I recieved this email today and felt the need to pass it on. It is a classic case of vacinosis and vevry sad.
Ed,
Hi there. I have a question that maybe you can answer for me. I have asked several vets and breeders, and none of them can.
A year ago, I did a repeat breeding between my Hungaian/W. German show/working lined bitch and a DDR/Czech lined working male (he is actually a dual service k-9 in one of the towns near my home). Anyway, after I bred her, I ended up leaving my husband. Well, I moved to an apartment complex, and she had the pups. 5 females, 3 males. Well, when the pus were 5 weeks old, the neighbors started complaining that they were noisy, so I was told that I had to get rid of them. I asked for another week, as I was in the process of weaning them, and got the week. At this time, 2 of the pups, the first pick female, and the second pick female went to thier new homes, and the remained of the litter, was taken to my husband's place. I gave the six pups to him, and told him that all I wanted was for him to sign his name off Angel's papers, which he did. After he did that, I gave him all the papers, AKC registraiton, UKC registraiton, and tattoo-a-pet reigstration.
A week later, I went over to his place to help him take them to the vet for shots and health certificates, and they all looked healthy and were given clean bills of health. Well, that night, about 9, he called me and said that one of the pups had not eaten, but that was it, he was not vomiting, no diarrhea or anything, just did not eat. Well, I had seen puppies go off their food right after shots in the past, so I was not too worried. I jsut told him to watch him. 3 hours later, he called back and that pup was dead. He had just collapsed, and died.
I called my vet at home, and told him, he said that he wanted to see the 5 pups in the morning, so he opened the office at 9, even though it was Sunday, and looked at them, but could find nothing wrong. he took stool, blood, urine, and even spinal fluid samples, testing for everythnig. He took full body x rays, and MRI's. Well, he did not find anythng, and sent them home with another clean bill of health.
I did not hear anything from Kevin, so I figured that the pups were doing OK. However, a week later, Justin, the person that took the second pick female, called me, and told me that his pup had died the night before, She had not eaten dinner and had just collapsed. I called Kevin to see if he had a female that we could replace 'Anna' with, and he told me that all but one male had died, less than 2 days after they got the second clean bill of health. I asked him why he did not tell me, and he said that he didn't see the need to upset me. I called the vet, and he confirmed that on Monday, Kevin had brought one of the other males in dead, and he wanted to hospitalize the others, and the three females had died, in his care, though he did everything to save them.
The vet did a toxin screen, parasite test, and about 50 other tests and whatnot trying to find anything that would have killed the pups. he could find nothing abnormal, in any of them, and the results form hte puppies that died were identical to the male that had lived. Can you offer any insight as to any possible causes for death based on what I told you? There were no notable toxins of any kind, no traces of any sort of infection, or poison, all organs were perfectly normal, every test that he ran came back normal. This was a repeat breeding, with Angel and Kato, and the first breeding was 100% normal.
I know it is hard to do diagnostic over e mail, but if you have any insight at all, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Sequoia Kennel
Breeder of Quality GSD's
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