of day 7 I could tell she was getting bad again and sent her back to the vets on the night of day 8. Her xrays came back worse then before ( a lot more fluid in her lungs) she’s still been on antibiotics, she shows excitement (wags tail, gives kisses when I visit her) but still is in the oxygen chamber, she’s starting to retain a lot of fluid and looks “flabby” like loose skin on her belly. The fluid in her lungs is not improving at all ( it’s been 10 days) they now have her diagnosed with pneumonia & are treating her with antibiotics. We’ve been made aware that putting her down may be an outcome of this, but she shows like she wants to put up a fight and shows a will to live. How do we know when to stop treatment, how long should we give her time to heal? She also hasn’t coughed during this time, hasn’t coughed anything up, hasn’t has a fever, or vomiting/ diarrhea. A lot of fluid in her lungs and a very low heart rate

Hello, my dog is a English bulldog, he had vomited a few times and one morning my family and I woke up and he had two blood noses in the course of 5 minutes when had difficulty breathing and was really tired looking. He is now 6 years old and was really healthy. The vets don’t understand why he had a blood nose and is in the clinic at this time. He has been getting better until his fever had gotten higher/hotter. The vets think he won’t make it, thoughts on why he has a blood nose?