What could make a dog die so quickly?

• thavoice

  Around 330 yesterday the dog was acting normal. Running, playing, being her playfull self.
  
  Put the dogs in the basement like always for 2 hours till I got home. Get home and I hear the other dog barking loud, which I never hear when they are downstairs. I go down and see the one dog barely able to stand with a glassy look on her eyes. I would stand her up and she would fall to one side each time. I get some water, she drinks a little bit..and then her head falls into the water. I call local vets and they are closed and was getting ready to take her to the 24 hour place that was about an hour away. By the time I put her in the little travel cage to go she is barely breathing and dies.
  
  In that room it is all cement. Absolutely NOTHING they coulda got into such as poison or whatnot. When she ate earlier it was outta the same bowl the other dog ate out of. There is nothing she could have gotten into at all in the house or outside.
  
  Just was very odd and sad.
  
  It was just so wierd, and sad. 230pm she was great. 545 PM barely standing and breathing.
• LJ

  

  what breed, how old?
• thedynasty1998

  

  Sorry to hear that. As a dog owner, I can sympathize with you.
• thavoice

  Yorkie. Purchased it in October. owner said it was two years old. We wonder if that was legit though as she seemed more like a cat the whole time....meaning she always acted like an old dog, just laying around and such. Never seemed to have any health problems. The other Yorkie is a year older and is much, much more active. We wonder if maybe she was older than stated.
  
  I only knew here since I got home around Christmas but my wife bought her in October I believe.
• LJ

  

  thavoice;720625 wrote:Yorkie. Purchased it in October. owner said it was two years old. We wonder if that was legit though as she seemed more like a cat the whole time....meaning she always acted like an old dog, just laying around and such. Never seemed to have any health problems. The other Yorkie is a year older and is much, much more active. We wonder if maybe she was older than stated.
  
  I only knew here since I got home around Christmas but my wife bought her in October I believe.

  It was probably something genetic like a tracheal collapse or possibly a heart problem. Ask your vet for a necropsy
• thavoice

  Too late. She has already been buried. She is now running around in doggy heaven sniffing butts and pissing in plush meadows
• Bigred1995

  

  Sounds to me like she was older than you thought. Yorkies are very active, especially when they're that "young". With that said, even if she was much older than that, I doubt she would have just died. Even supper old dogs take several days to die. Do you have any chipping paint that may be lead based? Is there any broken glass in the basement, (possibly and old thermometer)?
• LJ

  

  Bigred1995;720633 wrote:Sounds to me like she was older than you thought. Yorkies are very active, especially when they're that "young". With that said, even if she was much older than that, I doubt she would have just died. Even supper old dogs take several days to die. Do you have any chipping paint that may be lead based? Is there any broken glass in the basement, (possibly and old thermometer)?

  
  The majority of the time a dog will be sick before they die from posioning. They typically just don't drop dead. It sounds more like a physical problem rather than a poisoning
• thavoice

  Bigred1995;720633 wrote:Sounds to me like she was older than you thought. Yorkies are very active, especially when they're that "young". With that said, even if she was much older than that, I doubt she would have just died. Even supper old dogs take several days to die. Do you have any chipping paint that may be lead based? Is there any broken glass in the basement, (possibly and old thermometer)?

  
  Nope. All concrete walls and floors. That is what I thought too...that if it was illness it would take longer than that. Even if she started to get sick the mintue we left at 330 it took less than 4 hours to succumb. We are watching the other one closely to see if maybe they someone got into something...of which I do not know how as there is nothing to get into to be honest with ya. And they have been down there fairly routinely when we are gone this winter because of the cold outside.
• se-alum

  

  Dogs can die suddenly, the same way humans can. Probably a heart attack or something of the sort.
• thavoice

  Does this tell you anything.....when I first saw her she was always falling to one side. She was whopperjawed on one side..I would stand her up and she would always fall to one side...like she was way off balance.
• LJ

  

  se-alum;720642 wrote:Dogs can die suddenly, the same way humans can. Probably a heart attack or something of the sort.

  
  Dogs don't have heart attacks
• LJ

  

  thavoice;720643 wrote:Does this tell you anything.....when I first saw her she was always falling to one side. She was whopperjawed on one side..I would stand her up and she would always fall to one side...like she was way off balance.

  
  She was probably in congestive heart failure. It's a common problem in Yorkies
• thavoice

  Anything that I coulda done? If I coulda gotten her to a vet quicker would it made a difference ya think?
• LJ

  

  thavoice;720649 wrote:Anything that I coulda done? If I coulda gotten her to a vet quicker would it made a difference ya think?

  
  Nah. It's jsut one of those things. Sometimes a dog will show symptoms and live for years and other times a dog will have it and never show symptoms till the end.
• thavoice

  Hope your right. Thanks. As I said, we only had the dog 6 months, and I only got to know her the last three. Ya know how it is....get the dog for the kids, and who ends up doing all the work with playing, feeding, walking, cleaning up and ultimately getting close to the pet? Yep...that was me. Got kinda attached to the lil dog. RIP Benning!
• thedynasty1998

  

  Here is a link to symptoms of a dog having a heart problem, which seem to be pretty in line with what you described:
  
  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070407195207AAh6uec
• thavoice

  thedynasty1998;720655 wrote:Here is a link to symptoms of a dog having a heart problem, which seem to be pretty in line with what you described:
  
  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070407195207AAh6uec

  Well I made a few mistakes. Gave her water, moved her, stood her up a few times (so she could drink etc). But I did a few things right. That does seem about right. She was having problems breathing, and stretcher herself out and was stretching her head back to try and breath better.
• se-alum

  

  Stroke possibly??
• LJ

  

  thedynasty1998;720655 wrote:Here is a link to symptoms of a dog having a heart problem, which seem to be pretty in line with what you described:
  
  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070407195207AAh6uec

  
  lol, the 4th answer down is the only correct one. Dogs do not get plaque in their arteries therefore do not have mycardial infarctions, but most people will wrongly call CHF a heart attack
• thavoice

  LJ;720672 wrote:lol, the 4th answer down is the only correct one. Dogs do not get plaque in their arteries therefore do not have mycardial infarctions, but most people will wrongly call CHF a heart attack

  Thanks for pointing out that one. I only looked at the first answer. That is EXACTLY what her symptons were. I dont know, i guess it makes it a little easier knowing what happened.
• se-alum

  

  LJ;720672 wrote:lol, the 4th answer down is the only correct one. Dogs do not get plaque in their arteries therefore do not have mycardial infarctions, but most people will wrongly call CHF a heart attack

  
  Dumbasses.
• LJ

  

  se-alum;720688 wrote:Dumbasses.

  
  I never knew that until my fiancee did a cardiology externship. It's good to know though, because probably the biggest sign of CHF is coughing. A lot of people just ignore the coughing then think the dog just had a heart attack. While it's really no fault of the owner because dogs with CHF typically don't live long anyways, its just knowledge to have I guess
• jc10380

  Sounds like a stroke to me, with the balance problems and all.
• LJ

  

  jc10380;720701 wrote:Sounds like a stroke to me, with the balance problems and all.

  Many strokes in dogs are caused by brain tumors, so it wouldn't have been a good scenario either...